A Few Small Changes (Patreon)

Hi everyone ✨

I've been enjoying making some updates to Patreon this month, and just have a few small improvements that I'd like to make.

1. Moving away from Discord

Now that Patreon has an inbuilt community chat feature, I think I'll close the Discord channels. Personally I always found Discord to be a bit clunky but it was good back when it was the only chat option, though now I think I'll transfer all my messages to Patreon's own community feature so I'll be more active there.

2. Switching up the digital print benefit

Currently I share a digital print with Beautiful Bluebells every month, but I thought it would be nice to switch things up and share a variety of small downloadable resources - so a mix of colouring pages, colour palettes, drawing ideas, and then sometimes a digital print. What do you think?

3. Easier navigation & learning plans

Patreon has been improving their navigation features, so now the 'collections' tab allows me to group tutorials nicely. If you select a collection and make sure that you have 'grid' view enabled, it'll show the tutorials as thumbnails rather than a list like it used to which is so much easier to browse!

Speaking of collections, I'm going to start making some 'learning plans' (maybe you can help me think of a better name?) where I group together sets of tutorials on a particular topic to make learning that skill much easier.

They'll be things like 'Learn How To Draw Characters' or 'Procreate for Beginners' or 'Learn How To Draw Cute Animals', so basically mini courses using existing tutorials here on Patreon - plus I'll make some new ones to fill any learning gaps. I'll make them into Collections, and I think I'll also make a simple pdf workbook to go with them with links to all the tutorials and some space for tips/exercises.

I just thought it would be a nice way to utilise all of the resources here on Patreon that I've made over the past few years and make them easier to find!

What do you think? Leave me a comment or send me a message if you have any questions or concerns!

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