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Progress Report! And some thoughts.
10 years ago
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Hey, males, females, and the diversely categorized! Thought I'd drop in with some progress notes.
The last few commissions I have for April are all 2+ character stuff and my day job is picking up at the end of the week, so you guys might see a lull in my work until the weekend. Chin up, they're still being worked on.
Now, this ol' tin can has seen trends come and go, and while he's not fond of learning new tricks, sometimes he hears the way the wind's blowin'. So here's my thoughts on some current trends among the niche and FA in general.
Patreon: Hoo, boy the Patreon. You're an artist, you get yerself a Patreon. "SUPPORT ME!" Hey, that's all well and good. If you like an artist and want to keep food on their table, you Patrize them up. Will I be doing it? ....Nnnno. Not now, at least. I'd rather just get paid for when I do my work, and I do have a day job, so that's enough for me. I do have plans for the future- a full bio and story arc for the Nekotykes, and like FIVE comic ideas, but I'd rather get them all on paper, scripted and roughed before I even think of making people pay for progress by month. Even then, I think I'd rather just work on it, have something done, and then offer it to the public at a reasonable price. If you guys want to Patreize me, I wouldn't stop you. But not until I have something strong, well done and constant for you all.
YCH: This, now, seems interesting. It took a while for me to think of how to work this in, and I may have an idea. June is coming up, and for those who enjoy it, that means Butt Month. This time, I'm offering six (count'em, six) YCH slots to be worked on and revealed during May. If you've wanted your character featured in Butt Month and have some spare dough to throw at me, you pick one of those up!
Streaming: I've been doing this more often, and I gotta admit I'm on the fence with these. On the one hand, it's fun, liberating and really frees up the creativity. Plus you all get to see my stupid humor first hand and YOU CAN'T LEAVE. AH HA HA HA HA. On the other hand, I've seen people get upset that their suggestion wasn't drawn during streams a few times. Now I don't know how streams work in other corners, but I must insist: If I say in my stream announcement and during the stream that I'm taking suggestions, not requests, it means I'm doing my own thing and picking what sounds interesting in between. I'm sorry if people get fussy about the way I do things, but for me streams are a way to relax and sketch as many cute things that I can think of.
Okay, I think that about covers it! To my Slot Holders, stay tuned during the weekend. To my Stream followers, keep an ear out next week and let me know what theme you might like (Remember, suggestions are well and good!) To everyone else, enjoy the day!
The last few commissions I have for April are all 2+ character stuff and my day job is picking up at the end of the week, so you guys might see a lull in my work until the weekend. Chin up, they're still being worked on.
Now, this ol' tin can has seen trends come and go, and while he's not fond of learning new tricks, sometimes he hears the way the wind's blowin'. So here's my thoughts on some current trends among the niche and FA in general.
Patreon: Hoo, boy the Patreon. You're an artist, you get yerself a Patreon. "SUPPORT ME!" Hey, that's all well and good. If you like an artist and want to keep food on their table, you Patrize them up. Will I be doing it? ....Nnnno. Not now, at least. I'd rather just get paid for when I do my work, and I do have a day job, so that's enough for me. I do have plans for the future- a full bio and story arc for the Nekotykes, and like FIVE comic ideas, but I'd rather get them all on paper, scripted and roughed before I even think of making people pay for progress by month. Even then, I think I'd rather just work on it, have something done, and then offer it to the public at a reasonable price. If you guys want to Patreize me, I wouldn't stop you. But not until I have something strong, well done and constant for you all.
YCH: This, now, seems interesting. It took a while for me to think of how to work this in, and I may have an idea. June is coming up, and for those who enjoy it, that means Butt Month. This time, I'm offering six (count'em, six) YCH slots to be worked on and revealed during May. If you've wanted your character featured in Butt Month and have some spare dough to throw at me, you pick one of those up!
Streaming: I've been doing this more often, and I gotta admit I'm on the fence with these. On the one hand, it's fun, liberating and really frees up the creativity. Plus you all get to see my stupid humor first hand and YOU CAN'T LEAVE. AH HA HA HA HA. On the other hand, I've seen people get upset that their suggestion wasn't drawn during streams a few times. Now I don't know how streams work in other corners, but I must insist: If I say in my stream announcement and during the stream that I'm taking suggestions, not requests, it means I'm doing my own thing and picking what sounds interesting in between. I'm sorry if people get fussy about the way I do things, but for me streams are a way to relax and sketch as many cute things that I can think of.
Okay, I think that about covers it! To my Slot Holders, stay tuned during the weekend. To my Stream followers, keep an ear out next week and let me know what theme you might like (Remember, suggestions are well and good!) To everyone else, enjoy the day!
*Overdue long-lost friend hug* When I can swing it, I hope to grab up a slot on a commission list. Just gotta save up them quarters and not spend them on cookies. ._.
I havent had chance to do any YCH for ages now, but I do miss the big group pics I did from time to time so mebbe i'll try and do more of those in the future.
I do secret quiet little streams from time to time to avoid drama and just invite a pocket full of people Streams where I broadcast that im streaming tend to hit 70-80+ people these days and suddenly it gets very chaotic and drama filled and just messy, so im trying to figure out a way to keep stream numbers down whilst still letting people watch and currently im not sure how to achieve that. *needs more thinking doing*
And I have no doubt that your streams get phenomenally busy! A quiet private stream does sound a lot more relaxing.
(Heh, sorry if that sounds weird coming from someone you don't know at all, and probably have never even really seen before. xD)
But yeah, as a watcher I'd say YCHs and streams sound lovely! Although I can understand your issues with Streams. It's very difficult to monitor and moderate something of that scale sometimes.
And as for Patreon, personally my only beef with it is that... well, as someone who doesn't make much income to begin with it's difficult for me to personally support artists this way. In addition, with so many artists opening up Patreons it's more-so a "first-come-first-serve" thing... Now I'm sure many would argue with me, and that's okay, but from my mentality there's only so much money to be spent on supporting artists that way. It's not unheard-of for watchers to be following 10, 20, 30, or even 100s of artists in common that they'd love to support. So it can easily lead to them spreading their money thin between these artists, leaving them unable to support anyone else that might come by later. Hope this makes sense! xD If not I can try to expand on this theory a little more.
Although personally I wouldn't necessarily totally put it out of the question, which I'm sure you haven't! But I just wanted to provide my 2-cents.
Good luck with everything though! ^^ Can't wait to see what you're planning for the near-future! :D