This video needs so many more views. You just helped me so much. You told me exactly what i needed and I've seen plenty of videos before to solve this question that didn't work.
I understand what you are saying, my business is called GVE Designs, it’s brand new and I called it designs, because I wanted to do several types of drawings/ paintings, I want to do fashion models, buildings, and flowers , there are so many ideas out there that I don’t want to lock myself to one thing .
Hey Sophie, I recently pulled out all my sketch pads and drawings I done in the past. And to my surprise I've done a lot through the decades and some of those years were very difficult years. As I looked at what I've done I realized what I love doing the most is drawing using graphite combined with charcoal. I've used some watercolor, but mainly my drawings are in graphite. And my favorite subject to draw are musicians, especially jazz musicians and music themes. I discovered your videos today. Great timing. And I love your accent. Thanks Sophie for your help. From Kingsville, Ohio 🎉 😀 ❤ Blessings and Shalom 🎨👏🎨👏🎨👏👋👋👋😀❤
Thank you Sophie! This is so relevant to me. I’ve been a creative Jack of all trades. I studied industrial design, visual communication design and art, and I have worked as a graphic/branding designer, illustrator, and surface designer for consumer products for fashion and home. I’m currently at a fork in my creative road. 🖥️🎨🖼️📝📕✒️ not sure which path to take next.
Oh wow that's quite a list of experience! I guess you have to ask yourself, which part of that really lights you up? What couldn't you live without doing? If you could start over and do just one thing what would that be? Time to get that journal out I recon!! 🥰
Sophie, I watched your finding your niche video again and it help to reaffirm what I want kind of artwork I really want to do. I've been talking to you a lot today. Thank you for your help. from Kingsville, Ohio, Cynthia🙂
Thank you very much. Your video is helpful.. I am stuck to make different objects and methods. But its really truth i must keep my energy in one thing.👏👏
About Step 3 Choices: One epiphany I had in this area was to break things into a few buckets or categories. 1) Stuff I maintain at a PROFESSIONAL level, 2) Stuff I maintain at a HOBBY level. 3) Stuff I allow myself to play with out of casual interest without much commitment or discipline, 4) Stuff I may LOVE but will NEVER DO because it is too distracting. Art school (for me) in the first couple years was a LOT of "intro to classes and you try a LOT of different things. But you end up learning some beginner level skills, buying a TON of art supplies to support it, and you end up with this overwhelming list of stuff you CAN do, or MIGHT do, but any one of them could be a LIFE LONG STUDY. And it IS very unrealistic to expect to be able to maintain them all at a PRO level. so you have to make choices. It also helps when it is time to buy art supplies because you can focus on what you really need and will actually USE, and not do a lot of impulse buying at the art supply store. And some mediums are just conflicting and would be hard to do a lot of both. For example I loved painting with an airbrush, AND loved making pottery. But both make an intrusive MESS in the studio - you get clay dust on your paintings, and you get airbrush overspray into your clay. Its best to pick one or the other OR you have to have TWO separate studios that are nearly air tight from each other. So, that is my two cents. Thanks for a well done video.
Hi Allen, Absolutely LOVE your response here, this SO spot on...It's pretty much exactly what also happened to me haha. So great once you get those categories and narrow it all down. Thank you for this great insight!
Thanks, Sophie - very interesting video and so true... I have been learning and growing as a colour pencil artist for the last year and a bit and love it... but recently discovered pastels and their different qualities, advantages and disadvantages and am now rather torn from my love of both! I really want to niche down to one... (although in this case, they can be combined in a painting anyway!!!). I think I am going to spend this year exploring both and see what happens, if a winner emerges. I am in no rush to build my business at the moment - my goal is to develop this in 4 or 5 years into something more concrete, so I have playtime for now :)
Hi Sophie just found you on you tube! Thank you for the video, I have 2 niches and I really can’t choose! 🙈😂 one is watercolour illustrations which I have been doing for businesses more recently and the second is an oil painter, could you not have them as separate businesses and market as such? 🤔 I am currently doing no action as I’m lost in this! X
Hi Elaine, so glad you're here! Oh this niche thing is huge isn't it! To answer your question, yes you could have two brands under your own name, just remember though that both will need a seperate business plan, as they'll have different products, target audiences and marketing plans etc...So if you are a full-time artist it might be possible to do that...Otherwise is there anyway to morph the two together somehow? 😃
@@SophieMahir thank you for replying, hadn’t thought of that, I need to allow myself to play, I was watching your video on target audience yesterday I think part of my problem is my main audience which is on Facebook is from my teaching, majority of last 18 years has been focussing on keeping everyone happy using completely different subjects and mediums and not my ‘true voice paintings’ so it feels like I should start again with a new page which is just the paintings I want to create so I can find my target audience? 🤔
