Hello everyone!I'm Roxy Polk, a freelance comics and game artist and i now have a patreon! You can find it here:
https://www.patreon.com/roxypolk/overview
If you decide to venture over there, then THANK YOU, I appreciate you taking the time out of your day to look at my work and would be eternally grateful if you decide to stick around and become a patron! Here's some more info about me and what you can get as a patron who supports me!
I lost my job at a start up company last year when they started downsizing, and am currently struggling to make ends meet with living expenses and student loans on a freelancers infrequent sustainability, so your help as a patron allows me to live like a regular human and produce art. The first goal will be to get to $600 a month which will allow me to update Lacuna Break twice a week, and update Transpose Operator once a month. This is no small feat and I don't know when we'll get there, but I want to ask for your help to achieve this goal. I can't do this alone, and anything you are able to spare will help us get there.
I'll have a ton of ideas for future milestones and such but those are a long ways off. Let me tell you about the breakdown of the different patron tiers!
---- AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE ----
-LACUNA BREAK-
I have a webcomic that updates every Tuesday called Lacuna Break!
www.lacunabreak.com
Lacuna Break is a sci-fi road trip adventure about an ex-security officer named Eris Tanner, and an alien con man named Galett Feros. Eris wakes up in a time far into the future long after humanity has become a memory, and stumbles into a partnership with Galett in order to find a lost ship that could prove humanity is not as extinct as she thinks. In their journey they infiltrate space pirates bases, and stumble into secret mafia auctions among other things. All the while meeting tons of different characters along the way, and finding out more about each other.
I love found families, space, and adventure stories--in particular road trip stories, so I wanted to make a story of my own with these elements, and that is Lacuna Break!
-ART LIVE STREAMS-
Come have a work day with me every Thursday! I will be doing live streams via twitch every Thursday, starting on May 24th. These will usually last from 2-4 hours depending on what I'm working on that day. I'll post announcements ahead of time about when the stream starts. I will have audio so I can chat will you all, and you can get to know me and see my process. These will be relaxed and fun, so come by and say hello~
These will be available to everyone as they are on twitch, so follow or subscribe to me on twitch and twitter to get notifications.
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/rox_box
Twitter: https://twitter.com/roxypolk
---- $1+ PATRONS ----
-BEHIND THE SCENES ACCESS-
For becoming a $1+ patron you will get access to sketches, art, scripts, and other cool behind the scenes stuff from me. A lot of this will be Lacuna Break and Transpose Operator related, but there will be other stuff too, like pin designs, game art, fan art, and all kinds of other stuff. Some of the things I post will be specifically for patreon, and other stuff will be patreon early access, so I might post it to my blog or other online places later, but you will get to see it first, right here!
---- $5+ PATRONS ----
TRANSPOSE OPERATOR
Transpose Operator was my first webcomic, and as many of these projects go, it got away from me in terms of scale and scope. This does not mean that I gave up on it, but I put the comic on permanent hiatus. I am now re-imagining the story as more text based, and will combine illustrations, comics, and prose. This is a Patreon exclusive and will be available to those of you paying $5+. Eventually I will make a new website for Transpose Operator in it's new form, but chapters will always go up on Patreon first, no matter what, so you will be able to read it before everyone else on the internet!
Chapter 1 will debut August 6th, and there will be a new complete chapter every 2 months.
Transpose Operator is a far future sci-fi story taking place on a unknown planet. Humanity and synthetic lifeforms are fighting a losing battle against the Cult of the Red Queen, whose followers are infected with a possession that science cannot explain. These few vestiges that continue to fight are known as The Resistance, whose members are the last sane humans and synthetic lifeforms on the planet. They fight not only for their own survival, but the survival of all life on their planet.
"My ears were ringing from the blast, my vision was blurred, the scene before me was chaotic and unclear. When my vision came back into focus, I could see a large portion of the hallway I had just been running down was now gone, and in its place was a gaping hole revealing the destruction outside.
Plumes of smoke, gunfire, screams… The war was here… the war had come to the capitol… and it had been Max and I who had let them in. As I looked out through the missing hallway I could see the fighting below, I could see my colleagues dying and I had to ask myself… had we done the right thing?"
There will be a lot of violence and mature themes in this story, so it is a 15+ recommended rating. If there is something in particular I need to warn readers of about the contents of the story I will preface that given chapter with a warning, so you will not be caught unaware of the content.
---- $15+ PATRONS ----
I will send you a digital thank you card featuring my art every month. These will be new every month and will be available on my etsy as a physical object, they retail at $5. I will mail you a physical copy of the postcard/print so you can use it as a mini print and frame it, or send it out to your friends or family to say hello. Shipping these can be costly on my end since I will be sending them first class--not as a mailed postcard--so I will send these out every 3 months. You can expect 3 new postcards delivered to you roughly 4 times a year if you are a regular $15+ patron.
If your tier fluctuates, say you can only be $15+ for a month or two throughout the year, I'll ship out your rewards at the end of the year after I do a tally of your pledge months.
Mailing will start at the end of September 2018. The next mail date will be every 3 months from then onward.
-FUTURE PLANS!-
Once the patreon reaches $600+ a month I can start planning more projects beyond Lacuna Break's 2-times a week update, and Transpose Operator's 1 chapter a month goals. I'll have more specific plans when/if we get there.
-IN CLOSING-
Thank you so much for getting this far in the post. If you can help me achieve my dreams of making my own stories for a living I will be eternally grateful. I'm looking forward to creating lots of awesome stuff and sharing it with you.
again you can find my patreon here:
https://www.patreon.com/roxypolk/overview
