October Roundup! (Patreon)

Published:

2019-11-01 20:00:02

Imported:

2021-07

Content

Hey everyone! Time for the October roundup :) The Best of Wasted Talent has been chugging along on schedule! I'm getting used to posting comics again but so far it has been awesome to see my work out in the world and having people respond to it. I really missed that :) This month's comics were:

(Wow that's... a lot of comics in a month haha... twice a week sure is a thing 0_0)

Here's what's been going on here on Patreon :)

$1 Patrons - Early Access

At the $1 level, I've been continuing to post pages from the upcoming Food Zine. I have two sets completely finished now, the third 90% done! It's exciting to see these all together so I think they're going to be able to be released as "zines" pretty soon :)) Food Zine - Ravioli Food Zine - Harvest Bowl

$2 Patrons - Sneaky Peeks

Sneaky Peaky patrons got access to another pencilled page of Shenzhen Fast - this one focused on Injection Moulding.

I also posted some fanart and my thoughts of Later Aligator
And! I posted some Environment Sketches... I'm working on improving environments lately.

$5 Patrons - Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes this month, I posted about how I keep track of everything using a Content Calendar, and asked for your feedback on the types of "Behind the Scenes" stuff you'd like to see in the future. "Productivity (how I balance comics with my day job)", "Posts about my studio/physical space", and "More about drawing and writing specifically" got the most votes, so I'll be writing more about those in the next few months. Thanks so much to everyone who voted!

I also made a big post about my my plans for making Patreon better than ever which generated a lot of discussion. Thank you SO much to everyone who came by and gave their feedback - your perspective helps a ton because I want to make this an awesome place for all of YOU (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ I'm using this early feedback to iterate and make the plan even stronger. Everyone will be hearing about this in the next monthish :)

$10 Patrons - the LAB!

You may note that I have tentatively renamed the $10 level "The Lab". This is part of a trial I'm running (that was discussed in detail here). This month I did my first trial run of a "lab post". I asked for more feedback on what types of "helpful zines" you'd like to see more of! What got the most votes? I guess we'll wait and see ;)

Help me choose my next zine topic!

Hey, this is neat

I really enjoyed this guide to creating vaccuum formed parts using 3D printing. If you've never seen the vaccuum forming process, I highly recommend looking it up on youtube. You know those annoying plastic shells that all the electronics come in? This is how they're made! From a materials perspective I am SUPER not a fan of it (plastic that just goes immediately to waste! Sometimes it's not even marked for recycling!! AUGH!!), BUT the reason they're so prevalent is because they are fast and easy to make, and they do an excellent job of making the product presentable and protecting it for transport. So, the idea of being able to make those enclosures really quickly at low volume is really cool to me.

"BUT JAM!" No one cried, "WHEN are you going to tell us about all the DEEPLY NICHE channels you're obsessed with on youtube!?"

Okay! Wow! I had no idea you were so interested, fine let me tell you!!!

Lately I've been really enjoying this channel called Get in the Robot where a very cool crew goes deep on anime-related topics. The one I linked is about the history of US queer censorship in anime, but I've enjoyed all their videos that I've seen so far.
I also have really been digging this channel called Red Bard - this video is "When did Light Novel Titles Get So Long".. So the previous channel is great if you're lightly into anime. But Red Bard's channel is amazing if you're super duper into anime hahaha. They go IN DEPTH! They use DATA! They go out and interview primary sources!!! I love how methodically they explore TEENY TINY FRINGE ASPECTS of the anime subculture.
Related to teeny tiny fringe aspects of subcultures, going deep into the weirder corners of the internet is kind of a hobby of mine. So I really appreciated This deep dive into "Simpsons Meme Culture". Especially because of the shoutout that BartKira gets.

Art Updates

Art wise, I've just been plugging away on my various projects. I've also been doing some more reading:

I got these two books on my most recent trip to the library. Anya's Ghost has been on my list for a really long time, and I just saw it on the shelf so I snatched it up. It was really solid! I am always impressed when people can tell a really cohesive and compelling story in a single GN volume, and Vera Brogsol did an amazing job with this one.

Tokyo Ghoul is a series that I'd heard a lot about, and it seems like it should be up my alley in concept. There are ghouls in the world, so a group of people are genetically modified to be "part ghoul" to fight them. But something about the flow is kind of off to me. Like... the backgrounds are REALLY ridiculously well rendered (more than they have to be?) and the choice of camera angle is dynamic to the point of being distracting? I found it a bit hard to follow, and then when I did the work to follow it I'm not sure what I was getting out of it, so I'm not going to continue with that one probably.

I've also been reading Land of the Lustrous which is... very strange so far. It's about a distant future where everyone is made out of crystal. It's taken me a few volumes to get into it, but it definitely has a unique aesthetic. I am not sure who I could recommend this book to haha.

Me IRL

I don't know if I've ever mentioned this before, but for a few years now I've been a part of an "Electronics Club" with some of my colleagues :) They wanted to learn 3D printing this time, so I have been teaching them how to do CAD in Fusion 360. The other two have never done ANY CAD before so I'm super proud of them for how well they all did picking it up :D

Okay that's it for now. Thanks so much everyone for being Patrons, onwards into NOVEMBER!