Justyna Dorsz – Page 3

This wasn’t the plan

I haven’t been working much these past few days because I am visiting my grandma. But here’s one of my recent designs.

Design ideas tutorial

Today I watched Michael Essek’s talk “How to come up with ideas that buyers love”.

There are two things that surprised me:

Michael has a much more professional attitude towards making designs. I sort of always just draw what I like. Michael, of course, likes to draw. But he also runs a business. I think I should learn from him.
I thought I had a lot of designs. I have now about 240 designs but not all of them are completely unique. Some are just different versions of the save design. Michael has over 2000 designs! He said that maybe even up to 5000 if you include all variants. That’s insane! When did he draw all that?

The talk was very informative and motivating. Go watch it.

Fearless – Who, Me?

Cats are so expressive! Look at this scared cat:

5 weeks of Trufflepig

5 weeks ago, I opened my new store, Trufflepig.

There are 41 designs in the store so far. All of them have cats! I have plans to add other animals but I enjoy drawing cats.

You are probably curious how much the store has earned so far. In total, I earned $52 🙂

My best-selling design is SAY NO TO ACTIVITY.

My plan for the next few weeks is to make a lot more designs. I want to have at least 100 designs in my store.

Threadless – Champion T-shirts

Threadless just added new t-shirt. I am now going to enable them on all my designs. You should too.

Remember, you don’t have to edit each design separately to enable Champion t-shirts. You can manage your designs in bulk. Go to Artist Shop -> Products and filter by Men’s -> T-shirt -> Champion. Then do the same for Women’s.

Awake – Who, me?

I have not been sleeping well lately.

DMCA takedown notice – form vs. email

My artwork is stolen so often that I need to send thousands of DMCA takedown notices each year.

To make the process as fast as possible, I use email templates. But most websites prefer to receive takedown notices via their forms. For example, every time I email a takedown notice to Etsy I receive an email asking me to submit future notices via their form.

Do they not realize that their form takes a few minutes to fill? Sending an email takes just a few seconds. I don’t want to waste my time filling out forms. I prefer to send emails wherever possible.

I can understand that Etsy prefers to receive filled out forms. They are easier to process. But I calculated that if I keep sending forms to Etsy, I will waste over a day of my life per year. And that’s just on Etsy. There are many more websites that I need to send takedown notices to.

If you need to send takedown notices, send them via email, instead of via form. Don’t waste more time than you need to.