Billing Update and Changes to Future Patron Perks

As always I'd like to thank you for your support and kind words. As I've mentioned in a few posts, my personal life has been rather busy lately. To keep it brief my employment situation has been taking up a lot of time and energy, and is not likely to let up any time soon. The result right now is that I'm further behind on previous poll winners than I had hoped by the end of this month. I had planned on pausing billing only for October and using November as a month of fundamental practice. However, I am now considering putting a pause on November as well. This will give me both November and December to use for catching up on remaining poll winners, and grinding some more practice, as well as taking some time for the holidays. I apologize if this is a disappointment, but I'll still be posting drawings as regularly as ever and this time I can confidently say that perks will be reactivated again in December.

On that subject, as previously hinted at, I've been doing some thinking on restructuring my perks. I'd like to try and make each tier feel a little more rewarding while considering what I'm realistically capable of. Here are my thoughts so far;

Pokeballs - Voting privileges will be bumped down to be available to this tier. I'm not currently in a position in which I post too many patreon exclusive pieces, so hopefully this will make membership feel at least a little more worthwhile. Additionally more voters should help determine more conclusive winners in the polls.

Greatballs - Suggestion box privileges will be bumped to this tier. Since the suggestion box only gives an option on the poll and not a guaranteed drawing it didn't feel like it was rewarding enough for the higher tier. This may need to be reconsidered if members of this tier outnumber poll options, but for now it seems like a fitting compromise.

Ultraballs - New privilege featuring a quick sketch of your choice. I really love the idea of offering a full commission piece for this tier, but with my available time and pace I don't think that's something I can realistically deliver. However, I do think that at the very least I could offer something on the simpler side. Nothing too fancy; probably just a portrait from the waist/chest up some less polished linework and simple color/shading.

Thanks again for all your support. Please feel free to share your thoughts, as I'm curious what sort of things you all would like to see from membership.