I wonder how they use and distribute those 12k a month.
With that ammount of money, there should be some consistant and professional looking art.
Some of them look really good, best of the best and yet some really cartoonish and bad
Pretty sure they have like 3-4 writers, so 12K isn't that much considering a normal person working a full time minimum wage job at $15/hr is roughly $2,400 per month. Then add in actual coders / game developers who obviously don't work for minimum wage, and the art commissions that usually cost like $200-$300 per picture. So let just assume they have 4 full time employees for simplicity sake (since they probably have more than 4 workers with various pay and working arrangements), that is basically $9,600 just paid out in wages assuming they all only make $15/hr on average, then add in 20% for taxes and 12% cut patreon takes and 5% average for
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(currency conversion and payment processing fees), that is probably another $4,440.
Also Seeds of Chaos have actually done a pretty good job of going back and redoing a lot of their very early artwork to make it more consistent. If you play the older versions, like 0.2.x versions the art was all over the place, where it was like 3-5 different styles and the same characters look different in every picture. Right now it still looks like there is 2 different styles, some more recent left over pictures from before the complete redesign of Rowan and art style. But for the most part they are consistent in making the character look like the actual characters in version 0.3.13. I remember Cla-Min use to look like 8 different characters in the CGs cause in some she would be super lanky and tall, and others she would be short and fat, her face and other body proportions kept changing. Rowan would sometimes look like a cute scrawny guy, and other times he would look like a complete beefcake meathead.
Seeds of Chaos is probably one of the few games Renpy porn games that I have see go back and gradually redo their art, and do multiple rewrites to touch up various earlier scenes. Most usually just roll with what they have and never go back to fix anything.