Staying on top with “Childrens Art”

Etsy is a great place for crafters–if you’re a person who makes cool things (be it clothes, paper goods, and anything else) then Etsy is a great place for you. But sometimes it’s really tough to get exposure there, which is unfortunate since it has so much built-in site traffic.

I’ve started a new routine of [...]

Adventures in Print Scanning, Part Trois

So, as some of you may know, I’m no longer relying on my not-so-awesome scanner to create product pics for the prints. Instead, I’ve opted to use the Texturizer filter on Photoshop (or on GIMP) to achieve a similar effect with more true-to-life colors. So far, so good.
But yesterday I wanted to experiment a little [...]

Adventures in Print Scanning, Part Deux

About a week ago, I told you guys about how I had found the end-all-be-all-super-cool solution to getting accurate pics of prints for my listings. As it turns out, it’s not necessarily such an awesome solution. There are many good things about scanning–in my case, it seemed like the best way to get the texture [...]

Adventures in Print Scanning

Boy, did I have a tough time yesterday. I spent the bulk of the evening figuring out ways to photograph and/or present prints for product pics. It certainly didn’t sound like something that would turn out to be so difficult.
For Roy, I had just been using the original JPEGs as my product pics, but I [...]

Meet Dexter

Dexter is a patient monster that lives unnoticed among your floorboards. His job is to put himself in your path so he can get you in trouble. Remember that time you stayed out too late and tried to sneak in without making a noise? That loud creaking board that woke your parents up wasn’t just [...]

First Digital Print!

I do have a few prints available on Etsy, but this is the first time I’ve ever offered a digital print. Part of it is that I’m finally confident enough in my art to offer it not just as a journal (which is functional) but as a print (which is only as functional as the [...]