Artwork - Incentive!
posted 27th Feb 2016, 6:10 AM
1st Mar 2016, 6:10 AM
mars
I told you all i'd have some incentive for this month ;)
Kate's feeling free and breezy, so toss some love her way and VOTE HERE for Yesterdaybound on Topwebcomics!
As a note, this type of pinup is the type of thing I upload pretty often for my Patreon, which you should check out too and consider supporting if you have that extra dollar a month ;)
For the record, i'm really wanting to get my Patreon rolling a little more. I'm not doing awful by any means (and I love that people read my comic at all) but I do struggle to breach into the more popular spheres.
SO - i'm asking you guys, faithful readers - what would entice you to click that little 1$/month button?
What do you want to see more of?
Consider this incentive post a forum for discussion. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the comic, questions and comments about characters or storylines, ideas an artwork ^_^
Want to know some secret little detail you've been wondering about? Ask away!
And VOTE. Vote so hard I rocket up the TWC list.
Peace out!~!
Marshall
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1st Mar 2016, 11:53 AM
quetzlsacatanango
I have/am considering "patronizing" a few different comics I subscribe to, and this is one.
I have a couple of aversions.
One is to a recurring charge to my bank account.
The other is to putting details of said bank account with an organization I am not familiar with and fundamentally distrust with keeping them secure. If Home Depot and Target can't do it, I doubt that Patreon can.
These things are nothing you can help.
So what would get me to take the plunge?
Maybe I am a crusty old man, but I liked the old days when I could pick up a whole issue for .75, then $1.
That might not be realistic anymore, but if we were talking about a full issue, monthly, for $2 or $3 I'd be down with that. No I don't know what "newsstand" prices are for the Marvels of the world these days. I don't really care about having the print copy, just one issue I can read from start to finish instead of page by page every week or whatever.
One of the others I was considering suggested $1 per page, and we are talking about maybe 8 or 9 pages/month.
When I try to justify that to myself, I am talking about >$20 for what would be a normal lenghth issue. That's just not reasonable to me, regardless of the quality.
Also I like cheesecake as much as the next guy, maybe more, but more or less of it would not make the difference for me.
I suspect that it is its own reward anyway and you will keep on...
Hopefully this was useful to you.
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1st Mar 2016, 12:52 PM
mars
Wow, thanks a lot for the input man.
Yeah, I want to increase content production for sure. Right now I draw all of the pages with pencil+ink before scanning them to colour, and it takes forever. After this upcoming chapter, i'm planning on switching to my tablet entirely, and i'm hoping it will speed things up considerably and allow 2 pages a week or so.
I've wanted to do little mini side issues for Patreon for a while, like 4-5 page issues once every month or so. Even if they are black and white issues to speed them up (thinking mini stories like, Alice and Jay get into a bar fight, or the Yesterdaybound breaks down in Space and Alice frantically tries to fix it, etc)
Hopefully Patreon will start making enough side cash that I can take a few days off work a month and get some serious production going ^_^
Thanks a lot for the input though, I really appreciate it. Gives me lots to think about and kind of gets my ass in gear a tad more haha.
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1st Mar 2016, 12:55 PM
mars
Also : the pay per page system is an interesting concept i've been on the fence about for a while.
I've always figured people would be less likely to want to spend money per page (and thus more per month)... but maybe i'm mistaken.
If anyone else has thoughts on this specifically, i'd love to hear it, as it's something i've been hashing over for a while without really getting anywhere.
I wonder how it works to change it over on Patreon, if I ever did decide to go that route.
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1st Mar 2016, 4:17 PM
quetzlsacatanango
I thought some more about my answer and realize it not really fair to hold you to the same standards as professionals.
They are ad supported and lots of pros can't hit a monthly schedule anyway. So I'd go up to 4-5$ per issue on a somewhat regular schedule, whatever it may be.
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1st Mar 2016, 4:16 PM
jamie59
Kate's competing with some of Centcom's not so human girls.
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