Iโve set up a little store with Society6! You can buy prints of some of my comics, like this one here:
You can get them on paper or, for the fancy, in a frame, or even on mugs and cards and tote bags and other cool stuff. And the best bit is that this weekend Society6 is offering 10% off and free shipping worldwide!
Go have a look! (The link is also in my menu now).
โฆThat was is me in salesperson mode.
I didnโt like it either. It felt icky.
Iโve always known that sales is hard and I would be terrible at it, but I didnโt realise the extent of those things until I tried to write this post.
So when I say something like โgo have a lookโ and link to the store maybe you could take it to mean โplease buy the thing itโs really awesome and will make your life better (not in a consumerist way, in an art way, even the travel mugs) and I kind of need the money for my website and art equipment and medical costs and rent and food and stuff not that Iโm desperate or anything you donโt have to buy it WHATEVER LIKE I EVEN CAREโ without me actually having to say it.
Yes? Awesome.
And I can use the time weโve saved with that to explain some things.
Thereโs not much in the store right now, but itโs a start and I plan to expand it. Iโve been learning digital art as I go, you see, and up until now my goal has been to create images for screen display, so not everything Iโve done has been a good size for a physical print.
But Iโve redrawn a few things. Like this:
When I create something for a comic or story that I think would be great in the store, I will generally put it in the store on the same day it is posted here. But wonโt make notification posts here about new store content, discounts or free shipping offers. (I donโt want to clutter it with non-comic, non-story stuff.) I will sometimes do those notifications on my Facebook and Twitter pages (to a non-spammy degree, promise). And Iโll probably use Instagram too, if I get better at remembering it. So follow those if youโre interested in hearing about that stuff.
Also, I might add other things to the store. By โother thingsโ I mean โart that isnโt comicsโ. Comics are the only art Iโve done for years, but Iโve recently started dabbling with watercolours and pen and ink again. Perhaps someday Iโll end up with something a bit different that I would like to share on the store too. Keep an eye out.
And finally, if there are any illustrations I have done in the past that you would like to see in my store, please let me know. Iโm happy to take the time to redraw something people will want. And if you see any of my illustrations in the future that you would like but canโt find in the store, give me a shout. It might be because itโs a weird size for printing or I just donโt want to sell it, but probably I psyched myself out and figured it wasnโt something people would buy. So correct me, and Iโll get it sorted.
But I hope that thereโs something there that you like right now.
Seriously, go have a look.
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