- School girl Tammy on the top left
- Pop Team Epic Myan
- That unfinished drawing was supposed to be Hibi
- A kawaii potato… or cutato/cutatoe?
- Another Tammy rear view, but in werewolf form.
July 2018 Patrons and ko-fi Enablers
HD Version
Three times the awoo = three times the fine
Referring to this if you didn’t know. As suggested by BlueDavrial.
NomAd – Pledge at least $7
- Kaisoni
- Yugo Ryan
- BlueDavrial
- Fishmeistercod
- Aliumas147
- Rothiem
- ZeroKelvinKeyboard
Starter Pack – Pledge at least $1
- Alex Neumann
- AMoldyDoughnut
- tagno25
- Figerl Jörg a.k.a. Zervikalsyndrom
- Frank Garcia
- Risky
Reader’s Choice – Pledge at least $3
- Sunblaze
I post these around the 6th every month (after Patreon sends me the funds). If you were declined, your name might not show up here, but I’ll add it back after you’ve paid of course. If you’ve donated through ko-fi, only the ones who’ve donated for the previous month will show up. If I missed anyone or want to add a link to your website, please let me know!
I’ve recently installed the Patreon WordPress plugin, and now it should allow your Patreon account to login to Cat Nine. A log-in button is now present in the patrons page, in the left sidebar!
Your Cat Nine account will be linked to Patreon
If you already have a username in Cat Nine and try to log-in using Patreon, you might be asked to log-in to your Cat Nine’s account first, and then Patreon. This will link your account to each other.
Anyone with a Patreon account can login
Yes, it allows even non-patrons with Patreon accounts to log-in, but it’s really only useful for NomAds at the moment, although I’m planning to remove some of the ads for lower-tier patrons too.
Less or no ads for RAWR and below?
That was my original plan actually, with higher-tiers removing more ads, but I couldn’t do it since there weren’t any plugins available yet until now. I settled with the NomAd tier since creating and sending log-in details for each and every patron, then assigning them a Role in Cat Nine is too much work for me. Especially with lower-tier patrons since anyone would expect them to be more of them compared to higher-tier ones.
I still have to manually change Roles in Cat Nine to make ads not load for you though, but that’s way easier to do en masse.
EDIT: I’ve implemented lesser ads now for Starter Pack, Reader’s Choice, and RAWRs now!
- Starter Pack won’t see the ads inside and between blog posts.
- Reader’s Choice won’t see the ads that Starter Pack can’t see, in addition to the left sidebar and comment section ads.
- RAWRs will only see the top-most ad that’s present in the whole site.
All tiers will also hide the Comic Rocket banners on the left sidebar, near the bottom. And reminder that hiding ads will still work if you’re logged-in while using mobile devices!
No more NomAd?
I might have to remove the NomAd tier if I decide to remove all ads for RAWRs, or I can think up of another worthy reward for it as a replacement, hmm… perhaps a one-time drawing for an avatar? Suggestions welcome! I’ll return NomAd if somehow in the future the Patreon plugin doesn’t work.
EDIT: With the above changes implemented, looks like NomAd is here to stay for now, though paying an extra $2 dollars to hide the top ad… I don’t know how much that’s worth it to you guys, aside from having more priority for suggestions and art streams that is.
Some changes I’ve recently made:
- Removed all Project Wonderful ads. RIP PW! Replaced them with some Google Adsense ads though, but they’ll only show up in-between blog posts when you’re browsing through the homepage, archives, or search pages! These new ads do not show up to NomAds.
- Ads inside blog posts aren’t shown to NomAds too thanks to the Ad Inserter plugin. I had to do this manually, so if you’re a NomAd and notice that I missed one, please let me know!
- Removed some blog posts about the old Magicat Girl updates, and some announcements regarding Livefyre, the old (and dead) comment system Cat Nine was using before changing to Disqus.
- Reorganized the Categories and Tags of ALL of Cat Nine’s blog posts. The Blog Categories widget on the left sidebar (visible on the homepage) is longer now, but more useful!
- Lazy images activated! Images will now only load if you scroll down and see them instead of loading all the images in a website. In other words, the website should be a little faster!
- Deleted Locations for the past comics since no one really uses it. I used it in the past so I can look up locations to use as a reference, but since I already keep HD versions of my own comics in a folder, it just made it redundant.
- http://cat-nine.net/episode/episode-5-eclipsed/ is now http://cat-nine.net/episode/episode-5/. I don’t really know who else uses those pages, but Google might. It is a useful way to see thumbnails of the comics in an Episode though!
- Removed social media buttons in the menu bar.
- Added social media widget in the left sidebar.
Sports Tammy
$1 and above patrons, click here or the image to view it on Patreon!
Yeahhh this was also supposed to be for a blog post, but I changed my mind. Well, enjoy this bonus art of Tammy then! I’ll let Starter Packs view this since it was supposed to be for a blog in the first place.
They say people who take backups seriously are those: who’ve lost their data before, or know someone who has. Avoid being the first guy by learning how to backup your website and computer with this one simple rule!
June 2018 Patrons and ko-fi Enablers
All Myan thanking you for last June! As suggested by Fishmeistercod.
RAWR! – Pledge at least $5
- Red Marine
- Hothead
- TGIF
- MCWildcat
- Steffen
- Knut Breitschuh
- ZeroKelvinKeyboard
- TyGuy
Starter Pack – Pledge at least $1
- Alex Neumann
- AMoldyDoughnut
- tagno25
- Figerl Jörg a.k.a. Zervikalsyndrom
- Frank Garcia
- Risky
Reader’s Choice – Pledge at least $3
- Sunblaze
I post these around the 6th every month (after Patreon sends me the funds). If you were declined, your name might not show up here, but I’ll add it back after you’ve paid of course. If you’ve donated through ko-fi, only the ones who’ve donated for the previous month will show up. If I missed anyone or want to add a link to your website, please let me know!
< – Previous Sketch
Was trying out Picarto instead of Twitch!
Patrons can now vote on the Episode 6 poll where you (well, patrons) can decide what the next Episode is gonna be! Some patrons found the keywords for the poll too vague, so now you can see their synopses here!
Everyone else can vote on the community poll below. Again, it’s only for fun though since I’ll only consider the results from what the patrons voted.
(you can vote on multiple choices)
This was originally going to be a post about the pros and cons between self-taught and taking classes, but I’ve decided to concentrate on educating yourself since I don’t have much experience with classes even with the few years in college taking Multimedia Arts. I do consider myself lucky that I had a Freehand Drawing professor who taught us concepts from the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Amazon affiliate link), which now I own myself. It’s a literal lifechanger and I’ll always recommend reading it if you haven’t yet!
I do suggest attending classes/lessons/courses if they’re available, but it can be hard to tell if the teacher will be good. In some cases, it might actually make your art worse, so be careful!
Anyway enough about me, onwards with the post!