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Massive Update Post -- PLEASE READ!!!

4 years ago General

COMMISSION PRICES || TOS || COMMISSION QUEUE

Happy June, everyone!




It is with much excitement and anticipation that we are announcing a new part-time member of the studio. One of the dearest people in our lives, DD, is being brought on officially as a part-time colorist. 



She graciously agreed to undergo several rounds of trial projects, and she absolutely blew every single one of them out of the water. All work that she does for the studio will still be required to pass through a rigorous once-over by Megg & Bea, and any necessary changes or corrections will certainly be made before the RAS stamp of approval is given, ensuring that there will be no detectable difference in quality.



She's been practicing and perfecting her ability to match the studio color style to the highest degree, and we've had few to no corrections necessary along the way. She's beyond fantastic at what she does, and we're so elated to have her joining us in an official capacity.



Much like any other facet of the studio, we won't be differentiating who does exactly what on any given piece, and we thoroughly discourage anyone trying to pick out any ear marks that they feel would indicate one person's work over another's. We would never allow anyone's work to pass through with our signature unless it was up to the quality you've all come to know and expect from us.



So, please, take a moment to give DD a big, warm welcome. We love her very much, and we know you all will learn to love her too!



Our profile will be updated to reflect her presence once we have her new icon and stuff ready to post



In other excellent news, by the time most of you are reading this, all backlogged Patreon rewards will either be completed or only awaiting color. Everything through March has been finished and returned, all of April is ready to be colored, and May is just a few short pieces away from being 100% ready for color as I type this (at 4am).



That means we'll be entering June rewards with a totally clean slate, as the color shouldn't take more than a week or two to be entirely completed from here.



Speaking of rewards, per our latest post, reward forms for June will look slightly different than they have in the past, which was addressed a few days ago. Rather than re-hashing everything we've already posted about, you can read more about those changes here.



Please make sure to pay extra close attention when filling out your reward forms this month, because some options have absolutely changed. This effects the actual reward types being offered, as well as the information requested when submitting for a gacha adopt reward.



We also have a new, very limited $300 tier, which is discussed in greater detail in the above linked post as well. In addition to the reward form screencap, it will also feature a 25% discount and two (2) free monthly upgrades. That tier will go live later this afternoon or early evening.



Back in April, we mentioned switching to a system where patrons would only receive access to a single month's bases with a single month's pledge. You can find that information in the post located here, in the second full paragraph. As noted at that time, we realized that this made the pledge all the more beneficial, as $5 for an entire month's content is much less costly than buying each product individually which gives our patrons a much great perk for being pledged each month. We intended to do this for May 1, but we ran out of time and weren't able to get everything prepped for uploading.



With that said, as of today, all previous months' base links have been removed from their posts and been replaced by a link to each base's respective posting on our new Gumroad account.

 Rancid Art Studio on Gumroad 



We'll be updating our Lineart & Bases folder / posts over the next day or two.



One of the other very few outstanding items left on our to-do list is finishing up the final touches on the Mega Masquerade YCH. That is scheduled to take place over the next day or two, and we'll be sketching up the new one during that timeframe as well. We do apologize for the delay in completing the current Mega, but we felt we had to prioritize getting rewards returned to the amazing people who kept us afloat while we had our commissions closed to dig through our backlog.



The new Mega YCH will be Summer Music Festival themed, and we hope to put it up for Patreon early access auction from June 6-8, then releasing it for public auction from June 9-12. It will be scheduled for an early July start date.



Now that we're going to be functioning without a backlog, we expect to have commissions open much more regularly, as you can see in the calendar uploaded on this post. We plan to fill those 4-day batches each week, close very briefly to finish them, and then re-open for the next week's batch.



One of the things we'd like to implement with this change is opening up "Barter Submissions," which is essentially a formal version of what most would call an "art trade." We've chosen the term "barter submission" because we want to allow offers that fall far outside of the usual "art for art." Offers may include, but are not limited to: digital art, OCs, custom designs, handcrafted goods, physical items, gift cards/e-shop credit, a purchased meal, etc.



We just want to have a functional system where art can be "purchased" without necessarily having to bring money into the equation for those who struggle with banking, PayPal, are trying to scale back their spending, and/or are experiencing any other limiting factors.



If you're interested in learning more or submitting a proposal for bartered art, please feel free to submit this form for consideration.



One last minor change you may notice, which shouldn't affect anyone too greatly, is the addition of a small watermark with the full studio name on all finished artwork we return. We full intend to keep it unobtrusive, out of the way (to the best of our ability), and small enough to avoid distracting from the art itself. We wouldn't do anything that we felt lessened the aesthetic of our finished work.



This decision was made due to our simple RAS signature being effectively useless to anyone who doesn't already know and recognize it. There is no way to trace it back to our studio when seen "out in the wild," for lack of a better term. Many who know us don't even realize it includes an A between the R & S.



The RAS signature will still be appearing on all of our work, there will just be a small RancidArtStudio watermark featured somewhat inconspicuously as well.



I think that bring us to the end of this very long post. We genuinely hope you read everything, but if not, we hope you at least read the bolded portions. We get that life is busy and I'm wordy LOL



One final note, for those who use Discord but haven't gotten word of our server yet, you can join us here.



It's a super relaxed environment, filled with lots of friendly, helpful people. You can also peep all of our WIPs and get to know us better via the various channels. Additionally, it features an "open comm" ping to let you know the moment commission slots become available and has plenty of channels where you can get near immediate answers to any questions you may have. There are channels where you can post your own art, adopts, stream links, and we'll be updated soon to include Art Fight 2021 resources as well -- We finally get to join this year. You can follow us on ArtFight here.



Thanks to everyone again who has stuck beside through all the ups and downs, and a hearty welcome to those only just joining the program already in progress. You're all amazing, and we're the luckiest artists in the world! :heart: