A couple of month in the past, the pandemic was nonetheless fairly massive in The Netherlands the place I stay. We had been nonetheless in a partial lockdown and on sure days, I used to be feeling unmotivated. Till that was, a fellow inventive instructed me she was organising an Etsy workshop for a small group of individuals. She runs a profitable Etsy store herself and wished to share her experiences with others. I used to be simply contemplating switching to Etsy once more, for the reason that on-line webshop on my web site wasn't actually working. The timing was excellent!
The Etsy workshop turned out to be extraordinarily helpful. Afterwards I felt energised once more. I had simply made an illustration of two croissants within the form of the Chanel emblem which labored rather well as a poster. I offered a number of, however then issues grew to become quiet once more…
On the workshop I'd realized that constantly promoting on Etsy is one thing that takes an actual time funding and doesn't occur in a single day. I needed to preserve engaged on my store and including new merchandise to make it work. Throughout a brainstorm session somebody stated 'why not print your artwork on T-shirts'. And I started to consider printing them on different material merchandise as properly… I let the T-shirt concept move for now, however I got here up with the plan to print the croissants illustration on cotton tote baggage.
And THAT sparked extra creativity! I may really feel the power streaming again in. All of the sudden I had a number of concepts for illustrated canvas baggage. Like a sequence with 'What's In My Bag' , based mostly on totally different cities. And one with e book covers, that includes literary classics like The Nice Gatsby. All these new concepts hadn't been there earlier than.
It's fascinating how new tasks can convey a lot power! And generally, you want somebody or one thing else to get that course of began. I seen that speaking to different creatives, relieves and buddies to toss round concepts is much more vital in instances like these than it’s already in regular circumstances.
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Click on right here for the store of fellow inventive Stefanie, who gave me the workshop.