I’ve started uploading videos to Patreon talking about what is happening at the shop. It’s an experiment to see if I can keep everyone in the loop in one place. To start I’m going to try to upload a video daily so I can get a lot of practice. I won’t be able to keep that pace for very long, but I intend to keep to at least a weekly schedule over the long haul.
Here’s a link to the very first Shop Vlog:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/first-daily-vlog-149264427
Eventually they will all be in a collection of videos you can link to here (at the moment I am writing this, there’s only the video above in the collection):
https://www.patreon.com/collection/1968995
You don’t have to be a paying subscriber on Patreon to watch the shop vlogs – they are free to anyone and I intend to keep it that way if I can. I chose Patreon because you are not forced to watch ads to see my videos. If you want to support me, you can do so directly by upgrading to a studio supporter (which gets you discounts on my art, behind the scenes content & access to plans for my automata kits), but I’m happy to just be able to build a community of friends.
I’ll also post my videos to my YouTube channel (for now at least) because I have a few people that only follow me from their smart TV and they can’t follow web links or use Patreon at this time. In the long run I want to simplify posting updates to all of my followers on the various platforms. Until I have a host that will let me upload lots of video content, Patreon will be my primary place to share videos for now. I’ll try to push out snippets to the other platforms (Instagram, Facebook, etc.) manually as I have time.
Thank you for all of your support!