Potential Changes

Garth Graham

The idea of getting paid fine art prices for my art certainly has an appeal to be sure, but there's a lot to the whole crypto-currency thing that I'm just keen on getting involved with.

LeQuebecer

Up front makes sense. I'd suspect most people check your twitter before subscribing, and it's all the evidence they need to know its worth.

Douglas Graham

Up front, definitely. Don't part with the PSD files. Sell the high res images as NFTs.

I think the up front payment makes sense. The suggestions to offer a sample portfolio or post a non-gated image (already paid-for commissions?) once in a while sound like great ideas to meet prospective patrons halfway.

ShinobiDave

I agree with the Love Cats guy. Well...not because he loves cats, but his suggestions and paying up front.

I agree with the pay up front. I do have a suggestion that might help with it as well. In your "About me" section include a few scraps of your work for preview so potential new members can see your amazing art style. As for the Hi-Res stuff I'm good with what you currently make. No need for it if you don't want to.

Adrian

Oh, hi! I'm one of the people in the 'not billed yet' margin, so I feel like I should add this thought: Honestly, I'm surprised that pay-up-front isn't the default for Patreon, given how much of a chronic problem the "cancel and run" problem is for artists who don't use it. The other side of the coin is that... it's not a great incentive to join campaigns (or tiers) when you don't actually know what a creator is posting. It's a bit of a trust exercise. I was an old Comedity reader (still have my paperback here somewhere, I think, retired a shirt not long ago), though Star Power didn't quite connect with me and I trailed off early. So I know your work and I was happy to join the campaign when I found you again, but for another artist I might be a little more hesitant. The way I've seen other creators handle that is to post occasional 'samples' that people browsing can look at, but I don't know how well it works or what Patreon's rules are regarding some of the more grown-up content. It might be worth thinking about?

Schattentod

Fine with either, although i admittedly I’m very much content with the current res.

Tom Clarke

Go for it.

Just Lurkin' About

1st topic; fully agree that you should get paid up front. 2nd topic; maybe have a decent res version and the ability to "buy" the right for a high-res printable version? Either that or time it so that it becomes available for the current tier after a few months? Just throwing out an idea.

Longwing

Same here. Makes sense to me.

Icedragoner

Don't really need highres to be honest, but of course nice to have. But I really get the first topic and it's totally reasonable to change that.

Ben

Both changes sound reasonable to me.