{"id":24065,"date":"2022-06-06T17:28:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T21:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-715453-3009179.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=24065"},"modified":"2023-06-22T17:36:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T21:36:31","slug":"how-to-make-and-sell-nft-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-715453-3009179.cloudwaysapps.com\/blog\/how-to-make-and-sell-nft-art\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make and Sell NFT Art – A Complete Beginners\u2019 Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"
NFTs have revolutionized the way artists and creators can sell their artwork. While most people aren\u2019t going to make $70 million from an NFT like Beeple\u2019s \u2018Everydays\u2019,<\/a> creating and selling NFT art has given artists more flexibility and ownership over how they publish and distribute their art.<\/p>\n If you’re a novice and want to learn how to make and sell NFT art, we\u2019ll help you understand the basics of blockchain, cryptocurrency, and NFTs.<\/p>\n With quick-and-easy steps for listing your NFT artwork for free on popular marketplaces like Opensea, this guide will help you understand the basics of starting out as an NFT artist, the costs involved, as well as a ton of examples of great NFT projects that have been recently released.<\/p>\n Source: Stuff.co.za<\/p><\/div>\n Before we get started, it helps to know what we\u2019re talking about. An NFT is a \u2018non-fungible token\u2019.<\/p>\n Fungible<\/strong> means that something can be replaced by an identical item. For example, lightbulbs are fungible, as are q-tips, volvos, and my ex-girlfriend.<\/p>\n Non-fungible<\/strong>, however, means that it cannot be copied or replaced with an identical version, like the Mona Lisa, or the years I will never get back because they were stolen from me by a heartless harpy woman.<\/p>\n In the context of Web3, an NFT is a piece of art that acts as a token associated with a unique line of code on the blockchain. This line of code will be unique, in that it cannot be replicated, since the blockchain is a publicly distributed record of transactions.<\/p>\n A cryptocurrency is a digitized currency, like Bitcoin or ether, that exists on a blockchain. Cryptocurrency – or \u2018crypto\u2019, as it is also known – is a decentralized and unregulated type of currency that isn\u2019t governed by any central authority<\/strong>.<\/p>\n With conventional currency, like dollars or pounds, governments control and regulate the flow of money via fiscal policy and a central bank. With crypto, there is no single governing authority or regulatory framework.<\/p>\n A blockchain is a digital ledger that is distributed across a network. Think of a blockchain as a chain made up of blocks of information, in which nobody owns the entire chain.<\/p>\n Blockchains are public, decentralized databases, whose ownership is shared across an entire network.<\/strong> Since a public record exists of every transaction, blockchains offer a huge functional potential for things like digital contracts, NFTs, and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n A lot of crypto-related phrases have their roots in traditional banking and finance. You might have heard that when a government puts a new batch of coins into circulation, they\u2019re said to have \u2018minted\u2019 those coins. This is because a \u2018mint\u2019 is also the word for the main producer of a country\u2019s coin currency, sort of like a printing press.<\/p>\n When you mint an NFT, it\u2019s like putting a new coin, or token, out into the digital world, after officially \u2018stamping it in\u2019 to the blockchain<\/strong>. Once minted, an NFT receives a unique and uncopyable line of code associated with it on the blockchain.<\/p>\n A crypto wallet is where people can store their digital currencies. There are a few different crypto wallets that have gained popularity over the last few years, including Coinbase, Exodus, Electrum, and Metamask. Wallets let people interact with the blockchain using their cryptocurrency<\/strong>, for things like buying and selling NFTs, or exchanging crypto.<\/p>\n Since the blockchain is spread out across a bunch of other people\u2019s computers, gas fees<\/a> were invented as a kind of rental fee for using the hardware the blockchain lives on<\/strong>. Gas fees are charged as a fee for using the Ethereum blockchain, and help to stop every 12-year-old boy from minting a million Microsoft Paint drawings of butts.<\/p>\n The blockchain may be a digital network, but it lives on actual hardware. Gas fees tend to increase when demand for a blockchain is currently high.<\/p>\n When an NFT is only minted after it is purchased, it’s called lazy minting. This allows people to buy NFTs \u2018off chain\u2019, and lets artists avoid having to pay upfront gas costs in order to mint their NFTs.<\/strong> When an artist has not minted an NFT but sells it, they can mint it just in time for the sale and include the gas fee in the total purchase price.<\/p>\n Source: Bored Ape Yacht Club<\/p><\/div>\n There are a number of different digital assets that can be minted as NFTs. Perhaps the most common and talked about form of NFTs are just images, like the famous CryptoPunks<\/a> series or the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC)<\/a>.<\/p>\n Each of these series is non-fungible, in that they have a unique piece of code associated with them that cannot be copied, and there is zero ambiguity about their ownership. However, there are a ton of other assets that can be turned into an NFT, including photography, songs, animations, videos, 3D objects, and even virtual blocks of land in the metaverse<\/a>.<\/p>\n Note:<\/strong> NFTs may still be known for just being pictures of apes, but there\u2019s a lot more to them. Owners of the BAYC NFTs, for example, get access to an exclusive community of owners, and access to future drops by the BAYC brand.\u00a0Concert tickets, exclusive events, and percentage royalties are some common perks you can get from owning an NFT.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n If you\u2019ve already got art in mind you want to sell as an NFT, like a drawing, painting, or 3D model, it\u2019s a pretty straightforward route to minting and selling it. However, if you\u2019re not sure what art to turn into an NFT, look at other well-known NFT collections for inspiration.<\/p>\n Many famous NFT art collections are simple digital illustrations, like BAYC, Cryptopunks, and World of Women<\/a>. Others are more complex, and involve 3D imagery and animations, like fvckrender<\/a>, and Daniel Arsham\u2019s<\/a> work.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re not sure where to start, play around on popular NFT art programs like:<\/p>\n You can also investigate generative NFT art<\/a>, which is more technical but can allow you to mass-produce thousands of unique pieces of artwork using AI. To save you time as you learn all of this, you can quickly design your brand on Looka’s logo maker<\/a> to start your NFT business on the right foot!<\/p>\n\n
What is an NFT?<\/h2>\n
Other terms to know before you start<\/h2>\n
Cryptocurrency<\/h4>\n
Blockchain<\/h4>\n
Minting<\/h4>\n
Crypto wallet<\/h4>\n
Gas fee<\/h4>\n
Lazy minting<\/h4>\n
How to make an NFT<\/h2>\n
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