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A Plan to Fund New Designs!
6 years ago
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~ 🐾 ~ I put this idea to a vote on twitter and it seems people like the idea so I'm going to talk about it here.
In the lead up to my only big con this year I want some fresh designs and unfortunately, with many of my stock orders coming from overseas, I need to put in orders earlier than my queue will permit. However, I can justify working a few hours every weekend if I know a few dollars are backing up me losing my free time. And so I put the question forward, are you guys willing to fund/partially fund new product designs? Turns out many of you are!
I want to pursue both fan art and animal art. General woodland critters, pokemon, dragons, griffins, okami etc. The designs will be for stickers and buttons, and maybe expand to things like mugs and so on in future. I also want to use my strengths in painting and shading so I'd be putting more time into them than my old simple stickers.
The rough plan I have at the moment is the following:
- Announce the design I want to work on (eg. red fox)
- Offer two funding slots of say $30 per design.
- Those who fund will receive the high res file of the design and be sent a sticker and button (when I have them) as a thank you. I'm not sure how best to mail buttons yet so I'll have to work that out too.
People are welcome to fund a project in full 'I will take both funding slots', and thus receive 2 stickers and 2 buttons + a print or partially fund multiple designs and save themselves up a collection.
I'd just do them one at a time so there's no build up of projects. The subjects would be my choice but maybe I'd take a few polls as well.
Anyway that's the plan. Opinions and advice are welcome.
In the lead up to my only big con this year I want some fresh designs and unfortunately, with many of my stock orders coming from overseas, I need to put in orders earlier than my queue will permit. However, I can justify working a few hours every weekend if I know a few dollars are backing up me losing my free time. And so I put the question forward, are you guys willing to fund/partially fund new product designs? Turns out many of you are!
I want to pursue both fan art and animal art. General woodland critters, pokemon, dragons, griffins, okami etc. The designs will be for stickers and buttons, and maybe expand to things like mugs and so on in future. I also want to use my strengths in painting and shading so I'd be putting more time into them than my old simple stickers.
The rough plan I have at the moment is the following:
- Announce the design I want to work on (eg. red fox)
- Offer two funding slots of say $30 per design.
- Those who fund will receive the high res file of the design and be sent a sticker and button (when I have them) as a thank you. I'm not sure how best to mail buttons yet so I'll have to work that out too.
People are welcome to fund a project in full 'I will take both funding slots', and thus receive 2 stickers and 2 buttons + a print or partially fund multiple designs and save themselves up a collection.
I'd just do them one at a time so there's no build up of projects. The subjects would be my choice but maybe I'd take a few polls as well.
Anyway that's the plan. Opinions and advice are welcome.
so useful
and also so purdy
But I finally have a spot where I'm putting my stickers and I'd be super down for some animal stickers, particularly ones that deviate from the traditional "happy cartoony animal smiles at viewer".