Check This Shizzle!! It's HOT!!!!

Drowning Creek Studio is proud to announce their affiliation with The Faded Line, an art lovers place to find cool wardrobe additions and accessories. The clothing items are not your Cafe Press type digitally printed transfers; these are high quality screen printed clothing items geared for years of washing and wearing. The Gelaskins are beautiful up close!

From the web site:

Welcome to The Faded Line Clothing Co., we're glad you're here. The concept behind our company is based on our love for apparel and our appreciation (obsession) of art. Why not further juxtapose them to make an impressive clothing line? That's what we did and that's why you are here.

It is quite common for bands to receive more credit for their merchandise designs than the illustrators themselves. Times are changing. Our goal is to further expose these incredible artists to the masses. It's only fair, right?

The Faded Line Clothing Co. has the privilege of working with some of today's top illustrators. These designs have been seen on rock posters and art prints for many years and now we can finally "wear" the art.

Enjoy the line! We'll be updating the store with new merchandise as time permits. We have MANY ideas on how we can all further enjoy the art and think you'll be pleasantly surprised with our dreams. Sign up for our newsletter to receive up-to-date information, promotions and sales. Don't worry; we'll guard it with our lives!

Congratulations, Faded Line, on your successful opening!! May it be a long and prosperous venture!!

Look For DCS Posters in Guitar Hero III!

Yup, there's a few Drowning Creek Johnny DiDonna/Jeff Wood collabs up in there.... every time you get paid, look for the Umphrey's McGee South Bend print. It's also my understanding that at least 2 Drowning Creek Studio Alumni, Jeff Gaither and Jeral Tidwell, also have artwork in this version. Congrats, guys! Looking good!More pics:

Before the Next Release This Thursday.....

...I need to get a couple of things written down for my own sanity.

When we do a release, we take any where from 40 to 140 orders in addition to regular and wholesale orders. It takes time for me to transfer those into Quickbooks, especially when many people change their email address, physical address, card information, etc. I can only get so many done in a day as I am trying to take my time entering info so that we don't have packages being shipped to old addresses and such.

We're also getting multiple orders for the same person a lot.... I understand why, and trust me, we're working on making the ordering process easier. I've been combining these multiple orders to save people shipping costs, but I'm looking at a feature in our shopping cart that will automatically download the orders to Quickbooks thus saving me a lot of time and hopefully it will help get orders out a little faster. When we do this, the program is not going to recognize that there are multiple orders for the same person and combine them. You will be charged for 2 packages. Please try to get used to placing just one order!!!

We send invoices via email to each customer as we process orders for you to check your total and shipping info. Please make an effort just to look at it to see if your address is correct. Quickbooks reverted 2 shipping addresses for customers to their old addres last time and their packages were sent to wrong locations.

Jeff and I are working on a new web site that should make things easier for everyone, but until then, please help me out by being mindful of the above.

Love and peanuts,
Judy

DCS 2007 Subscription Information

We're currently offering the open subs we have available. If you are interested, please send an email to sales-at-drowningcreek-dot-com with 2007 Subscription Request in the title. Sending an email will not guarantee getting a subscription. I sent this following email to people on my waiting list yesterday:

OK, first let me apologize for keeping you waiting for so long to hear back about the 2007 subscriptions. It took me just a little longer to get confirmations from current subscribers than I thought, and I slammed myself with back to back poster releases. The dust is starting to settle....

I do have openings for new subscribers. I have not completely finalized the current subscribers, but I really did not want to wait any longer to contact you all. This is a group mailing, so I hope you'll forgive that, too! Please read this carefully and email me if I have completely confused you by the time you get to the end. I'm good like that.

I'm just going to start with the openings I have, and asign them on a first come basis.

I am doing a few things differently this year.... I had a much more difficult time getting payments this past year. Due to this, I am going to request that we be supplied with a credit card number that can be charged on or around the dates I have established for billing as follows:

4 Payment plan:
Payment 1 due now / Ships last 2 weeks of April
Payment 2 due between July 1-7 / Ships last 2 weeks of July
Payment 3 due between October 1-7 / Ships last 2 weeks of October
Payment 4 due between January 1-7 2008 / Ships last week of January/first week of Febuary.

I am also on a tighter schedule than I have ever been before and I need for my job at the shop to be as seamless as possible. Sending multiple emails requesting payment over the span of several weeks is not seamless, therefore the new credit card "rule."

Here is the text sent to the current subscribers:

I know you've all been waiting to hear something... anything... from us about the last 2006 subscription tube and news on the 2007 subscriptions. I've been putting off writing this email until I had a better idea of what we were doing on the '07 subs and I apologize for making you wait so long. Actually, I've rewritten this email several times.... Please read and respond!

Jeff and I have vascilated on doing/not doing the '07 sub for a few months now. Why? Well, in part, we've been trying to switch gears in the studio's work and we weren't sure how to present the '07 subscription. We have a lot of work already lined up for this year for some bands we currently work with, but we're also looking to print some art prints this year. In order to do art prints, Jeff has to have time to work on the art.... which means less time to chase gig posters. Those of you who got Jermaine's letter about why he is not doing a subscription this year will understand where Jeff is headed as well.

With that in mind, we've decided to do 2007 subscriptions, but for $800 instead of $900 as in '05 & '06. That will take some of the pressure off Jeff in the area of gig posters, and allow him to spend more time pursuing his own art interests without being art directed by someone. As usual, the $800 includes the cost of shipping and insurance for each tube which is averaging to approx. $60-75 for each subscriber.

We will include as much of what we design in the subscriptions as possible same as the last 2 years. There will, however, be some pieces that will not be included in the subscription. If we do a very limited run on an art print, it will likely be offered as an add-on to the subscribers first at a discounted price. That will not apply to all of the art prints, but probably any art prints that are done in collaboration with another artist where we will be splitting the edition between the artists and possibly some of Jeff's solo art prints. We are purposefully leaving this a little obtuse because we have no idea what we'll be looking at 3 months from now. Heck, we're not even sure what's up next month... ;o)

To recap, subscriptions will remain much the same as past years except we're lowering the cost to compensate for a few less gig posters and there will be some prints that may be purchased by subscribers at a special price available only for them. Subscribers will be asked first before those prints would go on sale to the general public so that we can try to do matching numbers. We've chosen this plan over raising the price to include all art prints.

The Burning Man print we will do this year will not be a part of the subscriptions at the request of Burning Man, Inc. If you are going to be on the Playa, let us know so we can get together.

So, there it is. If you've been watching the releases we've done so far this year, you know the subs already include the following:

A001DCS7_014 Yonder Mountain String Band Tabernacle '07
A001DCS7_028 Perpetual Groove Speed Queen
A001DCS7_016 Langerado Music Fest '07 Gator
A007DCS7_031 Umphrey's McGee South Bend St. Paddy's Day with Adrian Belew
A001DCS7_017 Jam in the Dam '07
A001DCS7_032 Perpetual Groove Variety Playhouse Lady Luck
A001DCS7_018 Widespread Panic Raleigh

There is also a poster for this weekend's PGroove show at the Little John Auditorium and an art print that has not yet been announced coming up. This should be somewhat of a gauge as to how the year is going to go. There will be more art prints and more posters for some of the bands we work with. The subs also include all handbills and little art prints we create.

So, there it is. Email me if you're interested.

Perpetual Groove Winter Tour Poster

Well, the band and fans loved the Fall Tour Poster so much that requests were made to use the same design in a different color scheme for the Winter Tour. Everyone really liked the idea of having a "set" so Jeff changed the colors to a cool palette. Check the PGroove web site for tour dates and locations, and stop by the T.I.P. Forum for the latest chatter with the PGroove family! There's a new album coming very soon, too! The poster can be purchased at PGroove shows, or you'll be able to order it through the DCS web site very soon.