3liza:i’m going to try something weird. since i started working on Black Hole Wizard, my space meta
3liza:i’m going to try something weird. since i started working on Black Hole Wizard, my space metal comic with Simon Berman, my time and energy for other projects has been severely restricted, meaning i’m not selling as much art. at the same time, both Ustream and IPEVO stopped supporting their desktop applications for livestreaming and my document webcam, respectively, and Livestream is similarly near-impossible. AT THE SAME TIME AS THIS, i have had almost no access to acceptable upstream bandwidth, meaning that broadcasting SWEATSHOP like we used to (with music and real media and so on) has become essentially an impossibility until one of these variables is repaired. all this is why we havent been able to have Sweatshop recently.what i can do, however, is take screenshots. lots of screenshots. and I can stream my desktop with Join.me. which i would like to be doing more of. the problem is that join.me, while it does work wonderfully, has a user cap of 10 viewers at a time for free accounts, meaning audience slots will be at a premium. a pro join.me account would cost me $19/mo (or $13/mo for a year paid in advance) so if patronage is higher than 10 people, maybe we can switch to a pro account and open up seats for everyone??so what i’m going to do is this: i’m going to see if anyone is interested in something i’m calling the Sweatshop Patronage Program. i’m going to give you a bunch of exclusive content in exchange for a recurring paypal charge of $1 per month. here’s what you get for $1/mo:first notification of the Join.me URL for a Sweatshop every Saturday at 3pm PST (so you can def get a spot)access to a secret workflow tumblr with screenshots and updates about my current projects (mainly Black Hole Wizard, which we are going to stop showing to the public in complete pages like we have been up til now, until the book comes out). this will be updated at least daily, probably morean ongoing 5% discount in my online storethe secret tumblr will also have first notification for new products in the store, so you’ll get first dibs on limited printings and original works (like the Rough Treatment series of sketchbook pages, which i’m bringing back)my skype username so i can sit in your contact list, being weird, until you have an art question or something to bug me withhigh rollers can go for the $5/month package, which is:all of the above15% store discountinvitation to a secret dropbox with high-res and/or unflattened art files free for downloadinginvitations to extra join.me art broadcasts (on top of public ones) during the week probably i think? i just confirmed that my webcam works with skype even though it doesnt work with Ustream anymore, which means i will draw you a thing live on skype one time, just for u baby you know i love u <333so uh i need money, and i would like you to be an art patron if you want to, and i would like to continue the sweatshop legacy of “artist as dancing bear”, so click here if you would like to subscribe for $1/mo:or subscribe for $5/mo:you can of course cancel your subscription at ANY TIME its cool buddy i know how it is. i think i covered everything here, but if you have questions please let me know via email or ask box. thanki’m bringing this back because (i need money but also because) i am updating the Patron Blog with exclusive shit tonight, and also because i need to check in and make sure that current patrons all have received their access urls to the dropbox, tumblr, and discount codes for the store. if you’re a Sweatshop Patron and you haven’t gotten an email with your goodies in it, please let me know so i can fix that asap. -- source link