GOOEYCANDY Newsletter & Updates!✨[JAN2025 - Issue #01]: "New Year, New Gooey!"

Thank you for joining me in the new year! As many of you know, my Patreon format will be changing starting now. Twice a month, I plan to release a sort of newspaper with all kinds of info. Basically, I will be working on a variety of ideas and projects at a time, and instead of the usual hinting and teasing, you will get ALL the behind the scenes, work in progress & more! Exciting right?

These updates will be posted roughly around the 1st & 15th of each month!

These updates will typically consist of work-in-progress images of whatever I'm currently working on, links to ongoing polls & other ways I could use your input, updates about me (gooeycandy the artist), other general updates & more! Completed work will still receive it's own post.

Anyway, let's get into the news!

We'll start off with a big announcement, I'm going to be tabling (for the first time ever as gooeycandy) as a special guest at my first convention, Barapalooza! The convention is in Mexico City, which I'm a little nervous about because my Spanish is choppy, but I'll have a friend to translate, and I'm very excited to travel and meet you all if any of you can make it out there! I'll be sure to get more info on the event as it comes out, but it'll be sometime in the summer I believe!!

🎨 Art & Project Progress:

• New Hands On!: Here's a WIP for the UI of the New Hands On titles. My very talented programmer got an opportunity he couldn't turn down 😭 so I'll likely be on the hunt for another programmer in the near future. If you know anyone who is good at Unity/working with 2D assets and may be interested, send them this application please!!

• Bolin & Peter B Parker Remasters: I've been tinkering with remastering old fan-favorite pieces to make as prints in my shop. Not much progress has been made with these, and this isn't necessarily a project I'm prioritizing. Also some older pieces I may have to just draw from the start cause they're unsalvageable haha.

  

• Juicy Candy: Sometime last year when things were choppy on Twitter, I had the idea to make a SFW account as a back up. I haven't done anything with it since, and the thought of running multiple accounts sounds miserable, but I still like the idea of occasionally making completely SFW merchandise... would you guys be interested in me having occasional completely SFW illustrations/merch? Btw that Luigi's mansion sticker is still a work-in-progress.

  

🔎 Current Focuses: 

A biiiiig focus is progress on Hands On, I want to start work on a new "Poké-Man" card soon, and finishing my "Best Of 2019-2024" Art Book are my current main priorities! So expect the most updates on those things for now!

💬 Ongoing Polls/Suggestion Boxes:

A poll will be posted soon to decide which Poké-Man card I create next, and a suggestion box will also be posted. So keep an eye out for those!

❔ Questions For You!

• Would anyone be interested if I made a page on my website with downloadable social media icons, phone lockscreens and wallpaper edits of my work?

Hey everyone! Thought a little section of this newsletter about my personal life could be fun! Don't like being so work, work, work all the time haha. Feel free to skip this part if you're not interested lol.

So uh, went home for the holidays, my tire popped on the highway & I paid a shit ton to get a new one, but I didn't have to pay to tow it cause my dad drove 40 minutes out to help put the emergency tire on. Also locked myself out of my apartment yesterday, but luckily I didn't have to call a locksmith cause a man who works in my apartment place's office happened to show up after hours and helped. Moral of the story is sometimes people will go out of their way to help you, whether they're a loved one or a stranger. I'm gonna try harder to be that person for others when the opportunity presents itself.

Also my ex-bf/current situationship (it's confusing) is on a cruise ship right now and it's driving me insaaaane that I can't talk to him. But maybe that's for the best...

That's all for now, but let me know if you like these little diary-like sections.

🕹️ Claim Your Monthly Game!

Go here for instructions on how to claim & play! Simply message me which game you'd like (once per month) through Patreon! You can also message through Twitter  or e-mail gooeycandyart@gmail.com, if you can't figure out Patreon (I don't blame you, it's confusing!)

It may take a few days for me to see your message and send your code, so please be patient.

🛍️ Shop Updates: 

Use the code 'HAPPYGOOEYYEAR' for 10% off your entire order on my shop! Happy goo year sounded.....too gross.

This code will last for this month only!

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As always, thanks a ton for your support this month! 💖 Thanks for reading!

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