Tier pricing and overall changes

Hello! ~

With a fresh mind and a lot of time to think, I decided to make some overall changes to my Tiers! I guess I was pretty overworked the last few months regarding my art and I wasn't really "feeling" it anymore. Not saying it wasn't fun or anything, but I felt like I wasn't progressing at all. Comparing this feeling to the enthusiastic boost I had in November/December, it's pretty noticeable in quality too I think!
I used the time out in Japan to overthink the reason why I am doing what I do. I don't know... it feels a bit sentimental and overdramatic to say it like this out loud haha!

I want to share my art and make people with same interests happy. I want to connect with people and progress in my art and skills too. I want to venture out and improve on different kind of things. That's why I change to the following:

Happy Hoot - 1€/month
This was a Tier to just give me something physical to show how much you appreciate my work - but really, it feels a bit wrong to just take money. Patreon was intended to give you a Bonus/Directors Cut experience - People who are a little bit more interested in my work. So you get the WIP Posts where I describe a little bit more about the drawing process, inspiration or feeling I got while drawing it!
This also means you're getting my work earlier than the public too!

Artsy Hoot / Fan Hoot - 6€/month
To be honest, there isn't much that differentiate these two. I wanted to give them both something to download and a "non-post-related" benifit e.g discounts or tricks. The main reason I wanted to separate these two was just because I thought there are "regular consumer" people and art people that both are interested in different things... but thinking about this, people could just ignore certain benefits altogether right? I want to merge these two with all their existing benefits.

I also feel like there is not much at the moment to teach you about in regards of art - I will do posts sponatnously from now on instead of hard scheduling topics.

Spicy Hoot - 13€/month
Still thinking about the pricing, since the exclusive posts take much time and effort to produce. I really like drawing the NSFW content and teasing you guys a little bit haha!

For now, pricing will remain the same, but to give this Tier more value, I will add all previous benefits to this one like most of other creators do. So you get the tips/tricks for drawing, the Linework files and the discount code for Inprnt.

I addition, I thought about sending you mini-prints (4” x 6”). Patreon has a merchandise-program, in which every Patron that pledged to this Tier for 3-months consecutively will receive the print automatically. Everything is done by Patreon and global shipping is available!

I will add a poll for my Spicy Hoots shortly to ask you about the kind of prints/the process of choosing them!

Premium Hoot - 17€/month
For now I am retiring this Tier. I'll probably do some exclusive Patreon merch in the future but for now, I think that after changing the Tiers, it isn't attractive enough anymore.

What to do now?
Everyone in the Artsy Hoot-Tier and Premium Hoot-Tier needs to switch to other Tiers! There will no longer be content for Artsy-Hoot and Premium-Hoot.
After everyone left the Tiers, I will delete/archive them and they're no longer available. Please do that as soon as possible so you don't miss any posts!
I will go through my old posts and re-select the content availability for the Tiers. I don't know how you get notified, but there might be some spam for the time, so you might turn off e-mail notifications off if that's something that'll annoy you!

The changes are valid as soon as the announcement goes up. Setting up the prints for Spicy Hoot might take a while though! I will keep you updated on all of this.

Scheduling for May
As I said sometime ago, May will be really stressful for me. There will be no timetable for this month like I did the last few times, just so I don't stress too too much about it. I am usually pro-organisation, but for this month, I want to keep everything a bit on a lose leash for me. This doesn't mean that there will be less content- and I am aiming for my usual scheduling and more!

I hope you like the decisions I made and look forward to your comments and new suggestions!

-sadhoot