May 1st - General Update & Future Things (Patreon)

===QUALITY VS. QUANTITY=== Over the last month I've tried out a more liberal way of going about creating content for my Patreon supporters, and I think it's been a good exercise and learning experience. I think it is important, however, to learn something from the bad side as well. While the volume of artwork is significantly higher than previous months, the quality is lower. This also makes one of the benefits of the $5+ reward tier (in-progress shots) superfluous. So this month, I'm going to try to shift my focus back towards quality once more. I'm still going to be taking my cues from the suggestion form as far as what to work on, but I'm going to try to pick something and bring it to a higher level of polish than what I've produced in April. ===TUTORIAL VIDEO=== I really wanted to try to get the first one out in April since you guys hit the milestone, but I think that was a bit unrealistic. Since I've already set the precedent that I do patreon streams in the later weeks of the month, I think I'll use the early weeks to work on the tutorial video. (Which, by the way, will be about getting started drawing.) ===ART BUNDLE=== One issue I've been dealing with is the fact that Patreon resizes any art I upload that's too big. But I think I've hit upon a solution. What I'd like to do sometime soon is create a bundle of all/most of the finished (ie not the progression images) art uploaded to Patreon thus far. It would be a self-contained web page in a zipped folder with a sort of gallery of the art and any accompanying text I've written for them. Then, I could make this bundle available (for free) to my Patreon supporters up until that point, and remove most of the older art from Patreon. I could even sell the bundle to non-Patreon supporters. I'm interested in hearing what you guys have to say about this idea. I don't think it'd step on any toes, but I'd rather hear that from you rather than just assume it to be true. ===MAY PATREON STREAMS=== The Patreon streams for May will most likely occur on the 16th, 23rd, and 30th. Exact times will be posted closer to the dates.