So 2020 is going to be a good year for my art. At least that is the expectation, we'll see what reality holds. Here is what the year holds for me:
Blog/Website- I'm going to be migrating this blog from Blogger to my website (aliciahawksart.com) at some point this year- my goal is to have it all moved over by the end of March. Along with that I'm going to be updating and making my site a little more posh- basically I'm giving myself 45 days to do this. However I've got other things I have to do in that time as well- so we'll see.
Social Media- This includes Facebook, Instagram and YouTube primarily. I'm working on branching out to other sites (thinking of doing some TikTok art videos, but that'll probably be later in the year). I've struggled for awhile to post consistently, so I'm currently working out a plan to get more art up more frequently. The only goal I have here right now is 'do it more' so right now my first quarter goal for this is to figure out exactly what art I want to post where, and which Social Media sites I want to keep.
Patreon- I've not touched this yet- I DO want to create an account and start doing monthly things for it- but I've not exactly figured out what. My long term goal is to have *something* going on here by the end of the year, my short term (first quarter) goal is to figure out what that is lol.
that_dm_chick: About a year ago I started working on branding for a place to put up my Dungeons and Dragons/RPG/Fantasy art. So far I've got it up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/that_dm_chick/ I'm trying to decide exactly what kind of web presence I wan to have with it. I've thought of doing YouTube 'story time' type videos about campaigns and whatnot- honestly I'm not sure if I have enough stories- maybe video game reviews as well lol. In anycase- this is something that I'm going to work on developing over the next year. Right now I have 10 posts up on IG and plan to put up more, but not sure when.
Conventions/Public Appearances: Yes, this is on the list this year. I'm jumping WAY out of my comfort zone and I'm going to try 2 conventions this year. Both are in my home state Utah. The first is Pop Culture Con in Provo on May 29-30. The other one is FanX in Salt Lake City on September 17-19th. I'm beyond nervous- especially since the first of the 2 is only a little over 100 days away. (there is a very loud voice screaming at me 'what have you done!!!') but these are happening!! So hopefully they go well.
The other appearance this year will be a Gallery Show I've unintentionally been putting off. I do not have a set date yet- but the plan is late September or Early October. More details on that as I get things nailed down.
Monthly Art/Writing Challenges:
February: partial participation in Faeriefeb
March: casual participation in March of Robots
April: Blog AtoZ Challenge (I'll announce my Theme for this in March)
May: partial participation in Mer-May but mostly getting last minute stuff together for Pop Culture Con
June: no challenge, going to be working on gallery show a lot here
July: I really WANT to participate in Art Fight, but not sure if I'll have time. (See June)
August: casual participation in Smaugust and again- see June
September: no challenge, just getting things together for FanX and my Gallery
October: Inktober- for real this year
November: Going to attempt Nanowrimo this year- I don't know if I'm going to do it 'officially' or just on my own.
December: no challenge, just going to survive the holidays and hang out with my family.
I know there is a D&D/RPG type challenge out there somewhere- I cannot for the life of me remember what it is called, but if I can track it down I will be at least partially participating in that.
Those are the things I'm looking ahead to this year- hopefully I can stick to it. I know not many people read blogs these days but I am going to try to write once a week if you want to drop by.
Alicia
