Wow, predictable HN snark from a jerk. Someone releases something beautiful artistic creative and free and you have to heap shit all over it. That says great things about you. No compliment, no appreciation. Just come here to make fun. Guess you got triggered by the creativity so you have to make yourself feel better by diminishing it, huh?
>In a digital era, we sometimes feel the need to interact with something more human that will make us appreciate both the beauty and the imperfection of something made by hand.
I appreciate the sentiment but I'm not sure a handful of illustrations actually does that.
I've often thought about what makes a website feel more natural but honestly sites like hacker news probabbly is as "natural" as an experience gets for a browser.
Just a little feedback on the website: the animating text on the fourth slide makes everything below it constantly jump up and down, on mobile. It makes most of the site a chore to read, and practically unusable.
I find the business model interesting. It is difficult to make a living as a content creator. Setting a limited number of subscribers on an exclusive illustration series will probably work better than giving illustrations away for free and then hope someone will hire you.
Setting a quarterly subscription of $57 will give the designer $5700 a month if he manage to get 300 subscribers.
I am sure this model can be duplicated by other independent content creators, and not only illustrators.
When it comes to the art itself I happen to like this artist's pen. That is a matter of taste and opinion of course. However, the business model is generic.
That will depend on the market in question, wouldn't it? I mean, for example from the freelancers perspective it is not. From their perspective it could have the opposite effect; enable them to earn more by running parallel subscription based services.
I can only applaud an artist taking a new approach to monitisation. I hope this catches on generally, as a way for artists to build sustainable patronage.
I don't see how we're going to be able to produce good, quality, and original content with purpose with these types of pricing models and see media people earn a living wage.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 51.7 ms ] threadBut hey, that's just a guess
I appreciate the sentiment but I'm not sure a handful of illustrations actually does that.
I've often thought about what makes a website feel more natural but honestly sites like hacker news probabbly is as "natural" as an experience gets for a browser.
Do you not understand art?!
When it comes to the art itself I happen to like this artist's pen. That is a matter of taste and opinion of course. However, the business model is generic.