Industry: Art
Art streamer donations in Georgia
An art stream holds viewers from the first stroke to the final layer, watching a piece appear in real time. Donator lets that attention become support you keep hold of: a viewer donates with any bank card, Georgian or foreign, the alert slides their name in wherever you placed it, and the money is paid out in GEL to your Georgian bank. Supporters abroad and the Georgian diaspora can send donations too.
How an artist earns while streaming
A live demonstration of the creative process gives viewers rare value: they see the work being born. A donation lets a grateful viewer support your time and your art.
Donator fits the drawing-request and thank-you alert format naturally: a viewer attaches an idea or a request to a donation, for example a specific character or scene, and you draw it live. This interaction keeps the audience engaged.
Alerts that never cover the canvas
The donation alert appears through an OBS Browser Source, layered over your canvas and app overlay. You choose where the alert sits, so the donor's name and message show in real time without covering your work area.
Concentration matters while drawing. A short visual alert lets you thank a donor at a natural pause and then return to the piece.
| Donator | Foreign service | |
|---|---|---|
| Payment | Any card, GEL | Often needs a foreign wallet |
| Payout | Direct to a Georgian bank | Hard or limited |
| Drawing request via alert | Instant, via OBS | Similar |
| Cut taken from a donation | A small platform fee | Often larger elsewhere |
Questions from art streamers
- Can I take drawing requests through donations?
- Yes. A viewer attaches an idea or a request to the donation, and the alert shows that text on screen, so you draw the request live.
- Will the alert cover my canvas or work area?
- No. You choose where the alert sits in OBS, so the overlay does not get in the way of drawing.
- How much does Donator take on an art donation?
- Donator subtracts only a small platform fee from each donation to keep the service funded, and the rest is deposited into your Georgian bank account in GEL.
- Does a viewer need an account to send a donation?
- No. A viewer is not asked to sign up, simply pays by card, and the drawing idea arrives together with the support almost instantly.
- Is Donator better for an artist than Twitch bits or a tool like DonationAlerts?
- Twitch bits keep a large percentage and hand over what remains as platform credit through foreign channels that rarely convert cleanly to GEL in Georgia. DonationAlerts and Streamlabs are tuned for other markets, expect a foreign wallet, and neither offers a Georgian interface. On Donator a viewer pays by card and can attach a drawing request in the same step, while you receive the money in GEL straight to a Georgian bank.
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Donator: Georgia's first and best donation platform for streamers, on its way to becoming the only platform a streamer needs and expanding across the Caucasus region.
In official partnership with Georgia's leading banks, TBC and Bank of Georgia.
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