Twitch Theme, Get! And News!

---> https://www.twitch.tv/Lapres

So it's been a fun time playing in photoshop over the weekend! I spent time to figure out what I wanted my stream to be, and really dived into how I wanted the layout to look. I know a lot of streamers go between way TOO busy with things on the screen and too much information being thrown at you that it really takes away from the overall experience. I've studied other twitch streamers to really get a sense of what works and what makes for a clean layout.

It's in its infancy stage but we spent a stream hashing out some of the issues it had to make it more enjoyable, and I truly hope that I can set a stream schedule a couple of times a week where I work on commissions and projects but also build a fun and informative community.

Some of you will have been on my discord previously, where I overwhelmed myself with trying to do work, moderate, stream and all the rest of what comes with being self employed and I felt I failed miserably in that sense. I made so many different areas that I couldn't keep up so I switched to Telegram. While my personal preference is Telegram, I am considering in the future bringing back Discord to properly have a subscriber and Patreon only area, which would give me a little more flexibility with where I put files up for download as with the likes of certain websites that take Patreon information and blast it to the world, it'd stop things from happening like leaking my linearts, and also layouts and emotes that may be coming in the future.

So, what does that mean? I'll be making a pack of my previous twitch items available to download. The only one that will remain not posted publicly is the Heartlilly theme as I'll be passing that to her directly if she chooses to use it or not.  

I'd love to have stream sessions where I take requests from the community and build designs to then post up for patreons and subscribers to nab and use on their own streams.

In other news!

I've been approached by my stepdad, it's a long story and easier to call him that, and he wants to work with me on some new projects that he is ready to turn into a business. I am very honoured that he'd think of me, so a few hours a week are now dedicated to graphics for him for concepts and a weekly meeting to discuss the next weeks projects. It's very cool, but unfortunately I can't dive into any more information outside of that just yet.

So my work day is absolutely packed with the artwork from this round, and balancing etsy (which has literally exploded and I'm struggling to keep  up making the nosewires before they sell out again, yay but holycrap) and doing graphic design for other projects for streamers and continue making Patreon items!

I'll have more information about my new twitch stream soon as I'm still brainstorming things to make it even more fun and am waiting for some supplies to get here so I can really integrate things between Patreon and Twitch. <3