Heyyy! Thank you so much for watching! I appreciate all the support I'm getting here! Many of you have questions about how I make stickers or how I get my printer to work and so a video on that is live on my channel!!

@ArtingFromScratch

Жыл бұрын

Where do u get enamel pins made

@Twistedtiteez

Жыл бұрын

You’re inspiring and proving to other artists it is possible 🪷✨❤️

@adakoz-xb3gz

Жыл бұрын

hi

My problem is finding people who actually want to support me and like my Art 😭😭

One of the most well put together, "how I started', videos that I've seen. Congratulations on your shop.

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

Aw thank you! Youre so sweet! This video was living in my head for a long time so I'm very glad you enjoyed it!! 🥰

@777VIBRANT

Жыл бұрын

It really is ❤

@3rayallen

Жыл бұрын

@@fructusillustrations You're biggest mistake was made at the first step; deciding what product to sell. Instead of going based off your passion (American women sigh) or interest, you were supposed to do market research and determine a profitable niche and then go from there. The cute sticker market is way way over-saturated and you can't beat the better and cuter designs of larger companies who have a team of artists, much more talented than you. You already messed up from step 1. That's why you don't just blindly follow your passions. Typical American girl foolishness.

I also went from being an engineer for 20 years to a ceramicist. I have absolutely loved/love both my careers :)

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

Wow, that's awesome! So happy to hear that 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

As a 26 year old also going through this, I absolutely loved your video and how you broke everything down. Thank you so much, congratulations on your first year! and best of luck for the future! Your determination and productivity is an inspiration! :)

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

Omg! I'm 26 too! I'm happy to hear that you enjoyed my video!

This video actually gave me hope that I can start my own business. I’ve watched so many videos and yours made sense and I didn’t feel overwhelmed. Now my issue is finding out what I want to do. I’m a crafter but too much to choose from🤦🏽‍♀️🤣

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

I'm so happy to help and I'm sending you all the best wishes!!! Just try what you like the best and keep experimenting! You never know what will do well😊

i love artist like you, the ones who put in a lot of effort but then go a step further to help new artist. thank you :3

Your journey was so helpful for me to see, thank you for sharing. I’m a late bloomer creating my own art career too, and I want to thank you for being a brave and generous artist.

Thank you so much for this video because I have been thinking of starting my own art business but i didn’t know where to start but this video definitely gave me some clarity.

Loved the video Fructus! Starting your own art business is such a journey and you’ve done such an amazing job!🎉

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for taking the time to watch and for such a sweet comment!🫶

Thank you for this. It was so straightforward and to the point!! I wanna start my art business this year and I’ve been putting it off since 2021 mainly because I can’t decide what type of product to offer! I think I’ve finally have some sort of idea and this video was super motivating and inspiring!

Thank you so much for this video. I plan on opening my own art business and this detailed and very well-explained video helped so much. I am very grateful! 😊😃

This is super insightful and thank you so much for sharing your process and tips! I'm so inspired by how far you've come in just 1 year. I need to work harder! 😭

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

Aww thank you Billy for watching! You're doing great too! 😊❤️

Thank you for being upfront and honest about your prices and thanks for reminding me to not under charge

It's also important to check on your local, county, state, and country laws plus any license and tax requirements! In NC I called the edpnc hotline and they were super helpful! I only needed an assumed named form filed with the county, a zoning permit thing for the city, and my sales tax stuff for the state for the most part.

Lovely video, thank you so much for sharing your experience ✨ beautiful art ✨

Thank you so much for making this! I have been wanting to make stickers for years now, but never could afford to start. This is nice to see the price it's going to take to start. Maybe one day I can afford to make some.

This was extremely helpful! Thanks for walking us through the process and best of luck on your business!

OMG congratulations on making your first video! 🥰 I'm so glad you got the courage to make it and the content in this video is so informative! I'll be watching you and cheering you on too 😁

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Definitely took a good amount of courage to make this first video! Thank you for watching and for being so supportive!!❤️❤️❤️

Hi!!! It's so nice to see how open and transparent you are about everything 🥰🥰 I've just left my job last month to be a full time artist (I'm a childrens book illustrator). I haven't thought of creating stickers but it might be something to do down the road. 😄 It's super nice to meet you, your art is super cute too!!!

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

Heyyy!! Thank you so much for watching and its so nice to meet you too! Best of luck to you as you begin this new exciting chapter of your life! When I left my job about a 1.5 years ago, I felt free and started to feel so much happier so I hope its everything you hoped for! ❤️😊

This was great! Thank you for creating and sharing!

Thank you for sharing this. It is incredibly helpful for giving me an outline to go about starting a business.

I've watched so many sticker shop videos, this has been the most to the point and informative. Thank you, earned a subscription.

Thank you so much for sharing, Jen!

I have already started sticker business twice but it failed because I wasn't so good at planning so I loose interest in it. Now I want to open again and I'm still on my researching stages. I don't think I will be able to open my shop this year but I hope I can sooner. This video will be my guide, thank you so much for this. ❤

I have followed you on instagram for a while and I love your stuff! I am so inspired by you! Thank you for sharing and being an inspiration!

Absolutely love these videos.

This is so motivational to watch! I'm thinking of relaunching my shop, but I've been struggling to find the time lol

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

Go for it! I'm rooting for you and can help with answering any questions as best as I can!

Amazing video! This answered all the questions I had. Thank you

Came here to learn how to sell stickers cuz I’m just about ready to launch, but this video is a VIBE. the editing, the shot angles, the music, the home office, the journal, the products!! 🫠 so good. I’m a little shy to bring this up but I also have a KZread channel and I’ve been looking to reach out to someone with similar style and aspirations. Would love to link up! Congrats on your shop ✨

very helpful for people like me who want to start a small art business. thank you so much

I'm thinking of starting my own shop too and this info is so helpful! congrats on your first year, your products look amazing :))

Very lovely packaging, thank you for sharing your tips!

Starting an online shop has been so daunting for me, but you have explained it so eloquently that I now have the confidence to do it. THANK YOU!

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

You can do it! Go for it and believe! Rooting for you 🐻❤

Thank you so much!! Your amazing !

Amazing video. I’m in process of starting my own small business. Great tips I never thought about. Keep up with the amazing work.

Thank you for the share!!!. Your work is amazing.

Thank you for sharing! Hope you can keep up with your good work.

Love it!!! Thanks for creating this video. Amazing art work :D

Congrats!!!! Love your work!

Those stickers are SO vibrant! Would love to learn more about how you got those print settings right in the end. As a digital designer in RGB, its always disheartening when trying to design in CMYK for print

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

On the same page when it comes to RBG vs CMYK! I made a video on my process for making stickers and in it I go over my printer settings. Maybe it can help you out! 😊

@xinnoondaily

11 ай бұрын

I Love this! We did something similar where we live out. This video actually gave us inspiration and hope that we can still become successful, thanks so much for this video.

Thanks for sharing your process 🙏🏽

I greatly thank you for sharing your experience I want to start my own handmade products business and your video has been so much guidance

I appreciate you mentioning the printer struggles. I bought an eco tank and have not been able to get it to print close to the true colors. I’ll keep trying though 👍

You seem like one very smart cookie, kudos to all your research and note-taking, and then your generosity to _share_ what you learned on top of that! Very sweet video!

@fructusillustrations

11 ай бұрын

Aww you're so sweet! thank you ♥

Thank you for sharing this video, it inspired me and bring me confirmation. I am on the process to open my shop and have some many questions. But I have the correct answer watching your video. Thanks again. Bless day.😊

Thank you so much! Very informative and helpful! I appreciate you!

this is amazing thank you so much for the information, honestly I would love a video about how taxes in a small business work because that's the part im more worried about because it looks so scary, and its one of the things that have been keeping me from opening a shop. I hope you can explain some stuff like that if you make a video about it, thank youuu❤❤

Thanks for posting this is helpful!

Thank you for sharing your journey and giving us awesome tips. I am in Stage 1. I will take into consideration all your tips❤

Such a great video! Thank you for sharing

This is incredibly detailed (for me) since my bffs and I wanted to start a small business and don't know where to start. Thanks for sharing what your choices are, what you chose, and what you learned and can improve on.

I feel like this will be very helpful. Thanks for taking the time and effort to make it.

@fructusillustrations

10 ай бұрын

You're very welcome!♥🐻

Oh my gosh this was the exactly the information type of video I was looking for!! 😭✨ Thank you thank you thank you for being so specific and adding all of the details/prices and your thought process

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

Wishing you the best of luck with your journey!! 😊❤

This was so easy to follow, very informative!

This is such an informative and inspirational video! Thank you for sharing about your experiences 🧡 I just opened my shop recently and I wish I had seen your video earlier, I just discovered it today. I got a few insights from your video and yeah I also opened my website first instead of Etsy. But I have planned to open my Etsy shop later this month for my first update. Wishing you all the best with your shop! 🧡

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you found my video helpful! Thank you so much for watching and I wishing you all the best wishes and luck with your upcoming shop update and art journey! 🫶🏻

The most well made “How I Started” videos I’ve ever seen and your stickers are so cute!!!!

@fructusillustrations

11 ай бұрын

Yay! Thank you!

Hey, I was doing some research of mine own and I stubbled on your video which I want to say thank you so much for explain in small but understanding details because I do get overwhelmed. You help me in so many ways because this is something I am wanting to do and I want to say thank you so much. You are amazing!

@fructusillustrations

11 ай бұрын

Great to hear! 🐻♥ Hope everything works out wonderfully for you! 😊

Love this vlog. Very informative. New subscriber for sure! Thanks for showing us step by step! 🌸

I loved this video. thank you for sharing your process. you art is darling!!

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! 🫶🏻

such an informative and good video!! thank you and all the best with growing your business

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching! I truly appreciate your kind words!

this was so helpful, thank you so much!

im not an artist but i just found your channel and i like seeing your progress! all the best

I really loved you video, it was really helpul, with a lot or good tips✨ thank you !

This video was so helpful, thank you! My friends and family have been telling me to sell my art for awhile now, but it felt so daunting and I didn't know where to start. You laid it out so well, I'm excited to try to sell my art.

@fructusillustrations

11 ай бұрын

It is very scary in the beginning when you have no idea what to do and you have so many questions. So i'm very happy to hear that my video and my experience is helping you feel confident to start selling your art! 😊♥

congrats ❤your work is so cute

So helpful, starting my online shop at the moment and this is so informative ❤

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

Glad to be helpful!! Thank you for watching and good luck to you and your shop! I'm rooting for you!! ❤️

Love it!

This was so helpful! I am wanting to start my own business and this is a great outline on how to begin. I also noticed your from Austin! That's so cool I'm down the road in San Marcos 😊 Great video and can't wait to see more!

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

Yayyy! I'm so glad you found value in the video! More definitely to come! 😊 And wow so cool to find another Texas homie! I moved to Texas from Virginia about 1.5 years ago and I'm still figuring out where things are hahah

youre my inspiration !! great video

This was very helpful!!! Thank you for posting. Excited to follow your journey

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful and am excited to share more!

This was very nice to see! ❤

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you so much for this

Thank you for sharing! ❤🙏👍

Thank you for sharing your awesome video!! I always wanted to open my own business but I don't think I am good enough to sell my artwork... I love love your art! 😊

Thank you!

The stickers are soo cute

great video ! congratulations on your store

Thank you allot for this video, it did help allot ❤️

Great job!❤

My own advice is keep it simple in your head. Design it, make it, sell it. do social media posts about your Design stage, making stage and about your upcoming releases. Also look up basic book keeping so you can understand what you need for the business records and taxes

Great video, thank you for sharing.

Love the video! I really want to make art business too but im still beginner so im still learning 😊

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

thank you so much for watching! we all start somewhere and I'm rooting for you! ❤️

i love this, when i saw the website i felt satisfaction! lol idk what it is about seeing a cohesive and aesthetic brand just being made that i enjoy so much. Btw, i do think that a less saturated red suits your web page a bit better, and rounded corners on the images too.

@fructusillustrations

5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I plan to update my website very soon so I really appreciate the feedback and will definitely keep you comments in mind 😊

Do you have a video on how you got your printer settings to be better in color and to print better.

Ahhh this helped so much thank you someone recommended a $1k printer from canon and for a starter that’s far over budget

Great video

Ooo this really helped me thank u❤❤ur amazing queen

@fructusillustrations

9 ай бұрын

Omg yay I'm so glad!

There are so many things I want to make and sell! Stickers, prints, pins, jewelry, candles, fabrics. It's so bad. But I've finally decided to start with stickers.

@fructusillustrations

3 ай бұрын

the possibilities are endless! Glad to hear youre getting started!

Gosh I really admire those like you who are so artistic. Would love to start a sticker shop but my drawing skills are no good. 😅

Your packaging is so cute! Good luck with your channel, I subscribed :)

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

Ahh thank you! I appreciate you so very much! 🫶🫶🫶

@49lucky

Жыл бұрын

Me 2

This is really good advice. I wish I asked the same questions when I started, I tried to do way too much way too soon and stared by outsourcing my stickers 🤦🏻‍♀️ I now have a cricut and other things to make stuff easier. I have an Etsy shop too, but im working on building my own site because at this point you have to market your Etsy shop and it’s like I might as well have my own 🤷🏻‍♀️

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

Totally get the frustrations! I just opened the Etsy just to see if it was worth it but I definitely prefer marketing my own website so I'm glad I went that route. If you have any questions about website things, feel free to ask and I'll do my best to answer them! 😊 Good luck with your shop!

As someone whose been considering starting an online shop this was very insightful and I super appreciate you going into detail; especially on about how much it took for you to start your business. I was wondering how you went about growing your online audience? I’ve tried to grow my audience myself but social media (mainly Instagram) is so stressful that I can never be consistent and to be frank, do you think there is any way for an online business to thrive without the use of social media (Instagram especially) or will a lack of an online audience mean nothing in the grand scheme of things? I don’t want to use insta or TikTok, it stresses me beyond belief but it’s starting to feel like it’s the only way to get any sort of audience, I don’t know. Sorry for the rambles. For real though, awesome vid and can’t wait to see what you post next, I will be setting a little something aside from my next paycheck to buy from you shop cause your designs are just too cute! Have a good day/night!

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

Firstly, thank you so much for watching and thank you for leaving a nice comment! And now to your question :) So, I first starting growing an online audience through IG. I posted consistently there (5 times a week) for a year. And this year, I have put more effort into posting more consistently on TikTok and here on YT. I know social media is stressful and its not for everyone. It honestly was stressful for me too in the beginning. But I do believe its a better option, at least for me and my circumstances. Let me explain. When you have an online business/shop, you need a way for people to discover it. Using social media is “free” in the sense that you don’t have to pay to use it and get people to discover you and what you do. Alternatively, if you don’t want to use social media, I would imagine you would have to run ads or sell on online marketplaces (like Etsy, Redbubble, Society6, etc.) to get people to find you. I can’t say that one way or the other will yield better success but I can speak on my experience and in my experience social media is working for me but it hasn’t always been the easiest. At the start, I was super scared about what people would say or think. I had days where the imposter syndrome really crept in but I knew what I wanted as an end goal and just keep pushing through. As time went by and I just kept showing up for me, I slowly started building up confidence in myself and my work. There is no one size fits all when it comes to having a successful online shop but I hope that you find the right ingredients for your recipe for success!

Im a sophomore in highschool, worried what I want to do after school and a design school, but what I do know is that i have a big passion in art, I want to sell my art and create products as well, no video broke the process down better! I want to create my own online platform, art shop, with a job on the side.

can u make a video on how to use notion or how u use it, it would help me alot

Thanks so much for your help! You answered a lot of questions I was wondering about. I enjoyed the videos but noticed that you reused the same clips multiple times. I think it would make the video more interesting to change the shots or even do more shots of you speaking directly to the camera, to change it up. Thanks again!

Thanks for sharing! Very nice video to watch, I hear so much about the struggles to get printers to print the colors you want I have so far been too intimidated to open that can of worms... But I plan to buy a printer this summer and try give the patience to figure it out 😊 it looks like your products are great quality!

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

You can do it! I actually just made a videos on how I make and print my stickers so hopefully that can give you some guidance too!!

@lilnatureart

Жыл бұрын

@@fructusillustrations Thanks! I'll be sure to check that out!

I’m 28 now and still struggle with this, I have no stability home wise and where I live despite working so hard getting an apartment is so hard. I love art, but it’s been really hard since my mom died, I wanted to go to college for it and lost the reason and passion for it (my mom kept every single piece I’ve ever made for her and then some) I loved seeing the smile on her face and others when I gave them a random sketch. When she died a part of me did too. Now I’m here working two jobs and in classes for a job title I want for that ‘stability’ I really want a job with less stress and agony. I would love to open a shop but I feel like now isn’t a good time there’s a part of me that says if your patient and play your cards right you’ll be fine. Seeing you gives me hope one day I can finally not only be at peace but do what I want as well ☺️✨

@mmeyer_rnm

Жыл бұрын

Hi, I'm 26 and recently I lost my mom too. She had coronavirus and died a month later. It was really agony because my year was like that: I woke up, cry, go to work, go to home, cry, sleep, repeat. Time does not heal. U just are learning living with this. And yes, the good times will be. I believe u can do everything! The best thing what u have it is you. I understood that our life is really short and your age is only a number. You are doing great. Remember to take care please

Cute

Love this video! I subscribed, I hope you get lots of subscribers!

@fructusillustrations

Жыл бұрын

Aww thank you so much!! 🫶🫶🫶