To Do: Vintage Sales, Music Streams, and Comics

Navigating the multiple tasks I have for my creative ventures this week. I go through what needs to be done for my vintage reselling business, webcomics, and my band, Lorenzo's Music.

In this video vlog, I begin by reviewing what I accomplished from my tasks last week and then setting my goals for this week. I'm going to mark them as I go along.

✅ = Done

⏲ = Still waiting

Last week I had issues with my laptop battery that kept me from finishing some tasks. So there was that.

Vintage Reselling Business - The Pop Culture Roadshow

With a vintage reselling business to run, the first order of business is to pack orders from weekend sales on platforms like eBay and Mercari.

I need to edit the 'What Sold' video I couldn't do last week for my Pop Culture roadshow YouTube channel.

✅ Pack orders

✅ List new items (See the latest items in my eBay store here)

✅ Edit and post a new "What sold" video (Watch my vintage reselling video here)

Band - Lorenzo's Music

We recorded a new live music video for our song "Blue water friction" that needs to be edited and posted. I also need to create some promotional reels and shorts for that. And in keeping with our model of releasing a new song every 45 days I have to submit the next song we've done to our distribution service. Plus, we also have a weekly live music stream we do every Wednesday. So I need to write the show outline for that.

✅ Set up live music stream for the week (Watch the live music stream here)

✅ Edit and upload music video for the song "Blue water friction" (Watch the music video here)

⏲ Submit a new song for distribution

Webcomic - Bobert and the Monster

I have a new webcomic series, 'Bobert and the Monster,' available on Comixology. I need to finish inking the page I couldn't do last week and also live stream the drawing process on YouTube.

✅ Finish inking new comic page (See the inked page here)

✅ live drawing stream (Watch my live drawing stream here)

I'm also still working on a lead magnet to build up my email list. I came up with an idea for a pdf that talks about how I create and publish my webcomics. Now I just need to set up a landing page for the download.

Artwork for the original Candy Land game by Milton Bradley from 1955.

I have a vintage Candy Land game from 1955 by Milton Bradley and I was about to sell it so I thought I would add it to my personal art history course concept I've been doing . I'm going to try and see if I can find out how this game was created, designed and why? Here is what I found out about this game https://candy-land.fandom.com/wiki/Candy_Land_Wiki Candy Land is a board game about children exploring a world made out of candy and other sweets that originally came out in 1949. In every version of the game, there are a group of children that go through Candy Land. In the earliest versions of the game, it was a realistically drawn boy and girl. Drawing of the Candy Land kids I did on my phone ☝ https://board-games-galore.fandom.com/wiki/Candy_Land The game was designed in 1948 by Eleanor Abbott , while she was recovering from polio in San Diego, California. It's rumored that Eleanor also did the original artwork but I didn't find anything that...

Sylvie Rosenthal: Sculptor Building an Artistic Business Online - Tom Ray's Art Podcast

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | YouTube Podcasts | Spotify | RSS In this episode, I meet Sylvie Rosenthal , a woodworker, sculptor, designer, and educator based in Madison, Wisconsin. Sylvie discusses their journey from New Haven, Connecticut, through various cities, and how a residency led to setting roots in Madison for love and grad school.

Using the medibang paint lasso tool to resize part of my comic artwork

I can resize part of a drawing in Medibang Paint but figuring this out in the app took me a while to figure out. So I wanted to share how to do that using the lasso tool.

Some history about artist Alex Toth

So recently I decided I was going to try and learn something about each item in my toy collection and the artwork behind it . Kind of like my own impromptu art history class. Then I'm going to sell it so I can start collecting more! :) Moltar One of the first things I put up for sale was this Space Ghost Coast to Coast Moltar Action Figure from back in 2000. By the way, I learned a valuable lesson when shipping this item to the person who bought it. Never let the people at the post office touch your collectibles! The Space Ghost Coast to Coast show actually used the original artwork from the Hanna Barbera Space Ghost cartoon from the 1960s. Those characters were designed by Alex Toth . I knew his name but didn't really know anything else about him. Here is a sketch I did of Moltar on my phone. So I decided for my first art history lesson I would do a little bit of research on Alex Toth . he died at his drawing table on May 27, 2006, from a heart attac...

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