One Year of Patreon! + Plans for the new year!

Goblin Sara returns for another terrible doodle.
As I am typing this (very late night on January 4th) it is my one year anniversary on Patreon! I launched this with a lot of weird plans and no idea what I was doing. I think I was posting mainly grey scale sketch work and dungeons and dragons doodles. It's so odd now to see all the structured posts and projects, videos, and full coverage on commissions.

I want to give a special thank you to my lovely patrons Tim Butterbeard and Cap for being here for the ENTIRE YEAR. Like hot damn, since day one, before I had any real posts even. The support you guys have shown and your presence in the community here this year has been so great. I am forever thankful for you guys and I hope I didn't disappoint. 🧡

THE PLAN SCROLLS! Details on their creation to follow, featuring a hot messy picture of my shipping area, that is just a glass table top on my show crates 🎉

So I recently took a few days off after the holiday commission rush and crash. These are never real days off, more like commission-less days where I ignore emails and responsibilities while attempting to over-snack my poor mortal body and conjure new plans. This time I was a bit overwhelmed with the general possibilities, and really needed to do a big brain dump.

I have an artist friend and local professional brain organizer that runs workshops for something called life mapping, which you take giant pieces of paper and write out literally every aspect of your life and make a big ol map. I've never taken her course (looked into it as the pandemic started) So here is my attempt after scouring her website and trying to unlock some of the concepts and methods behind it. These dumps or maps can cover business ideas and concepts, health goals, relationships and way more. It's mostly an exercise to self reflect and knock stuff loose and really get it all out there as a tangible thing.

I did a really modified version, to help me think through my own racing business brain, casually focusing on loose social media plans, products and new content and art/technique goals. The gentle brushing of the marker on the huge craft paper also soothed my soul and was a nice little treat during the process. I'm in no way an ASMR person but boy was it lushious. 

With these little scrolls I've made I hope to create themes for myself. No huge goals or solid concrete plans. If anything, I want them to be little steps forward, as if I hit a block or get stuck and I simply come back to these initial concepts and refocus or respark something.

Starting my 2021 bullet/business journal, thus transferring all the information from the scrolls pictured above into them for short form reference

Some of these concepts include creating a higher caliber of content for you all on here and on my general social medias. Videos, timelapses with voice overs, casual vlog check-ins even. Simple quality of life upgrades and things that will hopefully reap a higher level of connection to my work. Some of these include me doing a monthly recap blog, as I am to review the actual art, reflect from the month and share a few extra tidbits and insight along the way.

I also have a scroll dedicated to ideas for expansions on products. The end goal is to create a solid amount of content and work to eventually bring to renaissance fairs and conventions.

I have custom commissionable RPG character lapel pins on deck, as well as other Table top RPG game assets and accessories in the work, including printable decorated character sheets and journal/planner/game note stickers.  

I also have a 20 page coloring book on deck featuring completed linework from a ton of this year as well as including a few older hits.

The current 85 page 2019-2020 PDF art book still needs an overhaul to add the last 6 months of artwork. I am hoping to manufacture and launch that art book in Q1 of this year. I shall share any and all progression on that front, and I will probably stream the curation and page creation in the discord while I do so. Having a look at how productive the last few months where, this book is easily going to crack 150 pages of art, concepts and sketches.

It's all really really loose, but that's how it's gotta be. 2021's gunna be wild, it's gunna be crazy, and I'm gunna take it one day at a time.  Because that is literally all I can do. But thank you all so much for hanging around. I hope I can give you another year of rad art and comics, and continue to make work that you are excited to see.
- Z