Selling Your Art as an NFT

Because in the end you've got to eat...

! Important

You will need an "On-Chain" wallet.

Step by Step Instructions

Of course only sell art that you have the rights to sell!

Preparing Your Art

Create your art as digital-native images or convert to digital images i.e. high-quality scanning or photographing.

Create images as high-resolution images and add a signature if you wish.

You can store on your images on your own IPFS account or when using NKMR to sell your art, it will upload ("pin") the images to IPFS for you.

Optional

Create IPFS account using nft.storage.

Preparing Your NFT Series

Determines your Series Name, Token Name, ID etc

Create a Google Sheet (or similar) to record details, minting statuses, sales etc

You will need an "On-Chain" wallet for receiving initial and royalities payments.

Determine pricing and if any discounts or sales conditions etc

i.e. Random Sales or Specific Sales?

Or a discount if already owns some of your art?

Determine % royalities for future art trading sales.

Selling ("Minting") Your Art

Using NMKR Studio

Create NMKR Studio account at studio.nmkr.io.

Set up a Project.

Create pay header image (300px by 100px).

Getting $MINT, so you can create the Royality token.

Create the Royality Token

Start uploading the art images as NFTs.

Tech Stuff

What is ADA?

ADA is the base token (currency) of the Cardano blockchain.

You can use a Centralised Exchange to convert ADA to your traditional currency.

What is a Cardano Policy ID?

A unique ID on the Cardano blockchain that is used to verify that the NFTs are yours.

What is a Secondary Market?

A place where your art can be traded e.g. jpg.store.

Everytime the art is traded you will get paid royalities in ADA.

What is a IPFS?

The "Interplanetary File System" (IPFS) is a distributed file storage protocol that allows computers all over the globe to store and serve files as part of a giant peer-to-peer network.