status: changes to incentive perks (It's good news, don't worry!)

[meeks]

I'm making a slight change to the way I deal with sketch refinements as a perk. The current structure was based on the way I was taught to work in school...we were only ever asked to share sketches, studies, and finished pieces, and few people ever saw what happens in between. There's no reason you shouldn't, though! So, instead of treating the current targets as discrete stages, I'm going to work up to them incrementally, with one round of work for every $15 in tips I get for an image. The first five sessions will be used to bring the picture from sketch to finished value study, after which I will start either inking or colouring. I think this system will give me more freedom to do as much work as I can during a given session instead of worrying about whether I'm doing 'enough' or 'too much' for a particular stage. I still end up doing the same amount of work at the end, but patrons get to see the effects of their contributions sooner :) All other perks are still active.

Speaking of which...wyld_dandelyon has won an icon this week! Congratulations :)

I'll be posting an update to Wanted: One Gnome in a few minutes, and I'm working on revising my call for prompts to reflect the new perk structure.

Art from this week:
Diapering Dragons (update)
Rin (update)
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One new icon added.

Tips: $10

Comments

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

I think the new incentive structure is a great idea. The big gaps are kind of daunting, especially this early in a project's life when you've got some devoted fans but not a lot of regular patrons yet.

I am particularly intrigued by your comparison of what you were taught in school vs. what you're discovering in this project. This would be a really useful thing to describe in depth and share with other folks, if you feel up to it. I'd love to see a post about this over on crowdfunding. I suspect you're not the only artist who's discovering such differences, and if we could entice other artists to chime in with their experiences, that would make for a pretty awesome conversation.