Wolfblade
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July Patron Pack!
🕑 Added 2016-07-24 20:44:43 +0000 UTC https://www.dropbox.com/s/lg67a5gvtk67mxm/PatronPack7-23-16.ziphttps://www.dropbox.com/s/lg67a5gvtk67mxm/PatronPack7-23-16.zip
Hey, Everybody!
Here's July's Patron Pack! Hope you all enjoy it! Got some good stuff in here. ^_^
I want to apologize for the silence lately. For those that didn't know, I had a sudden move pop up last month, and it's thrown everything out of whack for a bit. I'm relocated now, and things are settling back into a good groove, so expect to see more streams soon!
Regarding streams, there's been an issue lately that I've struggled trying to figure out how best to address. It's tricky because I truly appreciate every single little bit of support you guys have given me, and I don't want this to come across like I'm not appreciative, nor do I want to upset anyone or make anybody feel like I'm dumping on them.
Patreon is meant to let you contribute to artists who make work you enjoy, to support them so they can keep making more. It's not meant to be a sales platform. You might think of it like a giant tip jar. If you like what someone is already doing, you throw a tip at them so they can keep doing it.
But no matter how awesome and generous you are as a tipper, and no matter how much the person you're tipping appreciates it, would you ever ask the server you've left awesome tips for to give you a free meal?
Pledging is not purchasing. It's not buying personal work, it's not buying a raffle ticket for the chance to get personal work, it's not paying in installments to eventually cash in later for personal work. It's awesome of you, and generous, and as I've said before, the support you guys show me through Patreon is the only reason I'm able to still be here doing this. But it's become a concern that some patrons are feeling their pledges should have been spent on commissions instead.
Streams recently - even paid slavestream sessions that aren't even the sketch grab streams - have become increasingly distracted and derailed by people private messaging me about not getting a free patron sketch. The free sketches are not a guaranteed thing. Pledging is not purchasing an eventual drawing from me. The free sketch streams are not a raffle you've bought a ticket for. They're a completely random and arbitrary thing I do to try and give back something to show my appreciation, and lately that has been hindered by this feeling that a few people are not happy with contributing if they're not getting art in return.
That's fine! I'm not criticizing or looking down on that, but if you're not happy throwing your money at something that isn't resulting in art back, then please, stop throwing your money at something that you aren't feeling to be worth it. Hang onto it, save it, commission art from someone, whether me or another artist, just spend your money on something you will be satisfied with and not regret!
I'm going to be changing the text of my rewards here to try and make this more clear. Anybody who withdraws their support on this clarification, please go ahead and do so within the next week before another round of pledges gets processed, and no hard feelings, no worries, I'm not gonna hold it against anybody who just feels their money is better spent elsewhere.
I will continue doing the free sketch streams, nothing at all is changing as far as my intent with doing those as something to give back to patrons, but I just need a small but growing number of you to understand that those are free, bonus, extra, just random appreciation, and not something that pledges purchase, or build credit towards eventually guaranteeing.
Sorry to break silence with kindof a downer post, but I hope you guys understand this, and I hope you all enjoy the new Patron Pack! I hope to continue seeing you at my streams, and even if I lose a few people today, I'm hoping I can keep satisfying everyone else. ^_^;
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lg67a5gvtk67mxm/PatronPack7-23-16.zip
