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Welcome to my visual story telling art and graphics published on several print-on-demand sites. To be inspired is great but to inspire someone else is Incredible
Saturday, December 5, 2015
Friday, December 4, 2015
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Personalized Gifts
The popular online print on demand shop ZAZZLE offers just that.
It took me a while to edit some of my products that I thought were available to be personalized, and apparently were not. I created a collection for these products and will keep adding more as I go along.
Its a real shame that the South African Rand is so unfavorable against the dollar, otherwise I would be tempted to buy a personalized gift and send it to my family in Holland and the UK. We are having to pay 14.2 Rand to buy $1.00. So you can imagine what even a postcard will cost us. The only advantage in this otherwise corrupt currency control is that any royalties I earn that gets paid into my PayPal account buys me more here in South Africa.
I hope that there are a lot of succulent gardeners out there that would love to own the T shirt I designed for them. I've written an article about my own fascination with succulents titled: The Hanging Gardens of Clovelly Thanks for reading my post. Nadine. #nadinemay
It took me a while to edit some of my products that I thought were available to be personalized, and apparently were not. I created a collection for these products and will keep adding more as I go along.
Its a real shame that the South African Rand is so unfavorable against the dollar, otherwise I would be tempted to buy a personalized gift and send it to my family in Holland and the UK. We are having to pay 14.2 Rand to buy $1.00. So you can imagine what even a postcard will cost us. The only advantage in this otherwise corrupt currency control is that any royalties I earn that gets paid into my PayPal account buys me more here in South Africa.
I hope that there are a lot of succulent gardeners out there that would love to own the T shirt I designed for them. I've written an article about my own fascination with succulents titled: The Hanging Gardens of Clovelly Thanks for reading my post. Nadine. #nadinemay
Monday, November 23, 2015
My most popular graphic designs are:
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| Nadine May |
"If you're really passionate about what you do, but it's not going to make you a lot of money, should you still do it?” My reply would be YES. Keep dong what you love to do. Read my blog post titled :Earning while loving how you do it.
There are two genre designs that seem to be the most popular so far. My African designs and my Anton Pieck incorporated designs.
What have I learned from this?
Read my full article on this topic titled: My-most-Popular-Designs to read more about branding your own graphic signature.
Because I'm an international designer and all the print on demand websites like Zazzle, Society6,Redbubble and Cafepress are based either in the USA or Australia, for me who lives in South Africa a different approach was in order.
Combining photos taken by me, and adding graphic illustrations or scanned images with other elements from my personal library of images that I have collected over the years for my many book cover designs, I started to have great fun incorporating these into the designs for the online shops that I have published on my menu bar.
Thanks for reading my post.
Nadine
What have I learned from this?
Read my full article on this topic titled: My-most-Popular-Designs to read more about branding your own graphic signature.
Because I'm an international designer and all the print on demand websites like Zazzle, Society6,Redbubble and Cafepress are based either in the USA or Australia, for me who lives in South Africa a different approach was in order.
Combining photos taken by me, and adding graphic illustrations or scanned images with other elements from my personal library of images that I have collected over the years for my many book cover designs, I started to have great fun incorporating these into the designs for the online shops that I have published on my menu bar.
Thanks for reading my post.
Nadine
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Friday, November 13, 2015
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Zazzle Review – The Awakening Store for all things enlightening and spiritual
http://leahg.me is a fellow designer on Zazzle. She truly honored me with her fantastic review on my Zazzle shop and I followed her TIP advice. I'm truly very grateful for her and others on the Facebook group page for all the tips and advice she shares to all her followers. LeahG is a trend-spotter and designer. This is the link to one of her Zazzle stores
Or give yourselves a treat and visit her Cat design collections
This was her review on my store...
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Friday, October 30, 2015
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Featured Artist Of The Week – Nadine May
Me: How long have you been working with Zazzle?
Nadine: The 14th of October 2015 was my first anniversary with Zazzle.
I found out about Zazzle when two friends were chatting to each other on a Skype group about Redbubble and Zazzle. I was clueless as to what they were talking about so I asked them. That was my first introduction to this wonderful possibility that anybody can design images for products and can earn royalty payments. For the rest of that week I looked, read, and practised while now and then chatting to my friends on Skype.
My normal job doing book cover designs for Kima Global Publishers was going through a quite rough time, so I found myself glued to my computer chair for hours creating images for the Zazzle templates. I thought of all the leather work, drawings and paintings I had done over the years and was keen to see them displayed on their products.
I love illustrating – telling stories through imagery, and today I love working with Photoshop. I’m self taught and learn each day what I can do with this amazing program.
Nadine: Zazzle has a lot of products and a very easy platform to create an online presence for a designer.
Kima Global Gifts shop
An idea came to me one morning that I could use many of my book design covers and I format these for the Zazzle templates and at the same time promote the title of the book! I thought the authors would be my first customers! That has not happened so far….but they do like my efforts.
Just kidding shop
It is here that I post all my past and present artworks, especially the leather work. I still have to do a lot of scanning, but now I had to start organizing my computer by creating files for the many images and photos I want to use for my designs.
The Awakening shop
I write articles for Hubpages. Most of these posts are about the research I’ve done over the years for my visionary fiction novels. I love creating images for these articles, but they are more about very alternative topics, so I created a different shop for these designs and two weeks ago I started to prepare an online doodle workshop using Zazzle products. I can also add the article links to the designs for visitors just in case they are interested
Me: How would you describe your process as an artist?
Nadine: I’m a visionary fiction author and learned over the years that to write a book is a lot easier than selling a book, and so I know that the same applies to images. As an artist, I had to invent myself all over again. I’ve created two blogs for all my product designs. One with WordPress and one with Blogpost. I do have other blogs that are more connected with my published novels available on Amazon and many other platforms, and I often post a product image on there if it links to the topics of my writings. I learned a great deal from other Zazzle designers on Facebook, and the friendships I have made with them are an added bonus.
I share theirs and my own products on my own Facebook shopping page and on Pinterest and Google+. I try to be creative by using Polyvore for display purposes. Now all I need is to be able to stretch “TIME”
Nadine: To reach an exposure level that results in sales takes hard work and time.
Many people would never spend the hours that I do each day after I have told them what I have earned so far over the one year period, but I have every confidence that each year my earnings will multiply. What is for me the most important is that I LOVE what I do. I could never do anything solely for the money, no matter how financially lucrative it might be.
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Monday, October 19, 2015
The Vortex Theory & Continuous Living by David Ash
Every item on these book promotion collage images contains the book link on every Zazzle product. ( If a sign comes up to say that the product is sold out, just keep on clicking on the Zazzle link and it will take any visitor the the chosen product.) Nothing is EVER sold out! Every product is available on print-on-demand.
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Our rainbow nation
In the past I did a lot of leather work. I also tooled and carved
leather but today most of the leather work I still have photos of are
now photographed and prepared to become a leather-look print-on-demand
design that appears as real as if it was real leather,suede or snake
skin. Each product on the Polyvore layout is individually accessible by
just clicking onto the image. Most of these products are found in my Just kidding shop on Zazzle or on my Society6 Just Kidding page
Sunday, September 27, 2015
2016 Calendar
Anton Pieck is still one of my favorite Dutch artist. He was responsible
for designing almost everything for the fairy tale park Efteling in
Kaatsheuvel,Holland. Today it’s one of the major theme parks in Europe.
Over the years I have collected most of his work and incorporated my own
art by using Photo Shop to create this High Fashion calendar.
Friday, September 25, 2015
Pink Ice
After buying one bunch I had to take a photo of these hardiest of all Protea’s called Pink Ice. These flowers will last a long time in a vase, but even longer when in print for on my society6 products
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Only hunt with a zoom lens by nadinemay
This design was inspired after seeing a hunting advert on the internet. The idea that people are out to shoot and kill these amazing creatures is so diabolic; I hope that this design will be promoted
This design was inspired after seeing a hunting advert on the internet. The idea that people are out to shoot and kill these amazing creatures is so diabolic; I hope that this design will be promoted
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