Hello, all!

We're here to share some fantastic news! It's 2 days later than intended, but exciting as heck nonetheless.

First of all, we're gonna take a second to congratulate Rose aka on all of her amazing work, because nothing you're about to see would have happened without her. We cannot possibly express the amount of time, effort, love, and dedication she put into these projects to make them exactly what we hoped for and then some. So, please, give her some major love.

Second, that brings us to the actual announcements!

1. The Rancid Art Studio website is officially up and running. It's one concise spot to find the following:

-About us
-Contact info
-Portfolio examples
-Terms of Service
-Public queue link
-Pricing
-Patreon link
-Our comic (soon)
-Merch store (eventually)

You can find us at: https://www.rancidartstudio.com/

2. We also have a shiny, new Discord server ready to go, which we're quite happy about. We've been asked by many people over the years to host one, and the time is finally upon us.

You can join here: https://discord.gg/XhG2sCN

A few things, though. There are rules. It will be heavily moderated. Breaking the rules will either immediately or eventually get you booted. If it's bad enough, there can be blacklisting involved. Luckily, our TOS includes blacklist-able offenses. So, you can quickly find out how not to commit them. Honestly, given what they are, it's good practice to just not do those things. We're not that strict.

We welcome you all to come hang out!

Also, to anyone pledging $3 or more per month on our Patreon, y'all will receive special access to a VIP Lounge in the server. This access comes with some pretty cool perks that we'll be rolling out as the weeks go by. Please just let us know when you join if you fall into one of those Patreon tiers, so we can give you the VIP role.

If you'd like to check out our Patreon for yourselves, you can find it here: https://www.patreon.com/rancidartstudio

3. To celebrate all of this, we'll be hosting a private "Come Watch Us Work" stream a bit later tonight. It won't be for commissions -- just working on queue work and hanging out. But it'll be nice to have the company, and it'll be the start of what we hope to be a staple moving forward. We won't be able to stream our work constantly, of course, but we will start opening private streams for certain groups here and there. So, keep your eye on FB, Patreon, and the Discord server for the link here in just a little while.

Thanks to everyone who has made our growth possible. We love and appreciate y'all more than we can ever truly say. We literally wouldn't be here without you! <3