Goat's corner

Survey time! Future goals, updates, rewards? + commission price bump!

Added 2025-02-21 17:23:39 +0000 UTC

Hello all!

My patreon was 1 year old a few weeks ago (they grow up so fast 🎉), and originally this post was meant to be written around that anniversary, but other stuff came up and I never got around to it. But, better late than never!

I am coming to you guys with a bit of a....shareholder meeting, so to speak lol. I have been thinking a lot about this place and my art and how I could continue to improve on both fronts. So that brings me to two bigger topics in this post! (There is a google form link for a short survey at the end of this post, if anyone has a minute to fill it out I'd be super grateful!)

1, Commission pricing bump
Anyone who knows me will know that I really, really dislike thinking about pricing, about rates and just...money in general lol. However, since commissions is my only income, the world and the economy is in shambles lately, and I do have a family to take care of, I need to raise my prices juuuuust a little bit. This would include Flat color sketches, Comic pages and Monocrome sketches, with a flat $15 bump across the board. I think this both reflects that I've been working on getting better at (especially) my flat color pieces and comic pages, and that I need to raise my income in general. It could also give me a bit more padding throughout the week to work on personal art! (which is tied to my 2nd topic below!)
I understand this might put me out of people's budgets or price ranges. I've been super lucky and grateful that in this past year I practically never had to open commissions "publicly" on bluesky or such, and that my patrons support has been enough! For now I will be trying out this new price range for the next couple months, see how it goes.

2, Physical rewards!?
I have always loved the idea of people doing physical rewards for subs! I've always wanted to do something similar myself, but I always doubted how interested people would actually be to own a mini print of what is most likely my own blorbos in a picture lol. I have put a question in the survey about it to gauge interest for now, and have already started looking into resources and logistics. I could likely put the tier and everything together and do a test run for it all in April - but I'd post more info about that at a later time!
There would be a new tier for it, likely around 7-10$ (This would help cover the supply and mailing costs, but I will be doing more math about that later on!), and each print would be a 1 time run - meaning there would be a monthly illustration that will be obtainable as a print reward only through that month. Sizing for these would likely be around 4" x 6", or max. A5, depending on the art itself.
I would do a poll/voting on what people would like to see as a print either by posting sketches to choose from, from my endless WIP folders for me to work on given month, or if I want to do something more thematic (like for a holiday month or something!), a voting on theme/characters you'd like to see! The voting thing will likely get implemented even if I decide not to do the print rewards or something, because it would still help me figure out what to work on and the picture itself would still be posted up here! Just the print itself would be limited time availability.

PHEW I hope all this made sense?? more or less...

As mentioned above, there's a short survey with some topics I'd love to hear about from you all, but filling it out is not mandatory by any means. It is anonymous, and has a "suggestion box" section too where you can leave your ideas, concerns, and thoughts for me!