there
is nothing better than that feeling when
you get an
email saying yay you sold something
online
especially when you are trying to sell
patterns on
a micro sites like pattern bank
so as you can see here just for full
transparency
these are some of the designs that i
have sold on pattern bank
and they pay pretty well as you can see
here
it really depends on the type of license
that is bought
here this person bought a commercial
license and is paying 35
euros for it so this will come through
to my paypal account
in just a few days and will be converted
to dollars
at that point you can see who bought
your design and
if you click over on the client just to
show you real quick you don't really get
a whole lot of information so
i'm not sure why pattern bank has put
that there
for us but maybe in the future there'll
be a way to dm or follow up with some of
our
repeat customers that would be so so
amazing
now you can see over here where people
have bought the extended license and
um i've earned a little bit more money
for an extended license rather than a
commercial one
and you can see as uh how some of these
designs have
repeatedly sold so that's the nice thing
about selling on a site like pattern
bank
is that you can sell a design over and
over again
now i haven't had a ton of sales on
pattern bank and
part of the reason for this is because i
upload
really randomly so i want to take you
through
how to be successful on pattern bank
according
to pattern bank so for example
you can sign up for their email list and
you will get a designer newsletter every
single month
that tells you what the designed trends
are which is super super helpful
and let me just expand this a little bit
more
and so you get to see all of the trend
research that pattern bank has actually
done
and use that to your advantage for
upcoming seasons like here we have
spring summer 2021 coming soon
and you can head over to their link to
pattern bank
trends to see which trends are hot right
now so if you are wondering
what the heck is selling on their site
or you don't even know what to design
make sure to look at the pattern bake
trends to get an
idea now for autumn winter 2020 and 2021
they're showing you that organized
florals are hot as well as a jungle
warrior
and some other things now if you scroll
down
a bit coming down to designer advice
so this is going to really really help
you be successful on
pattern bank and their number one thing
which i've been terrible about
is regular uploads designers that are
uploading frequently gain higher
sales keep your profile fresh by
uploading new designs that follow a
trend or have a commercial edge that's
super important
if you're selling on a site like pattern
bank this is not the place to try to be
the most original artist in the world or
to try to be a fine artist
try to make sure that your designs are
super commercial
newest uploads will be seen on the first
page of the studio so unlike
you know sites like our apps like
instagram or some of our social media
platforms that use a sophisticated
algorithm
pattern bank is pretty basic with its
feed
so newest uploads will be seen on the
first page of the studio so that's why
it's really really important to be
uploading regularly
now the second piece of advice they give
is to edit update or delete
we have 50 000 plus designs on the
studio so get your design seen with new
uploads
work like a professional design studio
and add-on
new on-trend designs and also go back
and edit
update or delete designs that are not
selling
and make sure you make use of their new
product masks
now what this does is show your pattern
on different products and they've
uploaded some new ones so that's super
cool
so that the client whenever they're
browsing the site they can
get an idea for what your pattern would
look like
on a basic industry so if they're into
swimwear they can kind of get a basic
idea of what your pattern and scale
would look like on a bathing suit
if they're doing something more like you
know drinkware or cell phones or home
decor they can get an idea for that as
well
number three and i've wondered about
this a lot so i was really excited to
get this
september update is that premium designs
are selling very well
at the moment again upload new on trend
designs
please make sure that premium designs
are not similar to any standard designs
already on your profile
now my advice here would be to make sure
that it's at least
35 percent different but it makes sense
why the premium designs would be selling
really well on pattern bank because
basically a premium design operates the
same way as a buyout so i'll explain
that a little bit more in just a minute
so hang on
tight the fourth one is copyright please
ensure that you only use your own
artwork and design elements that should
be
a pretty standard so we can skip that
just make sure you're not plagiarizing
quality quality quality always be sure
that your design uploads are of high
quality please double check that there
are no repeat errors no rough edges
and psd files are layered and that the
designs
can be edited and make sure that tags
are
relevant and categories are relevant
number six add extra assets grab buyers
attention and earn extra money with
extra
assets this could include original
drawings so if you
had a sketch or you know work
traditionally before you moved it to
digital you can definitely include the
original drawings you can add extra
elements additional colorways
and color breakdowns use the adobe color
app for this
always mention added assets in the
description box because this helps your
designs get that extra
boost over another design another
number seven tip is to get social post
your work on instagram to spread the
word and share your beautiful
designs we have 88 000 followers on
instagram now hashtag your designs
pattern bank and
new on pattern bank so we can re-post
the strongest designs
so getting exposure to over 88 000
followers is going to be
a lot of exposure for your pattern and
buyers i'm sure
are following pattern bank on instagram
and
making sure you know what the newest
trends are
and newest designs are and pattern bank
has already kind of filtered this out
for them so i'm sure they're paying
attention to that
and as an fyi this newsletter is from
september of 2019
so they probably have way more than that
now but this newsletter was just really
great because it had all
seven tips on how to sell on pattern
bank so let's go over to their website
now and just take a look
on what actually first let's go over the
october 2020
top seller tips there aren't as many on
this one but i just wanted to show you a
a more relevant newer newsletters so
the newsletter for this year is
obviously it's been a challenging year
but
we're hoping that creativity will get us
through this right now what is selling
graphic florals abstract
texture nature prints tropicals painted
florals tie dye
and simple florals how to increase
sales make sure you sign up for their
newsletter because this is going to help
you sell
frequent uploads as we already discussed
designers
so this hasn't changed right from 2019
about a year ago
designers that upload more frequently
achieve a much higher sales
buyers always want the newest freshest
designs
get researching to find out what prints
are trending at the moment
quality cells of course make sure the
design uploads are of high quality
like we just mentioned and keep clear of
copyright infringement and pretty
basic advice um and then they go through
some of the
design trends for october 2020
magic mushrooms and then you can click
here to explore
all of the trends if you're like am not
going to do mushrooms you can explore
the other trends and kind of see what
else
is appealing to you and is also
commercial and relevant to the market
right now you can also check out the
spring and summer 21 pattern print
pattern highlights from recent
runway shows and note the
studio updates okay so let's go over to
their website right real quick and see
kind of what's going on over on their
website i'm just going to click on the
home page
and if you remember they were saying
that
premium designs were selling really well
as of september 2019
and because it has its own category here
on the
uh you know on the link bar here then
that tells me that premium is selling
really really really well
and what is premium it operates a lot
like a buyout so there's standard
designs
you have premium and you have standard
if you just click on designs here
it's mostly just going to be standard
designs but since we clicked on premium
all of these designs are exclusive so
that means
let's say i'm a buyer and i'm scrolling
and scrolling and i'm like oh this is
really cute
let me click on this and i can buy this
pattern for 350.
that's a pretty good price it's cheaper
than going
than buying things like at a trade show
it might be priced a little bit higher
than that
but i can you know scale this artwork up
and down
i can see it on different products
mocked up
and so depending on my industry i'm like
okay like now i can really understand
this design
i get a good idea of it and if i buy
this
for 350 then that means it's an
exclusive
license which means it can only sell one
time
and that's really really really great
for companies because that means that
another company once i buy this design
my competition
can't come in and buy it the same way i
would so
you don't take that risk of multiple
companies buying it but you do get a
higher price point so that's great for
the artist
it's great for the company um it really
just depends on
you know what their budget is and
everything
so you can see how this artist titled it
because it showed up really quickly it's
probably a newer design as they
mentioned
uh newer designs show up first but it
she calls it a vintage
he or she i'm not sure vintage themed
abstract floral pattern
on navy background for women's apparel
children baby
nursery gift and home decor full
downloads will include
a jpeg 300 dpi the psd file layered and
a transparent png
pattern to change the background color
so that's what she's include i'm
assuming it's a girl i don't know why
maybe just because it's a floral could
be a dude oh no it's by nina so it is a
woman
um so that's what she's including in
this you know as they said uh if you
want to
you know make your pattern even more
valuable you can add a different
colorways
for me i found that adding a bunch of
assets
didn't necessarily help my pattern
sell better of course that's just my own
experience and
you know my my take is kind of that if
it's the right pattern for a company
they're gonna buy it you know and then
they can do their own colorways if
you're providing the psd file
um or the ai file so um and she adds it
all here there's not a vector or eps
file but you can see what all the files
are here
so um that's really nice about pattern
bank and
you don't have to wonder about how to
price your work because they price it
for you
so if you can see over here we can
you know look at all the different
categories within premium you can click
on all designs or
you can click on your industry if you're
a buyer so that really helps
people in different companies shop as an
artist if you go over and click on
trends again you can see kind of this
magic mushrooms trend you can see
some different trend flashes which i
imagine is probably
something they've started to notice
coming up um
and then these trends are probably
really well researched
and so you can go in and explore some of
these trends
in order to kind of see what is the most
relevant thing that you can be
uploading to their website so again my
advice would be
be consistent and pay attention to the
trends
if we go over and click on catwalk we
can kind of see some of the highlights
from
the spring and summer for 2021 so you
can kind of get a good idea of
where they're getting some of their
information
for these trends so it's not just coming
out of nowhere
they are really coming everything really
comes from runway when it comes to
trends so that is pretty much the scoop
on
pattern bank i hope that you are super
successful on pattern bank and try to
just
stay consistent so i also wanted to
quickly let you know that if you go
over to my website and click on classes
i have a free new mini course called art
style secrets so if you're looking to
develop your own
art style definitely check out this free
course it is
three different lessons and it is um
just an entryway
into a larger program called art style
academy so you can
sign up by entering your name and email
address here and just
clicking on enroll and you will get an
email in your inbox
with the link to all three lessons
so check out that and also i wanted to
invite you to
enjoying our free facebook group called
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