Join A Creative Patreon Where We Learn, Build Products, And Grow Together

Want a clear path from creative spark to shipped product? We’re opening the studio doors and sharing the exact systems that turn sketches into physical goods, classes, and sustainable income. After a burst of community events and a busy month, I’m launching a streamlined Patreon built for artists, dreamers, and entrepreneurs who want practical support without the fluff.

We walk through why a single, creator-first tier keeps things simple and focused: weekly Q&A threads, one recorded monthly session you can watch anytime, and a guided theme that helps you make measurable progress. November dives into print on demand—choosing reliable vendors, setting up drop shipping, preparing files for mugs, posters, and apparel, and bridging traditional art with Procreate so your textures and color stay true on real products. You’ll see the brushes we rely on, the naming and folder systems that save time, and the export settings that prevent expensive misprints.

December zooms in on building class materials that scale: turning an 11x14 painting into a layered, step-by-step Procreate guide you can print or package as a kit. We break down palettes, annotation tips, and layout choices that help students succeed at home or in micro-workshops. Along the way, we share how we blend analog and digital, manage feedback through a private community, and offer perks like a 20% discount in our store and opportunities to guest on the show. The goal is simple: shorten your learning curve and give you a supportive place to launch work you’re proud of.

If you’re ready to move from scattered tutorials to a repeatable workflow, this is your seat at the table. Join the Patreon, bring your questions, and help shape the next themes. Subscribe to the podcast, share this episode with a creative friend, and leave a quick review so more makers can find the community.

Chapters

• 0:06 Month’s End And Studio Updates
• 1:09 Why Relaunch A Patreon
• 2:04 What The Membership Includes
• 4:04 November Theme: Print On Demand
• 5:21 December Theme: Building Class Tutorials
• 6:33 Community Perks And Member Benefits
• 8:22 Yearlong Themes And Flexibility

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:06

Welcome back to Bruttifully Made. I am excited to be back with you. I cannot believe this is the end of the month. Uh I know next week is Halloween and that's going to be the last day of the month, but this whole month is just flying by. And um yeah, it's been really busy here with all kinds of uh our first day off of school happened, and we have another one on Monday. So I think it's must be like a teacher in service day because it's not a holiday. So we have over half of our event full for that um afternoon. So the kiddos get pizza, we watch a movie, we play art games, we do art projects, so just a lot of fun, something fun to do um when you're off of school. So I'm excited that it's um our second one, and there's more kids coming. So that's very encouraging. I feel like um word is getting out and people are finding uh me. So that's good. Um, I started my Patreon again. I have been on there um I think since 21. So it's been a long time, four years, and it's been nothing. And I thought with some of the feedback that I have received from being on Beth's podcast and some of my clients that I am doing one-on-ones with here in the community, maybe it would be advantageous to offer it as a Patreon. So every month there will be uh weekly discussions open, like QA. So if there are questions that you have, you can ask me and I can share tutorials on everything digital, everything creative, everything that you can think of that I've been able to do in my own practice. I thought maybe I can share it by this method, uh, a monthly basis of um like a subscription. And I thought, okay, we can either do it free form and have uh like this discussion and very spontaneous. What would you like to learn? What would you like to talk about? Or we could frame it as maybe a theme every month. So I've got those kind of questions posed out in the Patreon. So if you look up brutally on Patreon, you can see the um creative catalyst. That's the only platform or the only level, the only tier that I have. Um, I'm not here going like a five-dollar win or anything. It's$25 a month. That's it. I can do handle about 25 members. And I wanted to offer a way to share what I do and what I've done, and maybe that would help somebody else. So I put that out in the world now, and um, yeah, you can check it out. And I do have, like I said, a post that describes about, you know, some ideas through January of 26th. And um I really hope that it is something that resonates with people. You know, it is for artists and dreamers and entrepreneurs. It's not just for illustrators. And because I'm not just an illustrator, I do all kinds of traditional work and digital work, but there's a way to merge those things. And I want to share that. I want to share my mural work. I want to share, oh my gosh, just guidance that I can provide, you know, materials, sources for things, um, information, a place to bounce ideas off of, to share, just really everything. I I really hope that it is something that would be worthwhile for people to be part of. And so let me just give you an example. Um, so for November, so that would be our first month that we would be meeting uh online. We would do one meeting a month, probably like either a Friday morning, it would be recorded and you can see it, you know, at your leisure as part of the membership. And so let's say we did a theme for the month. And so November's would be print on demand. So what I have done with print on demand, you know, setting up vendors, and I'd share the vendors that I've worked with, how to connect your uh vendors for drop shipping, how to set up your print work to put on products, creating art for um, you know, digitally versus traditionally, and how you can do both to put that onto products and just sharing all that. And maybe we would have our monthly meeting um creating on procreate together. You know, we would bring in uh everybody that had that program. You would have your iPad, and together, you know, I would share a camera view of me creating a piece of art and getting it ready for print on demand and showing me the steps that I take and answering the questions like why do I draw this way and what brushes do I use and where did I get my brushes, things like that. And we would draw together. So that would be an example of a month's theme. And December, maybe that would be like how to create a tutorial for a traditional class on Procreate. So you're taking your information about traditional work, maybe you're gonna paint this is how I create my classes. So we're gonna paint an 11 by 14 canvas, and I want to create the step-by-steps in Procreate so I can print them off because I want to sell kits of what we do here in the studio to people that maybe want to do them from home and they can't come in or they've missed a class or they want to hold uh a little class of their own at home, but they want those step-by-step. So I do that already. That's how I create my artwork, and then I always do it in layers to where I can print off each step, and that allows somebody to do it on their own. So, how did I make my color palette? What is the steps that you would need? What does the final piece look like? And showing you how I do that in Procreate, and then maybe that would help you generate um kits yourself. So that would be the theme for December. So you kind of see where I'm going. So we would have a theme, and every week we would like tackle the questions and answers that were based on that theme. So that is how my Patreon will work, and that is how I would be able to share. We would have uh maybe a private Instagram group so we would be able to, you know, bounce ideas off of one another, and just sharing everything that I do, maybe it would help you uh with your own artistic practice. So maybe that is appealing to you and you'd like to join me and uh help just you know support another creative, and I can help support you with information. Um, there are some benefits in those tiers. So you would get 20% off by online store or in person, both, um, as being part of that membership. Um, you could be a guest on the podcast. That's another tier uh benefit for being part of the Patreon group. And of course, you know, shouting you out on uh my website and sharing that you are supporting me and then sharing the information about what you do across my platforms too. You know, making a page and linking everybody's artwork and their links um as Patreon supporters. So consider that and check it out. Let me know what you think. And I have like a whole year's worth of themes already broken out in my head, but I'm also willing to do spontaneous, like, oh, this is coming up. How do you do this? Have you done this? Um, there's there's a theme in my mind for every month that I want to share what I do, and it will continue to grow because I'm continuing to do different things all the time. So I hope that uh you check it out. And if you have any questions, just let me know. I appreciate it. And uh I love supporting others on Patreon or other uh subscription methods and things that um help other creatives continue their practices, and that's how I'm on Windowsill chats. I love supporting Margot and um I used to be on her Patreon and now I'm in a different group with her. So this is the level that I chose because this is what I already had set up for four years. So I thought that that would be the easiest way to just dive back into that um whole realm. But I made it easy. I didn't have any other tiers but one um because I have the studio here, so I'm trying to make it beneficial for those near and far. But uh yeah, so thanks for listening. Thanks for tuning in. Thank you for the support, the wonderful feedback. And I can't wait to talk to you on Halloween. So take care. Have a great weekend. Tonight is the fashion show, so I am recording this on Thursday, so I can get this out on Friday, and I'm very excited about my capsule being shown. Oh, so excited! So I'm gonna probably try to sneak and do a live tonight. So if you uh see the live from the fashion show, you uh will get to see my work on uh the model. So take care. Have a great weekend. Bye.