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Artwork and Patreon changes

by TheLazylonewolf on April 15, 2024 at 4:10 pm
Posted In: News and Announcements

Hello everyone! I just wanted to take a moment to share some changes and updates regarding the artwork I’ve been posting, and my Patreon page.

Future artwork will be patron-exclusive

Firstly, I’ve made the decision to make most, if not ALL (future) bonus art patron-exclusive again.

To those who have been enjoying my artwork for free thus far, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for your support over the years. However, I need to prioritize my livelihood, and this adjustment is necessary as I take a more serious approach to my work. Don’t worry, some future artwork and commissions, and all past artwork will still be publicly available. On a related note…

Free trial enabled for $1 and $3 Tiers

I’ve enabled free trial features for the $1 and $3 tiers. Didn’t notice they added this feature until now.

Patreon page cleaned up

As for for my Patreon page, not much of a change actually. Mostly I cleaned up the About and Tier descriptions a bit, and removed the rewards that I wasn’t really applying. Will probably make the About page and Thank You message nicer in the future, maybe a Welcome video too? I may also remove some of the Discord channels related to some Tiers that are unused.

$10 Tier is NSFW

Lastly, the KitTen ($10) tier. I haven’t been doing much with it at all so… it’s now officially the NSFW tier, so expect some monthly NSFW artwork from now on. Past NSFW artwork will still be available for the $5 Tier. Tooootally not partly caused by my friend which has been introducing me as a “porn artist” to everyone he meets, and since I already made the leap to mark my Patreon page as NSFW so MIGHT AS WELL 😪

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Patreon Annual memberships enabled, get 16% discount

by TheLazylonewolf on October 1, 2021 at 11:29 am
Posted In: News and Announcements

Darn, forgot this existed, sorry! I recall an announcement about this, but not about the discount. If there’s no discount, then what’s the point? That’s probably why it slipped my mind. Anyway…

If you avail of the annual membership, you’ll get a 16% discount. That’s 2 months free, so it’s quite the steal if you ask me, and practically theft when it comes to AristoCat commissions, you monster! :myanLaugh:

Become a member, or you can read more about annual memberships and why stealing is wrong here.

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TheLazylonewolf on March 3, 2021

Supporters page updated

A fresh coat of paint and cleaner CSS for the “new” Supporters page (ex-Patrons and Ko-fi enablers page). I renamed it to Supporters so it’ll fit the new navigation menu if you were curious.

It’s definitely not the most useful nor frequently visited page, but hey, I and this whole friggin site wouldn’t be alive without these guys so thank you once again!

If more supporters show up (wink wink) or if I want to update that page automatically, I’ll probably have to learn SQL or some real PHP since I’ve been making do with modifying .php files at most. Welp, I’ll leave that to future me.

Sticky nav menu?

Speaking about that new nav menu, Mod BlueDavrial has suggested the nav menu should stick to the screen while it scrolls down. I figured most webpages that aren’t comic pages will be rarely visited, so I didn’t make it sticky. I was also worried about it being annoying, but most of us are used to sticky nav menus and when I tried myself here in cat-nine.net I didn’t find it too annoying. Kinda dumb having two fixed bars on my side though. What do you guys think? I’m leaning toward keeping it static rather than sticky.

screenshot showing admin and navigation bar

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Announcements – June 10, 2020

by TheLazylonewolf on June 10, 2020 at 12:28 am
Posted In: Patreon, News and Announcements

A bunch of important announcements, particularly for my Patreon.

Another Google AdSense ad replaced with Comicad

Comicad just recently started a beta for some sort of premium membership. With it, I can now place up to five ad units instead of three. For now, I’ve only replaced the AdSense responsive ad in the main content area with two half-banner ads. I’d rather go with Comicad instead of Google every time because:

  • Google has been freaking out about the tasteful nudity from some of the art in the fan art section. It’s funny to me but also, deal with it!
  • I want other comic artists and other indie creators to have the space on my website rather than some business.
  • Google is evil. I’d rather not give them more of my money if I can’t help it.

I’ll leave alone the last two AdSense ads in the meantime, though I might replace one of them with the fifth Comicad unit in the future.

Charge up front activated

Like I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve now activated charge up front. Now, new patrons or increased pledges will be charged immediately. The downside is no more trying out my Patreon, but the upsides are I get your money immediately and it’s also useful for…

New $55 Tier – AristoCats

It’s for commissioning me through Patreon. It’s basically just a $10 pledge + a $45 commission, discounted from my usual price of $50 (10% off). You’ll also get access to #aristocat-manor in Discord, the perfect place for gloating, mwuhahaha! The rest can just watch in envy, but they cannot speak. This tier has limited slots though, but I can open up more according to my free time. Read up on the details about the tier and commissioning me on my Patreon page. And huge thanks to my patrons that took these slots immediately!

It also contributes a nice amount to the new Goal I’ve set up recently…

New $300 Goal – NSFW art

If the $300 Goal is reached I’ll start drawing NSFW for art suggestions or commissions! It’s my first time doing these, so keep it on the vanilla side, please.

Art suggestions will be Patreon-exclusive, although if it ‘s applicable I’ll post the censored versions here and in my social media. For NSFW commissions however, I’ll leave it to the commissioner if they wish to share it publicly.

Finally, here’s some good news…

The $300 Goal has been reached!

Who knew sex actually sells, and quickly at that! I will now do NSFW art for this month and as long as the Goal is reached.

$5 patrons and above, you can change your suggestions to NSFW if you want to. Three people took the AristoCat slots just to reach this Goal so expect them to be pretty spicy!

The rest of you, well, you can wait for an AristoCat slot next month, become a $5+ patron if you want to suggest art, or enjoy the censored version… if they aren’t too spicy that is! Judging from the AristoCats’ discussions in #nsfw it’ll likely involve Cat Nine characters, but we’ll see what kind of perversion they’ll come up in there! And who knows, if they’re feeling generous perhaps they’ll share their commissions for all.

To all my patrons this month, and maybe future ones, thanks so much! I’m going to make another Hall of Fame entry in the Patrons page for the $300 Goal. If you want your name in there, then maybe now’s a good time to pledge.

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Patreon changes: Charge up front, revamped art suggestions, and… NSFW?!

by TheLazylonewolf on May 18, 2020 at 4:05 pm
Posted In: Patreon, News and Announcements

I’ll be activating charge up front for Patreon at the start of the next month, revamp the art suggestions, and mayyyybe start accepting NSFW art too.

Charge up front
New patrons will be charged on the day you become a patron, giving you access to all content shared with their reward tier.

For existing patrons, there shouldn’t any changes. You’ll still get charged on the 1st of every month.

Read more about charge up front here.

I was reluctant to apply this cause I wanted to give my new patrons the opportunity to give my stuff a try and maybe prevent them from buyer’s remorse since you all know I’m pretty slow with the updates! I did plan to implement charge up front anyway if people keep abusing it. It has happened two times already, and I was going to activate it on the third “strike”. There’s no going back after I activate charge up front too.

It’s kinda annoying waking up and being happy about receiving a “New patron!” email but they actually canceled when I later checked Patreon!

Revamping art suggestions

I’ve wanted to revamp the art suggestions for a while now. Basically it’s exchanging one Cat Nine bonus art/comic for fan art. I really want to do more fan art stuff for the sake of self-promotion you see, and 1 bonus/fan art every week and alternating between Cat Nine and fan art doesn’t seem like a bad idea to me.

Current

KitTens ($10+)

  • 1 Fully colored Cat Nine art

RAWRs ($5+)

  • 1 Sketch/lineart Cat Nine art
    • If I have the time for it I fully color the sketches.
  • 1 Fully colored Cat Nine art
  • 1 Fully colored Fan art

Revamped

KitTens ($10+)

  • 1 Fully colored Cat Nine art
  • 1 Fully colored Fan art

RAWRs ($5+)

  • 1 Cat Nine art
  • 1 Fan art
  • So yeah, less guarantee of them being colored, but if I have the time for it they’ll be fully colored. Cleaned up sketches will be the minimum quality at least.

NSFW
Just a possibility. I still don’t think I’m horny enough to draw lewd stuff regularly haha.

If I did go nsfw, I’m thinking that $10+ can make nsfw suggestions and $5+ can see them. And yes, they count as a KitTen art suggestion, but at least now you can suggest lewd stuff. I don’t think I can make too extreme stuff yet haha, so keep em on the vanilla side. And yes, if I went ahead with this, nsfw fan art suggestions will also be accepted.

I’m also thinking of making either non or lewd-version tiers for RAWRs and KitTens (at the same price) so you won’t see nsfw stuff if you don’t like those.

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Removing the nomAd tier

by TheLazylonewolf on February 1, 2019 at 10:37 am
Posted In: Patreon, News and Announcements

I’m gonna remove the nomAd tier soon since the month is practically over, so feel free to adjust your pledge as you wish!

  • Old and current nomAds will be in the Hall of Fame section in the kofi/patrons page to thank you even though the tier is removed.
  • I’ll start designing the mentions below the comic pages.
  • Two art streams this month. One for those who keep or decrease their pledge (to RAWR/$5+), and another for those who increase it to at least KitTen ($10)!

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Tier and Goal Revamp

by TheLazylonewolf on November 16, 2018 at 9:20 pm
Posted In: Patreon, News and Announcements

Hello everyone! With new patrons appearing, me being confused about which posts to assign access to (specifically HD versions) and starting to make nude versions regularly, I feel like now’s a good time to change update my Patreon page again. I’ll be implementing these changes by January 2019. Feel free to read the changes below, and make comments here or anywhere else.

tl;dr:

  • Except for HD, nude versions, and the downloadable RARchives, I’ve never really liked locking my artwork behind a paywall. So all artwork I’ll make (aside from the three previously mentioned) will only be timed exclusives. The normal quality versions of the artwork will eventually be available to everyone, though I’ll be spacing them at least 24 hours.
  • If something can be accessed early/can see the WIP, you can usually see their HD versions too. I didn’t want to make separate posts for HD and early access.
  • I’ve already changed the Goals. Not much of a change, but I’ll be making more bonus art and fan art as more people become patrons.
  • Moved some of the benefits around since I feel you’re getting a lot of value with it already plus you can still see nude versions of sketches.
  • nomAd tier removed since I feel it doesn’t really do much for me and you guys. Logged-in RAWRs will remove all ads instead and I’ve replaced it with a new $10 tier. The new tier will allow you to suggest names and designs for new characters, have more priority/weight for bonus art suggestions and Episode Polls, and finally, an exclusive fully colored bonus art suggestion just for this tier. Oh, and I suppose your name will look nicer in the mentions.
  • Only RAWRs and above can suggest stuff for bonus art and fan art now. And you can suggest any of them to be pinups 😏. I’ll make nude versions of them later, if applicable. I’ll also message all patrons with access to nude versions with a direct link to the artwork.
  • Most bonus art/fan art will be sketches, but at least 1 from both categories will be inked+colored each month

Goals

Cat Nine bonus art (Cat Nine characters only)

  • Monthly thank you art: Posted together with last month’s patrons and ko-fi donators.
  • ($100) Two bonus art every month (includes thank you art)
  • ($300) Three bonus art every month (includes thank you art)
  • ($500) Four bonus art every month (includes thank you art)

Fan art (characters from other works)

  • ($100) One fan art every month
  • ($300) Two fan art every month
  • ($500) Three fan art every month

Rewards

Starter Pack ($1)

  • Your name on the patrons page
  • See the sketch of the next page’s 1st panel
  • [Discord] Access to patrons channel (More quiet place to chat especially if more people start chatting, and for art requests)
  • Announcements to what I’m currently doing
  • See vote incentives without needing to vote
  • HD + Early access of vote and thank you art
  • Remove all Comic Rocket banners

Reader’s Choice ($3)

  • All previous rewards
  • HD + Early access of most bonus art
  • WIP previews of comics and bonus art (sketch, lineart, flats)
  • [moved from SP] New wallpapers after every Episode
  • [Discord] Access to wip channel (for per-panel previews and WIP progress pics) Okay, probably not necessary
  • [Discord] Access to nsfw-sketch channel (for nude versions of sketched artwork)
  • See concept art and sketches
  • See fewer advertisements when logged-in to Cat Nine
  • [NSFW] Nude version of pinup art (sketches only)

RAWR! ($5)

  • All previous rewards
  • Access to bonus/side comics, if I make any
  • HD version of everything
  • [New] Textless comic pages. Uploaded together with HD versions
  • RARchives. Latest Episode updated every month.
  • All ads removed when logged-in to Cat Nine
  • Get mentioned below every comic in the rants section. Includes your website/link
  • [NSFW] Nude version of pinup art (all)
  • Make suggestions for bonus art (you can make suggestions anywhere, preferably Discord)
  • [Discord] Access to suggestions channel (for artwork and character suggestions)
  • [Discord] Access to nsfw-art channel (for inked and colored artwork)
  • [moved from RC] Next Episode poll (this is too much power for RCs haha)
  • [moved from RC] Your website/link on the patrons page (moved cause with more patrons, I don’t see this being feasible)

New $10 tier (still thinking of a name 😛)

  • All previous rewards
  • Even better appearance in the mentions below the comic
  • Suggest character name and designs (within good reason)
  • Higher priority/weight for art suggestions and Next Episode poll
  • Exclusive bonus art suggestion (early access + HD accessible by RC+, timed-exclusive for everyone else, fully colored)

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Halloween 2018 and some announcements

by TheLazylonewolf on September 3, 2018 at 11:35 pm
Posted In: News and Announcements

Halloween 2018

Oh my, it’s that time of the year again… again! Anyone can make suggestions for this year’s Halloween Wallpaper (download all free wallpapers here), where Cat Nine characters will dress up as characters from another series. As usual, the wallpaper will be available to everyone for free. You can make suggestions by commenting below, in social media, or Discord! The schedule:

  • Theme suggestions from September 3 to 13. For example, My Hero Academia.
  • Theme poll from September 13 to 20. Time to vote for the theme!
  • Character suggestions from September 20 to 27. Let’s say League of Legends was chosen. Suggest which Cat Nine character dresses up as someone from LoL, like say, Myan as Gnar or Tammy as Warwick. Specify too if they have alternate costumes!
  • Character poll from September 27 to October 4.
  • Make the wallpaper sometime in October. Or perhaps put it up on Halloween?

Current suggestions

  • BlueDavrial: Overwatch and SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy (might genderbend the boys for here)
  • Golb89: Fire Emblem 7
  • Eric Palmer: Avengers
  • Ninjahamster5: “thriller theme? Like movie killers, or monsters?”
  • Skye and ZeroKelvinKeyboard: Hyperdimension Neptunia (genderbend here too)
  • LordCastigator: Gundam SEED
  • Lazylonewolf: Darkest Dungeon
  • ColdFusion: Adventure Time

Magical Girl and bonus comics on hiatus

Again, I know. I’ll definitely come back for you Magicat Girl, perhaps after Cat Nine or another project of mine is finished!

I want to concentrate all my comicking efforts on Cat Nine itself, so all bonus comics are also on hiatus… until an Episode ends maybe. I have lots of bonus comic ideas, usually related to the current Episode, but I’ve decided to copy how most manga handle omake (extra) stuff, reserving them at the end of a volume or between chapters.

Commissions now open!

I’m interested in making commissions again, though I’ll only be able to work like 1-2 of them per month though, and I’ll only start working on them after I’m done with all the comic pages for the month. You can also “commission” through Patreon too, which I prefer since you’ll also get the benefits from the other tiers. Here’s my Commissions page!

Patreon-related

  • Charge up front is now available to all Patreon creators, if enabled. I think it’d be good for me too since it prevents people from pledge dodging (pledging, downloading/viewing exclusive stuff, and then cancelling their pledges before the month is over). Thankfully, none of my patrons have done that so far (thank you!), so I might only enable it in the event that someone actually does it.
  • I want to make monthly fan art and Cat Nine-related vote art, and RAWRs/$5 patrons can make suggestions! I’ll choose your suggestion depending on how good the idea is and if you’ve already had a suggestion drawn in the past, so other people can get a turn. And feel free to ask if they should be sexy or whatever too! If no one makes a suggestion or ask me to draw whatever, then I’ll just come up with something on my own.
  • If I have time, I might start drawing concept sketches of my other planned projects, like Magicat Girl and another project that I haven’t got a name for yet. Will be accessible to Reader’s Choice/$3 patrons!
  • Future WIP pics (sketch>lineart>flats) will all be in one post now since I just remembered that you can post images in the text section of Patreon posts. Makes for less posts, and you’ll still get notified in Patreon if I made any changes to a post.
  • Goal changes:
    • $100, I’ve decided to drop blogging since yeah, I keep missing on doing them since I really don’t want to write them. Changed it to monthly art now, and more people would probably want that anyway.
    • $300 for another monthly piece of artwork. Also hey, I can officially call myself a professional when I’m earning this much, yey!
    • $500 to remove all advertisements for everyone. Maybe another monthly artwork again.
    • $1000 for a Magicat Girl game is a little optimistic I guess (understatement!). Removed! Heck if I know what to put as a goal here… haha maybe actually make porn.

Tasty cheesecake (also Patreon-related)

  • As some of you have noticed, I’ve made uncensored versions of some stuff (two so far), you know, to test the waters on this lewd artist stuff. And boy, it was a pleasant surprise to get some new patrons (thanks again!). The most I’ll do are sexy pin-ups and their nude versions though, and not outright porn… at the moment! Oh, you can also commission said cheesecake.
  • I won’t be posting the nude versions or any lewds for that matter in the Cat Nine website of course, since they’re only for patrons can see them. But…
  • Lewd stuff aren’t allowed in Patreon… until I flag my page for Adult Content. I don’t want to grow up be Adult yet since I might miss out on people coming across my Patreon page since Adult pages are hidden from search results. So for now, I’ve posted all current and future NSFW stuff in the new #nsfw-patrons channel (for $3 patrons and above only… for now). It probably still breaks the rules, but I’ll only consider flagging my Patreon page for Adult Content if Patreon makes a complaint about it. In short, you have to go to the #nsfw-patrons to see lewds, sorry!
  • Finally, sorry to say this Reader’s Choice patrons that pledged for lewds, but I’ll be raising access to all lewds to RAWR/$5… in November. Most those new (fan) art might get nude versions, and they’re additional work you see. If that puts you off, just a reminder that you’re still getting a lot of Cat Nine-related benefits. If you’re still planning to cancel, well, thanks for being my patron, I’ll always be grateful for your past pledges!

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