Village Gamer

Drawing inspiration from the world around her – literature, film, music, nature and surreal and contemporary dark artists, she drew up a plan for her project. She set her sights on illustrating a piece of text composed by Los Angeles based author and performer Curtis Rx and Creature Feature Music©, and printing and binding it in a limited run of Graphic Arts Books. With necessary copyright permissions in hand, Tasha began illustrating her dark storybook content while simultaneously conducting an internet-based Crowdsourced Funding campaign. She took to Social Media Networking, landed her work on industry-related blogs and websites, online artist communities, and made time for everyone interested to talk about what she was up to.

Her goal of raising $1600.00 to cover book production costs was ambitious for a young emerging artist without a well developed professional career. Through the support of friends, family, project newcomers, and generous art supply sponsorship from Letraset UK, Tasha’s 60-day Crowdsourced Funding campaign swelled with generous donations. She reached and exceeded her 1600$ goal 5 days before the end of her IndieGoGo funding campaign, and the donations kept trickling in. Her campaign concluded on January 12th, having raised a total of $1725.00 to apply to the production costs of her books.