Shop Talk
The Shop is up and so is my self confidence!
Setting up an online store is a little bit more complicated than most people think. At least for myself, its been difficult.
I am not a fashionista by any means and getting some merchandise online like art prints just seemed to be so difficult.
There is DPI you have to learn about, getting hi resolution photos of your art with good lighting, figuring out profit margins, what is going to sell and what is not going to sell, and on and on and on.
My only solution to get through all of the thinking was to just flippin start.
No hesitation
No “making it perfect first”
No contemplating
I got tired of all the ideas for a store just sitting there in my head causing me grief.
Being an artist is at my core, so making things perfect drives me, but sometimes that doesn't work for other things outside of painting.
I made a vow to step outside of my comfort zone (and I mean seriously step the F out of it!) and explore other ways of getting my art out there.
To be completely honest I am tired of being a starving artist stuck on being a purist. Some view “starving artist” romantically… Well I ain't trying to write a romantic novel. Sometimes the way us artists romanticize the struggle is toxic to living a good healthy life.
I am not trying to die penniless with a missing ear now.
Jumping into action of being in business and just failing until I'm sailing is the only way I can think of becoming successful.
Nobody is watching or really cares anyway… And that used to be bother me until I realized that is the greatest gift I could really ask for right now.
No one is really watching my failures.
No one even cares about my failures.
I can make as many mistakes as I want right now until I get it right!
So thats what im going to do. And if you know who I am truly… you know I dont quit until I get something right.
So, im going to keep stepping out that comfort zone. Hell, im going to jump out of it! And if things end up silly or what the kids like to say “cringe” then so be it. I will figure out how to have a self sustainable art career that I am proud of.
A$AP Rocky once said
“Suck a D***! Ain’t nobody give a F*** about what you do… Since when has it become not cool to try??? F*ing loser. Matter of fact suck another D***.”
Pure poetry if you as me.
Get out there and try my friends. And I mean really F*ing TRY!!!
Its amazing what you find you're capable of, or who you could become.
Stay in the Light yall!
