Site News and Patreon Update (Patreon)

A bit of a long post since its been a while since I did a proper update but there are a few news and things to go through (will put  a little something at the end for those who make it all the way through)    

Searching and Tags

So I have been working on cleaning up some of the tags and previous posts to make finding things a little easier if you use the search function. I've gotten through roughly 80% of all the posts and look to finish the rest in the first week of June. Just a little heads up there if you were not able to find things using that method.

Changing of Name

So I have been thinking about this for a long time and been on the fence about it but decided to go ahead with it. 

Instead of DarkoDesign it will be DarkoDrawings

A small change I know but I have some reasons why.

Soo... why? Well, I want the work I do here to not get mixed up with my other stuff and others (there are surprisingly quite a few darkodesigns out there... and artists too, who knew lol). 

What does this mean for you? Well not much actually. Because of the way Patreon works DarkoDesign will redirect to DarkoDrawings for the meantime (I've put in a request but will have to see) so everything will stay the same only that all the references to darkodesign will be removed over time with the new darkodrawings. 

New Twitter

So I have created an exclusive new twitter page to promote some of the previews of work I put out with that new name:

https://twitter.com/DarkoDrawings

All the stuff there is only snippets of what Patrons get here so it may not be much interest for many but I will be also sharing and liking a lot of other content which other artists do so if you want an additional feed of artists just follow me there in addition :)

Patreon Sales Tax Update

There are some changes that are coming in July to Patreon which I wanted to make you guys aware of ahead of time.   It involves the sales tax update to Patreon. What this means is with the new tax laws, certain patrons in specific locations may have their pledges affected and required to pay sales tax on those pledges.

It will be a very small amount (between 4-11%) but regardless I still feel you guys need to know about it. Patreon will be getting in touch with everyone who has any kind of pledge about this change before it comes in effect on 1st July.  

Going forward I'll be doing what I can with Patreon to make sure that you save as much money as possible when it comes to any sales tax charges from my end.   If you are want to learn more about this there is some information here: 

https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043055071 

Made it to the end well here you go... so back when I started out I did a ton of experiements trying to find out what kind of painting style I wanted my art to have. I have a Wacom Bamboo but I always found it difficult to draw with but good for painting. This is one of the simple experiments just using brushes, blend modes and masking. Can you guess who I was drawing?