Hello and welcome to design and business conversations for creatives. I'm Cheyney
and today I'm going to be sharing with you my Society6 process. In this video I
will share a screen recording where I expose my process and hopefully help
you to make some sales. I started including the time stamps in
all my description boxes below. You can also find any links that I mention in
this video, and be sure to check out my other videos if you're interested in all
things design and business. I'm going to show you my complete Society6 process,
from creating my artwork, turning it into a seamless pattern design on Adobe
Illustrator, and then uploading it into Society6 including dimensions and
specs. If you don't use Adobe Illustrator for your artwork for
Society6, this first part of the video won't be relevant to you. Just go down to
the description box and click the time stamps below, I'll separate the video so
you can just get to the exact information that you need. If you are an
Adobe Illustrator person and you don't know how to make seamless pattern
designs, this is a quick tutorial of how I do it. If you do find this part of the
video interesting or useful, please let me know in the comments because screen
recording and audio, this is the first time I've ever done it, but is something
that I can do more of if you find it helpful.
I drew this tulip on my iPad pro using my Apple pencil on Adobe Draw. If you
have a Creative Cloud subscription and that's how you use Illustrator, Adobe
Draw will come with that, and if you have an iPad it's free to download. I highly
highly recommend that you get on to it. Also, an Apple pencil is amazing, it's
been an absolute game changer for me. The reason why I like Adobe Draw over Procreate,
a lot of people will use Procreate, is that it actually turns the artwork into
vector artwork, and you can import it directly into Illustrator and it's just
been an absolute game changer because I used to use the pen tool, I love the pen
tool, and this has just honestly saved me so much time, because I can just use my
pencil and everything's converted to vector artwork and
it's super super easy. So how I create seamless patterns is I will grab my
artwork here, I have my art board which is Shift+O, 8192 points by 8192
points, which is a little bit of a random size, but anyway, it's the biggest that
Adobe Draw will allow me to have my artboard, so I have it on that on my iPad
because sometimes I will upload my artwork directly from my iPad onto
Society6, and it's big enough to cover most products, however, it won't cover
curtains and duffle bags, and there's a couple of other products that it won't,
but if I upload it and I'm on the go, say I'm visiting my family down in
Wellington, I can take my iPad and I can upload on the go. What I want to do is I
want to get this into a seamless pattern, and I'll do my best to explain this but
anyway, I have my snapping on. This mustard rectangle is exactly the same
size as my artboard and I need to make sure that it's centred, align to
artboard, centre it, yep, perfect. And this is just all going to happen quite
quickly and easily with snapping on. I'll show you after this how I test it out to
make sure everything works. So I'm just going to bring it up here, and it's going to snap,
match up the arrows in pink, and that should be right on that corner. And I'm
going to duplicate the flower, and drag it, holding shift all the way to the
other corner. So I know that I need to work within the space, so then I'm just
going to duplicate these flowers, holding down option + shift, and then Apple + D,
duplicate it, select all, align to selection this time, and horizontal
distribution. So there we have our first row. I'm going to go ahead and group it,
and then option until that double arrow comes down, I can pull it down like that,
but I want it in a straight line, so I'll hold down shift, and match up that
black cross with the centre cross. Easy, easy, easy.
Do that again, drag it down and snap to the bottom. So I want these off the
artboard, so essentially this corner here, needs
to match up with this corner here. I want some in the middle, but I actually want
three, I don't want to, I want them to stagger, so I could just keep it a four,
move it up, but I actually want it as three, so I'm going to ungroup it, get rid of one, oh,
get rid of one, group the rest, and then centre it to the artboard this time like
that, so there we go. I want to make sure these are even, so again I'm going to go
through, group, I'm sure there's an easy way to do that, make sure these are all grouped,
select them all, and then align to selection. So I want to distribute
vertically, you see that came down a little bit, and those should be all
evenly spaced. Group them all and then make sure they're aligned to centre and
horizontal. which they are. But now I need to crop them, so I do this with a clipping
mask, so just take the back, duplicate it, object, arrange, bring to front, align to
artboard, centre it, and then hold down shift, select the flower pattern and square,
and then command + 7 which is clipping mask, which you can do up here as well in
object, clipping mask make. So then I'm going to group those, scale them down
until they pop, snap, and then duplicate, duplicate again, and that should be all
perfect. Let's test it out. Let's get right in there, yep, that is seamless. I
could continue that process forever and ever if I wanted, I could take that down,
you know, I can kind of make the pattern as big or as little as I want, but I
do like it that size. So what I'm going to do now is file + save and then I'm
going to export it, file + export, export as, and I export, for Society6, I export
as a PNG, and at 200 PPI. So it defaults to screen
at 72, there is medium, but I found that 200 is the best, 300 will never save, its
it lags and it takes forever to save, and I don't know how much difference it
makes, but I have found that this is the way. White or transparent, it doesn't
matter because it has a background, and I click OK.
So once that saves, and I have a position for it, right here, it's on my desktop, I
click sell. So I will go onto the artist studio, last time I did a video I was
kind of bagging the artist studio, and was saying that I always go back to old
artist studio, and I still do this, but not with patterns, I find with patterns, this
one here is absolutely fine. With this dot drawing of a shark, I would have
used the old studio. Go up here, and add new artwork. So once I click add new
artwork, I can select the file, it's on my desktop, drag it straight in, and this
should be big enough to cover all the products. Say if I was just to upload the
flower, I would have to resize it for different products, but having a pattern
is really handy, and what I really like about it is the wallpaper, because this is
seamless, this could legitimately be a wallpaper that will wallpaper an entire
house, with no mismatched seams and the designer in me loves that. So anyway
upload that, and enter a title, for me this is a minimal Scandinavian, oh you
get a little insight into how I spell, I have to say things phonetically to
spell them properly, anyway minimal Scandinavian tulip flower motif repeat
pattern. So then I'm going to go continue, I represent, yes, does not contain mature
artwork, continue.
So while this is all uploading, because it can take quite a while, go down,
graphic design, digital pattern, and those don't really work so I kind of start
with the tags, a lot of people do a load of research with tags, but I haven't found
in Society6 that it matters for me, my work for whatever reason is being seen on
Society6 over any other print-on-demand website that I'm on, so this is what
works for me. I just kind of write exactly what it is and think, okay, so who
is going to be wanting this design? Probably someone who is into Scandi style so
that might be a keyword, Scandinavian inspired, flower,
floral, flowers, mustard, minimal aesthetic, it's contemporary, it's bright, home decor,
I think that people who are interested in home decor would be interested in
this pattern, you have to think of the user and what are they going to type
into Society6 when they're looking for artwork, are they going to say floral
pattern wallart, or fun flower drawing, so drawings one, drawing, illustration, modern,
so you get up to 20 keywords and I suggest you use all of them, wall art,
mustard retro, seamless pattern. Take the title,
select all, Apple + A, and then copy, Apple + C, copy V, minimal Scandinavian, and
now I might add inspired in there, so you want to make this a sentence that makes
sense, but also contains keywords that are key to your artwork, so minimal
Scandinavian inspired tulip flower motif repeat pattern,
seamless repeat pattern designed in Auckland, New Zealand, by Design by Cheyney.
So that's just if anyone searches Design by Cheyney, it can be
linked back to here. Save details, I represent that everything is mine, and
then I'm just going to go through and turn everything on, and a reason why I don't
like this new artists studio, and you can always toggle back to the old one, is
sometimes the buttons kind of toggle on or off, you see that that happened up
there, now they're a bit tricky like that but I think,
yep, see, there's a lag, if you just be patient they will toggle back so
just click them once, but we can always go back and check them. So my
process is I just go and turn everything on, make sure everything looks good, and
obviously you can go in and edit, and you can scale things up or down and move
them, but because it's a repeatable pattern it's super easy,
it just goes onto everything, no drama, fuss free, great, love it, perfect.
Okay I already want that travel mug.
So once I've toggled them all on, I just scroll back up and check that they're
all on, the leggings for whatever reason take forever to show up but because it's
a seamless pattern, I know it's gonna be absolutely fine,
I trust that that will look good. Some of these are really cute, look at this top.
Everything's on, and that's it. Then all I do is publish artwork and boom, another
one in the store. So if I go view my shop, I now have 119 designs. Easy as that. Took
me under half an hour. I don't always do patterns, as you can see, but repeat
patterns have been really popular for me, and I find them very easy to upload so.
I hope this was helpful, and if you want to see anything else just let me know in
the comments and I'll see what I can do. I hope this has been helpful for you,
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