Merry day, Ragonia Patrons, you are officially invited to the 3rd Annual Ragonia Patreon Holiday Party!!
Thanks for your votes, y'all! It's decided!
Join Me, Zach, Pumpkin, and your fellow Patrons and art fans on Wednesday, December 15th (tomorrow!) from 6-8PM PST to drink your festive beverage of choice and make art!
Hello Patrons and happy December!
2021 is coming to a close, which means it's time for me to show you how much I appreciate your support and community here on Patreon with a Ragonia Patron Holiday Party!
So mark your calendars, prep your sketches or arty tools, gather your Wassail ingredients, and dust off your Twitch and Discord logins, and g...
2021-12-10 21:38:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Helloooo Patrons and HAPPY DECEMBER ALMOST!!
Let me tell you about what I did this month! An overview if you don't want to listen:
1. CLIENT PROJECTS
Working on a client project and it's coming out so well, but I can't show you EVER probably! NDAs! NDAs!
Book project has been postponed, but it's all good!
Un...
2021-12-01 05:30:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy friends and Patrons, and welcome to another episode of the Arty Business series, where I share some of the helpful things I've learned in the process of building my own Arty Business. For this 13th article I'll be sharing with you my thoughts on some Good Deals & Investments you make encounter or look into as you grow your Arty Business.
This comes after our last two part article on Scams & Bad Deals! If you haven't read t...
2021-11-20 02:08:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy howdy Patrons!
Hope you're having a productive and/or restful November! It has been raining almost non-stop here in Seattle, the sun sets at like 5pm now, and I am absolutely loving the refreshing cozy vibes and shorter days. It fills me with creativity and energy! What!
As usual, the Arty Business article is taking me much longer than expected (I am for some reason incapable of being anything less than extremely thorough.) ...
2021-11-13 02:43:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patrons, HAPPY (almost) HALLOWEEN!!
As a treat this month I'm trying something different: a podcast newsletter! Take a listen to hear what I've been up to in this Arty Business of mine during October! If you don't have time to listen here's a quick overview:
1. FINISHING UP THE BOOK PROJECT
Aaaaaalmost done! It's been pushed out another month or two, but I've essentially finished the art. Hooray!
2. INKTOBER
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Season's greetings friends and Patrons, and welcome to another episode of the Arty Business series, where I share some of the helpful things I've learned in the process of building my own Arty Business. For this 12th article in the series I wanted to issue some warnings about potential SCAMS & BAD DEALS you should try to avoid as a working artist.
This is the second of 2 parts to this article, since there's so much to talk about her...
2021-10-16 01:03:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons and a happy month's end to you! I'm writing to you from my Seattle studio, swaddled in a big cozy sweater, a steady rain falling on our dried-out city, with Pumpkin snoozing in her cardboard box on the shelf and my newly made Rainy Autumn Folk playlist lilting from my speakers.
2021-09-30 22:13:37 +0000 UTC
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Howdy friends and Patrons, and welcome to another episode of the Arty Business series, where I share some of the helpful things I've learned in the process of building my own Arty Business. For this 12th article in the series I wanted to issue some WARNINGS *dun dun dunnnn* about potential scams and bad deals you should try to avoid as a working artist.
An equally good and bad element of being a freelance artist is that most ...
2021-09-25 21:41:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons and friends, and happy end-of-summer vibes unto you and yours! I'm writing to you from my Seattle home studio, a slight breeze blowing the cool late-summer air in, carrying smells of my neighbors' barbeques. Following a couple days of scattered distraction, I'm finally focused and vibing to the warbling tones of a 70's Dolly Parton...
2021-08-28 01:52:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, my darling patrons and friends, and welcome to the seventh episode of the Making It monthly series, where I take you step-by-step through how I make important pieces of my freelance art business.
Throughout the series I’ll be sharing how I make my handmade earrings, enamel pins, custom portraits, process videos, stickers, product photography, and more, so you can be empowered to try making a new product or adding new techniques ...
2021-08-14 19:36:39 +0000 UTC View PostHey buds! I hope you're doing well and excited about this new shiny summer month! The wildfire smoke is starting to creep it's way into Seattle and we're shriveling under a particularly dry dry season, which means I am officially... Already Excited For Fall. :)
Anyway, it's time to vote on what you'd like to see for the August $5+ tier post! Cast your vote in the poll below, and of course let me know if you have any thoughts or requests for the future in the comments...
2021-08-02 19:31:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hellooooo Patrons and friends, and another very happy Friday to you! I hope this email finds you well and warm and safe and anxiety-free. Help yourself to a listen of my Good Mood Food playlist if you're feeling down, and let's catch up about July!
First of all I'm so happy to welcome two new Patrons to our Community for the month of July, big hellos t...
2021-07-31 01:41:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Helloooo Patrons, and welcome to our new mini blog series, the Ragonia Time Machine! In this series we're going to travel back in time to different eras in my art history to take a look at my sketches, doodles, pieces, and projects, and see how the years stacked up to make me the artist that I am today. For each era I'll sort through my old art and share them in general categories or themes.
I hope you enjoy seeing some art and pictures that...
2021-07-23 22:39:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons and happy soon-to-be-July! There's a thin, bright layer of clouds in the sky and it's a typical cool Seattle summer day (74°F / 23°C). Which I am absolutely living for because, if you haven't heard, the PNW just smoldered through a historic three day heat wave. But I'll talk more about that in a bit! I'm vibing to a jazz playlist that always ...
2021-07-01 01:04:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello patrons and happy summer! I hope you’re doing well and ready to do some mid-year reflecting, because I know I am.
I’ve talked a lot about this before, but I’m in the middle of two big different projects: illustrating my first book client project finals, AND reassessing my art and practice! I think one factor of my recent art block has been a feeling of stagnation and disconnect with my personal art. I’m not liking what I make or have made, which t...
2021-06-11 23:35:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons, and a very happy weekend to you! I have the absolute joy to be writing to you from my current favorite spot in the universe, the gloriously roomy and sunny balcony on my new apartment in Seattle. As is Seattle tradition, the weather the last few weeks has been incredibly up and down: sunny and warm for a bit and then cold, windy and rainy for a bit. No matter the weather, every single day I feel so fortunate to have moved to this apartment w...
2021-05-29 00:51:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks everyone for voting on this month’s special event! There was a tie between a Livestream Movie Night and a Get to Know on my favorite artists, so this month we’ll do the movie night and next month I’ll do the Get to Know article. :) So let’s have a fun movie night!
+ When: Friday, May 14th, 2021. Drop in any time between 4-8pm PST!
+ Where: The Ragonia Discord Movie Room! 2021-05-12 21:36:01 +0000 UTC View Post
PATRONS HELLOOOO!! Happy May, buddies!
It's time to choose what special event we want to do here on the Patreon for the month!
Since I'm facing down this killer art block for personal art, the final deadlines for my book client project coming up in the next two months, AND that my average Arty Business/Making It articles take a minimum of three full work days to create... I think it would be the most refreshing and inspiring for all of us if we did something a ...
2021-05-07 20:32:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons and friends, and a very happy Friday to you! I'm writing to you on a classic Seattle spring day, raining this morning, sun and clouds rolling by in turns, and low 60s. I have no fun playlist rocking today because I am trying to FOCUS. And I'm coming at you with quite a bit less energy than I normally do, and I'll tell you why after...
After we say welcome to our new patrons for the month of April! Hello and welcome to Hannah, Nene, Jessica, Dani...
2021-05-01 01:04:20 +0000 UTC View Post
HELLO Patrons and friends, and welcome to another edition of the ARTY BUSINESS series, where I share some of the things I've learned in the process of building my own Arty Business.
That's right, Arty Business is BACK, mostly because I thought of this new subject to add to it! The Arty Business well hasn't quite yet run dry! Since it's April (which, in the U.S., means it's tax season), I thought it would be a perfect time to talk about money! Or more s...
2021-04-16 20:24:13 +0000 UTC View PostHeeeey Patrons, happy APRIL! Chugga-chugga 2021's chuggin' along, hopefully into better and better things!
I'd love to hear your preference for topics for this month's $5+ article! Below is a poll of my top ideas for this month, but feel free to leave a comment with additional requests!
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2021-04-07 18:34:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons and friends, and a very happy weekday to you! It's a beautiful sunny spring day in Seattle, and after two unusually cold months we're set to possibly have our first 60 degree day of the year today. I'm wearing my spring-iest dress, with (gasp) no tights or leggings, so you know I'm in a spring mood. It's the last day of March 2021, and I'm very excited to take some time to share with you some of the happenings in my life and business this past month. 2021-03-31 21:36:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons! Yesterday I took the day to experiment by making fan art of the Eurydice character from Supergiant Games' Hades, and I wanted to share a video of the process with you. I'm trying to push myself to simplify characters and forms in simple, flattened compositions. I don't think I pushed very far at all with this design, so ultimately the benefits were getting me back into drawing personal art and teaching me to adjust my process to push the shapes even further! 2021-03-24 18:43:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Hellooo Patrons and friends, and Happy New Year! 2020 is freshly behind us and...
Nope, it's March! I have a tradition of writing an overview of my past year of my career every January here on the Patreon. But this year I was moving across the country for basically all of January, and then I had two Big Boy deadlines overwhelming me for February, and anyway here we are.
I thought about skipping writing this because 2020 was... 2020, and was obviously bad ...
2021-03-19 20:13:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons and friends and happy MARCH! I'm writing to you from my new studio in my new two bedroom apartment in Seattle, Washington, feeling cozy and excited to chat about the Ragonia February goings-ons. Grab a cup of something tasty, pop on my Video ...
2021-03-04 23:02:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, Patrons and Friends! It's been a while! I hope you're doing well, hopefully things are starting to look up for you in this new fresh year. Brew yourself a cup of something nice, and let me take you on a tour of my new studio space in Seattle! And after I show you around my space, I'd love to hear about where you like to work on art, and your dream studio space.
I shared in my last post that my partner and I, after having moved to live with my ...
2021-02-15 22:24:06 +0000 UTC View Post
HELLOOOOO PATRONS AND FRIENDS, Happy February!!
I just wanted to pop-in and give a quick update since I know I haven’t shared in a long time: I moved from Virginia back to Seattle last month!
Zach, Pumpkin, and I have been spending the month driving back across the country, finding an apartment, moving our stuff out of our storage unit and into the apartment, buying new furnishings and groceries, and just generally trying to turn our space into something besi...
2021-02-01 17:52:33 +0000 UTC View Post
To celebrate the holidays, my birthday, AND to say THANK YOU for your continued support this year you are invited to the second annual Ragonia Patreon Holiday Party!
When: Friday, December 18th, 2020. Drop in anytime between 2-10pm EST, I've planned for plenty of time so people from various time zones can join!
Where: The new Ragonia Discord! Click...
2020-12-16 23:42:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons and friends!! I hope you're having a cozy and happy December! I'm writing to you from the studio in my parent's basement, with a lovely candle lit and the fake fireplace spacy heater buzzing with warmth. It's rainy, icy, and grey outside, and it makes it that much comfier in the studio.
I'd love to share a big welcome to our new patron friends for November and December, HELLO and WELCOME to Amanda, Anika, Ariana, Pandora, Vanessa, Dan, Cora, Mar...
2020-12-16 23:09:03 +0000 UTC View Post
