Adrift

 

The final version of this that I uploaded to Tumblr and Cara isn't too different from this version. Progress! Still taking me two hours to do them. Still things to improve, as always.

Stray Gods just hit its one year release anniversary. The soundtrack for this game helped me through the thick of last year. Especially the song Adrift. The song came up on shuffle as I was about to start a DD for today. I started crying. Is this an Austin Wintory thing, maybe. I will cry if I hear I Was Born For This without warning.

To this day I still haven't sold anything on Redbubble. I opened the store in March of this year, had enough designs to open in late May, early June. So while I made it 5 months ago, it's only maybe been active for roughly 3 months? I'm trying to stay positive. One of my big problems is marketing. I had hoped that if I uploaded weekly that my designs might pop up in an algorithm somewhere for an active store. From what I've read on reddit, not the case lol. No chance of being found on the website unless I market myself externally. The time to create an insta account is approaching...

Before I do, I still hope to start a Ko Fi. Maybe have some promotional free downloads. I want to... make a papercraft something. I have an idea for papercraft rpg dice? In a terrarium, aquarium, or gelatinous cube design. As much as I'd like to try for the terrarium, its maybe an oversaturated idea? I hesitate to research - I'll probably be disheartened that I won't be able to compete with other people's designs that I envy. But dice shapes should be pretty easy? I'm going to test it out anyway. If not, I thought... of a Dragon Age garland lol. Flat image. Minimal assembly. Line up of all the party members with their hands to their sides in a T pose kinda, so if you string them up it will hopefully look like they're all holding hands in a line. lol. maybe. Will likely be more time consuming than the dice though? So. I dunno. Not sure if I should set a deadline for having that. Maybe by the end of October? I've got busy months ahead. I don't want that to discourage me. Go me. GO ME I CAN DO IT. DO MY BEST. 

This is maybe pathetic, but I placed an order for a few of my Redbubble designs. There's no tally for the number of items sold, so it's not as though I'm inflating my own numbers. It just... kinda feels like an L that my first sale in my store was myself. But anyway, i wanted to know how the colours look on the final product. I have a lot of dark grey designs that look almost black on certain monitors. That bothers me. So I'd like to verify if I should adjust them and take note of the shading values. Additionally I think I'll try using the ones I've bought for marketing purposes? I bought some of my potion labels (lmao I ordered the Holy Water before catching the grammatical error and uploading a correction) that I plan on taking some snaps of. Buy some green soda, put it in a bottle/jar, slap a Poison label on there, take photos. I don't know if I should be weary about advertising a label that says poison. I'll have to put a safety message in there?

Upcoming label ideas: blanks (animals holding up fillable label boxes, invisibility potions, health potions (varying strengths), variety potions (genuine snake oil (would I be allowed to do this??), battery acid, potion seller's strongest potion, and idk what else. something fun hopefully).