Ink is My Blood - Volume Two

THE CAMPAIGN IS OFFICIALLY FINISHED. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

YOU CAN STILL ORDER MANY OF THE REWARDS IN OUR SHOP WWW.APOLLONIASAINTCLAIR.BIGCARTEL.COM.

AS ANNOUNCED DURING THE CAMPAIGN, WE WILL SHIP ALL ORDERS OCTOBER 31, 2017.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION SEND US AN EMAIL AT E.SYMPATHIQUE@GMAIL.COM

INK IS MY BLOOD -  VOLUME TWO

Ink is my Blood - Volume Two is the second book in a series of at least three that will covers the major part of my graphic work to this day. We originally planned to publish this book in spring 2018, but after your incredible response to Volume One, we decided to accelerate the pace and offer you this new Volume before Christmas.

I am very pround and honored that Anne Hautecoeur, director of the renowned french erotic publishing house La Musardine, accepted my invitation to write the introduction and that Dimitris Karathanos, journalist and culture contributor at Athens Voice, that I have learned to appreciate in recent time, was so kind to write an essay on my work. Last but not least, Thomas Selzam, another old traveling companion, contributes with his dreamlike fictions to the summary of this new journey in the meanderings of my ink. All the texts are translated into English and French.

Once again we have worked very hard to make this collection of more than 130 drawings even more beautiful as the first Volume and we introduced bigger drawings that span an entire double page. And since we want the complete series to be a collectible, we kept the same size and content of 9.1" x 11.2" for 148 pages and used that paper and printing quality which already proved to be a unique sensual experience.

And now, it's up to you to choose what makes you happy ... 

STICKERS

The page with 12 stickers from the "My New Year's resolutions" drawings series.

EBOOKS

The ebooks of "Ink is my Blood" Volume One & Two (PDF)  with 3 screensavers for smartphone, tablet and computer (JPG)

POSTER CALENDAR

The poster with the 12 drawings from the "My New Year's resolutions" series as 2018 wall calendar on one side and, on the other, the drawing "La scéance privée (She sings for me only)" in size XXL

EBOOK COMBO

The ebooks of "Ink is my Blood - Volume Two" (PDF)  with 3 screensavers for smartphone, tablet and computer (JPG) with the STICKERS and the POSTER CALENDAR packages

BOOKS

The book is available with different options:

• BOOK with the EBOOK included
• BOOK SIGNED with a dedication by Apollonia Saintclair and the EBOOK
• BOOK FUN with a dedication, the STICKERS and the EBOOK
• BOOK CALENDAR with a dedication, the POSTER CALENDAR and the EBOOK
• BOOK SKETCH with a small original sketch, a dedication, the POSTER and the EBOOK
• BOOK COMBO with the 2 BOOKS, Volume One & Two, both dedicated and both EBOOKS
• BOOK TWICE, with twice the BOOK package
• BOOK SIGNED TWICE with twice the BOOK SIGNED package
• BOOK FUN TWICE with twice the BOOK FUN TWICE package
• BOOK CALENDAR TWICE with twice the BOOK CALENDAR package

In the BOOK rewards with a signature, the regular dedication is "For SHIPMENT ADDRESS NAME, with Love. Apollonia Saintclair. DATE"

If you chose the TWICE reward with a signed dedications, the first book get the regular dedication and the second one the neutral dedication "With Love, from Apollonia Saintclair. DATE"

If you wish another option, please send us a message with your name and residence address at e.sympathique@gmail.com and we will arrange special dedication for you.

LIMITED SIGNED PRINTS

The 12 drawings of the  "My New Year's resolutions"  series  & the mystery drawing "The 13th Month" are available as single limited art prints or as complete portfolio.

Only 24 copies of each drawing will be printed on Hahnemühle William Turner paper 310gr/m2

• SINGLE SIGNED PRINTS with the BOOK CALENDAR package
• PRINTS PORTFOLIO with the complete portfolio of the 13 limited signed prints and the BOOK CALENDAR package

ORIGINAL INK DRAWINGS 

One of the 13 original ink drawings from the "New Year's resolutions + 13th Month" series and the BOOK CALENDAR package

DELIVERY

The pre-sale campaign runs from September 1 to September 31.

As soon as the campaign is ended we will go to printing and binding the books.

All rewards will be shipped out on Halloween (October 31) in order to be delivered before Christmas 2017.

SHIPMENT

We ship worlwide. The regular shipment time are:

• Europe: 2-4 weeks
• North America, Asia and Australia: 4-6 weeks
• South America and Africa: 6-8 weeks

Please note that we use regular postal services with economy shipping and no tracking. If you wish another option please send us a message with your name and residence address at e.sympathique@gmail.com and we will arrange special shipment for you. The additional fee on demand for priority shipment with tracking is 10€.

Important: it is imperative that you register with a postal address and an email address valid at least until January 31, 2018. We replace rewards that were damaged during shipment, but we won't do that if the address was incomplete, incorrect or no more valid due to moving in between.

PRICING

Our main goal is to make a beautiful book with as many drawings as possible at an affordable price. That's why we calculated our budget fairly and we finally set the price at €33 for each book. The costs are dedicated mainly to the book production (writing, layout, printing) and shipping costs.

In order to reach the break even we have to sell about 500 copies. If orders happily exceed this figure, the surplus will be affected:

• to make the book even more attractive, among other things with additional goodies
• to pay the graphic designer a decent wage (because, for the time being, he practically works pro bono)
• to reward all the wonderful friends and authors who by their large and small contributions have made this book more than a collection of drawings
• To pre-finance the preparation of Volume Three in order to save time on their production and to be able to deliver them faster.
• Finally, as some of you may know, drawing is not my main activity: I have a day job to pay the bills and I draw mostly at night. I would really like to reverse this situation and make drawing my everyday's life.

CROWDFUNDING

This project should remain between you and me: from the very beginning my work was published on social networks to avoid intermediaries, to get in direct contact with you. I started this relationship without filters with you, as a four-eyes dialogue and I would like to keep it in this way, with the sole purpose of sharing my drawings for our mutual pleasure. In addition, intermediaries automatically would increase the price that you pay as a customer.

A pledge is more than just a purchase: it is your personal commitment. It is a way for you to support me and allow me to work even more freely. Moreover, as this is a crowdfunding project, your pledge will only be charged to your account if, as we hope, the campaign has reached its financial goal.

APOLLONIA SAINTCLAIR

“What makes Apollonia’s work so popular? Aside from the mind-blowing intricacy and detail in her work, the sheer skill with which she creates her art in cinematic, post-noir, stunningly imaginative ways, is that she captures the essence of what sexuality means for each of us. Whether it’s a naked woman riding a rocket ship into outer space; or being dragged into the depths of hell by multiple hands; engaging in BDSM or octopus fetishism; the exquisite worlds she invites us into in each piece are as varied as each of our own inner desires and fantasies. They are meant for everyone – and their lack of bias, or objectivity draws us as the viewers into scenes we never could have imagined as erotic or arousing – but that most certainly are. She deliberately creates work “about the ambiguous situations where, finally, the interpretation depends mostly on the viewer.” Rather than forcing her narrative down our throats, in the violent way in which pornography can insist that we experience our personal sexuality, she opens the door for us to discover.” Erika Lust

The drawings of Apollonia Saintclair appeared from nowhere in 2012 on the Internet. She draws essentially for her – and your – pleasure. She has collaborated with Erika Lust and appeared in many magazines including Dazed, Juxtapoz Magazine, Vice, Playboy and NAKID. 

Follow her work on Tumblr, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook

ENCRE SYMPATHIQUE 

is the association that manages my copyrights. We have been working togehther since the very begining in close collaboration and the association takes charge of the day to day business under my direction.