Shydad
patreon
Impending Restructure
🕑 Added 2021-01-22 00:37:32 +0000 UTCHello everyone, I hope 2021 is treating you a lot better than 2020 did. Personally for me last year was one of the worst years of my life for multiple reasons. The one that you all most likely know of was my battle with carpal tunnel. Because of this I had to pause the patreon and postpone rewards that people had already paid for. I am working on finishing those now. My hand is improving and is worlds better than it was a few months ago. But the reality of this injury is I need to reduce the level of repetitive activity I am doing with my wrist. I can not continue to work at the pace i once did. It is with this in mind that I have made the following decision.
I have deleted the current reward tiers and am instating new ones. This means that there will no longer be monthly reward drawings. The new tiers will now consist of the current 2 dollar tier which will remain the same. this will give you access to all of my patreon posts which will include commissions that i get permission to post and now fan art that certain patrons will get to vote on which characters get drawn. The next tier will be a 5 dollar voting tier. this will allow you to suggest and then vote on characters for fan art drawings. These drawings will have a few restrictions that i will define later. The next tier will be 10 dollars for a commission tier. This means you will have access to commission me, THIS IS NOT A GUARANTEED COMMISSION.
My reasoning for putting commissions behind a paywall is to eliminate the monthly deadlines. This means that only people pledged to this 10 dollar tier will get to commission me, until i see fit to open commissions publicly to non patrons and lower tiered patrons. Commissions will have to have some new restrictions. Mainly that i will only use these tiers for diaper art commission that is on brand with the standard i want to set for my new restructure. This will include banning scat, hypermess, and hypnosis. I know this limits about half my audience, but aside from the fact that most platforms including patreon are cracking down hard on this content it's also something I have found does not bring me as much joy to create as more tame diaper art.
However,
There will also be a 20 dollar premium commission tier. This tier will allow you to commission content that is banned at the lower tier but i still reserve the right to reject anything i don't feel comfortable drawing. If you are unsure if you should pledge to this tier because you aren't sure if what you would like to commission would be allowable at the lower tier please send me a Direct Message. This premium tier will also allow you to have private streams through Discord to watch me draw your commission. the lower commission tier will only allow you to watch public streams on pictarto. however i can forgo the stream all together if you want to keep your commission private, i will just send you Work in Progress screen caps instead.
The deadline for commissions will no longer be monthly. I will complete commissions in the order i see fit based on complexity. this also means that if you wanted to get multiple commissions at a time i will allow this but i will have to price them separately based on each individual concept. I will work on a new price sheet for commissions soon. It is likely I will increase the pricing scheme from what it was previously as that was also causing me to have way more work than i could handle for not enough pay to allow me to really supplement a second income from my day job. I will work on making a new pricing sheet and have it ready before the end of the month.
It's likely I will lose some of you as patrons because of this new restructure. I truly want to thank each and every one of you sticking with me for this long. I have made these decisions in order to insure i do not burn myself out again, but also so i can continue to make a living off of my art. Please feel free to give me any feedback you see fit. I am nothing without you all. I will work harder than ever before to continue to give you high quality art in a timely fashion. Thank you all for taking the time to read this, and thank you to everyone currently pledged, even if you need to lower your pledge or delete it all together. I love you all.
P.S. DO NOT change your pledge until after February 1st. Because of how i have my payments set up this will charge your january if you do it any time before then, but i am not honoring any rewards for this month except for those who paid in october. If you need to Decrease your pledge because you are at a tier that is higher than 20 that shouldn't charge you but if it does let me know and I will refund you for this month.
Comments
Mashugana
I’m not gonna stop being a patron, but I’ll probably drop my amount. And not due to the lack of content or the content that had been delivered. Just COVID-19 crap.
Doctor-Crow
I'll still support because I still enjoy your art plus I've still got a few ideas I'd like to see come to fruition
Dillon Schultz
I understand completely especially when it comes to your health. Personally I shall keep supporting you, I love your works no matter what and have been with you for some time.
