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[meeks]

Congratulations to ysabetwordsmith ! She will receive a custom user icon of her choice.

I got a tip last night for my sketch of Rin, bringing the total for the week to $25. Many, many thanks!

My energy levels are still a bit low, but I am recovering from my illness, so I should have sketches tonight, as promised :)

Signal Boost: 
ariestess is doing a free one-card draw until 7pm PDT! She did one for me, and I've found it quite helpful.

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Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

This will be cool.

Also, I'm glad you posted about donations. Thanks for sharing that information. Based on the little information available, that sounds like a good take for a brand-new project.

For comparison, I ran my Poetry Fishbowl for two months before I offered people the option of sponsoring poems; and the first time I did that, I made $10. But that was for a one-day project, and the dynamics are different for short-term vs. long-term projects.

donations

[meeks]

I'm surprised and very grateful to be receiving any money at all this early in the project! I thought I'd have to work a lot harder at building up an audience and a collection of work for them to look at before that happened, so I'm delighted that people are already enjoying my project enough to support it!

Re: donations

[ysabetwordsmith]

My guess is that the success is a combination of your illustration skills and the fact that you're drawing on established audiences from other projects. You're only halfway starting from scratch.