Enro_the_Mutt
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Updates for November and December
🕑 Added 2018-10-22 19:57:10 +0000 UTCHey everyone! Hope you’re all having a great morning/evening/night.
I thought I would kinda take the time to lay out some changes coming in the next month so that everyone’s on the same page. I’m sure most of you are aware of a pretty significant change already, that I now have an art manager to help keep me organized, on track, and handles the communication between me and clients. This is not meant to separate myself from everybody, the main intention is to answer questions, expedite the process of taking commissions, sending WIPs, and receiving feedback, as well as helping me post updates and finished pieces.
So with that out of the way, here’s the biggest immediate changes coming next month:
• Payment method is being switched to Up-front.
For those that have been pledged, this isn’t going to change anything. This is partially to ease the confusion of how the billing cycle is set up currently, and to prevent people from trying to snipe high tier rewards and cancelling/reducing their pledge before billing. There won’t be any extra charges on you for this change. The billing cycle coming up on Nov 1st would normally be the billing cycle for October, but instead it will be for November, with this change (which makes more sense, right?)
• Titanium tier will be reset every 5 months.
This will be the last month for Titanium tier patrons, and then the tier will be removed for the month of December to give me time to focus on taking/doing commissions, and then relaunched on the start of the year. The cost of the tier is to be determined, but the tier will more than likely be raffled this time, to make it more evenly fair. This is subject to change if we find a more suitable method.
• Sketch streams are going to be public.
First three weekends of the month are going to be public sketch streams from now on, and the last stream will remain exclusive to Patreon. Prices will remain the same for patrons, and sketches will be $75 for non-patrons. Stickers will still be available to patrons.
• Medium detail commissions will be replacing the old sketch commission system.
The layout will be the same as they are now, where the first week’s slots will be exclusive to titanium and obsidian tier members, the second week will open up to gold tier members, third week will open to silver tier, and the last week will be open for the public. More than likely the slots will open right after the (public) sketch stream ends on Saturday, and picked on Sunday night, and completed across the week, every week.
In November, we’re doing a “test run” month where each weekly opening will be public, and I will be personally picking which projects I want to work on. We will then resume the planned method going into December.
The reason I chose to do this is because I feel that people are more interested in purchasing higher quality pieces besides sketches over and over again, and I wanted to offer these opportunities to patrons first and more often, and dropping the lower detailed work to be available publicly.
• High detail and ref sheet commissions shall resume opening up on a monthly basis
These were put on hold for awhile since my move back in July had pushed my schedule of course, but these are planned to open up one slot each at the beginning of the month.
• Monthly sketch requests are being replaced/removed
Since I’m focusing more on taking commissions, I’m removing the monthly request feature and using spare time to do personal art, fan art or studies to better improve myself.
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And after hearing your feedback, we decided to implement a cooldown system to prevent the same people from winning slots every week.
• Cooldowns and bonuses
For the Titanium Tier, if you are currently a Titanium supporter, there will be a 5 month cooldown. So you would be eligible to try for another Titanium slot every other refresh (On for 5 months, off for 5 months).
For regular commission openings (high detail, reference sheet, and medium detail), if you were selected for any one of these slots, you'll be on cooldown from commission openings (excluding commission streams) until next month, to give everyone else an opportunity to get something. On the other hand, for each opening that you attempt to get a commission (Starting with HD/ref sheet commissions) and you aren't selected (To a maximum of 3 months), you will receive one bonus entry for each time you were not selected, giving you a higher chance of being selected overall. When you are selected for a commission, then that resets back down to the standard 1 entry after the appropriate cooldown period. We will have a separate page elaborating more on this system, as well as a public spreadsheet to keep track of cooldowns and bonuses.
I hope all of this makes sense, and you guys look forward to the changes! Like I've said before, my main goal is to be as fair as I possibly can be, to everyone and to myself. Thornbird has been a big help in regards to helping me stay on track and making my life a lot easier, so I have more time and energy into put into creating artwork.
So again, thank you all for your continued support!
Comments
Rave Insatiable
I LOVE THIS. This makes me so excited, because I've always wanted a more detailed piece from you sometime.
This sounds amazing! I hope I can keep up with everything. lol
In short, the commission streams will now primarily be public (For the first 3 Saturday's of the month), with the final commission stream on the last Saturday of the month being Patron exclusive. This is to shift the Patron rewards towards higher quality content, and allow more non-patrons to have access to commissioning Enro. Patrons will, instead, get exclusive access to Medium Detail commission slots for the first three weeks of the month. These openings will function the same way that the streams used to. The first Saturday of the month will be for Titanium and Obsidian Tier Patrons. The 2nd week will be for Gold Tier Patrons. The 3rd Week will be for Silver Tier Patrons, with the final week of Medium Detail slots being open to the public.
Enro
I think it will make more sense once we get the ball rolling. to simplify things, commissions will be available more frequently throughout the month (each week) and sketches will be available publicly through streams on the weekend
will try again. I'm struggling to just make sense of whats happening with the streams and the tiered commissions. Can you stupid proof it for me?
Enro
No worries! I know my thoughts were pretty all over the place when I was typing so I expect people to have questions! So currently the sketch streams are each saturday, and the first 3 were exclusive to patrons, with the last one being open to the public. And what we're changing it to, is basically the opposite! The first 3 streams are gonna be public, and the fourth one is going to be patron-only. This is to put more priority on medium detailed pieces, since those are in more demand than sketches :> Depending on how people feel about this, we may revert the streams back to the way they were originally, with the first 3 being exclusive and the last one being public
CrimsonVexations
Woah! You guys really did plan a lot out. It all sounds great but the only thing I'm confused on (I may just be a little slow. ;w;) is you're going to do public stream half a weekend and then the other half it will be Patreons only? Just to clarify. I'm excited! I really want to try for Titanium and I'm also dying to get a reference of Eirik from you one day so knowing the chances go up and such is awesome. Thank you for keeping us informed. <3
