Took about 4 days but I think the websites basically back together and ready to go!
The new set up will allow me to automate membership duties for patrons who sign up through the website, but also save me a lot of money! Which means your pledges of support will be able to go that much further! Current patrons should have all gotten emails explaining how to access their reward pages. Please be sure to login and tell me what you think of the new set up. If you have trouble logging in be sure to send me a message and I'll get you squared away. If you used to have access and don't now for sure hit me up. There were a lot of accounts to manually transition over, not as many as I might have hoped for, but you get the point. XD I might have missed someones account somewhere so be sure to check and provide feed back if u notice anything odd or think the files could be organized better. Thanks again so much for all of your support! You have no clue how much your support means to me and mine. Also don't forget to follow me on Discord and Picarto because we'll be running another Roll For Loot Contest soon. ^ _^
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Some warm up sketches I did today. Random Wulfs.
Apologies for missing the last couple of days. I found a service to replace the membership tasks I'm currently paying for from Weebly and Paid members apps. It will save me some $50+ a month! And that's where I've been this weekend. XD So I recently discovered yesterday almost completely by accident a new service that would fulfill my membership needs for this website but also save me some 40+ dollars a month!
I jumped right in on integrating it into my websites systems but it of course is taking a bit of time to wrap my head around this services intricacies. It will be a bit before everything is good to go. I have to migrate the currently existing members to this system manually and that will take me a while to complete. Though faster than I would like. XD Patrons will now log in via a link in the Patrons page. I'm even experimenting with doing multiple landing pages for each tier of patronage. There will be some growing pains as I track down any weird quirks and get everyone back into the system but hopefully this system will allow me to better control and brand my memberships pages. The money I'll save alone will be a major boon as it will eliminate some more middle men who cut into your most generous pledges of support. :p Sorry for missing out on streaming yesterday but I was just super pumped to get this service working. ^ o^ I'll be on later tonight once I nap a tad :p I was going through and doing some book keeping work, since I was awake.
I was wanting to double check that everyone had the appropriate access to their patron rewards. I had to remove access for some former patrons whose access should have expired some time ago. I was doing my best to be careful while doing in the event that I might have accidentally removed your access and and you know you should have access just hit me up and I'll get you sorted up. ^ o^ ----------- I was going through my Patreon exit surveys and found some questionable and found some questionable comments that I wish had been brought up to me sooner. Such as... -I was overcharged -I didn't receive the benefits/rewards described -wasn't as active as I expected I'm not normally notified when I receive an exit survey and names usually aren't attached to them to let me query further or perhaps offer a refund, or a free sketch. Hrmm naw, on second thought, that would just open the doors for abuse at the expense of my time. If you feel I'm moving too slow on a particular work or haven't revisited a specific topic in too long please by all means feel free to voice your concerns to me. I'm more than happy to respond to peeps when I can. I'm going at most of this by myself and its sometimes difficult to keep up with all my accounts. An outside perspective on my work can prove incredibly valuable. If the system somehow ends up double charging you then for sure contact me, I'll issue a refund ASAP. Especially if your switching to using Studio-Aegis as a support system I'll gladly refund your first payment to ensure your not over charged. ---------- I have been worried that my work on the novella hasn't been interesting enough to keep peeps invested. I'll do my best to switch gears more often if needed to keep things interesting. :p I have been contemplating wanting to start up a newsletter to better help keep peeps up to date on things. I'd like to get peoples thoughts on them first though. I didn't want to do them so often that they become annoying but could be a good way to remind peeps that I'm here working all the time. :p ----------- Been feeling lately like quite a few of my former fans have drifted away from me for one reason or another. I'd like to reconnect with peeps and remind them that I'm always here plugging away at my works. I really need to double down and get this book complete, so I can start up some higher profile projects relating to Crimson Dames. Don't forget! The quickest way to get in touch with me currently is via Discord. Ciel#7475 is my individual contact there, or you could use my Crimson Dames Discord Server! Got the new shirt designs loaded up to onto Teepublic if peeps are interested. ^ o^
Even if you opt to not buy any sharing links and liking/faving stuff in the galleries would be a big help! :D If you should decide to purchase one be sure to pick a dark color as anything too bright will bleed into the art. . o . I'll start prepping for posters later in the month. Finally! I just finished loading up the new works to all of the patron channels! :D
Here's a list of what you can find where... Iron Tier (Free) - The web sized versions of every pic crop and extra created for this project thus far! Copper Tier ($2 Patrons) - The super ultra high res versions of all of those same images! Their pretty big see all those details up close and personal! :D Silver Tier ($10 Patrons) - Here you will find the variant pics of all of the above were the dreaded teets are not edited out. XD Only 3 characters, however, actually needed said treatment. Gold Tier ($20 Patrons) - Here you can find the gargantuan original .PSDs for this entire project, as well as PSDs I used to set up some of the other various crops. (These are for Learning Purposes Only!) Please contact me in advance if you wanted to pitch me a project you wanted to use them in. ------------------- I'll get the inked files of the main ladies put together later for those who might wish to use those for practice or just to see. Tomorrow I'll be getting the shirt designs loaded up to Tee Public. with so many variations it will take me quite a while to get them all set up. I do still need to write up some quick texts too for the fronts or backs. Hrmm speaking of which, do you prefer the art on the front or the back?? Thank you all again so much for your patience during this project. I'll be starting up with the sketchest in the queue tomorrow, I hope. Then from there I'll need to decide where I want to dedicate my efforts next. I got at least 2 major projects open I need to get back to. One is the Crimson Dames Novella, and the other is the Shewolf Bride Comic. The"Roll For Loot" (Oct 2019 Halloweeen) is now Live!
3 sketch prizes possible! 1 sketch reward for Rabbits. (NonPatrons) 2 sketch rewards for the Cats, Ravens, and Werewolves. (Copper,Silver, and Gold Tier Patrons) Every new patron or patronage upgrade will boost the reward pool by 1! Contest ends next Saturday! Don't forget to spread the word!!! The more new patrons that sign on the more chances to win! You can become a patron via Studio-Aegis or Patreon Been about 2 weeks since I've moved and I've been having a blast.
I'm so happy to finally be independent again. And this time with no neighbors on the other side of the walls. XD The neighborhood is much more run down than I would like, but the house itself is quite nice for the price I'm paying. There are a couple Items I wish were better in the house, like a soft spot in the floor, among other odd aberrations here and there. But overall its everything I hoped it would be. I'll be rather short on funds for the next few months while I find the right furniture items needed to have guest over and storage solutions and such, along with a few bills I'll have left over from the move itself. I haven't been online too much lately due to all of the unpacking and organizing going on, and have been quite sore from all the heavy lifting. It's been especially nice though to be able to move more than 3 steps in any direction I choose. ^ o^ In the next weeks I'll be continuing to plug away at the sketch Request queue from the Celebration event. As I slowly run out of things to unpack the streams will grow in length again until I'm back in the full swing of things, then I'll start attacking the Crimson Dames Novella project again with great ferocity. Please do your best to share links with friends and over social media, and if you really love what I do please consider becoming a Patron. ^ o^ Thank you all again for your patience while I get my new home organized. ^ _^ I'd been trying to make the push to finally moving out on my own again around maybe October once I'd been able to save enough to do so efficiently.
Though like usual events have transpired that have shifted the time frame to be much sooner than I originally expected. The Land Lord have been doing some big renovations and has been looking to put the house on the market around October. Meaning he'll need access to my room to get it up to speed. And politely asked if I could try and perhaps move up my moving day to before September. Is a tad panic inducing as I don't have anything lined up yet. Though he was gracious enough to let me have August rent free, which will very much help along the process. That being said I'm still in need of additional funds to really make things go as smoothly as possible. Thus I regretfully must inform all of you that my output will begin to slow down as I near the moving. I fortunately purchased a lot of packing supplies last month and have already begun packing up my room a bit more each day. I'm hoping I purchased enough boxes but with my luck probably not, tho I am a Tetris master so I should be able to make the best even out of what I got available. I also got a new Dragon Shield project I need to take on and finish up before the end of the month as well. which will also help things along. As you can see though there is a lot on my plate now that will slow down how much work I'll be able to put into fulfilling the sketch rewards for the celebration. I'll have the celebration event continue as planned. The event will end next 15th, which is also the hard cut off time for celebration related requests, if you don't know what you want be sure to at least put in a reservation into the queues before then. Hit me up if your unsure about what you might qualify for. All of the requests will be fulfilled but the time frame will likely be deep into September before everything is said and done. Here's hoping that the celebration even also doubles as a house warming celebration. Oh yeah that all being said if you'd like to contribute becoming a Patron would be a huge help right about now. It would also be the ideal time to sign on as you'll get a bonus sketch of some sort as well as boost the contest prize pool for the discord. ^ _^ Please help spread the word by sharing links to my creations and posts where ever you can. I need as many new eyes introduced to my works as possible. ^ o^ Thanks again I love and adore you all and wish me luck! *Panic Resumes* ヘ(。□°)ヘ |
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