About
ARTASTIC: Girls Collection, Collaborative Anime Art Book
$7,841
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Artastic wants to help undiscovered artists meet new fans who’ll love their work.
Hi, my name is Hitomi, or Blizz-Mii. I’m organizing the Artastic art book.
Any artist knows that it's a long ride up the popularity ladder. A lot of artists remain pretty much undiscovered, despite being very talented. I wanted to try tackling that problem, so I came up with the idea for this art book.
It features two kinds of artists: those who have a lot of fans, and those who have the skills but haven’t gotten much exposure.
Popular artists help advertise, and lesser known artists receive greater exposure. Artastic showcases beautiful artwork from all of these talented folks.
Artists who already have a lot of fans have an asset: they can help market the book to people who might be interested. Each royalties artist gets 5% of the book's price, as incentive to join the project. Their help in advertising gives the lesser known artists exposure, and likely new fans. It’s a win-win deal. This is an experimental project to see if this arrangement works out.
Popular artists help advertise, and lesser known artists receive greater exposure. Artastic showcases beautiful artwork from all of these talented people.
*Possibly more artists, depending on funding and page space! (see FAQ)
Here's the full list of all the possible things you can get in our Kickstarter campaign!
Platinum & Perfect: Commissions!
Here are the available custom commission from select artists. They are only willing to do a certain number of commissions, so they are first come first serve!
Platinum:
Chisacha: 3 sketch commissions
Pinlin: 1 sketch commission
Pluvias: 2 sketch commissions
Rumi-kuu: 2 colored sketch commissions
Ry-thae: 1 sketch commissions
Blizz-Mii: 3 sketch commissions (1 claimed)
Perfect:
Hey-Xander: 1 colored commission
Janirotluvx: 1 background colored commission
Pluvias: 1 colored commission
Rumi-kuu: 1 colored commission
Ry-thae: 1 colored commission
Blizz-Mii: 2 colored commissions
Reach Goals!
Thank you for your support!! We'll be adding more artists and more pages of beautiful artwork!
Want to be in the book? We're recruiting artists!
(in no particular order)
Blizz-Mii : deviantART | pixiv | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Tumblr | Youtube | Patreon
Pluvias : deviantART | pixiv | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Youtube
Rosuuri : deviantART | Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr | Shop
Pinlin : deviantART | pixiv | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Youtube | Visual Novel Project
janirotluvx : deviantART | Twitter
chisacha : deviantART | Twitter
Ry-thae : deviantART | Facebook | Twitter | Patreon
Rumi-kuu : deviantART | Facebook | Instagram
SawaiiDoll : deviantART
Furicchin : deviantART | Instagram
Hey-Xander : deviantART | Instagram
Natsumoka: deviantART
We need your help to cover the manufacturing costs of the book.
Artastic is made possible by keeping the cost per book as low as possible, and that involves using a non-US manufacturer. Doing that requires a large order — the minimum quantity tends to be around 1000 units. That’s a lot of books! It’s around $2200 to print 1000 copies of the book, and around $300 to ship them. There’s an 8% fee for Kickstarter as well. All in all, it comes to around $3000, with some padding, to get the project going. If we can't get enough funding, the project ends. Please help us make this a reality!
Thank you so much for your support!
Go click the green button! :'D
Risks and challenges
Coordination amongst twelve artists can be a bit of a challenge. I am taking extra precautions to recruit backup artists (email me if interested!), in case some cancel for one reason or another. How the books turn out from the manufacturers may also be variable. Checking quality will be key!
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Funding period
- (29 days)