133: THE BALANCE
I almost quit it all...
This week I’m getting back to basics, resetting the brand and expectations.
First up… let’s talk about how we’re going to work from now on.
Let’s think about it in 2 levels…
On Sundays, there’s a FREE weekly drawing prompt or exercise.
Here is this weeks drawing prompt:
If you draw something like this today or with this in mind and you want to share it with us, the best place to do that is Instagram and tag @ drawordie.co
and OR you could join our free Discord community here. I join in when I have time (I’ve been super busy), BUT there are tons of great regulars there to discuss tools, share, art exchanges… it’s a great little community of “art friends”
Level Two: The Daily Drawing Club
The DAILY Drawing Club is $5 a month (or 4.50 a month if you do annual) - It comes via e-mail EVERY DAY at 5am ET, or there’s a WEB app you can put on your phone.
✏️ 5am ET Daily Drawing Prompt / Challenge or Exercise! (in email or app)
🏴☠️ Quarterly Member Only Sticker!
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🤑 10% Off Merch Discount
🤘🏻 Daily Club Member Discord Channel
You can join that JOIN HERE
Merch & Orders Update…
Thanks for your patience with orders and prizes being sent out. I’m happy to say that ALL pending orders are shipping out of here Monday morning… Scope this picture of hundreds of orders AND my neglected dog in the background pouting. 🥺
💜 Big shout to Ally (my wife and partner in crime) - She doesn’t want or need the roses. BUT she literarily spends an entire Saturday from 7:30am in the morning until 8am at night filling orders, organizing the art exchange and more…. it’s amazing… but it’s also a bit too much. And it’s not sustainable.
Which is why….
I’m dialing things back a little…
Like I said at the beginning, I’m taking it back to the basics here. The core of Draw or Die is motivating you to draw more often. I didn’t do it to have a “side hustle” where we’re putting extra strain in our personal lives. I mean… we really have neglected pretty much everything else in our lives, and we need to change that.
SO… Yeah, the daily drawing prompts stay, and any print on demand merch on our site stays.
Self-fulfilled items like our sketchbooks, stickers and member stickers will go “members only”.
Some parting words this week… maybe my LAST “editorial”
When you’re about to QUIT… keep going!
I’ll be honest with you, I’ve felt some serious strain trying to balance running the side brand here. my job, and our personal life.
I thought about just wrapping up he whole brand and saying “that was a fun 3 years!”
On top of all of the busyness, when I do check in, I get snarky messages or people being very demanding of our time, and frankly? It started to piss me off.
And I know that’s not the majority of you. But it’s just not what I signed up for, ya know? And yeah yeah, I know I should ignore it and move on, and I often do… but I’m only human. I don’t really WANT to be an “influencer” , but i guess I am. If I influence you to draw more and be a better person… well then FUCK YES. Mission accomplished.
Can you believe I even got criticized for me saying if I find out you’re a Nazi, I won’t send you a prize. :D ? I mean… what in the world?! I’m sorry y’all, but if you are down with the Nazis, or self-identitfy as a Nazi… you can go f#ck yourself.
I’ve been back and forth and back and forth on what to do the past couple months… but in the end, I’ve decided to KEEP IT GOING.
And it’s just a lesson in life I guess. When things get hard? It might not be time to quit… when you feel like quitting sometimes, maybe it’s a sign to adjust and KEEP GOING.
Same goes for ART and Drawing. We have artists who “quit” all the time. WHY? Why quit art or something you say you love to do? That’s dumb. Don’t be quitting for anyone else.
Especially NOT for Nazis, trolls or any other haters.
If you’re one of THOSE, please kindly unsubscribe.
We DRAW, or DIE.
Okay, time to spend a day cleaning my friggin house.
Thanks for reading! Thanks for DRAWING EVERY DAMN DAY.
