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Patreon Survey feedback and changes!
🕑 Added 2018-04-23 18:17:08 +0000 UTC Hey everyone, today I'm going to give you guys my (very long) feedback about the survey and give you some insights on a few changes I'm going to make on my patreon to better align with that feedback.First of all, I want to thank you all for the ongoing support and also spending a few minutes to help me improve the quality of my patreon.
Ok so here are the main points:
1) Type of content:
The vast majority of you guys are interested to have more explicit nsfw content, and I wanted to do something like that with the Easter suprise both to see how you guys would react, and how would I fell about drawing it.
From my part, I really did like it. It's an interesting take on drawing that let me emphasize more on the "body language" than anything else. And the vast majority of you guys seem to have liked the result as well!
2) Other types of content:
There were several great suggestions, and here I'll outline the ones mentioned the most, or we'll have a REALLY long post lol.
- Wallpaper. Ok, this was something that slipped my mind and going foward I'll see to include at least 1 desktop wallpaper version of each drawing in the month.
- More Iris. Don't worry, she'll be here often! Her "Chinese" version was a small step in the direction of putting her on different themes. So I'll definitely experiment more with themes like fantasy, sci-fi and so forth.
- More variants in terms of outfit. This is a case by case situation. Some variants can be very time consuming. For example, drawing lingerie can literally take several hours depending on the amount of detail I put into it. And I also want to make sure the variants "make sense". For example, it doesn't make a lot of sense to put stockings in a character that is in a forest. But it's something that I'll try to improve as well.
- Tutorials, there's a few changes about this that I'll explain better in another topic.
There were also a few suggestions about other types of nsfw variants that involve different fetishes. I've got a lot of requests about things like that across the years, and it's just not my thing. I'm not confortable drawing those things so I don't want to create something that won't be on the same standart of quality of the rest of the drawing.
3) Source material:
There were also good suggestions that I'll keep in mind for future polls. One thing that I really like is when people suggest the actual character. For example, if you suggest a book, and I didn't read the book, I don't know which character could make a nice drawing, based on the looks, personality etc. So in this case, it's better to suggest the specific character that you think would make a good drawing.
Ok Part 2 of the really long post:
What's going to change on my patreon?
- There's going to be a new type of reward for tier $5 and $10: Voyeur.
This is going to be an explicit 18+ scene of the top voted pin-up. It's going to have a similar drawing style of the Easter surprise and Iris "Peeking" sequence, more focused on the character(s). Maybe we can even make a cross over of the top 2 voted pin-ups, who knows? =D
- Tutorials will be removed from the $10 tier.
The current version is too "strict" for what I want tutorials to be. I want to be able to create different types of tutorials, sometimes a 5-15 min video of an easier subject, sometimes a simply step by step image is enough. Sometimes there's a hot topic that I can explain in a short video in the middle of the month. And the current "monthly ~1h video" doesn't give me that freedom. And more importantly, I want to have interaction with people. One of the biggest rewards for me when I post my work is to see how people react to it, the comments, the questions and all that. And I simply don't have that in the current state of the tutorials.
So the tutorials created from now on, will be free for everyone, so I can post them on my facebook, youtube and whatnot and be able to help a larger audience.
- What's coming in place of the tutorials in the 10$ tier? Past rewards!
From now on, the 10$ tier will include 2 previous works of your choice as well (jpg, nsfw, psd, video). There's a lot of people interested in being able to get past psd or videos and there wasn't really a way of doing that. So hopefully, this tier will allows you to do that. Gumroad will still be an alternative if you want to get a bundle of characters, or is simply not interested in PSDs or videos.
Ok so here's what the new patreon structure will look like.
Ok, this is everything. Sorry for the really long post, but I wanted to provide a good insight for you guys on the feedback, and reasoning behind the small changes on my patreon.
I hope you guys like those changes, and I wanted to give enough time for people to change pledges accordingly if they want.
Yes, those changes will affect this month's rewards, so yeah, there's a new drawing of the voyeur reward coming this month ;)
Also, if you have any feedback, feel free to comment bellow! And you can still take the survey here https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-survey-18063300 (and yes, I'll read it even after this post).
I couldn't list and comment all the suggestions because there were dozens of them. And it would create an even longer post to comment each individually. So even if your suggestion/comments didn't make it here, rest assured that I read ever single one of them. There were excellent suggestions and detailed feedback that I will consider going foward, so I can't thank you guys enough for taking your time to help me improve.
Comments
Lexi M
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Lexi M
I purchased a few on gumroad... but only managed to download one thing. A Morrigan art. My Sophitia and Liadrin are not able to be downloaded, apparently that happens if I click to download. I really don't want to spend ten dollars on the two pics I just spent money on. Could you perhaps give me a voucher that would let me get them free? As I checked my email and it seems they didn't go through there either. And I'm at my wit's end.
Lee
There's nothing planned for couples in the near future, but it's definitely not out of question. I'll see how this new reward evolves =D
adethorns
Thanks for making the Tutorials available for everyone; I think its a good move, though I'm still upgrading! For the explicit stuff I wouldn't mind seeing popular couples together, like Steve and Wonder Woman or a couple from Harry Potter. You're so good at drawing women I wouldn't mind seeing how you do drawing a man booty once in a while ;)
Lee
Thank you, it's been great to be able to improve the quality of my drawings =D
Justin Trevino
I upgraded. Thanks for the work you do.
Lee
I'll see if patreon has that kind of information (besides an actual individual count). But to serve as reference, on the poll: "what type of content would you like to see more in my patreon? Mark all that apply" NSFW explicit content - 79% "[...] Did you like the Easter surprise? It's a content you'd like to see more in the future?" Yes please! - 90% So yeah, there's definitely an interest =D
Hey Krys! Would you mind updating us how your tier-usage changed after making that announcement? I am super curious how much % of your patrons are in interested in the voyeur tier. Considering we are on the internet, where everyone is a perv, I think i can imageine the result!
Lee
it's something that people have been asking for a while. The survey kinda confirmed there's a demand for that =D
The Handsome One
Time to upgrade my tier to Voyeur. This sounds cool.
Lee
I'll send a message once the pledges are processed asking which works do you want, and I'll send them with the rewards =)
Hey krys, about the previous works, how we will choose it?
Lee
Glad you liked the changes. I wanted to make sure I had a style that worked for this type of content and people actually that content in my style =)
Michael
Very good changes. The Voyeur reward sounds very promising. The best reason to upgrade my tier, before the next charge. ^^
Lee
I understand your concern, but It's really not the plan, rest assured. The idea is to create more content, and not replace the existing ones. I won't change the pin-up structure, so you'll still get the same types of drawing I've been posting for the past years (just like there will still be scenes like dodongo, portraits and whatnot). I think the pin-ups are in a good place because the SFW version works on it's own. So it's not something I plan on changing. =)
Dummy
Here is what I fear, more sex, less feelings. Future will tell.
Lee
Great to know! I hope people like this new drawings as well!
Lee
I can't believe how I forgot about wallpapers. It was something I used to do with my drawings and completely forgot to make the newer drawings work as wallpapers as well.
Lee
Thank you! Glad you liked them. The feedback has been really helpfull =)
Peter
I've upgraded my pledge to tier2 a few months back as a show of my appreciation because I absolutely love Krys' communication and transparency. (He also streams with Ori and the Blind Forest soundtrack in the background which is also a plus :D )
mizu
Sounds great! As one of the many patrons who asked for NSFW stuff I've upgraded my pledge right away =)
Merritt Lord IV
I'm excited for these changes!
Ciarán M
I like the changes that you've listed here, a wallpaper per month is great and it'll be fun to see what new "explicit" works we see going forward 😉
korkkge
Love the changes! Good job making it both more interesting for us and for you :)
