IMPORTANT: January Tutorial and Discord

Hey folks!

This month I've got two things to talk about! The first is that I'm trying something both frightening and new; I've made a Discord server for you all to join! It's going to be an obligation of yours to join this server if you want rewards!

Be aware: I've signed up to discord and started a new server for you folks expressly for the purpose of personally giving out rewards and better managing active members from bots etc. 

How this is going to work: 

-Discord is a text, voice, and video sharing app. It's free to use, accessible from a browser or by downloading the app HERE. You only need to register an account associated with your email to use discord. If any of you are my Patrons, I guarantee you can access the web version of Discord. You can even access discord from your phone.

 -Patron rewards will no longer be posted directly to this page. I will require you to access your content via Discord.

-If you sign up to be a patron I'll send you a link to my discord server via your Patreon account via Private message.

-Everyone will have access to the chat (both 3$ tier folks and 10$ tier folks), but nobody is obligated to chat there. 

-You can talk (text) there among yourselves about things related to my artwork, questions you folks might have, and ultimately it will be a way for me to solicit everyone active for further rewards if available. A part of this Patreon thing was to have monthly Colored Sketches given away and I hadn't found a good way of asking people for a refsheet by the end of the month, but this solves that problem.

-Patron rewards will then be given out this way as well. All general content will be posted to the chat there for every member to see, and all content segregated to the higher tier will be given to each member individually. 

-As a new incentive/perk, I will be available in the Discord chat to be a real person and talk to you folks. I won't be available all the time, nor will I be obligated to answer anyone's questions, but if I feel like I can/want to answer any of your questions I will absolutely do so!

-Basically I will be more active to respond/interact via a chat, especially if I get notifications and you folks are soliciting me to talk to you =3 This is beneficial for everyone I think! Half the reason I started this Patreon account was to make sure I was at least trying to hear the people willing to support me, and though this platform isn't bad at it I feel I'll be more active in a safe engaging environment via Discord.

I also have something new for you folks: A Tutorial Video!

Assuming you can all get to discord, this reward will be available in that chat. Because it is a video, all Patrons will have access to this content. Patrons of the higher tier this month will have the opportunity to be placed in a Colored Sketch give-away, where I'll be picking a few of you at the 10$ (or more) tier that join the discord chat by the end of the month. 

The tutorial is a test, both in my familiarity with desperately mild video editing and my capacity to give any of you something a bit more comprehensive than what you could discern from watching a recorded stream of mine (which I don't do, but I do stream almost every weekday just to do). The tutorial is about how to draw a dog head.

The discord chat will also give you all the opportunity to give me feedback about that tutorial (hopefully constructive criticism), to comment on what you might enjoy seeing in the future, and to give me ideas about what would best serve to make this Patreon thing (and the discord) an actually enjoyable thing you guys subscribe to each month. 

All Patrons will (after I post this) be sent a message with an invite to the Discord server.