Best of Steve Rude's 2021 artwork and pages from his personal sketchbook in this exclusive printing!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Shipping Update & What's Next!
over 2 years ago
– Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 05:05:03 AM
USA SHIPPING UPDATE
We are nearing the end of USA shipping for both campaigns! We processed another 60 orders today for pickup tomorrow and have another 60 in the queue for tomorrow that will take a few days to pack. The only remaining orders I could see for USA had sketches. Steve is finishing these up quickly and hopes to have them done in the next week.
NOTE: This is for both the Gourmando and 2021 Sketchbooks. We had many backers that supported both and we are trying to pack both together to save on shipping and packing materials.
INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING
We hope to start International shipping by next week. We have been attempting to work with EasyShip to get onto their EasyShip Collect program which will allow you to prepay duty charges which will expedite shipping and customs. Unfortunately, our contact there has been dragging his heels and we are still attempting to gain access to the program. This will also allow you to upgrade from the slow boat shipping.
SKETCHBOOK FEEDBACK
As books are going out we would love to hear your feedback on the Sketchbook! We're already putting together the 2022 skechbook and are looking for suggestions. What do you want to see more of, less of, or you just love it like it is.
IF YOU LIKE STEVE's COMIC WORK . . .
Please support our Draw Nexus / Thuneworld Kickstarter! There are 4 days left. Support new Nexus and get a look at the new story! "The Battle for Thuneworld" Collectors Edition Ashcan is available as part of the sets or as an add on.
THIS WILL BE PRINTED IN THE USA AND SHIPPING IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS - ORDER AS A GIFT FOR YOUR FAVORITE ARTIST - IT'S PACKED FULL OF DRAWING KNOWLEDGE!
NEW LEVEL - CREATE YOUR OWN PACKAGE
For $1 have access to all the add-ons including the Thuneworld Ashcan to build your own package!
Baron & Rude livestream at 10:30 PST + Thuneworld Update
over 2 years ago
– Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 04:52:13 PM
BARON AND RUDE LIVE AT 10:30 AM PST
Mike and Steve signed and personalized the hardcover books yesterday and did a short (2 minute) livestream. They will be doing a longer one today at 10:30 am PST from Steve's studio in sunny Arizona.
Shout out thanks to Mark Schweikert and Robert Baker who were kind enough to come do all the heavy lifting for us! Each of those boxes they hauled around weighs 50 pounds!
Thundworld is being funded by our various Kickstarter/Indiegogo campaigns and Patreon. The 40 page Thuneworld Ashcan #1 includes 19 inked/unedited story pages, the original script for those pages and several pencil progress pages.
The projected cost of Thuneworld is $125,000-150,000. To ensure we have funding for this massive project we are offering an amazing opportunity to see the work in progress in a series of 8½x11" Collector's Edition Ashcans! A size large enough to appreciate it without being overwhelming. High quality printing on the same stock we use for our annual sketchbooks.
2021 SKETCHBOOK SHIPPING UPDATE
over 2 years ago
– Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 11:02:02 PM
First off, THANK YOU for all your support while we all suffered through 6 + weeks of COVID. Even while sick we managed to get around 50 orders out the door. Each order is hand checked and wrapped with care. This takes a little longer, but everyone should receive a damage free order.
ABOVE: 60 Sketchbook and 30 Gourmando hardcover orders that went out on Monday. Table has next round of orders ready for packing!
SHIPPING UPDATE
To date we have shipping over 100 orders out. With Steve COVID sick (and still not feeling great) we started with the unsigned orders and orders without sketches.
Steve has been feeling well enough to sign and start sketching so he's currently working on sketches inside the books and getting books signed.
DRAW NEXUS KICKSTARTER
We will be re-running the Kickstarter with a few additions OCTOBER 7-21, 2021
Including a bonus oversized ashcan of Thuneworld - Part 1 of 3. These will only be available via Kickstarter or Indiegogo and will be spread out over our next 3 campaigns. It will include pencils for the first 30+ pages along with that section of script. We will be using the Thuneworld Ad for this cover and will create new covers for parts 2 and 3.
The T-Shirt design is finished. We are taking votes on colors and designs
2021 SKETCHBOOK SHIPPING / COVID UPDATE
over 2 years ago
– Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 11:44:54 AM
FINANCES FOR GOURMANDO/2021 SKB
To date we lost over $30,000 out of pocket on our Gourmando campaign with COVID rate increases, delays, and inflated shipping costs. This does not include the cost of getting the books shipped out which will be an additional $5,000. Budget increases are a risk with any Kickstarter and we took and accepted that risk. We are one of many campaigns who got caught with the COVID port problems and Hong Kong shipping fiascos.
Some of the financing for the Gourmando loss was taken from the 2021 Sketchbook. The Sketchbook and all the extras are now in house along with $2,000 in secure shipping and packing materials.
HOW CAN I HELP
I've had a number of backers emailing asking how they can help. The best way to help right now is to back the How to Draw the Animated Nexus and spread the word! We have 8 days left and are currently 35% funded. SteveRude.com/DrawNexus
I think I touched on this before, but we are running the campaign to raise funds to help Steve continue to work on Nexus, and also to pay for the last bit of shipping to get your books out to you.
HOW TO DRAW THE ANIMATED NEXUS PROJECT
The $20,000 needed for the project ensures all the past projects will ship quickly, we can do a print run of 1,000 How to Draw the Animated Nexus from a LOCAL printer, AND we can ship out all the past projects while paying our designers and shipping assistants for their work. Note that this does not include any profit for Steve. $20,000 is our break even.
SHIPPING
Regardless of the outcome of the Animated Nexus project, your items WILL ship. We have all the boxes and packing supplies here to get them wrapped up and shipped out in small batches as we are able to afford to do so.
COVID UPDATE
Steve was set to do several livestreams to promote the Animated Nexus project, however, his COVID took a turn for the worse and he's been in bed with a fever. He's back to working a few hours a day, but until he's fever free for 24 hours we can't allow helpers back into the house.
I had an allergic reaction to Benzonatate (almost literally every last side effect) and am slowly recovering, but working through it and some of you should have received shipping notifications already. I am currently working on the next batch of 30 orders.
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT
I am hopeful that this explains what is going on behind the scenes. If you have further questions please feel free to ask.
