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Moved in and back in the flow with internet by Sage116

After being mostly offline for so long, im very happy to be back again. Just to recap, anyone that didn't know what's happened since my last post, I recently moved form Colorado back to Wisconsin. Currently, I live with my mate in his apartment and we just now managed to get internet set up, so I can finally get back to things. Up until now I've just been working on commissions offline and sending photo, updates to each customer through my phone. Then the lovely trips to the library to email things, as a side note trying to send NSFW commissions through a public library on a Saturday is a terrible idea and very embarrassing, I do not recommend.

Another big change that's happening, is I will be officially changing to a full time schedule with my art. Now I may or may not get a part time job in between, it all depends on the future. The plan is go full time for three months as a trial period and if I see promising results I will continue through and keep building things up. Now this doesn't mean if someone, that I already sent a resume to, calls me for a part time job I'll refuse it right away. I still got bills to pay and I'm happy my mate is helping me through things but income is still income at least until I can rely fully on my art. With this being said, there will be some big changes coming to how I handle commissions, prices, streaming, and more. First I will be redoing my Trello and how I post updates to each of you. In the past, I would post each phase up on FA, DA, Weasyl, and FB. This was nice at first but it REALLY eats up my time and just seems unnecessary if I'm already privately sending each person updates anyway. From now on I will only post completed commissions and my Trello will be used to post picture updates, to keep things more organized.

The next thing on my list, is to change how I receive commission orders. I'm still looking into different programs or sites to use but the intention is if any of you guys are looking to get a commission, you just fill out a digital form that can get sent to me, then things will stay more organized. Right now, it can become crazy when I get separate notes on each of my pages asking for commissions. Sometimes I lose info or forget what goes to who, doing it this way will help me out a TON in the long run.

Item three on the list is I'm brainstorming ideas for a Patreon. I want to make something special and fun for all of you while still getting a chance to show off more of my personal art and characters, instead of only commissions. I wont go into too many details just yet, until things are more fleshed out.

Then on item four I will be changing my prices and how I display them. I'm really sorry if this angers anyone that's been used to my previous prices. This is mainly because I do feel I undercharge myself but at the time art was a part time thing in my life and since I worked at a normal full time job, I didn't see it as a huge deal, now that I'm making this a major part of my life I want to take things more seriously. Most of my pages already have a tab or feature that I can use to post commission prices, so I may be using those instead of the price list I have now. Then when I open for commissions I will have a different sheet to show I'm open.

The last change on my list is streaming, this has been a thing I get the most positive feedback from ALL THE TIME and I love doing it. Now that I will have more time to stream, things will change to where I stream more often and maybe have some special holiday/event streams. My normal sketch streams WILL be returning, I just need to catch up on work first before I add more. That should be everything for now, pretty long post compared to my normal ones, thank you everyone for their support in all of this and I hope things just keep going up from here. See you folks next time!!

Moved in and back in the flow with internet

Sage116

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