I've been giving a lot of thought about how to avoid further crisis. Last time I dipped toe into Patreon I had 5k followers. It didn't click and I focused on something that paid out more. As it is I have a monthly payout of $102* up to $213 in the last week.
But things have massively changed. I now have 51.5K followers. I'm willing to admit, even with regular spam pruning, there are bots and people who aren't active. Still it's a lot of people. Likely enough that there are 450 people who would be happy to pay $10 a month for me to have financial stability (read shut up about having funds crises.)
I have been editing my patreon. I have added $5 and $10 levels. All levels receive free gifts after a year of membership, prints or original pieces for $25 and over. I intend to put in progress pictures exclusively on my page.
If there's something I'm not offering you'd like let me know.
Please take a look, give feedback and consider joining and supporting, so I can can keep making art in a more economically stable manner and my blog is once again a peaceful place to see beauty.