Now, that Threadless added crest and back prints, I’ve been making some modifications to my existing designs so that they can be printed as crests.
For example, this is my Winter Walk painting:
And this is how it looks printed on a navy t-shirt:
But I made a crest option — just the cat, without the snow:
I wrote a blog post about earning money on Threadless. It’s titled “10 Steps to Earning $1000+ Monthly with Your Shop”.
The post is now live on their Creative Resources Blog. Go read it. I tried to make it as helpful as possible. I hope you find it useful 🙂
I’ve been trying to follow the keto diet. Which means pizza is definitely out of the question. But today I am visiting my brother and his wife and we are making pizza!
This is just a quick note to let you guys know that if you want to register your artwork in the US Copyright Office, then you can register it for $45. Maybe you already knew that, but I didn’t. When I was registering my first artwork I chose the Standard Application which costs $65. However, if there’s only one author, you can choose the option “Register One Work by One Author”. It wouldn’t matter that much if I only had one or two designs to register, but I have about 20.
If you are an artist/designer/photographer, you likely had your art stolen and used illegally. If not, it’s just a matter of time. Every day thousands of thieves try to sell artwork they have no rights to. This is an ongoing problem, and it isn’t going away anytime soon.
But one thing that’s been changing is that more and more artists are fighting back and suing the infringers. Even if you don’t plan to sue anyone yet, you can still prepare for the future when you can invest some money in lawyers.
And the first step is to register your artwork in the US Copyright Office. You should think about it even before you publish your artwork because this way you can save a lot of money. When I started making designs, I knew nothing about registering copyright. And even when I found out about it, I still hesitated for months because I thought I couldn’t afford it..
Now, when I am finally registering my designs that are already published, I need to pay $45 for each design registration. If I’d registered them before publishing, I would have paid $85 for 10 designs.
Do you also feel you really need longer stretches of alone time? I often feel this way. And I know most people don’t understand it.
A lot of my designs express my feelings and this one is no exception:
It’s exaggerated, of course. I don’t think I would need a year or two. But lately I’ve been spending a bit too much time with people, and now I need need some distance.
When I opened my store, Fox Shiver, I thought it was going to be full of foxes. I planned to draw a lot of foxes during winter, in the forests and caves. Somehow I ended up making designs with cats instead, and only occasionally some other animals. But yesterday I made a new design with a fox.:
The design makes use of negative space for the fox’s form— it means that the fox is not really painted, but the trees are erased in such a way that a fox is shown.
