New Thumbnails and (Potential) Partnership!

Hey there all of my wonderful supporters! Sorry for the lack of basic updates, but I've been busy trying to get the monthly comms done, while also starting up a new endeavor for commissions and pieces in general. That being, I've been interviewing and working with artists to see about adding proper, custom, title thumbnails/covers to my works.

For transparency, the main reason for this decision was traffic on certain sites like DA has been a bit slower on recent pieces. Looking at my DA page, it's a lot of repeating of the same image, just the required pic needed for PDF uploads. It's difficult to tell one story from another, but I also don't want to go back to multi-part Sta.sh uploads (which need their own editing run to fix formatting and spacing issues). So, this is a middle ground with some nice benefits in just beautiful art.

The artists is Isisvart on DA, a wonderful artist who's been great to work with (commission her if you get the chance), and this is the first of three Menagerie covers, the next will be Kasumi's (Zyanya's might be done by another artist, just because she's a furry with a lot of intricate detail and no refs as of yet, you'll all know first obviously). There will also be a commissions cover, which is going to be another Matty piece to obviously differentiate Menagerie stuff from originals.

All in all, other than the cover images being included with final piece uploads (and previews of new covers going up here on the Patreon in their raw form, not to be uploaded on any of my platforms being Isis' to share for their portfolio, though they may get a Discord share just to show off), the only change this is going to add is for commission costs. There's going to be a 20$ "cover fee" just to compensate Isis on adding the title to the comm thumbnail, or alternatively, I'm going to work out having the option for commissions to have custom covers done by Isis worked into my ToS. That's going to take a little time yet, especially in the pricing department.

As usual, love you all, and thank you for the continued support that makes these kinds of things possible! Now, time to get back to working on the mini-comms, and the piece that's actually going to need that Kasumi thumbnail. XP