Untitled (Patreon)

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