1 Year Anniversary Update and Mascot Design!

Hello everybody! May 1st will be the one year anniversary of my Patreon, so I thought I'd do something special for it! I wanted to design a mascot for my online art presence, and I figured I'd enlist your help!

Buuuuut, before I get into the details, I figured I'd give a quick update on the Patreon as a whole, too. I plan on opening a Gumroad store soon! I'll be figuring out the details later, but the gist is that old rewards will always be available to patrons who already had access, and anyone who just wants one pack can get it from Gumroad without having to pledge. This shouldn't affect existing patrons very much, but I figured I'd give you a heads up!

Additionally, I'm hoping to sort out getting prints and other physical merch soon, so keep an eye out for that if you're interested! I may set up a higher tier if I do get it set up, which would include something like a postcard print or stickers being mailed out every month. The details are hazy, but I really would like to get that running sometime this year!

Lastly, I'm still planning two illustrations for April's rewards: Tifa and Bremerton. Keep an eye out for those (and one or both of them may feature NSFW variants)!

Okay! Back to the mascot!

Over the course of May I'd like to enlist my patrons' help in finalizing the design for a mascot character! The first half of the month will include a series of polls and feedback posts as I work out the design, and the second half will include a full illustration of that character. This won't replace the usual monthly character poll and illustration, so that will still happen too!

My running concept for now is a half-dragon (think Corrin) who runs a casino which serves as her dragon's hoard. So the outfit and design would probably be bunny suit themed under this idea. However, this is just my starting point, so who knows where the character will end up!

That was a bit of a wall of text, but if you have any comments or ideas, both on things I could do to expand this Patreon or ideas for the mascot character, let me know here!