hey guys so today I'm gonna show you how
I pretty much create my digital art or a
logo and put it on products and use a
site like Shopify to get it out to the
public so I'll take you I'll walk you to
the steps now this is how I do it
there's thousands of ways to do it I'm
just gonna walk you through how I do it
and why I use certain apps that I use
within Shopify so just to give you a
little bit of short story previously
started off with wordpress and wordpress
was lagging a lot like i found that the
site would load very slowly so I was
looking for an alternative and it's a
paid alternative it is $29 a month for
the basic plan but it's an investment
and if you want to get your online shop
you want to make sure that you're
getting what you pay for so it's it's
not always the free option that's gonna
work out for you I try to stick to that
philosophy as much as possible but
sometimes you just you just have to pay
the price especially when it comes down
to it you know it depends on how serious
you take your work or your art but if
you definitely want something that flows
smoothly and loads quickly Shopify is
definitely the way to go it's my
recommendation
it's what I'm using right now so I'll
just walk you through and we'll use my
site for a reference where a trolli
artist com
here you see my Zico logo and down here
you see primarily the art collections
that I have that are zico based and then
down here you have the product product
categories and how they're separated now
I'm not gonna get too detailed when it
comes to the layout and how to organize
the way that your art looks and because
there's tons of themes that you can get
for this what I specifically wanted to
walk you through was completing the
whole cycle from creating the art from
nothing ending up with something and
placing that something onto a product so
that you can ship it out to the world so
I use two places okay and they're
off-site so they're separate websites
one of them is called fine are America
and this is for all of my digital prints
my original art
and anything that has to do with
traditional art when you when you think
of the terms on canvas on poster prints
or you can even get it printed on
acrylic prints metal prints all kinds of
stuff but for for the art related stuff
I stick to fine art America I've been
with them for over seven years and it is
$30 a year so it is a paid subscription
but it's well worth it and my customers
get the art on time it ships between
three and five business days so I know
there's Big Cartel and there's like I
said there's thousands of websites that
you can use I'm just letting you know
how what I like to use and how I pretty
much roll with it so find our America
$30 a year that's where I put all of my
art prints if I'm doing something
digitally on Photoshop or on procreate I
digitize it it gets sent up to fine on
America comm and then they have a
third-party plugin or an app that you
can install in Shopify so that you can
display it it's like a widget for
example so that deals with the art that
takes care of all the art stuff for the
clothing there are several sites out
there again you have print of fun you
have print full there's a lot of debate
going on I'm not gonna get into it but
they pretty much do the same thing they
deal with the same brands the same
clothing manufacturers so I don't see
what the big debate is I have used both
I ended up going with print to 5 just
because I feel it's a lot the work flow
and and the the work space is a lot
easier and it's a lot smoother for me so
especially if you're by yourself if
you're the only person that you're
working with and you're just working for
yourself by yourself you need to be
spending time creating and not so much
worried about marketing networking and
dealing with all this other technical
stuff so the faster and smoother this
process can go for you you can get right
back to creating and that's where you
should really be that's that's your
that's your space you need to be in the
creative mode so you do need to switch
back and forth and I'm
saying that that's an easy transition
but something like this will definitely
make your transition smooth you'll be
going from creative mode creating your
canvases too you know uploading up to a
website like print fi or find out
America so back to the print fi here's
where all of my products are you can
just pretty much pick a t-shirt that you
like or any product that you like they
have tons of stuff here you can go and
find different accessories let me see
home and living for example you have
this in just the bathroom section you
have a shower curtain you have a towel a
bath mat I mean there's tons of stuff
you can do so let's say you just do
backgrounds with like polka dots or
whatever and that's your thing that will
work well versus a subject that has the
transparent background that that would
probably work best for like a t-shirt
but you can get creative with it print
defy is it's definitely meeting my
customers demands they pretty much
initiate the transaction I take the
customers money I pay for it once the
order comes into my Shopify I take the
customers money and I pay I process that
payment once I process the payment print
if I gets the order so now print if I
initiates the production it goes into
production and then it takes two or
three days three to five days to produce
depending on who you use for a print
provider and then once that gets done
they let you know hey it's in production
and it's finalized once that order gets
fulfilled you then go into into your
Shopify hit fulfilled and then the
customer that one to your site gets an
email that says hey the orders been
fulfilled here's a tracking number and
so forth so um print defies what I use
for all of my products and find out
America is what I use for all of my art
related stuff now I keep my original
stuff here in the studio so that kind of
stuff I just go to UPS FedEx or whatever
and then ship it directly to the
customer but again we're talking about
print on demand so it only gets printed
and it only gets produced
once it gets ordered so if a customer
were to go to my site and let's just
pick on the son tribe here we click on
son tribe it's going to open up the
collection of stuff that I've created
both on fine art America and on on print
if I like here for example these items
down here that were created using print
to file these items up here were created
on fine art America so if we just scroll
down here we can go on the cellphone
case it loads up on my website and then
right here you click on Add to Cart Buy
It Now whatever the case may be
it'll take the customer to the checkout
point well once I get that order and the
customer puts their credit card
information and I get the order the
orders received I then take the money go
into print if I initiate the production
they produce it they ship it and once it
ships I get an email I get a
notification saying that it's been
fulfilled which once that happens the
customer of mine who went on my website
they get a notification with a tracking
number depending on the product that
they purchase so let's go right back out
of here let's look at find out America
stuff now so this is the stuff that I
created and upload it to find our
America that gets pulled directly into
my site so here you have the zeeco Sun
tribe you can pick the frames did you
want so this is this is gonna be great
because it offers options to your
customer let's say you pick a 12 by 16
frame and then here you can preview what
it would look like on different colored
frames with different colored mattes
and your customer has options so once
they buy it again all of this happens in
the backend so you would need to sign up
for a fine art America account okay and
then you would need to sign up for a
print fi account once you have those two
you go to the websites of those two
places you go to those two websites you
register you sign up an account with an
email just like any other social network
and once you create your account you
start uploading your ping files for
print fi in other words your transparent
ping file you can use procreate you can
use Photoshop if you just know how to
you know do a basic transparent image or
in other words remove the box and just
so that way you have just the object you
can then take that ping file the PNG
file and upload it to print if I now on
find out America you can keep you can
keep since it's a piece of art you can
keep the borders so this this yellow
border for example I would have removed
it had I put that on a product in fact
I'm gonna zoom right back out go right
back to this phone and as you can see I
left a black background on the phone
case itself but I removed the yellow
that goes around the this son tribe art
so that's a perfect example of what I'm
talking about so it's gonna take a
little photo editing of yours on your
half but you can get it see here it is
again on a tank top so again it works
well if you remove the backgrounds it
works well for t-shirts and and things
of that sort
so okay so here it is with the yellow
removed because you know you don't want
a t-shirt with a box you know it's kind
of cheesy so and tacky so but definitely
on the art you want to keep the borders
so you have to go into Photoshop or
procreate or whatever design app that
you're using remove the transparent
remove the background create create your
transparent pink file and and just store
it somewhere in like a drop box or
something or a Google cloud or an iCloud
or whatever and that's about it so let's
see we're worried so we're on the
website your customer goes to your
website they find a product of yours
they they purchase it they initiate the
order once you receive that notification
you then have to process the payment
then print a file we'll get that
notification and put it into production
or find out America will get that
notification and put it into production
and then your product gets produce you
follow up with your customer and make
sure that everything goes smoothly
because now you're dealing with a
third-party print on demand sir
you want to make sure that the trust
between you and your customer remains as
strong as possible you want to keep that
and things do go wrong you know products
get misplaced shipments get delayed so
as long as you maintain the open lines
of communication between your customer
it's gonna be rewarding for the both of
youse to keep that relationship alive so
um let's see
so yeah print on demand using print fi
with and I'll take you this is the
actual website of print if I and we're
gonna go in there now and this is just a
basic Zico squint face t-shirt that I
created and then here you can choose
which color t-shirt you like you know
that you want to print on in this case I
have a transparent background I have my
white squint logo so I'm gonna choose a
darker to mid dark background or fabric
color and so and then you can order your
own samples so the cool thing about this
is if you order samples it's like half
price you know you pay half the cost and
then you get it so you can try out your
own product before you can start
promoting it and getting it out to the
public so I'm gonna go ahead and back
out of all this okay again this site was
created using Shopify I use a very basic
template I don't want it to be noisy
because a lot of my art is noisy so I
wanted the theme itself to be very
modern sleek and clean so so a lot of
the art is noisy like this um this is
eco son tribe here and a lot of the
teeth and sharp edges and abstract stuff
so again here you have the products this
is the basic squint face logo placed on
a various placed on various products
here you have one of my quotes which is
amazed and be amazed and this is all
done through print a file so let's back
out of here Shopify also has an app and
I have the app installed on my iPad Pro
and here are the apps that are installed
in Shopify and here you can see here's
my pixels app and here's my print if I
app pixels pull
information from fine art America okay
so this is the widget that allows your
information and your artwork from fine
art America to be displayed on your
Shopify store and printf I'd that's the
same thing there's printful there's
printf I like I said there's thousands
of ways you just got to pick one and run
with it pick one that feels most
comfortable for you because not
everybody's story is gonna be like yours
not everybody's path is gonna be like
yours I'm just here to pretty much shed
some light on the issue on how to get a
product from nothing to something and
then send it out to the world I'd be
interested in knowing in the comments
section below how it is it you guys push
your products out or sell your artwork
online and display it to the masses one
last thing I wanted to talk about is
this social autopilot it may take a
little while to load because that app is
heavy on the software okay so here we go
you just turn this master switch on and
what this does this is pretty neat if
you have a Twitter account or you use
other forms of social media you have
basically two avenues that you can go
and you can turn one or one on or keep
both off or whatever you can turn them
on as you please but what this basically
does is if you write blogs and you
generally blog and you like text and you
like typing and typing and you have
blogs on your website this this
notification will send it out to Twitter
on a cycle so like every 13 hours you
can put three or four posts and it'll
just Auto rotate between those posts and
you can also add hashtags and personal
messages so they give you about four
options here hey everyone working on my
Zico art brand just added and then it
says quote and colon brackets it says
product title to my online shop so what
that product title in brackets does is
it displays that actual product title
that I put on my product and it tweets
it out to people so this it just rotates
through my products you know and you
want to keep this at a minimal because
this is automated you want to you want
to maintain that human connection
and not feel so robotic but you do want
to get your stuff out so you got to find
a happy medium so that people don't get
annoyed and it doesn't feel so spammy so
but this does track right back to your
website so if you have a Twitter account
this will go right back to my Rolly
artists website where they can find that
product so you you want to eventually
with all your social media the goal here
is to pretty much bring them all into
your website and I guess that's it so
leave the comments section leave a
comment down below and let me know how
you guys promote your art how you guys
what you guys use what apps you guys use
I know Big Cartel is another big one I
haven't really tried there's tons of
them and the red bubble or red babble I
don't I don't know what what they call
it but yeah there's tons of them out
there so but again you know different
strokes for different folks I'm just
here to elaborate on the way that I do
it and why I use it and I've been with
them for a while I've been with fine art
America for seven years that's where the
whole journey started and then I
eventually got my website on WordPress
WordPress was was extremely lagging it
would load like it would take like four
seconds to load five seconds to load so
Shopify for me is definitely the way to
go and they also have the app there that
you can log into and check all of your
orders communicate with your customers
keep your analytics in check and
everything's in one little place so it's
definitely worth a while you should
definitely look into it let me know what
other videos you guys want to see I'm
gonna be doing some of these reviews on
the procreate and luma fusion in
particular I just got my iPad pro last
week so I look forward to doing tons of
reviews on the procreate it's an amazing
app by the way same thing with with luma
fusion the fusion is great I'm doing all
of my videos primarily the ones that I
put on YouTube I'm doing all of my
videos on luma fusion it expedites the
workflow it everything in this little
machine right here it's a portable art
studio and I'm in love with it so far
I'm still doing a couple of tests with
some other apps like over
that I that I that I recently downloaded
a lot of this adobe stuff that I've used
in the past this has a really cool
watercolor feature this is Adobe fresco
but we'll leave that for a later date I
just wanted to make a short video on how
I pretty much take a product from
nothing create it send it to Photoshop
open it up and procreate or vice versa
and then create something out of it once
I have that something and it's got the
borders I upload it to fine art America
and then there goes my art and then I go
back into the ping file and I remove the
transparency and I convert it into it so
I convert the jpg into a ping file and I
leave it at a high DPI
like I like to personally use 300 dpi
when it comes to print format anything
that's web can remain it like 72 dpi so
that that website that you're uploading
that graphic to can load fast so you
want you don't want to have you know
there's a little bit of image
optimization that you have to do for web
stuff you want to you want the picture
to remain clear like if you're just
gonna post it on Instagram and certain
platforms like certain social media
platforms have their own optimization in
hand so you can just upload whatever
JPEG you have and they're gonna convert
it and it still will look good but I
like to do everything from the source
itself that way it doesn't go through so
many steps and so many processes so I
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that's about it thanks for watching guys
Cheers