Announcement (Patreon)

Hello! I have a giant wall of text I'd like to share with you guys!

I came to a pretty important decision at the start of this month. As you may or may not know, I work a full time job. Not even a fun goat or twink related job either, it was just work I sort of fell into and certainly was not exactly work I wanted to do. Unfortunately, this has been a repeating pattern for the last 10 years, trying all sorts of funny gigs! Silly gaffs.

Through out this time of non-twink work, I always saw art as a nice form of therapeutic escape that could also double as a neat side hustle when I needed it, but I was always too scared to actually make it a full time job. I would think about it, but the risk associated with leaving the regular grind kept me from pursuing it in that sort of light. Plus, with the current age of bullshit AI and weary payment processors, I definitely felt this sense of "missing the boat" by a huge margin, considering how long I've been doing art for and only just recently starting this Patreon. Getting Patreon off the ground was actually a bit scary in and of itself, even if it seems like an obvious choice for artists to make. I put it off for months because I wasn't sure if I could live up to expectations or if I would end up just pissing off people for paywalling or pissing people off for not being consistent enough or pissing people off for pissing off too many people or just piss. So much piss flowed through my mind at that time and it definitely messed with my confidence a bit.

...Anyway, that being said, I'm totally quitting my job and going full time with art. My resignation is in and I'll be free by the end of September.

After experiencing the epic life affirming decisions of perpetual self doubt and office labor, I think I'm finally ready to take a risk and try to go whole hog on this art thing. See if I can survive off it, see what I can learn or not learn, or see if I truly am late to the punch. Even if I fail and have to move onto something else, at the very least, I can look back and say that I tried, and that's what all of this is about! Luckily, too, I have enough cushion room in my finances to be able to take this leap of faith and see where it lands me.

So what does that mean for the art of TWANG? Well!! There will be more of it, that's for sure!

Commissions will be a monthly thing, uploads will be faster, and I want to dip my silly little hooves into animation. I'm also thinking of starting a discord server and perhaps doing weekly streams as well as patron awards. Oh, and I will also finally get SubscribeStar updated and running, for those who prefer that platform and of course for the safety of it being around.

Here's what will also change: The price of tiers.
I mentioned before how I lacked confidence when starting this Patreon, and as a result, I decided to go with two fairly low ball tiers just to test the waters a bit and to see if I can keep up with consistency and generally gauging how to run one of these guys. Now that I'll have to be relying on art to pay bills, I'll have to increase the prices just to provide a little extra cushion room... but I also want your opinion on this as well. So here's what I was thinking:

$1 Tier - Simple tip jar, for those who simply want to support
$3 Tier - Cozy - Early access to fully rendered art, and discord server access
$5 Tier - Comfy - Same as above, with the extras like sketches, voting, character suggestions, etc
$8 Tier - Warm -  Same as above, with sketch rewards.

Of course, this will coincide with more artflow! More features will be introduced as we go along, like commissioner priority and access to animations (mayhaps some more tiers as well??) but for now I'm going to leave it at that and make sure that you guys are okay and comfortable with the change. Or if you'd like to make a comment or a feature suggestion, please feel free!

Wow! I think that was it?! I sure hope this dry read of an announcement didn't bore you too much. Thank you for reading it through! And I mean, thank you in general too. I am seriously grateful to even have an opportunity like this, and for all the support everyone has provided thus far. I kind of really want to make this work out, and to really deliver the good stuff so that your generosity isn't ignored.

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