[Janus Steel]

Originally Posted by GreatDragon AD

Finally, there's announcement #3 and it involves the past two announcements. I'm considering in using Patreon. I noticed a lot of my favorites artists from DA and FA are using it so people can donate a monthly amount for all the work they have done to show their followers. Reason I might be using Patreon was originally to afford the comic pages for my webcomic in which they will be in full color. And if all goes well, we might be seeing more than one page per week. But now that I find out that Grape can be added in S.H.I.F.T if provide the $1K, it seems that I need to have my own Patreon more than ever. If Grape DO have a big fanbase, let's say at least 1,000 fans and if they can donate $1 within a month, then our dream of seeing Grape as fighting game character will become a reality. But I am not doing this right away. I would like to hear your thoughts regarding these announcements, especially if using Patreon is the right path for me. I feel uneasy relying other people on covering my project since I have been paying them all by myself this whole time. However, I'm not getting any younger and I need to consider my future because there might come a time where I have to stop getting works done for my characters or any fan art from my favorite series and characters. So yeah, you guys are welcome to share some feedback regarding this post. Anyway, thank you all for taking the time in hearing me out and if it all goes well then expect more stuff from me soon.

Speaking as someone who just jumped on the Patreon band wagon to make my webcomic a more viable economic option, it's still got it some announces.

You'll probably find it easier to get fans/payments than I did simply because the material that is out there of Grape. The more adult oriented works seem to get funded faster. My webcomic routinely sees 2000 unique hits. But I only have 28 people who are willing to donate through Patreon, even when the most expensive perk is 5 bucks.

There's two caveats of Patreon funding that doesn't get mentioned enough. First is that once an objective is hit, provided it's subscription, fans can change the total price of their donation. So if you hit your 1K mark early your fans can lower their payments down to the lowest tier and Patreon won't recognize that this has happened until next month.
The Second one is that a lot of people don't like to provide billing information online and prefer to do paypal or other one off's so they don't have to worry about continued payments.

All that said, you're also more likely to get fans who really care about the project to donate way more than you need. Just because you set the price at like 2 bucks doesn't mean someone can come along and drop 50 or 100.