Hey peeps I have a question regarding content. There’s a lot of different ways to promote webcomics and I was wondering if yall had a pereference on how you like learning about new things to read.
Do you like my masterpost setup? Perhaps an archive? in depth Reviews? Do you like direct reblogs of content from creators? Maybe a semi regular news lineup? Or possibly comparisons to similar and more popular pieces of media catches your eye?
I want to get ideas for how to reach you peeps with new and interesting content!
@atomicbritt replied:
Oooh, what would a news update be like?
I’ve been fiddling with this idea for a while and it’s something I’m gonna really work on making a thing in the coming months. It would be a roundup of more important updates in the webcomic community that might be missed over in peoples’ feeds. Some stuff I would like to include would be:
When comic chapters end/begin
Comic birthdays/Completion days
Submission opportunities for guest art for comics/ anthologies/ etc.
Kickstarter info for comics/anthologies trying to come to print
New comics introduced to my library
Calls for submissions to various masterposts I’m working on
I would probably do this on a weekly/bi-weekly basis. I’ve been wanting to introduce more regular content to this blog since a lot of my original posts are holiday/event based.
I was hoping I’d get an ask like this so I had an excuse to go all out like this! Artfight is an annual art event that surrounds giving and getting art for a whole month!
once you make an account you can upload all your ocs and their information on your own page! This should include stuff like references and small bits of character info (enough for someone to draw them accurately). You need to have at least one OC uploaded to participate so people can draw art for you during Artfight (although i would say upload about 3 so people have choice.)
All people who sign up for Artfight that year get separated into two teams once the event begins (I’m using red and blue as an example but they are usually stuff like sun vs moon, technology vs nature, coffee vs tea etc)
Once that happens people can make art of your OCs in exchange for points for their team! Yep! You get free art of your OCs!
But that means your team is now down a good few points so its not without consequence.
By drawing an OC that belongs to the opposite team for more points than the piece you were given your team is able to stay on top of the game and you also put some good out in the world in the process.
if you draw something for the person of the opposite team and they attack back you can get extra points for your team by starting a “revenge chain” its one of the best ways to get a point multiplier going and to start a friendship with someone who has cool characters!
So what happens when your team wins?
Your team all get a nifty little digital trophy, all the art development that comes with drawing competitively, the knowledge that you’ve put a lot of good and happiness into the world by drawing peoples ocs, and complete ownership of bragging rights! (I personally developed my art style a whole lot during artfight last year! it was super fun!)
So what about when your team looses?
Well the reason why the other team won is because they gave your team the most art of your teams characters! So statistically you just got a whole bunch more free art than they did! Even if you don’t get all the celebration and bragging rights you now have so much more amazing art of your characters!
So basically…
I totally implore everyone who loves to do visual art to participate in artfight! It’s an amazing event that challenges you in a great way and you get to be introduced to a lot of really amazing artists and make alliances with people on your team! Here’s the link to the website Here’s the link to my account on art fight if you want to check me out! Keep in mind you don’t have to participate in artfight once you make an account, you need to opt in for that year at any point during the month so you can absolutely just make an account to watch and look at the good art!
Art Fight starts on July 1! I hope to play again this year, although with much reduced capacity, probably. I’ll do simple portraits only but I can’t guarantee I will be able to get everyone back.
☆ Castoff is a fantasy-adventure comic about magic kids with glowing eyes on the run from their problems (and the fantasy cops). Contents include magic boys, badass ladies, fight scenes and found family. New pages every Monday and Friday! ☆
