January + Art Rewards & Commissions Update (Patreon)

Hey everyone!

We're approaching the end of January, and while it goes without saying, I've been spending a lot of this month playing catch-up on my queue, focusing on Frisky February, and starting work on the NSFW sketch commission slots I took in December. Everything seems to be going well so far, albeit it being a little overwhelming considering the workload, but I have faith that everything will start falling into place come next month.

That being said, I know that I haven't updated whether or not this month is a Reward or Project month. For all intents and purposes, January AND February are to be treated as a Project month, allowing me to continue focusing on commissions (primarily FF) and produce a pin-up by the end of February to have as an exclusive print for my Vampires (who are now part of the mini-print tiers) and up!

The following Reward Month will then be in March. I apologize for the inconvenience of pushing it out a little farther than I would like, but I appreciate the understanding nonetheless. That being said, I have a bit to talk about regarding art rewards.

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ART REWARDS UPDATE:

At the moment, all reward tiers' styles are going to remain the same, HOWEVER, rather than DMing my Vampires, Gorgons, and Succubi for what they'd like, I'm going to be implementing a Google Form to fill out so that I can gather references for rewards in a more organized manner. The form, once implemented, will be open from the 25th of the current month until the 10th of the following month, to allow ample time to work on the piece. If the form isn't submitted by the 10th of the month, I will NOT be able to do your piece!

Additionally, I'm thinking of a way to add a 'double-up' option for my Gorgons and Succubi tiers, so that they may be able to 'spend' two of their reward slots to upgrade their piece. Because I work on a bi-monthly schedule, it's a little difficult figuring out a clear and concise way to go about this, but once I figure it out, I will update you all via Patreon and Discord.

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COMMISSION CHANGES + UPDATES:

After taking some feedback via Twitter, I've updated my Carrd page to act as a more 'official' and easy-to-navigate landing page for my regular commissions. While they're still closed (and while I need to update the sample images/banners), I'm very happy with how the page has turned out so far. If you'd like to visit it, please check here! 

The prices of my regular commissions haven't changed, however I have taken off Monochrome Sketches and Character Reference Sheets/Outfit Breakdowns from the options. Because I offer sketches so frequently via sales on Twitter/Ko-fi/Patreon, and because, on the other hand, I receive very infrequent requests for Outfit Breakdowns, I felt that it was better to remove them from my current commission type offers.

With that in mind, I am thinking to offer new commission types that I haven't had before, such as: Emotes, Sketch Pages, and DnD Character Packages. The latter of the three is something I am going to talk more about in the future once I figure out what I would like to include, but the other two are more self-explanatory. I've taken on commissions for both in 2019 and found that I enjoyed them a lot, but I would like to sit down and properly reanalyze my pricing for the work I did. 

Another thing I'm also planning is to sign up for Ko-fi Gold so that I may offer sketch commissions on an easy-to-navigate platform. I won't say right away what types of sketches will be available there.

As always, commissions will be offered first through Patreon either as a general announcement before posting to Twitter/Discord, or with separate slots for Patrons only (such as my most recent round of NSFW sketch commissions). 

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If you've taken the time to read through all of this post, I thank you from the bottom of my heart! I try not to make super long posts via Patreon, but I felt that I absolutely needed to break down what I had in store for you all. 

I hope everyone has a good day! If there are any questions about what I discussed above, please let me know via comments or on Discord.

XO, AZULITY