After my last ego-crushing encounter with Threadless (slight over exaggeration here)
I was pleased to see that my ‘Yes Nan’ has just been approved for voting. YAY!!!!
Got a spare 5 mins….hop on over and vote…maybe I’ll see you there!
Well…after getting such positive feedback lately, maybe I got a little cocky.
I submitted another design to Theadless never thinking I would be rejected.
I thunk wrong. Rejection is never an easy thing to take but I guess going from enthusiastic amateur to hoping people will pay for the pleasure (in a purely artistic sense) it was to be expected. Still..it stung a bit
The email read
Unfortunately, your submission “MiniJoy #3 – Seeing a Rainbow” was declined.
Here’s why:
We want every design submitted to Threadless to have the best possible chance at being chosen for print. Your submission was declined because we feel your idea could use a little more work to be up to the standard that will give it the best shot. Want some feedback on your design? Post a thread in the forum to get tips and helpful suggestions from other artists!
We hate declining submissions! We hope you take these decline reasons to heart, use them to rework your submission, and resubmit. We’re looking forward to seeing your new and improved design!
Best wishes, The Threadless Community Team
Very nicely put but still a bit ouchy.
Now I’m not writing this to get a barrage of support….maybe just some honest feedback from some fresh pairs of artistic eyes and to let others out there know…rejection…yes it hurts the ego a bit…but it’s not terminal. Dust yourself off and keep going…that’s what I intend to do.
The floodgates have opened and I’m putting myself about (in a purely illustratory way I can assure you) here, there and everywhere (well it feels like it anyway!)
Click on the image above and vote for my design…it only takes a couple of minutes. Even better…sign up and upload your own designs. Why not…you never know if you don’t try!
While looking through some old photos I found this image and was taken back in an instant to that exact moment. Daisy had a cookie..it was around the time we were trying to explain the concept of sharing. I asked if I could have a bite of her cookie…she contemplated for quite a long time, then took a small mushy crumb out of her mouth and handed it to me. Fast forward 5 years and nothing much has changed.
As I am on a roll uploading my designs to printed on society6, I’ve submitted my rainbow image onto Threadless.com. It takes a few days to get image approval so hopefully by Monday I will be in the running for people to start voting…eeek. Quite exciting really. Putting myself out there. And I thought starting a blog was scary!
Well Tuesday is Kinder-Day which means I have 5.5hrs to myself to focus on my art whilst washing/cooking/cleaning/tidying etc. Today I dusted the cobwebs off Illustrator and redrew my ‘I Like Black’ girl. Took me all day and is now sitting in my shop http://society6.com/LisaJayneMurray/I-Like-Black_Print waiting for someone to print it. Hope fully someone loves her as much as I do.
Every family needs a good bedtime routine. It has saved many a meltdown in our house I can tell you. The main part of OUR routine is the singing of a very special song.
http://englishplaynow.com/node/21
Such a beautiful song and has become one of my favourite parts of the day.
I bit the bullet and uploaded a design to an online print gallery.
Feeling a bit sick right now so I’m calming my nerves with a medicinal wine.
Why society6??? Well I noticed their name on http://www.threadless.com/ while trying to become inspired. I was flicking through and thought…why put it off any longer.
It was easy, quick and practically painless. Fingers crossed this is the start of something…not big…I’m not ready for big…lets just say…it’s a start!
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