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  1. AndyW

    Hesitant to execute until I feel there's a market - feedback needed

    Sure thing, just google VHS Slime and there's a few samples there. And there's links to my social media.
  2. AndyW

    Hesitant to execute until I feel there's a market - feedback needed

    @AgainstAllOdds No, you make fair points. I think I was just trying to say that it's a misconception that you're screwed if you want to do art. That was my main thrust. But then maybe you weren't necessarily saying that. I do know how foolish it seems to count on fan art, and I wouldn't just...
  3. AndyW

    Hesitant to execute until I feel there's a market - feedback needed

    Hmm, my domain is VHS Slime. So not too sure. But that is a good point.
  4. AndyW

    Hesitant to execute until I feel there's a market - feedback needed

    Thanks for the suggestion. Here's what I'll come back with. I'm not really aiming at the art market, I'm aiming at the nostalgia market, specifically 80s. As I'll eventually be aiming to sell apparel and other items. Art wise, unless you've been in this industry I'd be careful on judging how...
  5. AndyW

    Hesitant to execute until I feel there's a market - feedback needed

    Not quite, I've researched the... how can I say... culture of making fan art and (I hope this doesn't come across as naive) basically, if you're changing the art and you're not mass-producing it, you can get away with it, and many do. So I should mention that I would plan (have to) to scale that...
  6. AndyW

    Hesitant to execute until I feel there's a market - feedback needed

    Background: So I'm an artist and have worked for several years trying to get some job security in the entertainment industry. I posted in here in 2015 in quite a desperate state. There's been a slight shift but overall I'm in a station where I'm facing a saturated job market and need an escape...
  7. AndyW

    question for web programmers on building ecommerce site

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Hmm, might have to ditch this idea. Trying to incorporate something low-maintenance along side main area of focus and I think this would end up needing 100% of my focus. Still, really good to get some feedback and highlight some of the blind spots! Cheers :)
  8. AndyW

    question for web programmers on building ecommerce site

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    That seems pretty good. I was gonna say - but what if you don't have stock and you want an on-demand type of stock, and so I found this thing called Printful which plugs into Woocommerce. Only thing is it doesn't do greeting cards. I hear you @Digamma - maybe I could get something set up and...
  9. AndyW

    question for web programmers on building ecommerce site

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Thanks for the response. These would be physical greeting cards. This is quite a new idea so haven't properly brainstormed it yet. But this has already highlighted a few issues that need resolving. One of which is the fact that you can't really sell greeting cards without the ability for the...
  10. AndyW

    question for web programmers on building ecommerce site

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Hi, I'm a digital artist with some basic experience of web programming, but literally only very basic. I want to start a new site that sells greetings cards to what will likely be mass market, slightly niche but not totally mainstream either. So I'll need to implement a site that will list...
  11. AndyW

    Any recommendations for creative thinking? (books/articles)

    Thanks, I'll read that in a bit. In the meantime, I found this very nice quote from Seth Godin on creativity. Interesting the notion that if [insert world famous artist] was born a hundred years earlier or later, they wouldn't have painted, but they'd have done something that took things to the...
  12. AndyW

    Any recommendations for creative thinking? (books/articles)

    Just found Linchpin audiobook on youtube. I think it's a little abstract for me. Same with Thiel. Seems like the sort of thing you'd want to listen to/read if you already had a multimillion dollar company rather than starting out. Could be wrong. Yeah drugs. Someone of note said recently that...
  13. AndyW

    Any recommendations for creative thinking? (books/articles)

    well that area is in real-time 3d graphics/engines. And very programming heavy. I've been trying to define my area and struggling to NOT see that translate into financial doom. Basically, illustration, graphic art, concept design for environments (think games, film, theme parks) and 3d...
  14. AndyW

    Any recommendations for creative thinking? (books/articles)

    cool, thanks for the book suggestion. I'll check it out. And that Hololens thing looks pretty cool. Probably not my area but still.
  15. AndyW

    Any recommendations for creative thinking? (books/articles)

    I'm an artist but what is very apparent about me as a look over my life, is my sheer lack of creativity. It's funny how one assumes that an artist is 'creative' because they 'create' but absolutely everything I've done (from music I wrote when I was a teenager, to book ideas and art work) is...
  16. AndyW

    Where do I even begin? - starving artist needs direction

    PUBLISHING 
    Yep. I do very much see your point. It's down to brainstorming. Which is what I did today. Went for a long walk, came back with an idea to self publish, studied self publishing until I realised that I was back where I started - needing an audience. So if there's a way to circumvent the...
  17. AndyW

    Where do I even begin? - starving artist needs direction

    PUBLISHING 
    I reckon I value my work accurately. There's quite a simple way to measure. Within my field there are sites that people go to. In fact, there's really just one main site, but a few other less relevant ones. You post a work and it receives likes. A successful piece will get 100 likes. A very...
  18. AndyW

    Where do I even begin? - starving artist needs direction

    PUBLISHING 
    No, that's a perfectly good question. There's an established platform for artists wanting to teach other artists (digital mainly) and it's called Gumroad. But in recent months/year or so the established price is $5 per video tutorial. And it's sort of seen as a faux pas if you start doing it...
  19. AndyW

    Where do I even begin? - starving artist needs direction

    PUBLISHING 
    Cheers dude, I'm all ears :)
  20. AndyW

    Where do I even begin? - starving artist needs direction

    PUBLISHING 
    wow, thanks for all the amazing replies guys! I wasn't getting notified beyond the first reply for some reason so thought the thread had ended. Nice surprise :) I guess I won't reply to everyone as it will take all day and no one wants to have to read through it all anyway. So here's just a...
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