Topic: Silver Boar - Small Status Update - 27th September 2016 - page 2. (Read 67888 times)

I'm signing up to reddit! I've grabbed the subreddit "silverboarjewellery" and I will be posting updates and Jewellery photographs on there so I can spread the word I'm selling stuff.

http://www.reddit.com/r/silverboarjewellery/

Okay guys I've been learning how how to properly take photographs and edit them, I think I've got the editing correct but I'm going to do what I can next to reduce blurriness and get some better lighting because I think the rest of the problems in my photographs are down to the way I take my photos, let me know what you think of the newer stuff I'm posting up.

Small announcement guys, I am getting set up on Open Bazaar now that they've released the windows version! So if you want to use their system to trade with me using an arbiter/escrow on there then you can! All my items will be listed up on their as well as this thread, my main website and Etsy.

You know something? I totally forgot to post some amber earrings awhile back that I did and I've also got some teardrop amethysts that are on the way too and yey! I now have 8 listings on Etsy so I can now be searched for.

In that case I've got some pieces to finish! Oh and don't worry I'll fix the descriptions, these ones are just basic, thanks.

A couple of quick tips.

1. You need a minimum of 8 product listings before you will show up in etsy's internal searches, as well as their google shopping links.

2. Fill out your personal information. You don't need it to be factual, but you need to have something there with a picture. These women that frenzy on Etsy are big into that stuff. Make up a good story with a fake name if you want to remain anonymous.

3. Invest in a small light tent with photography lights. You can pick one up for around $20 on amazon. This will help stop the washing out of the colors in your photos. I would also recommend getting a grey card, and using a program such as Lightroom to post edit your photos. Alternatively, try using free sites such as picmonkey for the photos you already have taken (increase colors +white/black balance). The more your photos stand out, the more attention they will get. As it stands now, your photos don't represent the dramatic colors and superb craftsmanship of your items.

4. Add more descriptive text to your listings and tags on Etsy. People will want to know length of the chain, size of the gemstone, etc - common stuff. Adding more descriptive text will also increase your relevance rating within Etsy (leading you to show up in more targeted searches). You can repeat key phrases by slightly adjusting your wording. One of your chains can be described early on in the description as Sterling Silver, and later referred to as .925 silver. This way you start attaining relevancy for both terms people associate with sterling silver.

Anyways, hope this helps. Good luck bud.

I just posted a link to my Etsy store.

Have you tried Etsy yet? The customers there would eat up your jewelry, especially if you produce more of the grungy/industrial style pieces. Plus, you'll actually have a targeted demographic, unlike here. I can help you get setup on etsy if you need, just shoot me a PM bud.

Great work thus far.

I'll be stocking up more over time, just getting things set up.

I dont see much on the jewelry site..

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/SilverBoarJewellery?ref=hdr_shop_menu

Good news guys! I now have an Etsy shop up and running, meaning I can accept credit card payments!

Price: 0.05BTC


I will be posting up some of the cheaper Jewellery designs I have drawn as a final product, if you've noticed that my website has suddenly broken don't panic. I'm making some changes, if you want to make a purchase you can still do that with Bitcoin manually while I sort everything out, this piece is now up for sale, since it's so simple I could also have them and some of the other designs done as earrings.

More coming!

Second set of Jewellery designs! Help out a small start up business and vote! Comments are welcome!

Vote on a cheaper Jewellery Design! I am currently designing a large amount of simple Jewellery pieces compared to my gemstone settings to try and attract sales, to help things along and involve more people I've decided to post my sketches up and let people vote on the ones they like the most rather than risk wasting time and money making a design nobody wants. The winning design will of course be the one that I focus on making but if there's a lot of interest in others as well I'll be happy to make them if people actually want to pay for them.

These designs will most likely range from £10 - £20 so that's roughly 0.04BTC - 0.08BTC at current prices, even less if the Bitcoin price goes up again.



If you have any ideas or slight changes you think would be nicer for these designs feel free to post here and let me know what you think. I will be posting up more an updating the poll as I come up with more ideas, to vote, vote for the number that matches with the Jewellery design on the drawing.

New Update! Two new necklaces with more to come!

Rectangle Topaz Necklace - 0.13BTC











Oval Sunstone Necklace - 0.13BTC














Both gemstones are natural, I also imported the Topaz from an online gem store in Thailand ( http://www.gemselect.com/?ModPagespeed=noscript )

I have three more of the Topaz stones on hand and I'm trying to decide what to do with them so if you guys decide you want to see more Topaz necklaces let me know, if not I've got plans to maybe try a small showcase piece with them and do something fancier.

Small update on the manga, the proportions as you probably know were horribly borked so I fixed them, going to work on the hands some more too, the rest of the manga is being finished, trying my best not to give any dates until I'm actually done it's so hard not to give any dates and be too optimistic lol

I'm continuing my studies with 2D Artwork so I can keep improving and holy shit did I stumble on what I could possibly describe as the most amazing tutorial on light and shadow in artwork I have ever seen, if you're struggling with the painting shadow etc. properly this tutorial may help you a lot, simply because it goes into lots of detail on the actual science of how light casts shadow and so on so you don't feel like it's some random difficult to understand process.

http://design.tutsplus.com/articles/improve-your-artwork-by-learning-to-see-light-and-shadow--cms-20282

I swear the best stuff is always in the deep web

Edit: Another construction technique specifically for foreshortening as well! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJWLaDSNBAI < I've been only experimenting a little but it's already dramatically helping me, I just need to get used to it.

Just to let you know guys I'm still carrying on with things, I am currently working to get everything finished and will be posting a BIG update in time, meanwhile though I've continued practising and improving my skills, I am currently learning how to do granulated pieces ( small grains of silver soldered onto Jewellery to make patterns etc. ) and I'm almost ready to set my first faceted Topaz gemstone, I have four of these and I will be putting them up for sale!

Faceted Topaz Necklace WIP









Granulated Ring WIP

Small update to show you how I'm getting on with my artwork and the manga! As I said I would before, I'm posting a comparison shot between that old crappy manga page I drew and the new one, a few obvious points, this is still a WIP, I have to finish the hands off and I'm re-thinking my colour scheme to make it more like how a manga should look because I keep using too many dark colours. The main difference you will see is in the character as I never really had too much of a problem drawing the simple shapes involved in backgrounds before but now the character looks a lot more like it's part of the background than just a weird flat character.

Shit flat character drawing that I had earlier in the thread



Improved character drawn much more 3D and with more form and a cleaned up background