Hidden Photographs

Hidden Photos

I really enjoy taking pictures. I have taken some photographs for a bout a year now, ever since I took photography classes at school and got a Nikon DSLR. The photographs I enjoy the most are the ones that happen on the moment. No modeling or posing. Just take the shot as it is.

Though I have taken a lot, I’m the only one who has seen them. A few I think are good, but even then I don’t share them with others (not sure why). Though sometimes I feel a little editing in photoshop will enhance it and make it better. But, since I don’t have photoshop. I can’t edit them, therefore I can’t share them with others.

Does this happen to anyone else? Is it just me, keeping the pictures to myself. I know I shouldn’t. It is best to share with everyone. But at this time I don’t have the “tools” necessary to enhance them and make them better. Though I will continue enjoying taking photos. They may not be viewed by others until photoshop is uploaded to my computers!

RedBubble

Burst my bubble at RedBubble

What is “redbubble” you ask? Well read carefully the next few lines and you will know. RedBubble is an online art community featuring wall art, design, photography and t-shirts by artists worldwide.

What a designer/artist does is:

1. Sign up
2. Make a profile
3. Upload art, photography or any digital design
4. Choose to sell as a Print or Shirt
5. Put a title per “item”
6. Write a blurb per “item”
7. Write tags per “item”
8. Wait for customer’s views (maybe make a sale!)

Then repeat steps 3 to 8 for each item! And no need to worry about printing and shipping or refunds and returns! RedBubble handles all of that for you! Though at first you wont get many views, they will eventually come. It is important to make the tags relevant to the “item” that way customers find what they are looking for. Also, it is worth it to continue making designs once in a while. The more you have to offer, the more the customers get interested in your style. The problem comes when there are no sales and you forget about your redbubble store. It stays there lonely with no new items.

Personally I usually go on and off in making designs. I get creative and want to make stuff or I completely forget about it. Sometimes when I’m suppose to be busy like, studying for midterms, I decide I want to make designs. It’s weird but it happens. Other times when I make multiple sells in a short time, makes me want to design more (to get more sales of course!!).

I sold this framed print.

My latest sale was a print. Which got me really excited and that is why I have stopped studying lately to continue designing. Some people have a style of only photography/art prints or Shirt designs. I try to focus in Shirt designs (not sure why), but that is why it came to my surprise that I sold a print (since I only have a few items in my print selection).

I will try to post articles of when I sell items. I may forget from time to time or skip the “sticker” sales that are not as interesting.

In the mean time you can check my profile at Redbubble! (signing up is not required!)

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Welcome to Not Your Usual Mexican!
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99 Designs + 1 Winner

So as I begin to explore this WordPress thing and how to edit and change things, I re-discovered a website I had seen before. I was checking out different themes for my blog, when I looked for custom themes on google. The site I came across was 99 Designs.

The Concept at 99 Designs goes like this: A designer goes in and looks through the different contests (eg. logo, web, icon, T-shirt, plus other design types). Then from each one of those, the designer chooses a contest that may interest them, reads and follows the requirements set by the customer. Then the customer chooses from the designs submitted (which may be in the 100s) and awards one ($$).

99 Designs is the #1 online marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design, with a new design uploaded every 6 seconds and over $19,000,000 paid out to the design community in just 3 years.

As a graphic design student, I have thought about joining in. With hopes of getting paid for some design work. There is only one problem. I would be going against top, experienced, pro graphic designers! Though I would be thrown in to the lion pit, I would gain so much experience. So my dilemma has been to join or not. Right now I have the time to work on some designs. So it might work. But once I get back into full-time classes in the fall it might be hard.

Is there anyone out there (who is a graphic design student, on their way to their Bachelors Degree) who has joined 99 Designs? Any comments or  insight views would be appreciated!