The Big 2025 Post! (Patreon)

Happy New Year! Hau'oli Makahiki Hou!

2024 was definitely one of the years of all time. 2025 gonna be my year tho. In the words of Bilbo Baggins, 'I've put this off for far too long'.

SOS

The big reason a lot of you are here, other than butts. SOS is the shorthand for my scifi comic. Unlike where I said I'd surely begin in 2024, I am starting this year, and soon. I'd say in the first quarter. It's a long-form comic, scifi space opera with a set beginning and end. It will be rated R for adult themes and violence but nothing exorbitantly graphic or lewd. The plan is to release pages to my sites/Discord first, and publicly after. Speaking of which...

Discord

Just as I said I would in 24 but didn't, I will be making a Discord server for my comics and stuff. It will also be the primary reward-delivery platform. I'm lurking on a LOT of other artists' servers, so I think I have some good examples of how to organize it to what I want. I understand most people are probably in like, a thousand servers already, so I plan to keep it simple, brief, and focused on my work and we'll see where it goes from there.

Tiers

Reworking basically my entire workflow and goals will mean adjusting the tiers...both in rewards a little, and price a little. I've noticed many other artists have their lowest tiers at 2 USD for tips/sketches and 6 USD for HD, comics and the like... I've had my same 1/5USD prices set for ... 10 years now, and in that time, I've never raised it--I'm hoping people will see the +1 dollar extra as an understandable adjustment and won't mind...but I also understand that every dollar counts, so if it's an issue for some folks, let me know and I can try to reconsider and hope that the 1/5 won't bite me in the butt... 10 and 25 remain the same, but admittedly I've been falling short on a few of the rewards there, so an increase wouldn't feel justified. The rewards should be as:

$2 - Tip Jar/sketches. Non-coloured(B+W), web-res sketches, shared early. Still can vote on some polls.

$6 - HD files for all illustrations, comics, extras posted early. Voting on most polls.

$10 - PSD files for all illustrations and work, albeit a lower-than-work-resolution. *.clip files for comic pages as well, If people are interested? Access to high-tier streams, which I know I've been lacking on, but believe I can do more reliably this year than previous, due to kiddo less demanding.

$25 - Extras such as cameos in backgrounds will be actually more frequent and easier to do given there a lot of scenes and stuff where that can happen in the main scifi comic, and sometimes the extra comics. Also access to occasional, special-level input posts and discussions such as the direction of comics, work, or others. I was also thinking of adding something else to this tier, like an art-feedback option. I can't do one-on-one teaching, but the next best thing would be like, redlines or assitance with artwork. Something like 2x a month you can submit to me something you're working on and need some help with, or a fresh set of eyes on. This would be easier done in the Discord server.

Bonus Comics

So the plan is for me to run the main scifi comic and a bonus comic at the same time. These adult comics would make the adult portion of the graphic content, seperate and optional from the main story so it could remain more SFW. But this category would see both scifi related and other comics, like one-offs and Predators and such. They would just be done in a more loose and forgiving style to accommodate the two comics being run. It would take time away from some other types of art and projects, but I think would be rewarding in its own way.

Streams

The way I see streams working is split three ways -- SFW and game-stuff would be on Twitch, while NSFW art on Picarto and/or Discord server, along with the private stream stuff for the higher tiers. I'll experiment a bit with these, but I would like to start with a goal of at least 1 public stream per week, and at least 1, ideally 2, high-tier for the 10+25 tier streams. I'll see what's easiest for everyone, either Picarto or Discord on that regard, but it's a reward I've been most meaning to get back on the ball with.

I know it's hard to schedule these or plan in advance, so I'll wait on any kind of promise with that just yet--but the goal would be a consistent schedule for both. I figured the inconsistent schedule had one advantage, that of being more people could possibly make them, if the normal times disallowed it.

Anyway, thank you all SO much for reading, being patient and supporting me! Welcome to 2025, let's build some worlds and stories maybe?? That'd be cool!