2 STAR PACKAGE SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Please ensure to read the points below prior to sending me anything. Unless you have paid for an optional customisation if something is missing or incorrect I will exclude your submission from the magazine.
By sending artwork using the form below you are agreeing to and confirming acceptance of all the Terms and Conditions. Please ensure to read them in full (I know they are dull but they cover some key points)
- An artist Bio is a MUST have. Or a write up about your project or skills that shows your knowledge and authority and help people get to know you .
- Your Bio should be creative and factual.
- It should introduce you in a way that you would if you described yourself to a total stranger, preferably in the third person, i.e. someone describing you and your artwork to that same stranger.
- Remember for many people the reason they buy your work is because they relate to you not just your artwork and if they don’t know you or understand why you create what you do then it is highly unlikely they will buy from you.
- Your Bio is a key part to the start of your “relationship” with a potential “collector”.
- The purpose of the magazine it to give you a platform to share you message and work with others outside of the NFT world.
- One thing that helps is to demonstrate your achievements, whether it be exhibition online, a placing in and art competition or and achievement that relates to training / certification. In some cases this may be blank, as you are new to the artworld, in other cases it may be substantial. Either way it is a way of establishing your “authority” as an artist or you skills in the case of formal certification / education.
- This information helps show your authority and expertise in your chosen medium. This again is key to building a “fan base” or following of collectors.
- Outline the benefits of why someone should buy your NFT. For example what “problem” you are solving with your NFT, such as “Even in the metaverse you need to decorate your home” or “your twitter profile picture can be a confirmed NFT artwork” or relate it to any Utility that you have built into your NFT such as the fact it has a commercial license sent as certificate with an unlockable image.
- If you cant explain what benefit(s) a potential buyer will receive then it is likely they will soley make their choice to buy or not on the style, visual appeal or event price of your artwork. There is nothing wrong with that but the more reasons there are to buy the more likely some one is to buy it. Make the reason relevant and something that will remain relevant today and in 6 months’ time or longer……consider what made you buy an NFT and build that into your sales pitch.
- Artwork needs to be sent as a JPG that will be of Excelent quality to cater for any instances of the magazine being printed.
- Links to Dropbox or Google Drive folders must be sent rather than the actual images.
- The artwork must have been created by you.
- You must provide one link to your NFT collection.
- I recomend you provide a link to a landing page, ie where you capture the name and email address of a visitor (if you dont have one I can create one and host it on my website for a set fee).lector retention is a major factor in follow on sales.
Terms and Conditions
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Your responsibilities
General
Costs
Publication Dates
Formats
Your responsibilities
Your Responsibilities
- Ensure your text is correct and accurate with no misleading claims.
- You must be the creator of the artwork and by submitting work you are confirming this as a legal statement of fact.
- You are liable for any claims that arise as a result of copyright infringements relating to your content.
- If you are donating monies to a charity you must provide evidence of this and provide a page or documentation confirming your affiliation with the chosen charity.
- You will post a minimum of 3 links via social media to your content in the magazine.
- You will promote the NFT of the magazine on at least 2 occasions
- If you are willing you can promote other artists works in the magazine.
- Artwork will be shared on a Facebook page, I ask that you like comment and share content from that page as frequently as you can to support all the published artists
General
General
- You agree that your text and images can be published in the magazine, and any associated website and social media pages and used on cover varients NFTs of the magaine (ref to cover varients added 13th July 2022) .
- You agree that your text and images may be used in advertising to promote the magazine.
- You retain all copyrights to your text and images. No copyrights are transferred to the magazine. Effectively you are giving me a licence to publish your work.
- Your work will retained published and live indefinitely within the magazine.
- All submitted artwork and text will be deleted from my PC once the magazine has been published. Where its required for posts and adverts it will be copied from the magazine content.
- The magazine content is curated by me. If I feel that submitted artwork is not a match for the values of the magazine then it will not the published.
- You will have a maximum of 2 pages for no charge. Additional pages can be provided but there will be a cost. Please contact me by email using submissions@mycreativeimages.com
Costs
Costs
- I will not ask you to pay to have your content included in the magazine.
- On average it takes me an hour to format artwork and text for each artist. So for 10 artists that’s 10 hours of my time I’m willing to give to support you. On top of that it takes approximately 2 hours to upload it to the magazine page and upload the new links etc. So for a small edition of the magazine with 10 featured artists that’s 12 hours of work. In all probability there will be more than 10 artists in each magazine.
- If you would like a featured artist interview where you answer specific questions and display specific images I can cater for that, but I would need to cover basic costs for my time as formatting and layout take significantly longer. As a guide, I charge a rate of £25 per hour for custom work relating to the magazine.
- Similar publications charge up to £250 per A4 page for a single image and small block of text.
Publication Dates
Publication Dates
- I publish the magazine monthly and try to am for the 1st of each month, but this isn’t always possible.
- If your work isn’t published, please check your email as it may be I have asked a question that you haven’t responded to so have excluded your work from the magazine.
- I tend to start work on creating the magazine 10 days prior to its publication, depending on the number of artists that have submitted work. Submissions received after this point will be retained until the next month.
Formats
Publication Formats
- The publication of the magazine and any sales of any of the various formats it is published in will be used to help me cover the costs of my time and use of equipment and utilities.
- Should you feel so inclined and wish to support the costs of the magazine I have a Kofi page and all donations are gratefully received.
- The magazine will be offered as an NFT with a low cost. The cover art will be chosen from the submitted artwork. NFTs will be created using the submitted artwork and offered as either the main cover or a variant cover. NFTS will be sold via Voice and Opensea. (last two sentences added 13th July 2022 so its clear artwork will be shown on the cover NFTs)
- The NFT will include an unlockable download link for a pdf of the magazine.
- The magazine will be available to read online free of charge but not available as a download.
- Time permitting the magazine will be published on Amazon Kindle and offered for sale.
- This will allow you to use it show that you are a published artist in an established publication
Submit Your Content Art / Conent for Consideration
- Please ensure to read the both the submission requirements and the Terms and Conditions.
- By submitting via this form you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions even if you dont tick the boxes.
- By submitting you are confirming that you are aware that an NFT of the magazine cover will be created that shows your artwork, and that you will only receive a percentage of those sales if you selected the 3 star enhanced plan.
- The profit share will be actioned manually. It is essential that you provide an email and wallet address and these are 100% correct. I take no responsibility if you provide incorrect User ID details.
- You must provide your artist bio and artwork via dropbox, google drive or a similar service. If you cant fill out this form and add a message and I will supply an email address you can send your work to.
- Please email James@mycreativeimages to receive a link to the spatial gallery so you can visit and add your artwork.
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