Hups! As there seems to be an interest for the lore surrounding Draugr after one of my recent shorts, I’ve made a longer video about an old fairy tale I remembered. “Draugr Battle: A Norwegian Fairy Tale of Sea Trolls and Viking Zombies” is now out for the channel members and patrons, and the video will be released for everyone else tomorrow. Check it out!
2024-02-27 17:48:03 +0000 UTC View PostSo a heads up! In order to create parity between backers on Patreon and other platforms, I will create a new 5 dollar tier soon. That tier will be the most active, and receive things such as early access videos, video sketches/ideas, and such. This is because I will be focusing more and more on video over the next year.
Now before that, I'll release this early access video to all backers, even at the 1 dollar tier, just to show the type of stuff I'm aiming to make.
This one is...
As written in the previous post, I'm adding some new perks to every tier over the next few weeks. Weekly Vanity Updates will be posted to the 25$ or more tiers, but this first one is free for everyone.
2024-01-22 20:51:27 +0000 UTC View PostI'm adding some new perks, on many of the tiers. They will be added in the coming weeks. But today I'm doing releasing my first monthly Art Update video, where I'll be talking about the art I'm working on every month. This month I'll be releasing it for everyone on Patreon, but next month will only be for the 10$ and up tiers.
Coming later today, also for everyone, is the Vanity Update video, which will be weekly, and available at the 24$ and up tiers.
I'm also working on so...
2024-01-22 17:16:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy New Year, everyone!
I've been using my Social Media break to study, learn new things, and plan a lot of new strategies and ideas for next year.
Thank you so much for making 2023 great! Let's make 2024 greater!
Thank you all, patrons! The music in the video is "Deilig er Jorden" sung by Sølvguttene.
2023-12-24 07:49:42 +0000 UTC View Post
I posted about my Vanity project a while ago, and how is it going? Not well! But that's a part of the process, and documenting it will be a challenge.
So in order to increase the pressure on myself, while playing around with the storytelling techniques I want to use, and also have something to show people to get more help with production, editing, etc, I'm going to release a 10 minute long "Teaser" announcing the project publicly.
Because if I fail publicly, the fall i...
2023-12-07 09:38:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been a bit absent lately, first because my bipolar depression wouldn't end, and then when it ended I had too much to do.
First of all, I'll be streaming on YouTube each day of October under the banner #Inktober is #Pinktober, using Stuart Semples #Pinktober prompt list. Watch here: https://youtube.com/@DenUngeHerrHolm?si=rSAs3t8REKk7OuS1
300 000 subscribers on YouTube, yay!
Hups!
Can I confirm or deny that this is the third time I'm writing this post? No. But I can confirm it!
With the help of Kristoffer and Dan at our company DUHH Digital we've finally managed to update the Patreon tiers. Please have a look at tell me what you think. We'll start promoting soon'ish.
I won't go into details, but just go over a few of our thoughts:
- Welcome messages are automatic for each tier now. I'll still try to answer all Patreon m...
Just thought I'd show off a test for the final song for my retelling of the fairy tale "Følgesvennen(The Travelling Companion)". Video includes all the art from the telling, so if you want to see it live on Sunday the 7th of May, SPOILERS!
Tickets here, for those of you on the Norwegian west coast: 2023-05-03 13:02:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Instead of waiting until everything is ready to do a big update, I'll do a few smaller ones. Because otherwise nothing ever will get done.
First, all you new patrons will get a welcome message in the next few days. And Kristoffer, who does the store for me, will help me with the Patreon, beginning soon.
Just after Inferno I returned to find out my upcoming performance of the Norwegian folk tale "Følgesvennen"(The Travelling companion) is a month before I sorted it in my hea...
2023-04-23 13:14:34 +0000 UTC View Post
T-shirts now available at my online store. Will announce it for the world tomorrow: https://www.denungeherrholm.com/
2023-03-15 13:36:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you all so much for your support! This is the first month the Patreon has grown since I fell into this latest depressive period, where I've been less able to promote myself, so that means a lot.
Last month I delivered the final Outcast Silver Raiders art, and everything is sent to print. This means I will be able to focus on getting myself in better shape with my whole business and hopefully mental health.
I also am soon getting to 100 000 subscribers on YouTube, and start...
Good Yuletide, Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, and so on, from all of us in the Diaz Holm family, to all of you! Thank you so much. Have a happy holiday!
2022-12-24 15:06:57 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone. I've been down with a fever for a while now, but am getting better. I finished a draft for an article or opinion piece for a academic journal I was invited to contribute to, and I thought I'd share it here. I don't know it it will get accepted yet.
Here it is:
Fighting for souls.
Nothing comes free.
Social media can be seen as a liberating force for artists, allowing us to get an equal footing with megacorporations and super franchis...
2022-12-07 12:54:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Beginning to toy around with merch. These are just my mock-ups, not reflecting the final shirt quality, shirt shape, or printhouse, but... Anything look interesting?
Anything you'd like to see on a shirt or a hoodie?
Got the first batch of prints, looks great, will be shipping out to out first customers next week.
Aiming to launch the store publicly next week.
https://www.denungeherrholm.com/
We're finally soft launching the webshop. We're still trying to get everything in place, and fixing bugs, and getting merch, so right now it's just available for you guys on Patreon. But it should be perfectly functional.
Right now there's only three prints available. These will be signed and numbered, and only available for a limited time. Probably a few months. But we're hoping to get more merch up soon, including clothing, stickers, and eventually originals.
There i...
2022-11-25 09:01:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a short general update on a bunch of stuff.
- There's been a lot of new Patrons that have not gotten their welcome message yet. I'm getting to it as soon as I'm able to.
- Ever since summer I've been in the deepest and longest depressive period in years. So everything is going very slow. Still, I'm more productive and healthy than I was before I started exercising, so I'm doing something right.
- Some of you know I hired EK as an assistant before summer, a...
2022-11-15 10:43:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Heads up! We launched the Outcast Silver Raiders kickstarter with only 10 of the tier where you get original art from me. But due to high dand, we're expanding it with 10 more, available today at 11am Eastern US time (GMT -5). Read more here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/osr-rpg/outcast-silver-raiders/posts/3659560
Also in the update, news about print on dem...
I'm still on my Social Media break, but some of you might have noticed that I started posting YouTube shorts again. That's simply because of a couple of opportunities that happened to come up at the same time, both of which require that I get monetized on YouTube. So I'll be reposting old videos from TikTok over on YouTube shorts, in order to keep my momentum going. I will not be making anything new, so I'm still on break.
You guys can help out by watching my longer You...
2022-10-14 05:59:26 +0000 UTC View PostDo you have questions for me to answer in a Q&A video on YouTube?
Do you have requests for me to draw on the Free Art Show?
So one of the things I'm evaluating is how I include my community in what I do. I love the community interaction, and its the greatest thing both about Patreon and TikTok.
Previously I've done a lot of drawing requests and answering questions on TikTok, and while it's a great sense of interaction there, it is also kinda like being Sisyphus. Every tim...
I thought you should be the first to hear it, but I'm taking a break for the next week or two.
This means no Daily Ink Monster, no postcards, no Free Art Show, no nothing.
I will continue drawing and working on projects, but I just need a break from the constant grind of social media and such. I've been pushing myself too far for too long.
Doing daily art challenges has been very useful for me, and I've done the Daily Ink Monsters now for 3 years straight. ...
2022-10-12 09:09:48 +0000 UTC View PostJust thought I'd let you all know that around the middle of November, I will finally open a webshop. The reason it's taken so long is that I wanted to do it right, and I knew I couldn't do it right by myself. And finally I've found the right partners to start a separate firm with, that understands how I use art for free use and want to help build that.
We will focus on original art, limited edition prints, exclusive locally made collectors objects, and a small selection of merch.&...
2022-09-15 06:37:28 +0000 UTC View PostIsotop Fellesatelier, the artist collective my studio is in, is doing a bunch of workshops this autumn, including a workshop with me the 3rd of September. I'll be announcing it publicly later this week. Here's a copy and paste from their Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg4f67vKRRS/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
INK MONSTER WORKSHOP
Date: Saturday 3rd Septem...
2022-08-07 08:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm back from vacation, but it's been pretty rough. First of all, family vacation went great, and I managed to use exercise and running to keep the worst of summer depression away until I got home. Almost.
But as some of you may have heard, I won't be drawing at Beyond the Gates this year, and the stress of getting the courage to say no to their laughable offer, after so many rounds of hopeless negotiations, gave me sleepless nights towards the end of the vacation. At that time I had t...
Just a heads up... I've gotten this question a few times so I thought I'd settle it...
I don't send out any automated messages on Patreon. I do send out mass messages, sometimes I copy and paste, but a stupid amount of the time it's me writing out the whole or part of messages that could clearly have been automated instead.
Which is why the welcome message sometimes take a few days.
Anyhow... Tomorrow, Saturday 21st of May 2022 at 15:00 Norwegian time, I'll be drawing #da...
Just a quick update with some photos from the exhibition, and to let you all know that I talked to Kristian "Gaahl" Espedal at Galleri Fjalar about shipping, and they are more than happy to ship internationally and do so regularly. They don't have any webshop, so you just have to ask for availability and price.
They have a small bunch of my Daily Ink Monsters (not limited to the ones you see on the wall), my self portraits, loads of concert art, and my Marefjes series. Also a fed prin...
This months payout was the highest ever, and I'm overwhelmed by the love and support.
So first I'll just upload this Polar Bear in Snowstorm as a thank you. Now this is a very old joke, made famous in Bill Watersons Calvin and Hobbes, but probably existing loooong before that. I learned it at a cartoonist after-party at some comic book festival. It's a great drunken trick. So that's why I don't want to share it for free use, nor sell it, but... So many have been asking for it, so ...
2022-05-06 02:36:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm going to hold an exhibit at Galleri Fjalar here in Bergen, the gallery of black metal legend Gaahl. It's opening Friday. It's going to be daily ink monsters and self portraits. Here's a few of the self portraits. More will be announced later today at my tiktok, my instagram and facebook, and at Galleri Fjalars accounts.
Follow Galleri Fjalar at:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/galleri...
2022-05-04 04:49:34 +0000 UTC View Post