An Important Message

eduardo alexander

Cris...I just recently found you and amazing art and pieces.I can see your point and I realize also that you have life and today's reality is starting to be harsh and scary.Cris, I enjoy your work and the sketches and finished pictures are great and want you to be free and comfortable.

Cris

Thanks for reading my post! I understand it seems like a lot at first. After reading sever a comments, I'm re-evaluating this more clamly. It's possible I may take into account different changes that will be more accessible for everyone. Thank you for your support!

I've been at $5 sub for quite awhile, all of a sudden doubling the price for unchanged content feels heavy to me. I don't make a ton of money, so this would cause me to have to either discontinue being subbed to you or I'd have to drop one or two other artists I support. Despite working low wage, I like feeling I can give something to support artists I enjoy. Dropping one or two would be disappointing. It's just my own reality of economic struggles that obviously you understand! I really love your art, it just feels sudden to me. Thank you for your post, will keep supporting you and thank you for your transparency and future information! =)

jamieb

Thanks

Cris

Thanks for reading my post and for your continued support!

Cris

Thank you very much for reading my post! The $20 tier would stay the same, but would have an exclusive drawing that wouldn't be available on other tiers.

Cris

Thank you very much for your support! I'll take your suggestion into consideration!

Cris

Thank you very much for your support!

Cris

Thank you very much for your support! The $20 tier would stay the same, but would have an exclusive drawing that wouldn't be available on other tiers.

Cris

Thanks for reading the post. I understand your difficulty. Like I said on other posts, I hope everyone would come to enjoy the value I'd be putting on these new tiers over time. In any case, it's not set in stone: Greg's comment above, for example, has given me plenty to think about!

Cris

I'm sorry! The reason I don't have high resolution easily accessible is because I've had people use my high resolution job to plagiarize, make unauthorized prints, and otherwise exploited them. I understand where you're coming from, it's just my position based on that experience.

Cris

Thank you very much for reading my post and for your very useful comment. I don't know a lot about marketing. I'll take your suggestions and weight my choices on them! I'll be sure to bring up my thoughts and questions for those coming changes here so we can have further discussion!

Cris

Thank you! I will, of course, warn you a month before I make the changes on the pledges!

Mike Valichka

You’re an incredible artist and so worth it. If this is what you feel you must do then it’s something you must do. I mean not to be that guy but I see other artists that aren’t even half your caliber up to $25 and $50 even, with your talent you whip them by a long shit. You do you, youll have my full support and money 😁😁😁

wy714x

If I'm in at the $20 Diamond Access now how will hit change affect me?

XYZ

it's not an issue for me probably, but maybe split the nsfw stuff over two tiers at $5 and $10? so then people on the higher one get all of it and on the lower they just get a few of the nsfw pieces, then people can uptick to the higher amount when they have more funds available and still stick supporting in general maybe

I'm ok with this. And i think to join $20 tiers ;)

For the most part it's ok, the only part i have trouble with is the 15 for hd. I'd be more comfortable at 12. And how much influence will the people at the 20 tier have? Will they dictate all the art or just some of it?

Veronika

With the current exchange level, it was already hard for me to do 5$, and I think, with 10$ I will only be able to support you from time to time.

Harris

I think that all the gallery tiers should be at high resolution anyway.

From a marketing perspective the changes seem a little contradictory. The current $20 tier drops to $15, the $1 stays the same, and the $3-5 essentially doubles without change. I think you’d find more folks appreciate a change if each level was a little more expensive and also provided more to them. E.g. Perhaps the $5 tier becomes $8 but you go into the draw and each month someone wins an original drawing, or a print. The $3 tier becomes $5 and someone wins a digital bonus emailed to them, or are sent a sticker or something. The new $20 pier includes a chance to win a t-shirt (or a new $30 tier gets a t shirt each month etc..). I think everyone wants to support artists and agrees people need a pay rise regularly to adjust for increasing costs, but a doubling around that $3-10 range which I’d assume is the most common without extra benefits could reduce the number of subscribers and fail to result in that extra financial support. That would be my advice :)

Kit

Side note: I've cancelled a $5.00 in case it comes to pass. The other Patreon wasn't creating as they'd promised.

Agreed

I’m in the same boat

jamieb

Cool I'll likely go for the 20, will you let us know ahead of the switch so we can change our pledges in time to start receiving the appropriate rewards

Kit

Currently, I'm at the $5.00. Been a patron of yours for almost 3 years (January 2015). I love your work, and will continue to do so. But to keep the level of interest I had at double the rate is a bit steep. I believe the price increase is warranted (I've been following the news, and what's going on is scary there as well as here)-- but I'd go for $8.00. At $10, I'd feel like I have to renegotiate what it means to follow Patreons in general across the board.

So it’s basically a price increase? I get it though and I think you’re within reason and deserve to do this. Just sucks for me, I mostly come here for the NSFW stuff with my current $5 platinum. I probably won’t be able to afford $10 a month. Convert that to CAD too it’s slightly higher. Anyways, I’m an artist too, I understand this and I think you should go for it.