status: feedback needed!

[meeks]

We are quickly approaching the end of the first month of this project; I think it's been a rather promising start, and I will definitely be continuing it :) I'm happy that so many sketches have reached the first participation target within a few days of posting, and I hope to see some of them meet additional targets so I have the opportunity to work on them further and start to build a body of more finished work that can be developed into products.

To that end, I am looking for ways to both expand my audience and thank members of my existing audience for contributing. My ideas so far have been to provide higher resolution files for prompters and sponsors, to post details of cleaned-up sketches for every $x in tips, and to select a random sponsor to receive a free print when a sketch reaches any 'finished' stage. Am I on the right track? What specific things can I offer that would be appealing?

posted this week:
Faerie Wedding (rough and cleaned-up sketches)
Tin Man (rough sketch)

Tips: $30 and a plush bunny rabbit

Comments

[eseme]

The problem currently is that I do not follow you to get the updates.

And I visit the sketch a couple of times when it is first made, but I'm not going back to older sketches later, because I generally don't get tons more links from the authors. I tend to get the first link "Look, here's art!" and a link to the cleaned up sketch (if that happens).

So I'm not going back, and I'm not seeing donation totals. Yes, I need to follow your LJ. But I already follow a lot of people, and my LJ is at the point that if I don't check for a day there are over 30 new entries on my Friends Page. Which means I'm reluctant to follow new people...

[meeks]

Hmm...I don't really know why the authors would keep linking unless there has been an update. I can definitely sympathize with your feeling overloaded with people and projects to follow, and I don't really expect people to be interested in checking back unless there's something new to see.

That's what prompted me to think of putting up details of sketches every time a certain amount in donations is received. It would be a way to point out the donation total, and give people something more appealing to look at than changing numbers. What do you think?