Zedrin
patreon
🕑 Added 2016-04-10 08:32:38 +0000 UTC
I wanna get your guys' feedback on a few things.
I kinda have a 3-way balancing act with commissioners, patrons, and myself, especially regarding monthly requests.
A lot of the sketch requests I've been doing for monthly rewards have been a bit better in quality, and I've typically been going so far as to make them lineart.
To be honest, this isn't really any less efficient than doing a presentable sketch--I usually go straight from the gesture to the final product. Lineart also has the added advantage where if someone wants to pay a bit of a tip to get it colored with flats, that's easy to do. A 'presentable sketch' meanwhile is just a polished up sketch, kinda like a second gesture sketch.
It would be faster for the gestures to be the rewards but I dunno if that'd be fair or optimal. But hell, maybe even some people would prefer gestures? If they'd rather those there's no harm in specifying for like a case-by-case thing. I wouldn't start doing it overall unless peeps actually preferred it.
You can see the difference between a gesture sketch and the lienart here, if that'd be of interest to anyone.
Where I run into concerns is, commission wise, lineart is $15 from me. For patrons, a monthly pledge of $10 gets you a sketch/lineart request + any of the other miscellaneous perks, so if you're going by content, being a Patron is a better deal. So I worry about whether it's balanced properly between commissions and Patreon.
At the same time, Patreon is recurring which is a bit more stable than the occasional random commissioner, the monthly requests are a bit more simplistic and open to interpretation so they're usually easier to do, and they leave the option for things being colored for a bit extra if the requester wishes.
So I guess what I wanna know is... am I reading into this too much and are things fair as they are, or does anyone have suggestions as to what might be a good change, or whatnot?
ADDITIONALLY! I've decided to set a limit on how many $10 tiers I can have (it's just a few more than there are currently, no one's getting cut out don't worry), but just in case, does anyone have any ideas for what might be good for new tiers/rewards? Even like an equivalent $10 tier that offers something other than personalized requests (psd/clip files maybe?) I already offer things like variants and full res images to all Patrons
Comments
Sprix
I think things are fair as they are. People that continue to support you get a small discount to a piece of Lineart once a month, if they choose to take it. I know that I've skipped a month or two, but I've no idea about others.
Zedrin
well, colored requests are treated as a separate interaction kinda. They're normally not included, but if someone's willing to toss a few bucks over I'll color it. It's harder to do if it's only a gesture sketch (or even a polished sketch).
Andrew Brown
Is anyone that is likely to go from lineart sketch to color, less likely to go from gesture drawing to color?
