Suitable Patreon Incentives?

vworksart 2018-08-21 20:12:19 UTC #1

Hello! It's probably still pretty early for me but, I was curious if anyone has done any patreon work with their series or is just knowledgeable of it? What are decent tier incentives to give people for supporting your work? I thought of things like stickers, custom art, etc but frankly, I'm not sure what's best practice for the webcomic world or even if Patreon is an alley for this.

Any thoughts or advice?
Thanks!

joannekwan 2018-08-21 20:43:27 UTC #2

I think my most popular rewards are a monthly nsfw pinup and slots in a monthly raffle for a free draw request.

I reserve the nsfw stuff for a $10 tier.
And for the raffle slots $5 will get you 1 slot, $10 2 slots, and $15 3 slots, and the draw request will be more rendered depending on the winner's lifetime pledge.

shazzbaa 2018-08-21 20:49:07 UTC #3

I'd advise looking at other webcomics' patreon campaigns!! See what others are offering, look at what's doing well and consider what might work for you!

Here's some comics patreons off the top of my head, but if you poke around or do searches for "patreon" on the forums you can probably find more!:

(here's mine!!)

ryoko 2018-08-22 00:20:24 UTC #4

I only have two tiers; $1- gets pages ahead of time and $3- same as the first tier, but also NSFW monthly pinup, uncensored pages and bonus pages/comics Currently, all my patrons are at the $3 level. This is all I can handle between work and doing my normal comic page load.

I think if you're going to offer patreon incentives, make sure whatever you plan to do you have the time to do. You don't want to stress yourself out making your comic as well as trying to get Patreon rewards up. The kind of rewards you offer will depend on your comic, but stickers and custom art sound totally fine. Some people just want to offer support to their favourite artists and aren't really interested in the rewards, too.

lil-sea-salt 2018-08-23 02:32:29 UTC #5

happy d artist does a really cool 2 dollar coloring challenge. check her out.