Announcement on the Insightful tier and the next month's Champion commissions
Added 2025-05-30 18:52:40 +0000 UTCI am taking 3 commissions in June via the Champion slot, and the tier will reopen only two months after, instead of in July - on August 1st.
About the Insightful tier (4USD):
When the tier rewards were first chosen, it was my intent to have the Champion tier be a reliable way for an occasional fan to commission art work from me over multiple months - while I still took public commissions once in a while. For this reason, the Insightful (4USD) tier reward included the "Warning about upcoming commission openings" - that is, public commissions. The re-opening of the Champion slot was expected to be irregular, and the announcement went into the vip_lounge on Discord, for patrons pledging 10USD and more - an extra feature that was not offered to begin with.
In time, it turned out that some people simply seize the Champion tier and hold it to deny it to others, and that a stable once-per-month mode of art work agrees with me. So I limited the time it can be held, and public commissions petered out as I focused on the technical quality of the Champion tier commission(s), limiting the number of slots. For a while, it's been a one-slot-for-one-month deal, effectively making it a monthly commission slot.
In light of this, the patrons pledging at the Insightful tier (4USD and more) will now be notified about the exact time and date of Champion slot reopening monthly, via a Patreon text post. A notification will also still go in the vip_lounge Discord channel.
