Prophecy of the Circle

Finally, after what’s felt like ages of pondering how I could go about such an endeavour, I’ve taken the leap into the modern age. Prophecy of the Circle now proudly has its own ongoing Patreon campaign!

Through Prophecy of the Circle’s Patreon page, you can pledge to provide a monthly donation – as little as $1, and trust me, even that little bit helps a ton – to help make both my existence and the story’s a little rosier. The more donations are gathered, the better the comic gets. In the future there could be fewer ads on the site, actual physical books as a feasible reality, more updates per week, more extras and goodies. The possibilities are a bit on the endless side, which is kind of exciting. I really want to be able to make this the best it can be, and I think we can do that.

In the meanwhile, until we get to those big milestones, there’s an assortment of little rewards available to backers of the story. Goodies for you guys! As a preview, some of the options I have up for grabs:

* $2 or more per month: you get to see the newest comic pages a few days early, on Saturdays instead of Mondays. All weekend long you can cackle villainously at your newfound knowledge of the future.

* $5 or more: early comic pages, a look at progress scans of each page after it’s live, including raw pencils and inks, and you also get a look at my world-building sketchbook. I think an awful lot about how the world around our heroes works and looks, and not all of it makes it into the comic. Some of the things that have appeared or will appear go through a few revisions before they see completion. There are character designs, location planning doodles, sketches of objects and critters… All sorts. All sorts. I like to provide these without names or context attached to avoid major spoilers.

*$10 or more: all of the above, and access to the rough drafts of the short stories I’ve been writing on the side. There are a lot of stories that I just can’t tell in the main plot of Prophecy of the Circle without derailing the story entirely, but I’ve always wanted to tell them anyway. The ultimate goal I’ve settled on is to make a book or two of illustrated short stories, and to support that creation by offering to let you guys read what I’m writing as it gets done. Secrets!

And those are just a few of the options. There are more available, and I’ll likely add new options in the future as it all progresses.

About time I got that post about being sick off of the top of the list here, isn’t it?

I was aiming for a slightly more grandiose posting here this week but due to some unforeseen (and yet happy this time!) events in the last week, a couple of my plans got a bit delayed.

In the meanwhile, I have the third wave of the Endless Art Sale to announce! It’s a small one this time, with only two new original art pieces up for grabs, but there’s larger potential, too. Instead of posting the sales in phases, I’ve been making a backlog of sketched out ideas, and I’m going to aim to just keep on adding new art more or less regularly so that there’s more variety to look at in the long run. Soon I’m going to get a little advertisement rolling somewhere so that if there’s something new, there’ll be a visual cue for all of you here on the home page and you don’t have to keep checking the Storenvy page to know for sure. 🙂

I’m going to try and offer a bit more variety in terms of the art itself, too. Some might be much cheaper little doodles, and others will be full color complete art pieces, like the two that are up there now. I’m trying to branch out a bit. 🙂 Hopefully that serves everyone a bit better.

There are more interesting new developments to come in June, so keep checking back here! It should be a really cool month for this site.

I did that stupid thing where I kept working during a busy week at my day job even though I was coming down with a cold, and I ended up developing bronchitis. Whoops. I’m dumb. :< And so close to the end of chapter two, too.

I’ve posted these sketches on my Tumblr before, but I’ve never shown them here, so… here. Silly ideas I had when I was first fascinated with the ISS and rockets last year. I dreamed up a Canadian tikedi astronaut chick and never named her, but had some fun with the idle idea. I probably had the most fun with the press conference sketch and the one of her sleeping with limbs all floating.

I did get the majority of this week’s comic done before I got sick, so next week there should be something, at least. But sorry guys. D:

There’s some new artwork up for sale (and Balta and Shanka still hanging out from the last round; their time will come =P ) in my Storenvy shop! If you’ve been watching my Tumblr, it’s mostly art that you’ve seen pop up on Tumblr in the last little bit.

Commence: Round 2 of the endless art sale! FIGHT!