Girl, you’re giving us something in return! For example 70 videos and counting packed with helpful advice and entertainment - and I know from experience how much work can go into creating even one video. Then there's your shorts, your Twitch streams and of course your art. Please start a Patreon and let me throw my money at you. Do it! DO IT NOW!
This is an outstanding Business 101 video. Literally could be used for its insights into the whole process of creating an online business from marketing, production, planning... 10/10
Graphical programmer here, getting colors on print is next to impossible without trail and error. RGB/CMYK are only technical representation of colors. Besides obvious issues like gamma/luminosity that will cause colors to appear much brighter, screens also have different color gamuts that will cause difference in saturation (200 on AdobeRGB could be a 255 on sRGB), diodes (OLED vs IPS vs LED), and other problematic stuff that turn everything into clusterf*ck. Similar issues are occurring on printer side too
thanks for the motivation! I've been selling stickers for about a year now and have only shipped a handful of them, 50 sales is amazing, ima keep at it!!
this inside on how things are done is so cool! helps a lot to see the process as an artist that also wants to start making a living out of this! I hope I can support you eventually! It would be great to see more content like this and START THE PATREON!!! do it do it do it!!
For me who also started a sticker business irl. It isn’t hard, you will make money from the people online and offline who support you but that’s it. This isn’t about expectations. But the cost of sticker print on demand is expensive compared to cost of printing in bulk. Plus shipments etc as mentioned in the video. A person whom I know who runs a print factory also gave me this advice. Sticker is a good merch as an add on not as a stand alone. If it works for you great but if it doesn’t consider keeping it as an add on merch instead and it should do you better. I did take this advice of theirs personally and ran a sticker print on demand along with commission prints as posters and T-shirts and it is doing me better. Hope this info helps someone out there.
I follow you on basically every platform, watch almost every stream and yet somehow missed that you're selling stickers. Next month you'll be rich(er).
As someone who did this similar route to making a living on my art this was so well done. Instead of having companies make my stickers I decided to do them in house but this is great for those getting started!
Patreon has a shop option now too, though I think it's mostly for digital stuff. Otherwise, depending on whether or not you have a strong enough following where people are willing to donate to you (which you do given the nearly 395K subscriber count on TH-cam), Patreon can be either a blessing or a curse-they're still a middleman, so they take a cut of EVERY pledge and purchase people make when you use them.
10:19 Here's a suggestion, why not have Patreon-exclusive 1 panel comics? Maybe 2-3 a month? Just make 'em about something silly in your everyday life.
the essential part of making money from art is not being a ghost in other words popular enough for people to care pretty much without that you are lost cause thats the dark reality
The point of Patreon is so that people can be your patron. They give you money so you'll be able to keep living and thus creating the content that they enjoy. So you would be giving them something in return. Imagine a mayor who kept their city pristine, well funded, and everything working smoothly saying that they didn't feel they should be paid with the taxes because they should have to give the period something in return for their money. Because apparently ensuring the place where those people live is in good condition isn't giving the people something. The same for you: you being people content that they can enjoy.
the patreon could have rewards like a sticker pack for a certain tier or paintovers for a more expensive tier, there are many ways to make it more rewarding for the subscribers and i think you should consider opening it!!
This channel just randomly started haunting my dreams by filling my page with uwu expressions of your face and it has now somehow became a part of my schedule wth.
I was thinking about this I wanted to start doing this in 2025 but I got a really bad art block with everything I do, crochet, drawing, 3D modelling It’s rough 😞 I hope this will motivate me or something!!!
print media is such a nightmare and so many companies are all flying by the seat of their pants. This is the real reason why artists just do this stuff by themselves, because quality control has so. many. variables. It's nearly impossible for a larger print shop to fit what you want. Use them only at scale.
Ideas for patreon: exclusive hi-res versions of your art, early access to videos, a tier that gets monthly stickers, access to a private discord server... there's a lot you can do.
Color management as a whole can be a pain for external print services. Can’t count how many times I failed to check print gamut as a photographer and wind up with dark prints
Make a Patreon! you actually ARE giving us something in return, which is youtube and twitch full time. It means more content for us, more of your drawings online for us to see, and the fact that we feel entertained by watching you, and some people may feel less alone in your streams and videos. So, we can flip that rationale: If you are doing this full time, we should give you something in return!
Crazy that i watched a Monster Hunter Sunbreak speedrun right before watching this only for Pikat to bring up MH again in an otherwise completely unrelated video. 😂
The video is titled How I Make Money from Art, not "how can you make money from art". Is it supposed to be some sort of uncomfortable truth that you need an audience if you are trying to sell some kind of merch?
Thank you for this video! I'm currently producing a few stickers (3 designs printed so far), but I need to face first the German bureaucracy before selling them. Let's see
i think the most important thing to actually sell or make money through art is to have a decent audience, which i think needs a lot of time and also "luck". Otherwise even if u make the sticker or any merchandise, who's gonna buy it if u don't have a decent audience?
This is so cool. Tbh, dealing with customers freaks me out cuz "what if I cant deliver something on time" or "what if spend all this money to get everything set up but can't sell anything". Do you have any advice on how to overcome this anxiety?
Make a Kofi with your brush presets and some shape tutorials and leave the upper cost uncapped. I'd buy mini lessons and brushes from you! Lean into the fact that you are an educator here!
the people who would give you money through patreon like your content so much that they want to financially support you, i think that you'd be giving them back enough by just continuing to make content as you are :)
Hiii I'm wondering about copyright of making stickers, yes us artists draw them but while drawing characters from anime shows are we aloud? Say we draw a chibi from a show, would we be able to sell that without copyright? How much would we be able to change to avoid issues, thanks :)
The way it was described to me was that you can sell fan art and chibi versions but technically because it's still someone else's character it's copyright which means they could shut you down, but generally it doesn't happen too often I don't think? At least that's how I heard it. If it is a problem companies will usually send a cease and desist letter I think, they won't sue you or anything but I think at that point is when you'd wanna stop. I've seen people sell adventure time stickers and stuff like that with fun twists like making them chibi or doing it in your own style which helps differentiate between a companies product and your own. (Im in no way a professional at anything like this, this is all just what I've heard from others!) Hope this helps!
In Germany you can't sale fanart :/ we have a strict law for it and Nintendo will cancel it soon as they see it. Poorly .. Other companys too, of course
"If you place a small value on yourself, rest assured, the world will not raise your price." reconsider doing a Patreon you don't want to blow though your savings and not have it if you really need it.
START that patreon! You need money to live. Don't want you to disappear, your content is so inspirational. 😭
FR I would gladly support someone who’s content helps and motivates me
Kofi gives creators a bigger cut
@@pieperson444 big cut in the sense a raise or a decrease
@@pieperson444 there's a platform that gives the full cut
Don't know how them peeps profit after letting the creator get the full cut, but I'm sure they have their ways.
Girl, you’re giving us something in return! For example 70 videos and counting packed with helpful advice and entertainment - and I know from experience how much work can go into creating even one video. Then there's your shorts, your Twitch streams and of course your art. Please start a Patreon and let me throw my money at you. Do it! DO IT NOW!
This is an outstanding Business 101 video. Literally could be used for its insights into the whole process of creating an online business from marketing, production, planning... 10/10
Graphical programmer here, getting colors on print is next to impossible without trail and error.
RGB/CMYK are only technical representation of colors. Besides obvious issues like gamma/luminosity that will cause colors to appear much brighter, screens also have different color gamuts that will cause difference in saturation (200 on AdobeRGB could be a 255 on sRGB), diodes (OLED vs IPS vs LED), and other problematic stuff that turn everything into clusterf*ck. Similar issues are occurring on printer side too
Hell yeah get that bag Pikat!
The wet-rag-in-a-bowl-instead-of-licking-glue-50-times tech is crazy, I will remember this for the future haha.
thanks for the motivation! I've been selling stickers for about a year now and have only shipped a handful of them, 50 sales is amazing, ima keep at it!!
Can’t wait to buy them Pikat! I’m so excited to show them off to my friends
this inside on how things are done is so cool! helps a lot to see the process as an artist that also wants to start making a living out of this! I hope I can support you eventually! It would be great to see more content like this and START THE PATREON!!! do it do it do it!!
Being a content creator is so hard :') I'm proud of you Pikat!
Thanks for sharing your story.
Wow nice video pikat LOVE FOR YOU AND YOUR EDITOR ❤️❤️❤️
So happy to see the progress! Thank you for the information to this topic. I'm even more ready than before to take on merch designing, thank you.
For me who also started a sticker business irl. It isn’t hard, you will make money from the people online and offline who support you but that’s it.
This isn’t about expectations. But the cost of sticker print on demand is expensive compared to cost of printing in bulk. Plus shipments etc as mentioned in the video.
A person whom I know who runs a print factory also gave me this advice. Sticker is a good merch as an add on not as a stand alone. If it works for you great but if it doesn’t consider keeping it as an add on merch instead and it should do you better. I did take this advice of theirs personally and ran a sticker print on demand along with commission prints as posters and T-shirts and it is doing me better. Hope this info helps someone out there.
I follow you on basically every platform, watch almost every stream and yet somehow missed that you're selling stickers. Next month you'll be rich(er).
I was thinking about making merch just NOW and your video popped. Yt algorithm might be in my walls but I'm glad bro, this was very helpful🫶
As someone who did this similar route to making a living on my art this was so well done. Instead of having companies make my stickers I decided to do them in house but this is great for those getting started!
My day is always a bit better when I see one of your videos on my feed! I hope someday I can make a pixel art model like the one you have, I love it!
The egg is so cute ugh
This is great Pikat. I ended up buying your pointing and fun before damental stickers. It’s great to support a fellow artist.
Patreon has a shop option now too, though I think it's mostly for digital stuff. Otherwise, depending on whether or not you have a strong enough following where people are willing to donate to you (which you do given the nearly 395K subscriber count on TH-cam), Patreon can be either a blessing or a curse-they're still a middleman, so they take a cut of EVERY pledge and purchase people make when you use them.
10:19 Here's a suggestion, why not have Patreon-exclusive 1 panel comics? Maybe 2-3 a month? Just make 'em about something silly in your everyday life.
just the right tutorial i need before i get into college tysmmm
the essential part of making money from art is not being a ghost
in other words popular enough for people to care
pretty much without that you are lost cause
thats the dark reality
That's right, I just noticed the new pfp. Best of luck on the grind.
You are giving them something! FREE entertaining content!!
Happy Lunar New Year
The point of Patreon is so that people can be your patron. They give you money so you'll be able to keep living and thus creating the content that they enjoy. So you would be giving them something in return.
Imagine a mayor who kept their city pristine, well funded, and everything working smoothly saying that they didn't feel they should be paid with the taxes because they should have to give the period something in return for their money. Because apparently ensuring the place where those people live is in good condition isn't giving the people something.
The same for you: you being people content that they can enjoy.
the patreon could have rewards like a sticker pack for a certain tier or paintovers for a more expensive tier, there are many ways to make it more rewarding for the subscribers and i think you should consider opening it!!
do you ship to europe? (specifically czech republic)
You should continue updating us on how your store is doing! It would be rly cool
Great video, it was very informative and well done!
This channel just randomly started haunting my dreams by filling my page with uwu expressions of your face and it has now somehow became a part of my schedule wth.
pikat counting racks in the thumbnail 😭
That tote bag in the beginning looks amazing... I'd buy it.
I was thinking about this I wanted to start doing this in 2025 but I got a really bad art block with everything I do, crochet, drawing, 3D modelling
It’s rough 😞 I hope this will motivate me or something!!!
print media is such a nightmare and so many companies are all flying by the seat of their pants. This is the real reason why artists just do this stuff by themselves, because quality control has so. many. variables. It's nearly impossible for a larger print shop to fit what you want. Use them only at scale.
Ideas for patreon: exclusive hi-res versions of your art, early access to videos, a tier that gets monthly stickers, access to a private discord server... there's a lot you can do.
Forgeting RGB vs CMYK for your first print is the most classic faceslap 😅
Color management as a whole can be a pain for external print services. Can’t count how many times I failed to check print gamut as a photographer and wind up with dark prints
Make a Patreon! you actually ARE giving us something in return, which is youtube and twitch full time. It means more content for us, more of your drawings online for us to see, and the fact that we feel entertained by watching you, and some people may feel less alone in your streams and videos.
So, we can flip that rationale: If you are doing this full time, we should give you something in return!
I just bought 2 as a thanks for helping me learn art 🙏
okay jojo reference in the first second ... im hooked
This is a lot of the reason I would just go to a POD service for this, not to mention in the US with the wonky sales tax laws
A Patreon would be a great idea!
There are many who would gladly be a patron of an inspirational artist like you Pikat .
Open one up & see how it goes
the fact I checked it out before the bunegg change and this vid ❤
Crazy that i watched a Monster Hunter Sunbreak speedrun right before watching this only for Pikat to bring up MH again in an otherwise completely unrelated video. 😂
love the video! Have you checked out ship station before? If you keep this up they might be a good option to help with all your shipping needs 👍
This only works if your work is marketable and already have a following
Hard to do with niche designs
The video is titled How I Make Money from Art, not "how can you make money from art".
Is it supposed to be some sort of uncomfortable truth that you need an audience if you are trying to sell some kind of merch?
stickers!,Yay!,Yippee!
God bless you, and may you have even more success :)
PIKAT MY GOATTTT
Waiting for your anime figure to drop, your character is really awesome
Thank you tor the video. Very informative
Thank you for this video! I'm currently producing a few stickers (3 designs printed so far), but I need to face first the German bureaucracy before selling them. Let's see
i think the most important thing to actually sell or make money through art is to have a decent audience, which i think needs a lot of time and also "luck".
Otherwise even if u make the sticker or any merchandise, who's gonna buy it if u don't have a decent audience?
The coincidence of seeing this video only a day after ordering a couple stickers
Best of luck with your endeavors! I also hear you regarding patreon.
Truly Nice 👩🎨
She is saving the art community ❤
This is so cool. Tbh, dealing with customers freaks me out cuz "what if I cant deliver something on time" or "what if spend all this money to get everything set up but can't sell anything".
Do you have any advice on how to overcome this anxiety?
I can’t believe how much value book Forbidden Gateway to Money Mastery delivers. It’s way too underrated
Is this a bot? What does this comment even mean?
@@pchris it’s a bot
that thumbnail needs more "Gangsta Spongebob" vibes.
I have never seen that blue-tailed skink artwork before
Make a Kofi with your brush presets and some shape tutorials and leave the upper cost uncapped. I'd buy mini lessons and brushes from you! Lean into the fact that you are an educator here!
Yay, I got some stickers!
the people who would give you money through patreon like your content so much that they want to financially support you, i think that you'd be giving them back enough by just continuing to make content as you are :)
SOMETHING IN RETURN!\?!
I will test the shipping to Canada :P
Time to go buy more stickers.
why did I watched this ad, anyway keep up the good work
yay new video!
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Clodburger plushie would be amazing
Hiii I'm wondering about copyright of making stickers, yes us artists draw them but while drawing characters from anime shows are we aloud? Say we draw a chibi from a show, would we be able to sell that without copyright? How much would we be able to change to avoid issues, thanks :)
The way it was described to me was that you can sell fan art and chibi versions but technically because it's still someone else's character it's copyright which means they could shut you down, but generally it doesn't happen too often I don't think? At least that's how I heard it. If it is a problem companies will usually send a cease and desist letter I think, they won't sue you or anything but I think at that point is when you'd wanna stop. I've seen people sell adventure time stickers and stuff like that with fun twists like making them chibi or doing it in your own style which helps differentiate between a companies product and your own. (Im in no way a professional at anything like this, this is all just what I've heard from others!) Hope this helps!
unspoken step 1: have a fanbase
I wonder if you could sort the shipping prices by distance so you wouldn't have to set each region
Egg bunny supremacy
Hell yeah
Nice profile picture👌👌
Hell yeah!
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You're making these videos for us to watch aren't you? I think a Patreon would be a nice idea.
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I have to question one thing: How can you sell a keychain of apex legends? There's no copyright for selling those things?
Why not print them locally? there should be few places in HK that makes sticker
Honestly peak
U deserve my money take all of it
Patreon allows you to give people exclusive content, so I think it would still be a fair deal
Aww man. I want to do the same. But I have to start from zero 😢
ᯓᡣ𐭩 GOOD VIDEO PIKAT KEEP GOING *LOVE FOR YOU AND YOUR EDITOR* ❤️❤️
Love it
In Germany you can't sale fanart :/ we have a strict law for it and Nintendo will cancel it soon as they see it. Poorly .. Other companys too, of course
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"If you place a small value on yourself, rest assured, the world will not raise your price." reconsider doing a Patreon you don't want to blow though your savings and not have it if you really need it.
U should try MAGNETS
As a developer how much web development did you made for your store?
I love your videoes
Mrs. Piket, can you please do a guide on paying taxes for doing comission in US?
W pikat commercial