I was trying out this awesome tutorial by Rype and noticed that my CS3 has lots of limitations – like in Step 10 I can’t adjust the opacity of my gradient. I had encountered this problem a lot, and although you can still adjust the opacity of your gradient by trying various tricks and going [...]
Since my dreamstime sell is so far a dismal $1.35, I decided to research more on what illustrations sell well on these microstock sites. One thing I noticed is that patterns tend to sell well. So far, the only 2 sales I made has come from this one, which is also a pattern. So I [...]
Recent inspiration: I’ve been fascinated by window art. I had the chance to see Magical Murals work their magic on a store window here in Vancouver. Check out their site! And then I started tihnking…can I draw something similiar!? I started to research online what tools I need and it appears from ehow.com tempera is [...]
March 2012 marks my first 30 days after I created a business plan – roadmap to become a successful cartoonist/creative artist etc. I call it “My Cartoon Shop Business Plan”. The end goal is to become a successful freelance creator of cartoon/illustration/blogs/logos/graphic design. My definition of successful is “earn $50,000 gross / year & having [...]
Woohoo! Now I have 5 images on dreamstime. I’m so happy. When I first started with this vector art stock site business thing, I kept getting the following rejection: Poor execution, please pay more attention to the details. For illustrations, please look for: poorly traced/auto-traced and scanned images, noise and innacurate texturing on 3D renders, [...]
On this post about my 2012 resolution, I mentioned my goal is to earn $1000 / month from creative projects. Breaking the goal down, I have to make $500 / month by May 2012. I’m wondering now if this is possible just from my vector art sales at microstock sites. The author of this site [...]
I am walking on air! There was one download of my check pattern art on Dreamstime and I made money!! My first sale as a microstock vector artist. So happy! More to come yay! Here’s the image that was just purchased. To sell your image on dreamstime you can to go to this link. Now [...]
Tuesday morning I woke up with a surprise in my inbox: “Congratulations, your image has been approved and will be available online soon. Please note that it may take up to 24-48 hours for the image to show up in all areas of the website.” I gasped “OMG” and my boyfriend got concerned and asked [...]
Here’s my drawing of “fluid” for Illustration Friday! Drawing the paper towel was a challenge. I used Illustrator’s 3D bevel tool. It still doesn’t look right! If anybody has a suggestion I’d appreciate it! The fluid is crying because it’s getting sucked by a paper towel! Oh no!
Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s a cupcake for you… I woke up this morning with a rejection email from dreamstime for this 3D cupcake. I thought it was pretty cool cupcake but they said Reason: – Poor execution, please pay more attention to the details. For illustrations, please look for: poorly traced/auto-traced and scanned images, noise [...]
