Looking Ahead for February 2022

The recent polls, and their results, led me to make some preparations and changes for the February revival of Patreon and patron pledges, which will resume on February 1st of the new year. 

For those of you who have joined recently, or within the last few months or so, I pause patron pledges from November 1st to the end of January, during the year-end, winter holidays. It gives everyone, especially myself, a break (of sorts). Posts are still shared during that time, allowing me to play catch up on lots of stuff...

Alright, let's get to the nitty-gritty...

I took all votes into consideration, even if some of the choices only received a single vote. Hopefully these changes and additions will appease all patrons, current and forthcoming, in all current tiers. These changes will also provide a better work-flow for myself and more consistent content posts for all of you.

Comics
I'm eliminating monthly comics. They will be done quarterly instead; the work spread out over the course of three months rather than crammed into a single month. As you can tell, based on all of my comic posts, I was never truly successful with finished comics every month. I bit off way more than I could chew, obviously. 

The characters from the Master List will be considered, but most of the characters featured in the comics will be new and original with special "fan-suggested" characters featured in at least one of the four comics throughout the year.

So, with a longer comics timeline, more pages can be added, they could feature a longer story and feature better quality artwork. Character stories can be developed better. There can even be plots, antagonists and cliffhangers! Oh my!

New Post Schedule
I'll be sticking to a new post schedule, with certain days for certain types of content. Posts won't be made every single day but the amount of posts will remain consistent week to week. Posts will also be scheduled ahead of time to keep that consistency (hopefully).

• Sundays -- No Posts; Off Day
• Mondays -- Muscles
• Tuesdays -- Transformations
• Wednesdays -- WIPs/Sketches of Projects/Comics
• Thursdays -- Throwbacks/Redraws; Stina Off Day
• Fridays -- Finished Art and/or Fan Art
• Saturdays -- No Posts; Off Day

Extra Bits Revamp
Rather than being extra pieces of finished works or character sketches, Extra Bits content will now consist of various studies, sketch dump pages or quick illustrations created throughout the week and will still follow the post schedule. So, if I do a muscle study or some random muscled gals, they'd be posted on a Monday.

Some of the Extra Bits content has the potential of becoming a fully finished (polished) illustration piece or featured in a comic project. 

Extra Extra Bits for the Experimentation Station tier will now be called Naughty Bits because that is what they are. Pure Naughty.

Sketches and WIPs (if applicable) of Extra Bits will be available to the Bittie Committee tier and higher. Extra Bits content that's in full-color or in semi-finished stages (example; line art, color flats and/or simple shading) will be available to the Just a Taste tier. 

Rewards
And that brings us to the rewards changes. The additions/changes to the rewards lists are underlined and italicized. 

Just a Taste
Full-Color, Finished Illustrations and Comic Pages
Suggesting/Adding Characters to the Master List
Monthly Picarto Streams - Private to Patrons*
First Dibs on Store Merchandise - Discounts No Longer Apply
Finished Extra Bits Content

Bittie Committee
Extra Bits WIPs & Sketches
All Previous Tier Rewards

Some Like It Rough
WIPs & Sketches for Larger Projects/Comics
Bi-Weekly Picarto Stream (Coming Soon) - Private to Patrons*
Polls for Theme, Scenario or Character Selections*
Discounts on Store Merchandise
All Previous Tier Rewards

Experimentation Station
Naughty Artwork, Full-Color
WIPs & Sketches for Naugty Pieces
Naughty Bits Content
All Previous Tier Rewards

* Picarto Streams
For now, streams will be available to all patrons via Picarto once a month. A Picarto account will be required as these streams will be private to patrons only and accounts are required to chat. Patrons of the Some Like It Rough tier and above will soon have access to bi-weekly streams.

*Polls
Patrons of Some Like It Rough tier and above will be able to vote on themes, scenarios or subjects used for illustrations and/or comics. 

I have also eliminated my Patreon goals as I plan on adding some of those to the rewards eventually anyways. Some new tiers will also be added to accommodate for some of those rewards. You can look forward to sketch cards, prints and stickers. 

Alright, that's what I have planned for relaunch on February 1st. In the meantime; tiers will be adjusted and I will catch up on posts and such. 

Feel free to discuss the additions and changes via comment here on Patreon or on Discord. 

- Stina Darhk