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Help Me Figure This Out - Patreon Input! by farorenightclaw
Hi guys! So as you may be aware, I have a Patreon, here: https://www.patreon.com/farorenightclaw
Though it doesn't really clearly say anywhere what the plan is, I had originally set out to do 2 exclusive images a month, plus a commission for the $100 patron, plus desktop wallpapers, banners, and icons - as well as WIPs/walkthroughs/sketches/PSDs of much of this. I'm finding that I'm having a hard time with that. I have approximately 12 hours a month, on my schedule, that I can work on Patreon art (the $100 tier commission is done outside of this), and that has to share time with my pet site work. And while my pet site responsibilities fluctuate each month, they still take up a goodly portion of that time. The rest of my time is devoted to working on my queue, and streaming so that I can have enough income to get by with rent, food, cigarettes, and other necessities (as well as, hopefully some unnecessary purchases that are just for fun, like e-books, stuff for my collections, gifts for friends and loved ones, etc).
I am sure I can easily complete my $100 tier commission AND one exclusive image a month. My problem is that I'm not sure what else to do, as 'one image a month + high res packs' doesn't seem fulfilling enough to be fair to my patrons. There's WIPs, sketches, PSDs for the exclusive art also, and I could probably work exclusive pieces into wallpapers etc some months. But other than that I'm a bit stumped. I could offer packs of my old art, but eventually I'll run out of old art to package up. I could share my project ideas and write-ups, but those don't happen super often. I'd like to be able to /work/ on those projects, but I don't know if I'd have time alongside the exclusive image. As it's a 'monthly' set up, not a 'by image' one (that wouldn't work well for the high res packs, I think, or other things either), I feel like I need to have some level of stability on how much is being offered each month.
Please let me know your thoughts on this, whether you're pledging or plan to or not! I need some input ;_;
Help Me Figure This Out - Patreon Input!
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If I'm not mistaken raffles are actually against Patreon's rules, I believe I've heard of people getting in trouble for it before - illegal gambling, etc since there's money going in. I'm mostly hoping for things that would not demand more of my work-on-Patreon-stuff time per month, also, though I know that makes 'what else should I do' kind of a hard question.
Commission perks might be an idea. I'm closed for big ones right now, but a percentage discount on stream comms might be good.
Right now all my perks are mostly 'vote on exclusive art' or 'get your character in a picture set in my headworld' - stuff that requires people be there specifically for /my art/ and /my ideas/. I'm starting to feel like no one is interested in that. 95% of the time when I post to patrons asking for feedback/suggestions/votes, no one answers, and I don't think anyone's ever commented on anything other than that. If it wasn't for my $100 patron (who is very active) I'd be wondering if anyone actually cared about the art at all - a lot of my patrons are also my friends and I'm worried they're just pledging to support me as a friend, not because they have any interest in my content. I really don't want to give up on Patreon but, while I have patrons, it feels like there's just no interest in, as I said, my art or my ideas.
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i forget if i had said this to you personally (i've told a few people), but i always like when patrons get commission perks. like priority status in stream (which would need some finer rules to work out) or like, a small discount. one of my friends also holds a monthly sketch raffle for mid-tier patrons, which is neat (especially with how fast you can sketch!), though i'm not sure how that'd work with a low number of patrons. maybe do one every quarter?