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

Hmm...

[ysabetwordsmith]

If the link points back to the sketch page (which has the donation button) that should be okay. It might help to remind authors that this is a crowdfunded project and to mention that when they post links, since it will help their sketch if more people comment/donate.

You might notify authors if their sketch is featured, or detailed, or is getting close to a goal.

Basically if author links are a major source of traffic for this project (which makes sense) then it's important for those to meet all the artist and reader needs.

I can tell you, as an author, I don't want to have to fiddle with number updates; I have enough stuff that needs updating already. But I will post occasional links, even to older art, if you nudge me in some way -- such as directing people to a featured sketch or a detail, or "see previous sketch" if you do a new one.