Currently working on a rough draft business plan for the next 12 months. Obviously still in the UK for a bit longer but after spending the past few months reading up on the best way to utilize different social media platforms and where people's attention seems to be moving, I'm now trying to figure out a business model that's going to help Lunar Blaze Studio's become a viable company. At the moment there seem to be 3 different directions we could go in terms of focus, I'm just trying to figure out the best way of getting a balance of these 3 & how they can be used to maximum benefit.
For those curious the 3 different branches I'm thinking about are thus.

First I think the idea of story telling the journey of a fresh immigrant living in America is going to be interesting for a lot of people, ESPECIALLY under President Trump. So daily updates of how things are going with the studio can be mixed with the trials and tribulations of getting to grips with the culture shift, the weather (cause god damn Tennessee is humid as hell) & of course being married to my partner finally.

Next is, of course, the core business of what myself &  reaperking do, & it's creating art. This is the main revenue generator, this is where we produce comics, bespoke commissions & share our own original stories and characters with the world. Right now the business plan for this is kinda figured out, we may have a few other things in the pipeline which may or may not tie into the LB Brand but that's for the future. We have at least 1 confirmed convention together this year at FWA in Atlanta, & hopefully we will have some interesting new things to show off in Artists Alley, as well as promote our comics including Heirs to the Throne. (Which returns to a weekly posting at the end of January, read it all for free here: http://dennisillustration.co.uk/main/)

The Third is kinda a return to an old abandoned project of mine from a few years back. In case you didn't know, Youtube is one of the biggest search engines on the planet, ANYTHING you want to now, these days you're more likely to look up a video of how to do it than read an article online. So if you are not doing something on youtube you are doing it wrong. Now a few years back I wanted to try my hand at the game video scene, and while I did learn quite a bit It's fair to say the return on investment at the time wasn't the best, mainly because I was putting the cart before the horse & trying to make content for attention, instead of making good content that would get attention. Since my current steam library is 'ponderous' to be kind, & 'Fucking insane' to be more accurate (dennisillustration for those interested in checking it out) I've been trying to figure a way out of bringing the gaming side of things back into what we do at LB. I have a few ideas that I'm going to be exploring with Meg this year, but I'm mainly taking inspiration from animators & Illustrators who I follow on YT who do a lot of game-based art.

Anyway, that's the general gist of things as they are on January the 1st. Of course things are subject to change over time but theses are some of the things I'm looking at over the next 12 months. Also HUGE thanks to Tony for actually building a Dual Monitor PC for us to work on which has been a superb game changer for us. You are a life saver mate!

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