Patreon!

I haven't posted on my Patreon in a while and I kind of gave up on it with no patrons to keep happy. The biggest problem was I was making a committment to something that takes me a lot of motivation and I'm kind of terrible at anyway. I can draw, sure, and even paint, but I'm not so great at drawing comics, at least digitally. Instead, I've been focusing on my store and on my YouTube when I have the time/privacy to record videos. Lately, however, I've also started knitting again. I gave it up in the first place because I had no time, because in high school I couldn't take it to class and had too much homework to settle down and watch TV, but now I have time to knit even when I don't have time to do other things, because I'm able to multitask and the teachers here don't care if I knit in class as long as I'm learning, and I am. Since knitting is so much easier for me than drawing (at least on a screen), I decided to change my focus in the following ways:

  1. I've started offering knit commissions instead of digital art commissions, alongside traditional art. I have beanies up on my Storenvy, but anything else you want to order (or a different pattern or color on the beanies), you can message me directly (I think Google Plus can do something like that. Right? If not comment).
  2. I've changed the tiers and rewards on my Patreon so that they support my knitting and singing rather than comics. I'll post a knitting pattern every month, and my videos will show up on Patreon a week before they're visible to the general public on YouTube. Some tiers also get discounts on my commissions, and influence on what yarn I buy.
  3. I'm going to start up an Etsy once I have enough monthly income from Patreon to cover a few listings (which isn't much, as they're only about 25 cents a listing, but currently I can't commit to even that!), and for every 10 new patrons I get on my Patreon, all of my patrons get to vote for another listing for me to put up.
I hope to see some of you on there!

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