tldr; new bonus reward idea & possible changes

Heyo! I've been thinking for a bit and I had an idea that may be to your liking, so I wanted to discuss it with y'all first before doing anything.

There are people who have been supporting me for a long time in the "Awesome Tier", and in the very beginning of my Patreon page, I rewarded the same person twice or so, but I can't really do that anymore with the amount of requests I get monthly. I was thinking of a way to still prioritize new people while managing to give "veteran" supporters a second go. So, I’d like to introduce an idea:

The Bonus Art Reward

How would this work?

Basically, I'll make a dedicated post every year for a Bonus Art Reward and keep it pinned to the page. Everyone who received a reward in previous years are eligible for it! Throughout the current year, I’ll check that post and pick requests following the same criteria as normal rewards, but this one is exclusive for people who already got something and decided to keep supporting me regardless!

I can't make any promises on how many of these bonus rewards I'll manage to make, as I don't want to overwhelm myself and compromise the quality of the pieces, but I'll be doing my best to use my free time to make them whenever possible! My main priority will still be on the normal rewards, for people who haven't gotten them yet, but this is a way I can properly thank those of you who stayed even after getting your art, which I know is probably the main reason many of you are here! xP

The Trade-Off

Instead of making the tier more expensive for this, I was thinking of putting the Bonus Reward in place of the timelapses. To be honest, the technical process of posting them has become a bit of a headache, they take forever to render in Clip Studio, I have to compress them so they don't eat up all my storage, and even so they still take up a lot of storage in Gdrive or Mega.

Since I know not many of you are that interested in watching full-length 10-minute videos of the process, I’ll occasionally post them publicly on my other socials instead. This way, I can replace them here on Patreon with this new system that gives back more directly to you guys.

So, what do you think? If you wanna ask anything about this, feel welcome to do so!