April 4, 2017 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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| So it seems the war against YouTube and YouTubers is well underway and I am no exception. | |
| Over the last week my ad revenue has flatlined just like everyone else's. | |
| This means I have to diversify my income revenue streams or something, and I'm loath to simply shill my Patreon because I've never wantonly shilled my Patreon before and I don't intend to start now. | |
| Instead I thought I might do similar to the arts competition I ran last year. | |
| I've been asked many times to sell t-shirts, which I don't mind doing but I run into a snag. | |
| I am a terrible t-shirt designer. | |
| I've tried my hand at this before and failed miserably because I have zero artistic talent. | |
| So that's when you come in. | |
| For this competition I'll select the five best designs to be printed up as t-shirts for whoever wishes to buy one. | |
| I'll select my top five favourites to be printed up as t-shirts and each entry picked in the top five will receive prize money with fifth place receiving $100, 4th place receiving $250, 3rd place receiving $500, 2nd place receiving $1000 and 1st place receiving $2,000. | |
| The competition will begin today and last for 1 month, closing on the 4th of May 2017. | |
| Please email all entries as PNG files of 1920 by 1080 resolution. | |
| The design doesn't necessarily have to fill all of the space or anything like that, I just want standardised images that I can use for my own convenience really. | |
| And I don't really mind if the background is transparent or not, but I think I would probably prefer transparent backgrounds. | |
| But then if you have a good reason not to have a transparent background on it, then that's fine. | |
| I don't want to restrict you, I just let you know my preferences on it. | |
| The designs don't necessarily need to be traditional artistic pieces. | |
| Feel free to innovate. | |
| Do whatever you want really. | |
| Whatever you think looks good. | |
| I don't have any particular preferences here, so I'm interested to see what you come up with. | |
| Please email all the competition entries to sargonovacad100 at gmail.com, and you may enter as many times as you please. | |
| Please write t-shirt competition in the title of the email so I can find them easily. | |
| I don't want to miss any entries. | |
| By entering the competition, you are transferring ownership of your design to me and may not use it elsewhere. | |
| Once the competition is over and I have chosen the winning designs, I'll do a video showcasing the designs I received along with the name and contact information of the artist who submitted it. | |
| So ensure you clearly include how people can find you if they enjoy your work. | |
| So even if you don't win, I'd really like to showcase your work anyway, get you some exposure. | |
| I'll announce when the t-shirts will be on sale via a video, and I think that I'll probably have them as a limited run with only a handful of the top entries available. | |
| I've had so many requests from artists who want to do t-shirts for me and from people who want to buy t-shirts of mine that I figure I may as well put everything together and given how Google are not exactly a reliable source of revenue anymore and I do this professionally, I have to start looking at other avenues. | |
| So I figure this would be one that benefits everyone. | |
| Anyway, thanks for watching and I'm looking forward to seeing your designs. |
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