Hi.
Hi, I'm James Brown, and welcome to Pattern Designers.
I hope you're having a great day wherever you are in the world.
NYC, Sydney, Melbourne, Geelong, New York, wherever you are, hope you're having a great
day.
In this video I'm going to walk you through a beginner's guide to how to sell on
Society6.
Be sure to stick around until the end to get our free textile design.
Cheat Sheet
Your niche on Society6.
Okay, to begin with I think it's best that you select a niche, preferably something that
you're really good artistically at producing, whether it be photo montages, illustration
of pigeons, or cars, or trucks, or dinos, whatever you're the best at, focus on that.
As well, what you enjoy illustrating, designing, graphic designing the most, choose that, and
your passion will show through your work.
For this example I'm going to choose kung fu cats.
My niche is kung fu cats.
So here we're at Society6.com.
What is Society6?
Society6 is an online shop where artists can upload their designs and sell them on multiple
products.
So here, we start off with wall art.
We've got art prints, framed prints, canvas prints.
We've got home décor and pillows and bedding.
We've got bathroom, shower curtains and mats, tech, like cases for your laptop, iPhones.
We've got stickers and notebooks and stationery.
We've got apparel, t-shirts and different items of clothing.
We've got tabletop, like coffee mugs, travel mugs, and we've got bags.
So there's a whole range of products that your artwork can go on as a designer, and
basically they'll sell the product.
You upload your artwork, they'll sell the product, and you as an artist get a percentage
of the sale.
Sign up and register on Society6.
We're here on Society6.
I'm going to go up to the join area and then sign up.
You can choose to discover art if you're just going to buy art, or upload art.
We're going to upload art, and then we're going to choose our username.
patterndesigners.
And the display name will be the same.
hello@pattern.com is going to be the email address.
I won't tell you the password.
And sign up.
So here I'm going to just click on get verified.
"In order to sell your artwork as art prints and other Society6 products or apply for a
collaboration Society6 you must be a verified member.
Verification is a one time process that must be completed through PayPal and costs $1.00."
So you have to pay $1.00 to be on this website.
"This verification process is important because this is how you get paid for your sales.
Verification also helps keep Society6 free from spammers and fraud.
After you are successfully verified members will see an ID verification icon," little
tick there on your profile page.
So I want to verify my identity now.
And so you have to stick your password in to PayPal to get verified, so I'll do that.
So once you pay your dollar on PayPal you get this message here, "Congratulations, you
have successfully completed Society6 ID verification."
So you have to pay through PayPal and get verified.
So next, I'm just going to go up to my profile.
Okay, so now I've just, it took me a little while to upload, I don't know why.
But I've just uploaded this panel here, which to change you edit the cover image, which
is 1000 pixels wide, and I also added an avatar.
So here's my URL, Society6.com/patterndesigners, I've got my page set up and I'm now ready
to ... I've already verified with PayPal, and now I'm ready to upload my first image.
Okay, so you're verified and ready to start selling.
I'd recommend you go to your profile page and go to upload now, and then check out this
information on here about your jpeg size that you should be uploading.
But check out this seller's guide down here which is really important.
Which will give you information about your rights to your work, and it gives you info
on how much you get per item sold, and then also the dimensions of each item.
Uploading artwork to Society6.
I'm going to get my image ready for Society6.
I'm going to do a document 6,500 pixels by 6,500 pixels, so that's the basis.
So I've got my artwork grouped, I'm going to copy that and I'm going to make a new document.
I'm going to type into these 6,500 by 6,500 pixels, and create, and then paste that in.
It's quite small, so just make sure that my scale is on ... Scale, strokes and effects,
transform both.
And so there we have Kung Fu Kitty ready.
I think what I might do is just double-click in there, I'm going to get rid of the tie
on his ... At the moment I'm just going to do it like that because it fits as a square,
it fits better.
And then I'm going to save as, let's have a look.
Desktop, Society6, Kung Fu Kitty 65px.
Saves Illustrator.
But then what I'm going to do is export as a jpeg, and just do it RGB 72dpi is good.
There we go, one Kung Fu Kitty.
It's got a little bit of a dot there, which I will get rid of before it's uploaded, and
there you go.
Ready.
So now I am ready to upload my first bit of artwork to Society6.
So what I'm going to do is go to sell, then it goes to this page where, "Ready to share
your art with the world?
Drop in a png or a jpeg at least 6,500 pixels, 72dpi."
So here is our artwork, and I own all rights.
"This post contains mature content," no.
So go to next step, and it's just going to go to the next step.
I'm going to title it Kung Fu Kitty, and it's digital.
Kung Fu Kitty.
So I'm just adding text.
Kung fu cat.
Cat.
Kitty.
Karate cat.
Karate kitty.
Okay, there we go.
So, Kung Fu Kitty loves to do kung fu.
So that's our description.
Right, I think we're all set there.
So title of artwork, Kung Fu Kitty.
Category, drawing.
And then we've got our tags down here.
We've got "Kung Fu Kitty loves to do kung fu."
Okay, continue to create product.
So one thing with creating products, this is the bit where you might want to resize
your artwork.
So it looks good for these three, it looks good for this one.
I'm going to turn that one on.
It looks a bit weird on this metal print, so I might want to resize for that, but I'm
not going to at the moment.
I'm just going to go through and all the ones that it looks awesome on, I'm going to okay
them.
So I'm going to hit publish, and let's go to view profile, see what comes up.
At the moment, let's have a look.
There's a little bit of a trick, when you first upload stuff it doesn't show you what's
there, so click on wall art, and then click back on all, and it should show all the products
that you've selected.
There we go.
Yeah.
I'm going to delete that one, I'm going to delete this one, and do pngs and reduce them.
Get social for Society6.
So to get started, share on the key players, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
Just get it out there.
Share it amongst your family and friends, and hopefully it will produce a bit more impact
in terms of selling your artwork on Society6.
Next, if you want to up your level in terms of sharing your content, sharing your designs
on Society6, I would recommend going to Google, Reddit, Blogger, Tumblr, Pinterest, LinkedIn,
LiveJournal, StumbleUpon and Digg, they're the key.
Rewind this if you didn't get all those, there might be some pops of logos going on.
I don't know what's happening, but they're the ones that you want to focus on sharing
your
content on.