What to expect for next month (and other thoughts)
Added 2024-05-31 05:31:15 +0000 UTCI'm currently really, really exhausted and sleepy from work and will try to do my best to relay this more clearly in detail in the coming bits, but since the month is almost over I just wanna clear some things up in case they kinda aren't obvious based on the pace of things:
Next month is the last month of this Creator Crownie term, I will try my best to have them all finished by then. Once that's done, that specific reward will be retired and I will be returning to doing commissions on demand again.
Also want to get done the sketches and the RPG loot comics and such meant for this month as soon as I can.
Because I'm still very behind on other obligations but I really don't want to leave Counsel/Caster Crownies out to dry with another month without a poll again, I'm looking to see if there's another smaller-scale project to contribute to to complete in reduced time. I've been thinking about doing some kind of character design-by-"exquisite corpse" method thing so I can design and draw OCs and stuff, lemme know if that piques your interest!
oh yeah, that dnd one-shot I'm also still planning on having, I'll contact folks about that when I have the time to make arrangements haha
In my last post discussing Making Rewards More Guaranteed, I pitched some added ideas regarding what to do with sketch rewards, and one suggestion I got was of making patron tiers integrate into my general queue for doing commissions on the side, where certain tiers gave you additional priority in the queue. I strongly considered this option, but I've concluded that it won't really work for me because I'm unsure of how to handle situations where a queue is more dense than expected and thus determining when certain "priority" commissions are due, in addition to other potential complications that may be up in the air such as the size of each project (one-page sketches and multi-page comics are entirely different beasts) which may put me back in the same conundrum of burying myself in a complicated mountain of chronic urgency.
Thus, when I do rework the sketch rewards, I am going to be moving in the direction I originally proposed, that being of one tier gets you GUARANTEED monochrome sketch, a more expensive one gets you GUARANTEED color sketch, and those can be upgraded to other commissions on the side at a proportionate discount based on tier. More details on that will come soon.
Oh yeah, one last thing I should mention I'm concerned about: figuring out my commission prices. To be honest I'm very nervous about determining this because upon evaluation of my past commissions and gaging them in comparison to the general rates of a lot of my peers (as well as personal opinions from a few of my friends), I may have had a chronic habit of undercharging, and a lot of me is really scared of putting a big number on my prices because I think fundamentally everyone hates seeing things getting expensive and I'm really scared to alienate people no matter how "necessary" it is to me. I want to be able to make as much content as I can and justify as many means to do so within a range that is perfectly affordable, why does this have to be so hard uahghgghhgghghhh
Comments
Also D&D Amazing
Xentex
2024-05-31 13:52:41 +0000 UTCPricing your work appropriately is gonna be challenging. Since you need to balance your need for fair compensation with the fear of alienating your customers who Reactive to higher Prices. So i hope you find a Good Amount that Satisfies both. Also you do Good Work so don't ya go chronically undercharge yeah?
Xentex
2024-05-31 13:45:28 +0000 UTC(Also crossing fingers for D&D)
Dr_Novella
2024-05-31 10:43:56 +0000 UTCI know the feeling, but it's important not to undersell yourself. You do good work and you should be properly compensated for it, even if it means some folk gotta save up the cash for a little longer.
Dr_Novella
2024-05-31 10:43:35 +0000 UTCYou should feel less scared about increasing the prices of your comms, you do really great art and should feel free to charge an amount that reflects that and the amount of work you put in it to and all the other considerations for what to charge! (and I'm saying this even though I'd be one of the people less able to comm you if you increased your prices because you do great work and you don't owe me or anyone else lower prices then what your work is actually worth and what you'd be comfortable charging for it. Plus regardless of what price you charge there are going to be people disappointed they couldn't comm you, because there's only one you and a finite amount of time in a day to do stuff, so you'd need some criteria to determine who you end up doing commissions for, so why not go with a criteria of "whoever's able and willing to pay what your work is worth")
Phee
2024-05-31 06:23:05 +0000 UTC
