Patreon 2024 Updates and Changes

Hey everyone, Amyth and Rowan here! So before we start posting again publicly, and things hopefully get a bit livelier around here and on the discord server, we wanted to make a quick post regarding some updates and changes going forward ^^

Anyways! WEW LADDY... Apologies in advance for the big ass wall of text! Lots of minor stuff admittedly but we definitely want to be as transparent as possible.

Patreon related stuff:

•      Rowan(Autumn) and I are once again working together! This patreon will be a joined effort for the foreseeable future. We will be making some of her past works available on here again soon to celebrate :3

•      As mentioned in my return post a bit back, I will no longer be charging on months that Rowan or I won't have a completed project to share. This gives me peace of mind as I really don't like getting something for nothing and life happens sometimes so I like having the ability to put things on hold for a month if needed.

•      I have slightly updated our reward tiers! Most notable change is that our Drake Tier ($5) will have access to our 4 most recent pieces and the Dragon Tier($10) will have access to the past 8 split between Rowan and I! Each new piece submitted will "retire" an older one but they all will always be available on our other store pages if anyone arrives late to the party and still wants them ^^

•      Speaking of! We've opened 2 new places to offer past rewards: Payhip  & Boosty! Disappointingly, Gumroad restricts nsfw content now so our old site/method for offering our past HD content outside of Patreon has to be replaced. For the time being Boosty is just being treated as a Gumroad replacement and not as a subscription service.

•      .PSD rewards are being retired for the time being. I felt interest in them was niche at best and they're quite a bit of work to put together since I have an, admittedly, pretty complex way I go about making my art when it comes to how many layers I tend to use (if you have one of my past .psd files you'll know what I mean lol).

       I'm still very much experimenting with my methods though and if I do something not too crazy stylistically/layers wise I may still offer one from time to time (especially if it ends up used in a tutorial or something!). Mainly we will be doing easier to follow process breakdowns and or animated .gifs/.mp4s to show the creation workflow for our art instead. I feel those are much easier to follow and more interesting to look at for most folks anyway~

Commission TOS Updates:

•      I am now potentially willing to draw more exotic genitalia on female characters as far as commissions are concerned. My one stipulation is that it is a -fantasy- character that is either a mythical creature or hybrid and not just a typical dog/horse/etc. Must be able to pass the Harkness Test lol

       Ultimately, I've decided that it's a bit silly to only be willing to draw atypical genitalia on male characters. The double standard hasn't been sitting well with me so I'm gonna try and be more open to possibilities.

•      I am willing to draw f/f content always and potentially m/m**

      **Male on male content is going to be reserved for special occasions like a big anniversary or marriage or something as its not something I want to draw more than very rarely. But if someone has been a long time supporter of us I'd certainly be willing to consider it! There is no guarantee and it has to be for something special but feel free to inquire.

•      I am also willing to draw watersports themes potentially, depends on the idea! Feel free to inquire.

•      My Terms of Service & Rowan's Terms of Service

Star Currency Changes:

(⭐'s are the currency that our patron tiers earn each month along with server boosters and the 3 most active folks on our discord server each month. More info about them here: Clicky!)

•      As a whole, our ⭐currency is going to be getting a revamp in the future and have much more thought put into what they can be used for, amounts for said things, etc. but for now all that is being simplified.

•      In the meantime, and as an additional thank you/bonus for people who have supported us for a while, Stars earned will result in increased voting power in our polls going forward! 50 stars earned will result in 1 additional vote, 100 will be 2, etc..

•      Starting now stars are also going to work as a bit of a priority system. Up until this point Rowan and I offered commissions that could be secured for a set amount of stars but it simply is not a sustainable system as the patreon grows (at least at the amounts asked up to this point). This may change in the future but its a prudent adjustment to make sooner rather than later and now feels like the best time to do so before we get back into the full swing of things.

  •      With that being said! To honor our past arrangement our top 10 supporters who are currently still patrons are eligible to secure a guaranteed commission slot from us going by the old costs/star amounts. <- click for reference

         Said Patrons are as follows:
         1. Malthaeos
         2. QuantumAge
         3. Haloren
         4. Ballters90
         5. Sousuke
         6. Maxxy
         7. Sedyana
         8. Latency
         9. Z-Byte
         10. Jake F.

         I am going to aim to take on a few commissions a year at least between personal projects and poll content, so hopefully I can get to anyone who has been genuinely interested in a commission in this list.

         If someone narrowly didn't make this list and is super interested in a commission I'm willing to take that into consideration also but everyone listed can 100% get something from me eventually if they want it.

•      If Rowan or I open for a commission and no one listed wants it, then I will instead accept one from whoever is interested with the most stars, basically (though no back to back commissions from the same person to keep things reasonable! Such things will also be considered).

•      There will be more perks/uses that come to our ⭐ system in the future so look forward to that and keep hoarding them like proper dragons! We're just keeping things simple for now while we work on rebuilding ^^

Discord Stuff:

•      We'd like to start hosting movie nights again once the server grows a bit and we have a handful of people interested in attending them. If this sounds like something you'd really like to see happen or take part in let us know via direct message or through whatever means really! Rowan and I mainly just wanna have at least a few folks that would reliably participate before we bring them back :3

•      We will likely need to a new discord mod or two in the future if things do get lively in there again. We will try and recruit one when the time comes or, who knows, maybe it will just happen organically ^^

•      Any potential discord mod would of course get a special role and access to a private channel along with 2 more stars a month. We try and treat our mods well! Any potential mod would definitely have to be someone we really trust and ideally could consider an actual friend.

If anyone has questions please feel free to ask!