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arianhwyvar) wrote2020-10-29 12:34 pm
arianhwyvar) wrote2020-10-29 12:34 pm
Patreon!
I'm starting a Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/silverowlcreations
A big part of the reason is that most of the shows where I sell my jewelry have been cancelled. I hadn't realized how much I relied on the deadlines of upcoming shows to drive me to make new pieces. It makes me feel a lot better about myself and life if I'm crafting, and that's even more critical in this long depressive never-go-anywhere COVID time. I have new things I want to learn and try, but it's been hard to get up the gumption to do something productive with my time rather than playing endless mindless computer games. Having patrons would push me to create more and post about it more -- and I hope people would like to see it.
The other thing is that I've recently been thinking more about types of art and music I've done in the past, and I would like to revisit them -- songwriting, poetry, drawing. My father-in-law recently gave me a wonderful present: the first recording mic I've ever owned, and it's blowing my mind a little bit that I can not only record but overlay my voice. If you can't sing harmony with other people, singing harmony with yourself is very much better than nothing. So I expect music recordings will start going on this Patreon too.
The Patreon billing for it is based on 'per creation', which means per post I mark as 'paid'. I expect to make 2-12 paid posts a month, but you can set up a maximum limit per month and never pay more than that no matter how many additional paid posts I make. Any paid post will contain some media I've produced, whether that's photos of jewelry I've created, or art, or music, and will either be viewable to Patrons only, or in some cases viewable to Patrons first and then later become public. And I expect I'll make some non-paid posts as I go along too: discussions of where my creative work is going, polls where you can give your opinion on what I work on next.
I've put up one public post already with some photos and discussion of my results with new alcohol inks.
https://www.patreon.com/silverowlcreations
A big part of the reason is that most of the shows where I sell my jewelry have been cancelled. I hadn't realized how much I relied on the deadlines of upcoming shows to drive me to make new pieces. It makes me feel a lot better about myself and life if I'm crafting, and that's even more critical in this long depressive never-go-anywhere COVID time. I have new things I want to learn and try, but it's been hard to get up the gumption to do something productive with my time rather than playing endless mindless computer games. Having patrons would push me to create more and post about it more -- and I hope people would like to see it.
The other thing is that I've recently been thinking more about types of art and music I've done in the past, and I would like to revisit them -- songwriting, poetry, drawing. My father-in-law recently gave me a wonderful present: the first recording mic I've ever owned, and it's blowing my mind a little bit that I can not only record but overlay my voice. If you can't sing harmony with other people, singing harmony with yourself is very much better than nothing. So I expect music recordings will start going on this Patreon too.
The Patreon billing for it is based on 'per creation', which means per post I mark as 'paid'. I expect to make 2-12 paid posts a month, but you can set up a maximum limit per month and never pay more than that no matter how many additional paid posts I make. Any paid post will contain some media I've produced, whether that's photos of jewelry I've created, or art, or music, and will either be viewable to Patrons only, or in some cases viewable to Patrons first and then later become public. And I expect I'll make some non-paid posts as I go along too: discussions of where my creative work is going, polls where you can give your opinion on what I work on next.
I've put up one public post already with some photos and discussion of my results with new alcohol inks.