I suppose this should have gone up last night. Unlike the earlier grid, this is my personal best for 2020. They represent my strongest portraits, the most dynamic of the comics, the one realistic digital painting I did which was a lot more successful than I thought it would be and that one, odd t-shirt design. Only one image is a crossover, and it happens to be my favorite of the bunch; the self portrait in the middle. I really like the colors, I like the minimalism and I like the real media feel even though it's totally done on the iPad. The comics had more movement this year, the portraits were more experimental and I even played about with some watercolor style stuff which made me happy. Here's hoping I have as strong a showing this year.
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Seeing everything at once makes you realize how much you've done I hope! I have to write my end of year/start f a new one stuff for my blog and the Slammer blog. I am going to ask if the slammer should have YouTube page or podcast or something and ask if I should try a Patreon thing on both. I am going to look into selling prints of the acrobat stuff online somehow... still figuring it all out. I was nowhere are productive as you but I did branch out into some different areas and some of drawings are more than "white backdrop" isolated subjects and more fully realized spaces. Especially the last 2 classic horror drawings. I ran into a neighbour who lost his job it turns out and has been selling's pencil drawings of birds online - not easy to make money from it but it gave me hope. His work makes mine look like like scribbles!
I can never bring myself to do a Patreon. I know no one would sign up and, to be fair, I don't really need the money. I think having the prints available if someone wants them is a good idea. I have an Etsy shop and have sold some prints through it. When someone ordered one, I'd have gicleetoday.com do it and ship direct. They do great prints. Don't know if they work in Canada, but there's like no up front cost for me. Thing is getting the word out. Can you put information like that in flickr? You seem to have an audience there. Is there a way people can order prints through flickr? I thought there was.
That is sort of my thought as well, no one would really sign up. Most of that is my fault since I don't know how to reach out to an audience at all. I looked into Etsy but I have no idea how it works, I thought you needed to pay a monthly fee to use it. My Flickr "fans" are a mystery to me. I have posted link to my animations with an image to drive traffic to those films and as fas as I can see not one person have ever clicked that link, same thing with my books. 300 people will look at the book cover but no one makes that step to buy one. Flickr used to have a deal with a printer... I thought that ended but I'll look into it again and I will check out gicleetoday.com for sure! I use the giclee factory and they have been great but it's not easy to ship to many places. Someone, somewhere must want to buy drawings of hot acrobats!
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