CHANGES FOR 2026 (Important, please read!) (Patreon)

For those who may not know this, Patreon only makes up about 50% of my income. The bigger majority of it comes from Commissions. While I made my Patreon have tiers for “Commission Credits”, unfortunately, many Patrons save them up for months and then redeem them when I already have a large commission queue.

This has been happening for YEARS now, where I try to clear away the commissions I have, but still need to pick up more to barely make ends meet each month. I tried the past 2 months to focus on completing these commissions, however as I rough and follow up with commissioners, more details are added, they want to change things, I have to wait to hear back for weeks, and during that time, even MORE commissions crop up.

This has been hanging over me forever, and it makes it especially hard for me to do all the comics of MINE that I’ve already written and barely have time to draw. I tried to do a “1 of mine, 2 of theirs” system, however all of the above keeps happening.

The weekly sketch streams have helped me get the income I need immediately to stay afloat each month, while also getting a bunch of art done and fully completed at the same time. So I’m taking that into account with the changes I’m doing for Patreon going forward.

I have MANY changes to the way I do art and comics next year and so here they are, as clear as I can make them, but if you have any questions or concerns, please let me know so I can clear them up! I have also never updated the cost of the prices since I made the tiers, so this is the right time to make the increases.

Why am I increasing prices? Due to the rising cost of living, inflation, and the overall quality of my work. But also, joining these tiers gives you immediate access to an entire archive of like 400+ comic pages, WIP’s, sketches, artwork, and writing, and I need to reflect the value that has.

• Increasing tier prices for NEW PATRONS ONLY
  $2 USD General > $3 USD
  $5 USD SFW > $7 USD
  $10 USD NSFW > $15 USD
  $25 USD Snazzy > $30 USD
  If you are ALREADY on the tier, this price will not change for you, only for NEW Patrons. If you leave this tier and come back, you will pay the new price. If you upgrade or downgrade to a new tier, you will pay the new price.

• Including new reward terms in the tier descriptions:
  Add “Archive” to all tiers

Add “New eBook Downloads” to NSFW+ tiers

• “Monthly Bonus Comics” will now become “Bonus Comics” because due to the scale of some of the bonus comics, I cannot promise to complete them each month. Also only 25% of Patrons actually fill out the survey. Bonus comics have included Voreology Ch 1-3, but also single page comics.

• Reducing the number of available “Commission Credits” tiers:
  $30 USD Snazzy 5 Patrons > 4 (There are currently 6 because I reduced the number before, but those Patrons are still on there)
  $50 USD Fabulous 5 Patrons > 3

• Whenever I draw a SFW comic of my own series or characters, I’ll try and do a “Bonus NSFW Panel”, like a simple kinky illustration following up on the events of that page.

• “Free” Members on Patron (members who joined Patreon’s new Free tier, or have left a paid tier and automatically put on “Free”) will occasionally get free or public posts as if on one of my social media channels. Imagine instead of following a creator on Bluesky and only seeing their posts when you open the app and scroll, you could get an email or push notification every time I share something significant on Patreon! Free members will ONLY see public posts.

• Most SFW comics and NSFW comics will remain “Exclusive” on Patreon for at least a month. That’s when I usually share my own comics publicly. This keeps the majority of my comics “Exclusive” on Patreon, and provides value to the tiers.

• Commission prices will be adjusted. Things like “Detailed Background” which I pass to my background artist Rody needs to align with her pricing. I will also add extra costs for “complicated character designs” and make a clear distinction, but will also have to be down to my judgement. Character designs take significantly more time versus drawing an existing design, so that will also be taken into account.

• Updated Tier images on Patreon! This is a fun one, the little picture that says the name of the tier will be updated with new character art and design!

• I am trying out Substack, strictly as a new form of NEWSLETTER. I will not be charging anything, there will not be any tiers, and it will not be an alternative to Patreon (unless for some reason, Patreon removes me.) If you want to get PUBLIC posts similar to Patreon’s free tier, but over on a new platform, check it out: https://tylermannart.substack.com/

That’s all for now, I’ve carefully considered each of these changes, and they will all take effect starting January 2026. If you have ANY questions or comments or concerns, please feel free to leave a comment or reach out to me!

Thank you again for being Patrons. I REALLY want to make this work better so I don’t have to seek out another form of employment, and REALLY want to go back to working primarily on my own comic series and characters.

-Tyler ❤️