Patreon Tier Restructuring for 2022 (Patreon)

Short summary:

I've had the exact same tiers (well, one tier really), pricing, and setup since I was a newbie a year and a half ago. At that time I never imagined I'd even be close to where I'm at now. What started as a hobby has now blossomed into... well... still a hobby but slowly growing into something much more. I love creating art and to be a full-time independent artist is definitely the dream. With that in mind it's about time I modernized my tiers.

I'm going to restructure into 3 tiers (details below). As a special thank you to all of you for your love and support and helping me on this journey, I'm going to give everybody who's a current patron ALL the benefits from the highest tier, but at $3 grandfather pricing, forever. 
***I want to stress that current patrons will NOT experience a price increase because Coffee-Drinker will receive all Tier 3 benefits and you can stay pledged to it for as long as you want. This restructuring is just for new people coming in.***

Long summary and details:

What are the new tiers and pricing?

Tier 1 will get high-res images for the regular images + all the usual stuff like discord and early viewing before the public.

Tier 2 will additionally get access to the high-res alt versions.

Tier 3 will additionally get access to regular polls on what they want to see next as well as well as a special discord channel to suggest poses and inspiration.

Pricing is to be determined but I'm thinkin 4/7/10 respectively.

Once again, this is just for new people coming in and that this doesn't really affect you guys the current patrons.

Does this mean you will be doing alt-versions of every piece?

Not-necessarily. I still think alt-versions are piece-dependent because sometimes it doesn't look good or just straight up makes no sense either literally or artistically (For example if the girl is pulling on her thong then I can't really make a fully nude version where there's no thong... because then what is she holding). It's also something that I have to have the foresight to plan for pretty early in the 3D process. 

Furthermore, I don't like hiding a ton of content behind a paywall. It's one thing to paywall 4k versions but I would be uncomfortable with paywalling like half of my pieces all the time. I'm also debating on doing the thing where I release alt-versions to the public, but with like a 2 week delay (and the high-res version is never released publicly). I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.

With that said I will continue to try to do it whenever possible. It's no secret that I generally think semi-clothed or sexily-clothed is better since it leaves a little to the imagination :D so you guys can probably help me out with this with suggestions and ideas. 

What about Coffee-Guzzlers?

I can't stress how much I appreciate the fact that you guys have been giving me basically a big tip every month. You guys will of course all get the Tier 3 rewards as well. If at any time you guys want to drop down to the $3 pricing that the current Coffee-Drinkers get, just send me a message and we'll figure it out. There might be some technical hoops we have to jump through but it should be nbd. 

What about scraps and process stuff?

Okay, so as many of you may have noticed, I've had fewer and fewer "failed" projects or scraps to publish. To a point where I don't think I had any this month or last month. The fact is that with experience over time, my workflow has refined to a point where each project takes much more time but it also means I start fewer projects and have a much better understanding of the direction I want to take it and how to achieve it. Since I don't really have any unpublished pieces, I of course can't provide any. I'll still post them if I have them but I can no longer promise it.

Process stuff is something that I tried out but I think isn't really feasible. My workflow is too erratic to record process videos and I kind of feel like the process collages/sequences don't really provide much. Whenever I'm working I also totally forget to take periodic screenshots since I'm kind of "in the zone". I think it's much smoother and easier to just kind of post work-in-progress stuff in Discord whenever I'm proud of it and leave it as an informal thing.

When is this happening?

At the end of the year!

Please let me know what you guys think in the comments. I'm happy to hear your thoughts <3.