My cat series continues…


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

Today I watched Michael Essek’s talk “How to come up with ideas that buyers love”.
There are two things that surprised me:
The talk was very informative and motivating. Go watch it.
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 ๐
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 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.

I have not been sleeping well lately.

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.
Really, I have no explanation for this design. I just thought that a confused cat would be funny ๐
