Girl, you’re giving us something in return! For example 70 videos and counting packed with helpful advice and entertainment - and I know from experience how much work can go into creating even one video. Then there's your shorts, your Twitch streams and of course your art. Please start a Patreon and let me throw my money at you. Do it! DO IT NOW!
This is an outstanding Business 101 video. Literally could be used for its insights into the whole process of creating an online business from marketing, production, planning... 10/10
thanks for the motivation! I've been selling stickers for about a year now and have only shipped a handful of them, 50 sales is amazing, ima keep at it!!
Very good video! I was kinda surprised by the problems you ran into with your print providers, like the sticker size and colors being way off before I realized - print production _isn't_ common knowledge if you're not a graphic designer working in print. So everyone who's thinking about going into making your own prints as well: Please research a little before you jump into it! Here's some things to consider (it's a BIG read but hopefully worth it!!): *- RGB to CMYK, or screen to print:* This is a big one. VERY generally speaking, prints will be darker than what you see on the screen. You have to convert your finished(!) artwork from RGB to CMYK before you print it so that you'll have an idea of what to expect. Ask your printing service for the "print profile" they require (which mostly depends on the kind of material that they print on) and apply that to your finished artwork. If you have a local copy shop or smaller printing service nearby, do some test prints (so-called "proofs") with various adjustments to brightness, contrast, hue etc to see what looks best - especially if you're planning to do a big order later! You don't want 300 misprints that look like garbage and disappoint your customers! *- Templates and manuals:* Many printing services provide templates that include stuff like safe areas for your print or where the cuts will be made. You don't have to (and probably shouldn't) start from scratch! Many also provide manuals or input as to how to set up your print file for ideal results. It's a bore but worth it! If you're worried about size: If you have a printer machine at home, even if it's a shitty one, do a quick test print of your final files. Very often, you think something is an okay size before you actually see it for "real". Look for things like little details getting lost or text becoming illegible. When it comes to cuts (like for stickers), there's ways to define the cutline yourself instead of letting the print service handle it. Look into that or ask your printer service! *- Sizing and print resolution:* When you're creating new artwork, make sure it's _big enough!_ If you're new to dpi (dots per inch) and print resolution: Generally speaking, what you produce on screen is 72 dpi, but while it may look fine on screen at 100% zoom, that's not gonna be enough pixels for a good looking print. 300 dpi is ideal. Many programs already handle this for you, so if i.e. you want to make a 10cm x 10 cm print at 300 dpi, your document should be at least 1180 px x 1180 px. The bigger the better! Graphics can always be downscaled, but _not_ upscaled! *- Use the right software.* While you can set up print files in Clipstudio or Photoshop, you should get into actual publishing software like Adobe InDesign, which is a bit complex but also really good. If you don't have Adobe Creative Suite, look into Affinity Publisher. It's pretty close to InDesign and a one-time-payment for the entire suit. ... sadly, there aren't any other good alternatives. Scribus is free and open source but I lost my mind trying to use it, unfortunately... *- Legal matters:* This wasn't touched upon in the video but it's worth keeping in mind. When you make fan merch, you're in a very weird legal area that isn't even really a "gray area". Depending on local laws, you're not in the right when you actually profit from your work. Generally, you'll be fine selling stuff at cons and online and it's unlikely you'll get in real trouble. But be aware that if you actually want to make a living from this and somehow end up making big moolah, it _might_ get troublesome. Fan art always sells better but consider personal and original stuff like at 4:58 All that said, if you're still with me: please make more print stuff! Posters, t-shirts, tote bags, fanzines, everything. Print is not dead yet but it's limping. Which is sad, because a physical product can be so much more meaningful than a digital one. Good luck y'all!!
Graphical programmer here, getting colors on print is next to impossible without trail and error. RGB/CMYK are only technical representation of colors. Besides obvious issues like gamma/luminosity that will cause colors to appear much brighter, screens also have different color gamuts that will cause difference in saturation (200 on AdobeRGB could be a 255 on sRGB), diodes (OLED vs IPS vs LED), and other problematic stuff that turn everything into clusterf*ck. Similar issues are occurring on printer side too
this inside on how things are done is so cool! helps a lot to see the process as an artist that also wants to start making a living out of this! I hope I can support you eventually! It would be great to see more content like this and START THE PATREON!!! do it do it do it!!
You say that starting a Patreon makes you uncomfortable, but you will soon be 10x more uncomfortable with the stress coming from lack of shelter and food security. As someone who has battled poverty and homelessness since childhood, I am telling you that you need to take everything that people are willing to give you in order to survive. Also UA-cam and Twitch will not support you alone unless you are massively popular and people are willing to sub, gift subs, and donate large amounts of money every stream. Patreon will be your safety net. Please set that safety net up.
Agreed. You'll usually find that a good portion of patrons are people who just want to throw a few monies at you to keep doing what you're doing. They don't want any particular bonuses, or if they do it's lighter things like news updates or seeing stuff earlier than public release. And if you don't like the results, you could always just shut it down later.
Doing art can open so many doors unexpectedly you never thought it was possible for you. So whoever needs to hear this, you got this, if you are passionate about doing arts, don't give up but take breaks if needed to avoid burnouts! Keep it up pika, you are awesome. You give many great tips for free and I hope artists that come across your video use at least some of them or at least think about them!!
I follow you on basically every platform, watch almost every stream and yet somehow missed that you're selling stickers. Next month you'll be rich(er).
"If you place a small value on yourself, rest assured, the world will not raise your price." reconsider doing a Patreon you don't want to blow though your savings and not have it if you really need it.
For me who also started a sticker business irl. It isn’t hard, you will make money from the people online and offline who support you but that’s it. This isn’t about expectations. But the cost of sticker print on demand is expensive compared to cost of printing in bulk. Plus shipments etc as mentioned in the video. A person whom I know who runs a print factory also gave me this advice. Sticker is a good merch as an add on not as a stand alone. If it works for you great but if it doesn’t consider keeping it as an add on merch instead and it should do you better. I did take this advice of theirs personally and ran a sticker print on demand along with commission prints as posters and T-shirts and it is doing me better. Hope this info helps someone out there.
Ideas for patreon: exclusive hi-res versions of your art, early access to videos, a tier that gets monthly stickers, access to a private discord server... there's a lot you can do.
Color management as a whole can be a pain for external print services. Can’t count how many times I failed to check print gamut as a photographer and wind up with dark prints
As someone who did this similar route to making a living on my art this was so well done. Instead of having companies make my stickers I decided to do them in house but this is great for those getting started!
I sell and ship leftover Magic cards. I buy digital stamps and print them on my envelope with the address, to save time. I also use cardboard which is just big enough to protect the cards to reduce wight. Maybe this helps you. Will order some stickers now :3
This channel just randomly started haunting my dreams by filling my page with uwu expressions of your face and it has now somehow became a part of my schedule wth.
Thanks for sharing your experience, personally if I ever manage I'll probably just stick to places like red-bubble, depending on the drawbacks of course. Also- I recommend opening a Kofi instead of a Patreon, otherwise look for alternatives, like Subscribstar, Boosty, etc. Kofi is less demanding and less strict from what I've heard, and there's literally just a 1-time donation option which is nice. That way you don't have to worry about patreon rewards or smth, you literally can just be given donations as an option, or single time purchases as well I think.
Crazy that i watched a Monster Hunter Sunbreak speedrun right before watching this only for Pikat to bring up MH again in an otherwise completely unrelated video. 😂
Not really. Just go on and you may improve quickly. Combine proper studies and practice. Learning from the masters and working on the basics, step by step. Draw subjects that you enjoy. Later on, choose or create a catchy art style that you like. No need to learn to draw everything, avoiding to relate stress to drawing is key.
Just grind every day, spend as much time as you can learning what you can and pray for luck. You still have time, just make the most of it and set goals.
Invest in a label printer If you can! Makes the order packing process much smoother. I recommend Rollo. I've used mine for like 7 years now and it's still going strong.
The point of Patreon is so that people can be your patron. They give you money so you'll be able to keep living and thus creating the content that they enjoy. So you would be giving them something in return. Imagine a mayor who kept their city pristine, well funded, and everything working smoothly saying that they didn't feel they should be paid with the taxes because they should have to give the period something in return for their money. Because apparently ensuring the place where those people live is in good condition isn't giving the people something. The same for you: you being people content that they can enjoy.
the patreon could have rewards like a sticker pack for a certain tier or paintovers for a more expensive tier, there are many ways to make it more rewarding for the subscribers and i think you should consider opening it!!
I was thinking about this I wanted to start doing this in 2025 but I got a really bad art block with everything I do, crochet, drawing, 3D modelling It’s rough 😞 I hope this will motivate me or something!!!
10:19 Here's a suggestion, why not have Patreon-exclusive 1 panel comics? Maybe 2-3 a month? Just make 'em about something silly in your everyday life.
Patreon has a shop option now too, though I think it's mostly for digital stuff. Otherwise, depending on whether or not you have a strong enough following where people are willing to donate to you (which you do given the nearly 395K subscriber count on UA-cam), Patreon can be either a blessing or a curse-they're still a middleman, so they take a cut of EVERY pledge and purchase people make when you use them.
Make a Patreon! you actually ARE giving us something in return, which is youtube and twitch full time. It means more content for us, more of your drawings online for us to see, and the fact that we feel entertained by watching you, and some people may feel less alone in your streams and videos. So, we can flip that rationale: If you are doing this full time, we should give you something in return!
print media is such a nightmare and so many companies are all flying by the seat of their pants. This is the real reason why artists just do this stuff by themselves, because quality control has so. many. variables. It's nearly impossible for a larger print shop to fit what you want. Use them only at scale.
the essential part of making money from art is not being a ghost in other words popular enough for people to care pretty much without that you are lost cause thats the dark reality
Use a thermal printer they are cheap and you can just printout the addresses plus it will save you on ink costs. It will save you a lot of time as well since you don't have to hand write each address. if you want to save cost on the stickers look into local print shops they will give you a higher quality for a smaller cost and less wait time. Plus you will be supporting a local business. Good luck!
Thank you for this video! I'm currently producing a few stickers (3 designs printed so far), but I need to face first the German bureaucracy before selling them. Let's see
Make a Kofi with your brush presets and some shape tutorials and leave the upper cost uncapped. I'd buy mini lessons and brushes from you! Lean into the fact that you are an educator here!
This is so cool. Tbh, dealing with customers freaks me out cuz "what if I cant deliver something on time" or "what if spend all this money to get everything set up but can't sell anything". Do you have any advice on how to overcome this anxiety?
I have thought about making animations/vtubers for money. It's a digital asset. Unfortunately, everytime I make a new vtuber model, as of now, I love them so much that I want to keep them 😅
The video is titled How I Make Money from Art, not "how can you make money from art". Is it supposed to be some sort of uncomfortable truth that you need an audience if you are trying to sell some kind of merch?
the people who would give you money through patreon like your content so much that they want to financially support you, i think that you'd be giving them back enough by just continuing to make content as you are :)
Hey pikat, I was wondering how do you have that cool pixel-art style VTuber avatar? I also want to setup a VTuber avatar but I want to be able to customize the style, do you have any links or guides to help me get started?
You know, I made roughly 60k a year drawing pokemon/furry pr0n. It was nice money, but it genuinely felt gross and morally dark. I am religious, so I struggled with the morality of doing sinful tasks for income. I quit a few years ago, and I'm making a lot less with a normal job, but at least I don't feel like a creep anymore. There's so much money to be made if you're up for it though.
Girl, you’re giving us something in return! For example 70 videos and counting packed with helpful advice and entertainment - and I know from experience how much work can go into creating even one video. Then there's your shorts, your Twitch streams and of course your art. Please start a Patreon and let me throw my money at you. Do it! DO IT NOW!
You can go to work and give away all your money but don't involve others
This is an outstanding Business 101 video. Literally could be used for its insights into the whole process of creating an online business from marketing, production, planning... 10/10
Hell yeah get that bag Pikat!
The wet-rag-in-a-bowl-instead-of-licking-glue-50-times tech is crazy, I will remember this for the future haha.
I usually just wet my fingers and gently rub the surface when I place my stamps.
thanks for the motivation! I've been selling stickers for about a year now and have only shipped a handful of them, 50 sales is amazing, ima keep at it!!
Very good video! I was kinda surprised by the problems you ran into with your print providers, like the sticker size and colors being way off before I realized - print production _isn't_ common knowledge if you're not a graphic designer working in print. So everyone who's thinking about going into making your own prints as well: Please research a little before you jump into it! Here's some things to consider (it's a BIG read but hopefully worth it!!):
*- RGB to CMYK, or screen to print:* This is a big one. VERY generally speaking, prints will be darker than what you see on the screen. You have to convert your finished(!) artwork from RGB to CMYK before you print it so that you'll have an idea of what to expect. Ask your printing service for the "print profile" they require (which mostly depends on the kind of material that they print on) and apply that to your finished artwork. If you have a local copy shop or smaller printing service nearby, do some test prints (so-called "proofs") with various adjustments to brightness, contrast, hue etc to see what looks best - especially if you're planning to do a big order later! You don't want 300 misprints that look like garbage and disappoint your customers!
*- Templates and manuals:* Many printing services provide templates that include stuff like safe areas for your print or where the cuts will be made. You don't have to (and probably shouldn't) start from scratch! Many also provide manuals or input as to how to set up your print file for ideal results. It's a bore but worth it! If you're worried about size: If you have a printer machine at home, even if it's a shitty one, do a quick test print of your final files. Very often, you think something is an okay size before you actually see it for "real". Look for things like little details getting lost or text becoming illegible. When it comes to cuts (like for stickers), there's ways to define the cutline yourself instead of letting the print service handle it. Look into that or ask your printer service!
*- Sizing and print resolution:* When you're creating new artwork, make sure it's _big enough!_ If you're new to dpi (dots per inch) and print resolution: Generally speaking, what you produce on screen is 72 dpi, but while it may look fine on screen at 100% zoom, that's not gonna be enough pixels for a good looking print. 300 dpi is ideal. Many programs already handle this for you, so if i.e. you want to make a 10cm x 10 cm print at 300 dpi, your document should be at least 1180 px x 1180 px. The bigger the better! Graphics can always be downscaled, but _not_ upscaled!
*- Use the right software.* While you can set up print files in Clipstudio or Photoshop, you should get into actual publishing software like Adobe InDesign, which is a bit complex but also really good. If you don't have Adobe Creative Suite, look into Affinity Publisher. It's pretty close to InDesign and a one-time-payment for the entire suit. ... sadly, there aren't any other good alternatives. Scribus is free and open source but I lost my mind trying to use it, unfortunately...
*- Legal matters:* This wasn't touched upon in the video but it's worth keeping in mind. When you make fan merch, you're in a very weird legal area that isn't even really a "gray area". Depending on local laws, you're not in the right when you actually profit from your work. Generally, you'll be fine selling stuff at cons and online and it's unlikely you'll get in real trouble. But be aware that if you actually want to make a living from this and somehow end up making big moolah, it _might_ get troublesome. Fan art always sells better but consider personal and original stuff like at 4:58
All that said, if you're still with me: please make more print stuff! Posters, t-shirts, tote bags, fanzines, everything. Print is not dead yet but it's limping. Which is sad, because a physical product can be so much more meaningful than a digital one. Good luck y'all!!
Thanks for the tips
Great comment [:
Having a massive built-in audience helps a lot, and most people don't have that.
Can’t wait to buy them Pikat! I’m so excited to show them off to my friends
Graphical programmer here, getting colors on print is next to impossible without trail and error.
RGB/CMYK are only technical representation of colors. Besides obvious issues like gamma/luminosity that will cause colors to appear much brighter, screens also have different color gamuts that will cause difference in saturation (200 on AdobeRGB could be a 255 on sRGB), diodes (OLED vs IPS vs LED), and other problematic stuff that turn everything into clusterf*ck. Similar issues are occurring on printer side too
I was thinking about making merch just NOW and your video popped. Yt algorithm might be in my walls but I'm glad bro, this was very helpful🫶
this inside on how things are done is so cool! helps a lot to see the process as an artist that also wants to start making a living out of this! I hope I can support you eventually! It would be great to see more content like this and START THE PATREON!!! do it do it do it!!
Wow I didn’t realize stickers can be so impactful as an art product. Great video!
Being a content creator is so hard :') I'm proud of you Pikat!
You say that starting a Patreon makes you uncomfortable, but you will soon be 10x more uncomfortable with the stress coming from lack of shelter and food security. As someone who has battled poverty and homelessness since childhood, I am telling you that you need to take everything that people are willing to give you in order to survive. Also UA-cam and Twitch will not support you alone unless you are massively popular and people are willing to sub, gift subs, and donate large amounts of money every stream. Patreon will be your safety net. Please set that safety net up.
Agreed. You'll usually find that a good portion of patrons are people who just want to throw a few monies at you to keep doing what you're doing. They don't want any particular bonuses, or if they do it's lighter things like news updates or seeing stuff earlier than public release.
And if you don't like the results, you could always just shut it down later.
Wow nice video pikat LOVE FOR YOU AND YOUR EDITOR ❤️❤️❤️
It feels like i've watched an entire business course, thank you this is really useful for my own artist/creator journey!
Doing art can open so many doors unexpectedly you never thought it was possible for you. So whoever needs to hear this, you got this, if you are passionate about doing arts, don't give up but take breaks if needed to avoid burnouts!
Keep it up pika, you are awesome. You give many great tips for free and I hope artists that come across your video use at least some of them or at least think about them!!
just the right tutorial i need before i get into college tysmmm
So happy to see the progress! Thank you for the information to this topic. I'm even more ready than before to take on merch designing, thank you.
I am obsessed with your pixel sprite it's so pretty :0
bro actually went through it step by step. W tutorial
Thanks for sharing your story.
I follow you on basically every platform, watch almost every stream and yet somehow missed that you're selling stickers. Next month you'll be rich(er).
"If you place a small value on yourself, rest assured, the world will not raise your price." reconsider doing a Patreon you don't want to blow though your savings and not have it if you really need it.
For me who also started a sticker business irl. It isn’t hard, you will make money from the people online and offline who support you but that’s it.
This isn’t about expectations. But the cost of sticker print on demand is expensive compared to cost of printing in bulk. Plus shipments etc as mentioned in the video.
A person whom I know who runs a print factory also gave me this advice. Sticker is a good merch as an add on not as a stand alone. If it works for you great but if it doesn’t consider keeping it as an add on merch instead and it should do you better. I did take this advice of theirs personally and ran a sticker print on demand along with commission prints as posters and T-shirts and it is doing me better. Hope this info helps someone out there.
That's right, I just noticed the new pfp. Best of luck on the grind.
My day is always a bit better when I see one of your videos on my feed! I hope someday I can make a pixel art model like the one you have, I love it!
Ideas for patreon: exclusive hi-res versions of your art, early access to videos, a tier that gets monthly stickers, access to a private discord server... there's a lot you can do.
Happy Lunar New Year
This is great Pikat. I ended up buying your pointing and fun before damental stickers. It’s great to support a fellow artist.
You are giving them something! FREE entertaining content!!
Forgeting RGB vs CMYK for your first print is the most classic faceslap 😅
Color management as a whole can be a pain for external print services. Can’t count how many times I failed to check print gamut as a photographer and wind up with dark prints
As someone who did this similar route to making a living on my art this was so well done. Instead of having companies make my stickers I decided to do them in house but this is great for those getting started!
I sell and ship leftover Magic cards. I buy digital stamps and print them on my envelope with the address, to save time. I also use cardboard which is just big enough to protect the cards to reduce wight. Maybe this helps you. Will order some stickers now :3
pikat counting racks in the thumbnail 😭
The egg is so cute ugh
This channel just randomly started haunting my dreams by filling my page with uwu expressions of your face and it has now somehow became a part of my schedule wth.
You should continue updating us on how your store is doing! It would be rly cool
Thanks for sharing your experience, personally if I ever manage I'll probably just stick to places like red-bubble, depending on the drawbacks of course.
Also- I recommend opening a Kofi instead of a Patreon, otherwise look for alternatives, like Subscribstar, Boosty, etc. Kofi is less demanding and less strict from what I've heard, and there's literally just a 1-time donation option which is nice. That way you don't have to worry about patreon rewards or smth, you literally can just be given donations as an option, or single time purchases as well I think.
Crazy that i watched a Monster Hunter Sunbreak speedrun right before watching this only for Pikat to bring up MH again in an otherwise completely unrelated video. 😂
Someone told me that 30 is too old to start drawing and get good... I will keep driving anyways but it sure is demoralizing.
Not really. Just go on and you may improve quickly.
Combine proper studies and practice. Learning from the masters and working on the basics, step by step.
Draw subjects that you enjoy. Later on, choose or create a catchy art style that you like.
No need to learn to draw everything, avoiding to relate stress to drawing is key.
Its never too late to start. The important thing is that you enjoy the process. Creativity has worth regardless of skill level
Just grind every day, spend as much time as you can learning what you can and pray for luck. You still have time, just make the most of it and set goals.
funky kong dk64 music hits good with this
Pikat with pencil look cutee ❤❤❤
Invest in a label printer If you can! Makes the order packing process much smoother. I recommend Rollo. I've used mine for like 7 years now and it's still going strong.
The point of Patreon is so that people can be your patron. They give you money so you'll be able to keep living and thus creating the content that they enjoy. So you would be giving them something in return.
Imagine a mayor who kept their city pristine, well funded, and everything working smoothly saying that they didn't feel they should be paid with the taxes because they should have to give the period something in return for their money. Because apparently ensuring the place where those people live is in good condition isn't giving the people something.
The same for you: you being people content that they can enjoy.
That tote bag in the beginning looks amazing... I'd buy it.
the patreon could have rewards like a sticker pack for a certain tier or paintovers for a more expensive tier, there are many ways to make it more rewarding for the subscribers and i think you should consider opening it!!
I was thinking about this I wanted to start doing this in 2025 but I got a really bad art block with everything I do, crochet, drawing, 3D modelling
It’s rough 😞 I hope this will motivate me or something!!!
10:19 Here's a suggestion, why not have Patreon-exclusive 1 panel comics? Maybe 2-3 a month? Just make 'em about something silly in your everyday life.
Great video, it was very informative and well done!
I just bought 2 as a thanks for helping me learn art 🙏
The coincidence of seeing this video only a day after ordering a couple stickers
okay jojo reference in the first second ... im hooked
Patreon has a shop option now too, though I think it's mostly for digital stuff. Otherwise, depending on whether or not you have a strong enough following where people are willing to donate to you (which you do given the nearly 395K subscriber count on UA-cam), Patreon can be either a blessing or a curse-they're still a middleman, so they take a cut of EVERY pledge and purchase people make when you use them.
the fact I checked it out before the bunegg change and this vid ❤
Make a Patreon! you actually ARE giving us something in return, which is youtube and twitch full time. It means more content for us, more of your drawings online for us to see, and the fact that we feel entertained by watching you, and some people may feel less alone in your streams and videos.
So, we can flip that rationale: If you are doing this full time, we should give you something in return!
that thumbnail needs more "Gangsta Spongebob" vibes.
A Patreon would be a great idea!
There are many who would gladly be a patron of an inspirational artist like you Pikat .
Open one up & see how it goes
print media is such a nightmare and so many companies are all flying by the seat of their pants. This is the real reason why artists just do this stuff by themselves, because quality control has so. many. variables. It's nearly impossible for a larger print shop to fit what you want. Use them only at scale.
This is a lot of the reason I would just go to a POD service for this, not to mention in the US with the wonky sales tax laws
Waiting for your anime figure to drop, your character is really awesome
evil pikat be like >:)
the egg is so cute D,: !!!!
TWEEDSART DESK MAT SPOTTED
do you ship to europe? (specifically czech republic)
love the video! Have you checked out ship station before? If you keep this up they might be a good option to help with all your shipping needs 👍
unspoken step 1: have a fanbase
the essential part of making money from art is not being a ghost
in other words popular enough for people to care
pretty much without that you are lost cause
thats the dark reality
I will test the shipping to Canada :P
Use a thermal printer they are cheap and you can just printout the addresses plus it will save you on ink costs. It will save you a lot of time as well since you don't have to hand write each address. if you want to save cost on the stickers look into local print shops they will give you a higher quality for a smaller cost and less wait time. Plus you will be supporting a local business. Good luck!
God bless you, and may you have even more success :)
Egg bunny supremacy
why did I watched this ad, anyway keep up the good work
Nice profile picture👌👌
Thank you for this video! I'm currently producing a few stickers (3 designs printed so far), but I need to face first the German bureaucracy before selling them. Let's see
Truly Nice 👩🎨
Thank you tor the video. Very informative
She is saving the art community ❤
I have never seen that blue-tailed skink artwork before
Yay, I got some stickers!
Clodburger plushie would be amazing
How do you make your avatar daaang so smooth
Best of luck with your endeavors! I also hear you regarding patreon.
Make a Kofi with your brush presets and some shape tutorials and leave the upper cost uncapped. I'd buy mini lessons and brushes from you! Lean into the fact that you are an educator here!
stickers!,Yay!,Yippee!
This is so cool. Tbh, dealing with customers freaks me out cuz "what if I cant deliver something on time" or "what if spend all this money to get everything set up but can't sell anything".
Do you have any advice on how to overcome this anxiety?
I have thought about making animations/vtubers for money. It's a digital asset. Unfortunately, everytime I make a new vtuber model, as of now, I love them so much that I want to keep them 😅
This only works if your work is marketable and already have a following
Hard to do with niche designs
The video is titled How I Make Money from Art, not "how can you make money from art".
Is it supposed to be some sort of uncomfortable truth that you need an audience if you are trying to sell some kind of merch?
Top comment is gay
First reply is gay
Lmao
Second reply is gay
Hell yeah! Gay FTW
got news for you pal…
the people who would give you money through patreon like your content so much that they want to financially support you, i think that you'd be giving them back enough by just continuing to make content as you are :)
PIKAT MY GOATTTT
SOMETHING IN RETURN!\?!
Time to go buy more stickers.
HONG KONG ARTIST FOR THE WINNNN LESGO
You're making these videos for us to watch aren't you? I think a Patreon would be a nice idea.
W pikat commercial
I wonder if you could sort the shipping prices by distance so you wouldn't have to set each region
Hey pikat, I was wondering how do you have that cool pixel-art style VTuber avatar? I also want to setup a VTuber avatar but I want to be able to customize the style, do you have any links or guides to help me get started?
You know, I made roughly 60k a year drawing pokemon/furry pr0n. It was nice money, but it genuinely felt gross and morally dark. I am religious, so I struggled with the morality of doing sinful tasks for income. I quit a few years ago, and I'm making a lot less with a normal job, but at least I don't feel like a creep anymore. There's so much money to be made if you're up for it though.
Do you have an art account I can follow? I wanna see your art!!
Honestly peak