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Announcement everyone!
If you can't tell I'm quite serious about this cartooning thing and over the course of the last half year I have spent a good chunk of time trying to figure out how to promote this thing. While Deviant Art is the first place I've posted my work, Vegetables for Dessert (the title of my comic strip) is posted in quite a few different places now. DA, facebook, tumblr, drunk duck, tapastic, even pinterest. It sure as hell hasn't taken off like a rocket, but it has been steadily building a following. I have 162 followers on tumblr, 50 to 60 on Deviant Art (yes I have a load more but most of those people are watching because of a handful of mlp cartoons), another 23 likes on facebook, 5 on Drunk Duck and another 6 on tapastic.
At this point I've posted a fair amount of content on line, its been nearly a year, I've collectively received around 100,000 views of my work (which unfortunately doesn't mean much on the internet.) and its time to celebrate something. Therefore I've decided to celebrate 250ish. As in approximately 250 people are following my work at this point in time.
I will be celebrating by taking requests and drawing random crappy doodles. Want godzilla getting a manicure? You got it. Have a cute picture of your kid? Little Billy is becoming a cyborg! Or a mutant, depends on what I feel like. Give me requests, ideas, links, photos and I will draw whatever randomness compels me to. Sound like a deal?
Oh yes, by the way I'll be posting these things on facebook and tumblr in an effort to get my audience there to engage with me.
If you can't tell I'm quite serious about this cartooning thing and over the course of the last half year I have spent a good chunk of time trying to figure out how to promote this thing. While Deviant Art is the first place I've posted my work, Vegetables for Dessert (the title of my comic strip) is posted in quite a few different places now. DA, facebook, tumblr, drunk duck, tapastic, even pinterest. It sure as hell hasn't taken off like a rocket, but it has been steadily building a following. I have 162 followers on tumblr, 50 to 60 on Deviant Art (yes I have a load more but most of those people are watching because of a handful of mlp cartoons), another 23 likes on facebook, 5 on Drunk Duck and another 6 on tapastic.
At this point I've posted a fair amount of content on line, its been nearly a year, I've collectively received around 100,000 views of my work (which unfortunately doesn't mean much on the internet.) and its time to celebrate something. Therefore I've decided to celebrate 250ish. As in approximately 250 people are following my work at this point in time.
I will be celebrating by taking requests and drawing random crappy doodles. Want godzilla getting a manicure? You got it. Have a cute picture of your kid? Little Billy is becoming a cyborg! Or a mutant, depends on what I feel like. Give me requests, ideas, links, photos and I will draw whatever randomness compels me to. Sound like a deal?
Oh yes, by the way I'll be posting these things on facebook and tumblr in an effort to get my audience there to engage with me.
The grass really is greener elsewhere...
If you follow this account on a regular basis you will probably notice I've become increasingly erratic about posting here. My apologies.
Deviant Art isn't the best place to post cartoons online for a variety of reasons. Considering the way the site is designed it's hard to find cartoons and it is hard to figure out where to post them where people will see them.
Plus DA just doesn't have that large of an audience for cartoons unless you create Furry, Yaoi or other work for very specific fandoms.
I won't stop posting on DA in the foreseeable future, I'm just probably going to be pretty flaky about it.
If you're interested in following Vege
Priya, I will do this for you.
I'll write my ten facts in the comments a bit later.
My ten questions:
1. What is one dessert you can't live without?
My diet consists of lentils, beans, potato, fresh fruit, vegetables and the occasional gorging at a cheap pizza buffet. There's a lot you can live without.
2. What would be your ideal holiday or vacation spot?
Vacation, when you've been barely employed for years everyday is a vacation.
3. Favorite fandom? If part of no fandom, favorite movie or book?
Not a movie or book but Calvin and Hobbes had a pivotal influence on my life.
4. How do you feel about Christmas, if you celebrate it?
I like all the lights and decorat
The first doodles are up!
They're posted on tumblr, just click the handy dandy link here:
http://vegetablesfordessert.tumblr.com/
Please excuse the fact I'm not posting them in my Deviant Art profile. I'm trying to get my tumblr followers to interact to see if they're actually paying attention.
Bishop, Monster, I will get to your requests. Honestly these drawings take no time at all. Your requests just required me to do a little bit of thinking and I've been pretty lazy the last month. I'll get to them in the next week.
Thoughts on finding an audience for your work.
I was initially planning to write on the subject of building a fan base for your work all the way back in February. I kept pushing this off, because while it is an important and compelling subject matter, I really didn't have much insight and to be honest I still don't. However I do have a few worthwhile thoughts and observations I can share.
The first thing to consider is if you are interested in building a fan base is why? What's your objective? Are you hoping to find a group of peers to relate to, are you hoping to find people who will help you grow as an artist, do you just enjoy the attention, or are you hoping to make a living from you
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Huh...
Well about the only thing that comes to mind is something involving seagulls, pancakes and waffles.
Don't mind if you don't take the request. If you do, whatever happens between the tree is free game.
Well about the only thing that comes to mind is something involving seagulls, pancakes and waffles.
Don't mind if you don't take the request. If you do, whatever happens between the tree is free game.