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1) Good morning twittizens, there’s about two hours left before the auction for my first NFT ends. I’m still new to the amazing #NFTCommunity so I wanted to share what I’ve learned thanks to the “mistakes” I made in this past week.
2) I’ll list them and then break them down one by one. (A) Minted my first NFT without any research and (B) LATER started networking with the community and doing real research about NFTs. I had already (C) set the auction to only last seven days and (D) set a high starting price.
3) (A) I solely focused on creating a new piece for my first NFT. I had this idea for a while and truthfully was an idea that’s very close to how I’m feeling in the present (I’ll expand on this after breaking down all four points).
4) After finishing, I impatiently minted the piece in the only platform I knew about @opensea which is a great platform, don’t get me wrong, but there were other platforms that I would’ve loved to consider beforehand.
5) (B) After minting, I dived into Twitter to share the link to my piece. At first, I was mimicking what I saw based on the hashtags: artists sharing their link over and over on the many NFT shill posts.
6) I too was tweethopping writing a copy/paste headline in each one with the purpose of being seen. The purpose should’ve been to get noticed. My participation in these threads did help with taking a look at other artists and following them.
7) Through their timelines I was able to learn about other great artists as well, enriching my feed with beautiful and meaningful artworks, words and emotions shared by the very supportive NFT Community.
8) (C) This was a blessing and a curse. A blessing because it felt like an intensive course on understanding the surface of crypto art, learning more as each day passed. It’s been a long time since I’ve enjoyed learning something new this much, and I am thankful for it.
9) It’s a curse because the auction ends in a few minutes and being a relatively unknown artist required more time for me to properly have my piece noticed.
10) Fun fact: the only time my art went sort of viral was with my Copcake illustration for the @dailycritter project I co-created. It was on the front page of @9gag back in January of 2015, but I wasn’t given credit in that post.
11) (D) Wrapping my eyes on the diversity of collections, admiring every artwork and studying their prices, made me feel incredibly humbled. Over the course of the week I dropped the price a couple of times.
