I'm resuming my livestreams tonight.

Now, lots of people tell me that they hate Livestreams, but my stream is one of the ones that break the mold. Many people who hate livestreams tell me that mine is the exception. I have a thriving community and get 40-60 people a night. My channel is active, friendly, and I keep away the crazy people who often make coming into a new livestream kind of awkward or annoying. I keep an active dialog with the channel as I work, and I do my best to be entertaining.

I've been streaming for over three years now and have developed a routine and a schedule. My streams start at 8PM EST M-W-F. BUT.... if you show up early (15-30 minutes or so) you get to catch the preshow, which are videos I've collected and play for fun. So even though the streams start at 8PM, if you show up at 7:30 you can catch some fun videos.

I stream traditional art and have put a lot of time into making sure you see the art as clearly as possible as well as making sure my music and my voice can be heard clearly as well. And yes, I will talk to you. The whole point of livestreams is the interactive angle, and I do everything I can to be interactive. I draw in small format, so you can see an image from start to finish within 1-2 hours. Occasionally I will also do fun dual streams with other artists on a special page set up by the amazing Arty. I've dual streamed with  flinters,  foxenawolf,  jonas,  mountaingoat and the ever vibrant  vincinicolaides.

And on the occasions where I don't draw, I game. When I game I keep up a fun banter as well to the point that my gaming streams and marathons have become legendary. Last October I raised $6000 for charity by game streaming, if that tells you anything. Mostly I make a point of doing more than just complaining and often make silly remarks and set myself up as the butt of the joke. Occasionally I'll prank the stream by downloading a mod and not telling anyone, for example I have installed a MLP mod in Skyrim that changed the horses and pretended nothing was different. Another time I made the chickens fifty feet tall.

The point is, my streams are fun, interactive, and my community is amazing. And yes, we are most assuredly a community, one that is welcome to newcomers and very friendly.

I post announcements here when I stream, but we also have a community with almost 250 members on Steam that will give you a popup when a stream starts. There is no other spam if you join, although it's a great place to get in touch with other Little Tales folks for games and such. You can join the community here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Little-Tales

The stream is at http://www.livestream.com/littletales and I hope to see you there!

As an additional aside, there is no requirement to be social and lurking is allowed! In fact many people use me as a sort of radio show while they do work around the house. So if you want to just quietly lurk and listen, that's perfectly fine!