Spiffy new banner courtesy of feyuca. Lots to cover this week!
There's a new update to the Creator's Guide to Tapastic. Feyuca returns to discuss more in-depth about paneling and some things to avoid when making comics. Also, I think she absolutely killed it with that long, long vertical panel, you know what I'm talking about. We preview our next guest artist for the series at the end of the episode too so check it out!
Cyndi Foster, creator of Oops Comic Adventure, made this really cool guide for Free Self-Promotion Through Project Wonderful. I highly recommend giving it a read and taking advantage of this awesome feature.
Also, Lui, creator of Oh the Irony! just started a Tapastic Secret Santa in the forums. This is a great way to meet other creators and get some fan art.
You've probably noticed us tinkering around a bit with the forums lately. We're still in the process of revamping our forums but so far the community response has been fantastic and we'll be taking some time to highlight a few of our favorite topics in the Creator Newsletters.
And finally, we just launched a Support Program for Tapastic (drawn courtesy of NoxFox, creator of Singmire Haze). We've been commissioning a lot of artists for future episodes of Creator Guide to Tapastic and have been brainstorming on some other fun series that are creator driven. Every dollar that goes into our Support Program is going directly back to creators. The more supporters we have means that we can reach out to even more artists to create helpful guides or tutorials to help you become that much better at storytelling.
We'll be doing some fun supporter only events in the near future, giving sneak peaks of future feature updates, community live streams, heck, we even made a supporter Minecraft server that you can hop in and freely torment us in. Huge thanks to Codesurfer, Elli, SiriLA, Gofer, Wurf, Silius_Xix, Emiliano Perez, Corey Willis, Kiahroseking, tmccall341218, Velnna, Jctaele, Kurisquare, Jana and Lae for jumping on board!
Have any suggestions of what you'd like to see in future Creator Newsletters? Feel free to let me know!