Sakeozo

I've posted a new text post on Patreon!

Full post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/61219625

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Hello faithful Patrons,

First and most importantly, I want to really thank everyone for sticking around and still supporting me even after my inactive posting for the last several months. It helped me to get through and remember that I’m not completely void of people’s support.

I went through a lot of things recently, but each one of them left me with newfound knowledge, experience, people, opportunities, self-introspection, and direction. I can feel the flame of my candle inside of my chest slowly increase the dimming light to be brighter than it ever was. So, for all the craps I went through, I’m still grateful.

Now, shall we take a sit down, have a tea, and investigate what we can expect for this year, at least, the original plan of what we can expect? Since you know, anything can happen. As one of my favorites saying that won over my heart as a nerdy little kid browsing on DeviantART.com:

“Expect the unexpected.” -Oscar Wilde

1.) Short Comics

I had a great informative conversation with Emmett Hobbes, he is a passionate cartoonist with bountiful of experience. (Check his work out!) He answered my questions with everything I needed to know as a person who really want to BLAB through the artistic and literature means. He provided me resources, told me about all options I have, and reframed on things I was anxious about. We both spoke about agent vs freelancing, and we concluded that I’d like to have a literary agent to help me find a publisher and some aspect of the marketing things so I can focus on the art, storywriting, creative, and development department of my long-term projects. So, in order to hook an agent, I need to have example of my short comic works for them to observe the technicalities aspect of my art, how I tell the story, my typical themes, the topic I tackled on, audience I tell to, the appeals, and the likes. What I have right now does not show what I’m capable of:

https://daxterslater.com/#comics

Obviously, just these two projects will not do it as they both are extremely outdated, and a lot of the context does not align with my today’s world framework, philosophy, attitude, and mindset. I’m working on short stories comics to add things to that portfolio so the agent can see and decide whether if they want me aboard to their world or not, they will help me find the connection to start pitching to the publisher that may be interested in my long-term projects, like “How Lovely!~” and “Race Against Tempium.” So yeah, I am excited about this! In meanwhile, we can expect the continued visual dev of either projects, there’s no way I’d stop drawing these fun characters! Oh and, there will be new tiers coming out.

2.) Daily Geks

An art collectible! Unique original pixel art of silly goofy geckos once per day, completely created by me, an independent artist. The purpose of this is for my entertainment and I just like geckos, really. I’m still debating on whether if I should just go over do NFTs, using Solana, an eco-friendly blockchain… or tap into Neonmob, a digital trading cards. I know I want to turn some Geks into physical item merchandise and have someone take care of that kind of department. Decisions… Decisions… Decisions… Anyway! I’ll figure the main platform out later! I already have the marketing roadmap all set up so it’s cooking up some big stuff. There will be new tiers coming out.

3.) Commission/Gigs

As I’ve mentioned earlier in this post, bad things happened, but it had me realizing great things about myself that I didn’t know. I’ve realized my abilities as a leading artist who writes out the blueprint and planning for the team of artists as well as troubleshooting, and I was informed that this is the kind of thing that I can get paid to do. (Awesome!) Yeah, check it out, I can do more than just drawing, surprise, surprise! If you ever want me to whoop your ass up to get better at art Gordon Ramsay style, I’ll be here! Joking aside, I’m not that mean! I’m nice. Please let me know if you’re anxious or want it rough, I will accommodate you, lmao.

https://daxterslater.com/#hire-me

Ps, if you’ve pledged me to $48 (School is for Fools) tier, you get access to step-to-step work, art tips, and tutorials on top of mentorship with me.

4.) Art Livestream

I’ve decided for this year, I want to do Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays night Twitch Livestream working on the projects!

It’s unclear how committed I am to this.

So now, 2022 shall begin, and may it go well from now and forth!

Thank you for your continued support, it really means a lot to me.

Daxter Slater / Sakeozo

Yo! I rarely open art commission this year, but I need to make some money to get a Deaf bodybuilder to become my fitness coach, to help me feel more like a strong man. Oh, to save up for my dream long-term graphic novel project by the next year too!