Poll changes explanation (Patreon)

Hey everyone, here's a few changes coming for the polls.

 
What and why is changing?

I want to have more flexibility in the creative process.

There's months with a lot of external factors (internet trends, a lot of annoucements on social media, etc) where I simply don't have room to do those things because of the current poll structure.

Over the years there's been a lot of social media trends that I wanted to participate (such as "paint your OCs doing X or Y") but I simply couldn't because there was no room in the month to re-arrange the images. By the time I could fit the image in the schedule, the trend was long gone.

So the idea is to change the "monthly pin-up slot" to a "next in line" system. Where I'd have a "queue line" of pin-ups voted by you and whenever it's possible to paint them, I'd simply pick the next in line and paint it.

You can check the image above:

1st image

• The poll would be 8 choices (those are just examples that I already had the images)

2nd image

• the top voted would be "next in line" to be painted.
• the bottom 2 options would be removed from the next poll.

3rd image

• after Urbosa is painted, the 2nd in line would automatically be promoted to "the next in line" to be painted.
• on the new month Yuzuriha got +18 votes compared to her previous "highest score", so she got bumped to 3rd place in line.
• Morrigan only got +5 votes compared to her previous "highest score", so she got down to 4th place in line.
• 3 new options for the poll.
• the total votes would never go down. If a character has 450 votes in one month, 432 in another, it's score would still be 450. This is to prevent a situation where a character keeps bouncing up and down in the middle of the poll.

A few considerations

- Trending/flavor of the month characters wouldn't be included on the poll. Since this new system is made exactly to allow me to join trends and "paint things that are hot", there would be no need for those to be included in the polls. Also there's the benefit of them not "dominating the poll"

- This would allow me to participate on trends with Iris and Maya. Anyone that follow artists on twitter or instagram knows that every so often there's some cool/sexy/funny trends where artists paint their OCs in specific situations/clothing etc.

This is the "official" announcement of the change, since it was discussed on the discord server a few days ago and people were very receptive of the new system.

The idea is to start with the new system by the end of this month.

Anyway, if you have questions, feel free to ask them bellow, I'll do my best to respond them.