THE ART OF... Volumes 10-12

BackerKit pledge manager surveys, and the Pre-order Store!
6 months ago – Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 05:27:50 AM

Good morning/afternoon/evening, everyone!

The Smoke Test went well yesterday, with more than 60% response rate and zero questions or concerns. That means it is time to send out all of the surveys! I've pressed the button to do just that, so take a look in your email (and check your Spam or Junk filters) for an email from BackerKit and jump on it!

Pre-Order Store

In addition, I've opened up the Pre-Order Store on BackerKit, so that any of your friends who missed the campaign can place their pre-orders for the books (and artcards and bust). That Pre-Order store can be found here:

If you have already pledged, you DO NOT need to place an additional order on the Pre-Order store.

And it is fun to know that things are moving along well, I'm currently working on a section of Josua's book focused on his process and featuring a cute little robot. Note: this is a rough layout and text has not yet been edited. 

There will be more work-in-progress shots to come as the books take shape. Very exciting!

Cheers
Dave (and Roman and Sam and Josua)

Time for the Smoke Test!
6 months ago – Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 06:17:01 AM

Everything has finally fallen into place, and we are ready to send out the Smoke Test from BackerKit.

This is part of the survey process where surveys are sent to 5% of backers to see if we've made any mistakes when setting up the pledge manager. These mistakes are much easier to correct before everyone has been able to find them. So, if you see your survey pop into your inbox today, please fill it out and help us find any errors. You'll be able to upgrade your pledge levels, decide on any Add-ons, and spend any additional credit you may have added during the campaign.

Assuming there aren't any/many problems, we should be able to send out surveys to everyone tomorrow or overmorrow (apparently an old word for the day after tomorrow).

AND, once we've sent those out, we'll open up the BackerKit pre-oder store too, for late pledges.

Thank you all for your support. We are very excited to be bringing you these latest additions to THE ART OF... journey.

Cheers
Dave (and Roman and Sam and Josua)

You did it! Thank you, everyone!
7 months ago – Fri, Jun 07, 2024 at 02:09:16 PM

Thank you, everyone! This, our fourth step on THE ART OF... journey, has been made possible by your support and faith in the project!

As you know, Roman, Sam, and Josua are already writing their books, and over the next few months they'll write more, I'll get to do a lot of layout, and we'll have some fun updates for you!

But what's next?

Well, the next thing is to take a nap.  

Kickstarter will start charging your cards in the next few days, and we get to start building out the BackerKit pledge manager so that we can send out your "surveys" in about two weeks time. These surveys are where you get to let us know which Add-ons you specifically want, as well as change your pledge level if needed, give us your shipping details, and pay for shipping on your final order.

Then we continue working on the books :) 

So, from Roman, Sam, Josua, and myself, we want to thank everyone who backed our project, everyone who shared it with their friends, posted it on social media, talked about it on YouTube, clicked on the many ads we ran (thanks to Aaron of Jolly Lark), and for the first time, the Big Child Creatives team who collaborated with us to create an incredible new piece of miniature art! We'd love to work with them again and make more cool stuff!

Cheers
Dave (and Roman and Sam and Josua)

Bigger Books and the Final Push!
7 months ago – Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 05:01:43 AM

It was great to wake up this morning and see that we had hit the stretch goal to add EIGHT pages to ALL THREE books! Very exciting!

We're also now well on the way to the next stretch goal, a free PDF tutorial from the team (Roman, Sam, and Josua) about painting up the wonderful Halfling Rogue bust from our collaboration with the amazing Big Child Creatives (available as an Add-On for the campaign).

We have just under 36 hours left in the campaign as I post this, and still more to come. With your help sharing the campaign around we could meet our next few goals by the time things wrap up tomorrow evening, and make these books even bigger. 

Thank you all for your support! 

Cheers
Dave (and Roman and Sam and Josua)

Slipcases for previous campaigns, and MORE PAGES!
7 months ago – Tue, Jun 04, 2024 at 07:18:04 AM

Good morning/afternoon/evening!

We're almost at the endgame stage of the Kickstarter campaign, and I have good news for quite a few of you! We've had many questions about access to the older slipcases from previous campaigns, and after hearing back from our fulfillment hubs, I'm pleased to be able to offer up the previous slipcases as Add-Ons. Please note: these DO NOT contain the previous books, but are being made available for those who might have missed them during earlier campaigns. Just like the other Add-Ons, you can increase your pledge total via the "Bonus support" area in the "Manage your pledge" page, and then you'll be able to select your slipcase of choice in the pledge manager.

AND...

You have helped us pass another Stretch Goal! Now we are able to add 8 pages to both Roman's AND Sam's books, and we are already on the way to adding 8 pages to Josua's book! 

"What's the best way to get there, Dave?" I hear you ask. Well, the best way is to share the project again with all of your painting/hobby/gaming friends and remind them that the campaign wraps up this Friday. Not long now!

Thanks for all of your support thus far. We really appreciate it!

Cheers
Dave (and Roman and Sam and Josua)