#StoryNotStory

WordPress needs to have a parent page for drop-down menus on the website. So we needed a new Shop & Tip Jar page. Following advice I was given long ago, ‘artist, market thyself!’ Main page link: littlefears.co.uk/shop

“You’re right,” replied Fluffeh, “we have multiple shopping outlets and experiences for our fans.”

“Multiple!” gasped Masks. “I know we might get accused of marketing if you answer this out loud, but where can I visit these Fear filled shops and experiences?”

“You can buy our books from Amazon“, said Fluffeh.

“Cool,” said Masks.

“We sell original art and art prints on our Etsy store,” said Fluffeh.

“Brillo,” said Masks.

“Folk can buy our t-shirts from Threadless,” continued Fluffeh.

“Oh, right,” gasped Masks.

“We teach on Skillshare,” claimed Fluffeh.

“Awesome,” grinned Masks.

“You can also hire the illustrator for writing or design work,” noted Fluffeh.

“Excellent,” gurned Masks. “What work can he do?”

“Well,” pondered Fluffeh, “a lot of things, but obvious examples would be designing posters, creating unique logos, writing articles or creating book covers.”

“How many more ways can the illustrator say “said”?” asked Masks.

“I don’t think we should test that,” replied Fluffeh.

“I guess not,” laughed Masks. “But listen, if there was a way of personally supporting the illustrator, how would I do that?”

“You can visit his Patreon or Ko-Fiand drop a dollar or two into his tip jar,” said Fluffeh.

“Do you think anyone’s going to read all this?” asked Masks.

“Probably not,” sighed Fluffeh. “But you know the illustrator. He ain’t writing a normal shop and tip jar page.”

“Innit tho,” chuckled Masks.


Ko-Fi | Patreon | Etsy | Kindle | Skillshare | Threadless

Little Fears, Big Update: Flowers

It’s been a while!

  1. Flowers
  2. Art Prints
  3. Movigos
  4. Patreon

Flowers

#Colour_Collective has returned to Twitter and the Fears are here for it! This week the colour is Boto Pink and conveniently, this week’s Scribblers Cove theme is flowers. Two birds with one doodle right there!

Art Prints

My art prints will return to the site this coming week and just look at that paper! My word is that canvas texture sexy. Something I haven’t sold for a long time. The prints are sized UK A4 and will cost £12 each (£3 shipping to the USA). I’ll have a shop page finished this weekend. If there’s an item you’ve seen doodled before or that’s on my Threadless store and you want to buy the canvas print version, please do let me know. I’ll make it a priority for the shop. Also. LOOK AT THAT TEXTURE!

Mmmmm, forbidden texture… Drools

Movigos

We’re back again this week, and Alex has chosen Spooky, a film on YouTube for us to watch. Expect cheap monsters and silliness. Come join us on Twitter for some fun, 9 pm UK time Saturday as we watch and tweet it. Hit me with an @ if you want to be added to the conversation.

Linky for details: weirdshitwithalex.blog

Patreon

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Did ya see her? Blue Bugly was given away to my patrons this week. Something I have been meaning to do for ages. Monthly monsters, given out to paying patrons. Interested in receiving monsters monthly and helping to pay for Hydras feed bill? Head over to our page and support the Little Fears for as little as $1 a month.

Clicky linky: https://www.patreon.com/posts/16974999

 

Bugly – Free download for the Patreons

I’ve wanted to offer Patrons something for a while. Always unsure of what. I’m trapped between houses/homeless/aimless wanderings for the foreseeable future. So I figure digital goods are best for now, with physical gifts for patrons at a later date.

A February gift for you in thanks for your continued support, Blue Bugly. She weighs in at 5,000 px by 5,000 px, 300 dpi, and is available for you to use in any non-commercial projects you have going on. Use her as an avatar, stick her on a t-shirt, a postcard or sticker for your turtle’s shell. Or create a unique wrapping paper out of her. Whatever you fancy.

If you do use her, let me know, would be great to give you a shout out on the blog and social media. She’s available to download now for everyone sponsoring me for $1 a month or more.

Clicky linky: https://www.patreon.com/posts/16974999

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Little Fears, Big Update: Fey

Well howdy. Another week, another update.

  1. Fey
  2. Threadless – Sale
  3. Chili Cinema
  4. Patreon

Fey

Ah, an old character I doodled but hasn’t been in a single published tale yet. A quick re-doodle and she’s in this weeks #Colour_Collective.

Threadless – Sale

Last chance to get free shipping on our Threadless store orders. Good Christmas presents, just saying! Use the promotional code CHEER7cca8e at checkout. Offer ends December 15th.

Linky: https://littlefears.threadless.com/

Chili Cinema

Alex, Layne and I will be watching Land of the Dead and having a laugh on Twatter this weekend. We’ll be hitting play at 9 pm GMT or 4 pm EST for our American friends, and tweeting like zombie splatter fangirls. You can find our Twitter handles at @Chew_On_Glass@SynBoomstick and @TheLittleFears. Watch along with us if ya fancy.

While giving Twitter a mention, I still have 4 codes left for a £5 voucher on Chili Cinema. Tweet me here for a free £5 Chili Cinema voucher

Patreon
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Have you noticed my weekly update posts have had links to my new patrons? Well, not for the last couple weeks… Do you want a shout out at the bottom of my weekly update posts? Head on over to Patreon and pledge $10 or more a month and not only will you help with Hydra’s feed bill, but you will also get that weekly shout out with a link back to your site. Hit me up on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/littlefears

 

Little Fears: Vulture

 

There’s been a lot of blog posts on this usual non-bloggy website recently right? I certainly hope there’s not too many of them. If you feel your getting spammed by me, let me know in comments. Useful feedback is always appreciated.

This post goes back to the stuff I said I would post here four months ago and never did. As I have said in previous posts, I write six stories, draw six tiles and doodle one asset every working day. How many do you see? Barely a fraction makes it online. Mostly because I produce a lot of chaff (don’t we all), so I discard the worst. Some I save for a rainy day. Some I intend to give away to Patreons, both digital and physical copies. Some are for saleable artworks (see below).

I’ll confess, that’s just an excuse to show off some banging new product photography that’ll be arriving on my Threadless store soon.

Some of the pictures I doodle are intended to be drawn just for the sake of drawing them. Because I enjoy doodling them and would like to share them. Vulture is one such creature. I originally drew him in black and red. Then I saw Colour Collective were having a Timberwolf grey theme this week and DMStrachan’s Flickr group, Scribblers Cove, had a Second Life exhibition featuring whimsical art. A quick modification, decorate it a lil digitally and it would be rude not to join in right?

And hey, don’t be hating on him cause he looks a bit mean. Vultures provide a necessary environmental function. It’s not their fault there were at the back of the line when Creation was handing out good looks…

Some links for if you want to join in or nobble some of my wares.

Colour Collective: https://twitter.com/clr_collective
Scribblers Cover: https://www.flickr.com/groups/2958431@N25/
DMStrachan’s Blog: http://dmstrachan.co.uk/

Feas Threadless: https://littlefears.threadless.com/
Fears Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/littlefears

Cheers!