Ultimate Guide To NFT Showroom

in Alien Art Hive4 years ago (edited)

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With Ethereum gas fees shooting through the roof, some cryptoartists are searching for alternatives that don’t have gas fees.

A brand-new NFT art marketplace called NFT Showroom on the Hive blockchain* has launched its alpha and it’s already fully functioning. So far, I’ve sold a total of 15 NFTs on NFT Showroom, and I am very excited about it.

note: *technically, Hive Engine https://hive-engine.rocks/ is the smart contract-enabled platform that processes the buys and sells of NFT Showroom. It’s built on top of the Hive blockchain https://hiveblocks.com/

A few weeks ago, I decided to take a deep dive into the cryptoart world and create NFTs of my newest series, RICH EVIL: Epstein. I’ve learned a lot during these past weeks and people are now asking me how to get started with cryptoart.

This guide is geared towards artists who don’t have a lot of cash to throw around. If you follow all the steps here, it’s possible to mint your first NFT for free. On Hive, you have an opportunity to earn crypto for your blog posts which you can then use to mint your NFT.

This guide is for absolute beginners and for non-famous artists. If you’re already a famous, well-established artist, just apply to Super Rare or Nifty Gateway. For the rest of you, I’m going to focus on the two easiest ways to create your very first cryptoart NFTs: NFT Showroom and Rarible. This tutorial covers NFT Showroom. Stay tuned for the next one about Rarible. If you have some money and are ready to dive in, just skip the steps related to blogging.

NFTs are tokens that you create of your artwork that people can buy.

NFT Showroom

Fee to mint one NFT: 5 Hive (one Hive = $.23)
Fee for additional editions: 1 Hive per edition
Gas fees: No
Tech Platform: Hive Engine


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I recommend you to start out with NFT Showroom because minting on this platform has no gas fees, and it costs a flat rate of 5 Hive to mint one NFT. The other reason I recommend starting with NFT Showroom is that you have the chance to earn crypto for free by blogging on Hive. So it’s technically possible to mint your first NFT for free, by earning Hive from writing a few articles. It takes a week to get your payout, but for cryptoartists who want to have blogging as part of their sales funnel, this is a good way to start out.

This guide not a guarantee that you will earn crypto by blogging on Hive, but if you follow my guide, it’s definitely possible. If you want to skip the free route, and would rather just buy some crypto to mint your first NFT, skip ahead.

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Step 1: Create Free Hive Account

Go to https://hiveonboard.com/create-account?ref=hivepeople

Create a new Hive account. Make sure and save a copy of your private keys in a document like Word. Then save this Word document on a USB stick.

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Step 2: Download Hive Keychain Extension

Brave/Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hive-keychain/jcacnejopjdphbnjgfaaobbfafkihpep

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hive-keychain/

Hive Keychain is the equivalent to MetaMask. It’s your wallet you’ll use to do two things: log into NFT Showroom and pay to mint your first NFT cryptoart.

Watch this video tutorial for Steps 1 & 2:

Additional info: https://peakd.com/hivemarketing/@hivepeople/hive-for-noobs

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Step 3: Fill Out Your Profile on NFT Showroom & Submit Artist Links

https://nftshowroom.com/

Before you can mint your art on NFT Showroom, the team has to verify your identity to ensure that you’re who you say you are. To do this, go to NFT Showroom and click on your Profile section. Put all your social media links there, write your bio and complete all fields. You will need to do this step before you’re accepted into NFT Showroom as an artist. Read through the FAQ page too: https://nftshowroom.com/faq

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Step 4: Join NFT Showroom Discord

https://discord.com/invite/PuEeYuK


Read the FAQ page in discord.After you have filled out the Profile section on your NFT Showroom account, join the discord and meet the community: https://discord.com/invite/PuEeYuK

It costs 5 Hive to mint one NFT. So if you have earned some Hive dollars (after the 7 day payout window), you can use that to mint your first NFT.

Step 5: Convert HBD or ETH to HIVE Using Blocktrades

https://www.blocktrades.us/en/trade

Watch the video tutorial to learn how to convert ETH/HBD/BTC to Hive

Hive is unlike Ethereum in one big respect: your Hive username is your Hive wallet address. This means when you send Hive to your Hive wallet, you send it to your human readable wallet account. For example, my Hive wallet address is stellabelle, so when I send money from Blocktrades, the wallet address I write in there is: stellabelle. This is very different from an Ethereum wallet address that looks like this: 0x3bCf58FC7B242285C692B7568406f9ADf22703B0
However, our private keys which are linked to our account are long strings of numbers and letters, so even with Hive we have not escaped the complexity really.

warning: When you send Hive to an exchange, you must use the MEMO or else your funds will be lost.

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Step 6: Deposit HIVE Into Your Wallet on NFT Showrooom

Before you can mint your first NFT, you’ll need to deposit some Hive into your NFT Showroom wallet. So go to NFT Showroom, log in using Hive Keychain, and go to your wallet. Hit the Deposit button. You need at least 5 Hive to mint one NFT. And your Hive has to be converted to SwapHive, but this is done automatically once you deposit Hive into your NFT Showroom wallet, so you don’t have to think about it.

(brief tech explanation: When you deposit Hive into your NFT Showroom wallet, this automatically converts Hive into SwapHive which is necessary in order to process the smart contracts for NFTs. Unlike Ethereum, which is a smart contract platform, the Hive blockchain itself isn’t a smart contract chain. However, a smart contract engine, called Hive Engine was built on top of the Hive blockchain to process smart contracts.)

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Step 6: Mint Your First NFT

Once you have 5 SwapHive deposited in your NFT Showroom wallet and you’ve been whitelisted, you’re ready to mint your first NFT.

Art file types accepted:

GIF, JPEG, PNG: Up to 30 MB in size.
MP4: Up to 100 MB in size.

Click on ‘Tokenize’.

Watch the video tutorial that shows all the steps:

Once you fill out all the fields for your NFT cryptoart, you have to go to your Collection to add it to your cart. Click on the + button on the right. Then you go to your Cart. Click on the Sell button, then add your price. After this is done, your NFT is ready for people to buy! The file types and sizes were just updated so for images/gifs, now it's 30 MB, and for MP4's it's 100 MB limit. This was updated on Aug. 6.

Congratulations, you’ve just made your first NFT.

You can search for tags now, and you get the transaction details in the site. You also can get notifications when people buy your art.

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Step 7: How To Sell Your NFT

Sample Tweet:

In some ways, selling your NFT can be harder than making it. Here are some tips for selling your cryptoart. There is an established community of cryptoartists on Twitter, so get a Twitter account. For each NFT you create, publish a tweet on Twitter. Here’s a sample tweet with some hashtags that are helpful for new artists. Use this hashtag if you’re not an established cryptoartist: #NobodyArtistClub. Use these hashtags for cryptoart: #NFT #cryptoart #rareart #digitalart #cryptoartists and make sure and tag the platform you used to mint your NFT.

Sample Tweet:


“Become a slave to your imagination. Become the himawari, too big and bright to ignore anymore.”

My latest #NFT, Himawari, just dropped on @nftshowroom. #GIF, 5/5 editions, 75 $Hive each : https://nftshowroom.com/gallery/stellabelle_absurd-portraits_himawari #cryptoart #digitalart #rareart #hive #raredigitalart #NobodyArtistClub #crypto #blockchainart

EXTRA STEPS FOR CRYPTOARTISTS WHO WANT TO EARN HIVE BY BLOGGING

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Step Z: Join Alien Art Hive

https://peakd.com/c/hive-158694/trending

The cool thing about Alien Art Hive is that it embraces cryptoart from all platforms, including ETH, EOS and Hive. The founder of this Community is a well-established cryptoartist herself, so the atmosphere is welcoming to all different technologies.

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Step Y: Write Your #IntroduceYourself Artist Post in Alien Art Community

This step is for cryptoartists who want to earn some Hive and use that to mint on NFT Showroom. If you just want to mint a NFT on NFT Showroom and already have Hive crypto, then you can skip this step.

Now that you have your Hive Keychain set up, it’s time to write your #IntroduceYourself artist post in the Alien Art Community on Peakd.com. Peakd is the best way to blog on the Hive blockchain, imo.

In order for your post to be included in the Alien Art Hive, you have to navigate to the Alien Art Community and hit the button, subscribe. Then click the button “Write a post” from within the Alien Art Hive community page.
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Make sure and tag me @stellabelle in your post, and then at the bottom you need to add the tag, introduceyourself. If you want your payout rewards quickly, make sure you set it to HBD/Hive Power, not 100% Hive Power. FYI, HBD is Hive dollars.

If you have any troubles here, you can join the Alien Art Discord server to get tech support: https://discord.com/invite/63u6JWa

It takes 7 days to earn your crypto on Peakd. I highly recommend you write more blog posts about your art during your first week on Hive, and also find other people’s art that you like, and comment on them. Make friends and get to know people while you’re waiting to get your crypto earnings from your posts.

After 7 days, you should now see your payout in your wallet (if you received enough upvotes). You will notice that you received HBD (Hive dollars). You need to first convert these to Hive so you can use this to mint your NFT. I like to use Blocktrades because it’s an instant conversion that takes only minutes to complete. Ofc if you're converting ETH to Hive it will take a lot longer to process.

Follow me on Twitter for more tips about cryptoart: https://twitter.com/stellabelle

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Check out my NFTs and connect with me:

NFT Showroom / Makersplace / Rarible / Twitter / Website

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I am an artist and draw yourself and I want to actively participate in this community

just follow the tutorial..

Now i can understand the whole process and Reblogged it for future purpose, later i can try for it!

This is a very detailed guide to everything related to making and selling digital art, great job! I bought one of your creations on NFTshowroom and one from someone else, so I'm officially an NFT art collector. I encourage others to check it out and also consider supporting the cool artists there, if they find something they like. There is a good selection of art there already.

Thank you so much Kenny for purchasing my NFT!

How does the private message field work? Does that note reveal itself to whomever holds the NFT at the time? Thanks!

actually, the private message is not private. It's publicly displayed to all. Maybe it can be made private in the future?

OK, thanks Stella. A private message can be sent through HIVE, so that's a workaround. :)

yeah sure...and you can encrypt a memo so only the recipient can read it.

This is a well detailed guide

Thank you very much dear @stellabelle, thanks to your guide I was able to publish my first #NFT ;)

oh that's great to know!

This is very educative...I've shared it with artists that I know that will want to hop in. I can't wait for the Rarible tutorial too.

Art and Hive - a great combination! Excellent tute!

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Well done -- will be posting this up when I meet artists who are looking for a better choice!

Hello, I really found your video awesome. If you may allow, can we translate your video in different languages for easy comprehension. I am thinking to use the video but only change the audio to different languages. More power to you

oh sure! Please translate it!

Thanks, it will be great for Hive marketing

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 4 years ago  

This is a solid tutorial.

I made a set of diagrams here that point toward areas that I don't think have solutions yet:

This here shows where artists are coming from:
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It seems like for the most part NFTShowroom is attracting inexperienced artists, with a handful of people who are a bit more successful in both ETH and HIVE markets. However, a lack of whale or serious [non-artist] collectors causes most successful Cryptoartists, and any new and potentially luminary cryptoartists from the Fiat world, to go toward ETH ecosystem.

It should go without saying that if crpytoartists are all just passing around 50 HIVE, collecting from each other, we're not really a marketplace, as much as a trade circle, and while it might feel nice, it's not really providing a business for anyone.

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The luminaries are attracted to where the money is, and the money goes to the luminaries - so the Collectors are over in the ETH Ecosystem.

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This sets us up with a problem, because in attracting inexperienced artists, and onboarding inexperienced artists, we are not going to be drawing the collectors in anything but a trickle, and even if we onboard a ton of new artists, -- if the work is not solid or 'worthy' of collectors, then it's likely to be a bunch of cheap noise and not that remarkable, and in addition to that, there will be a churn, because "Nobody bought my thing".

[Nobody upvoted my post!!! - sound familiar?]

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So we have 3 issues here:

  1. How can CURRENTLY EXISTING HIVE artists, who have already drank the kool-aid, create work that is remarkable enough to attract collectors?
  2. If NFTShowroom is not yet attractive to successful cryptoartists, and Crypto-Curious Fiat Artists, because it's not financially lucrative -- because there are not an abundance of collectors in comparison to ETH markets -- THEN, how can we model to these people the value of using a HIVE Art Blog, or Joining a Community?
  3. IF Whales and ETH Collectors find their primary value in following artists on ETH who are already successful on their given platforms, then HOW can we give those whales an opportunity to use HIVE as a means of organizing their art communities / collectives / curation circles -- How can these Whales and large collectors leverage the HIVE Ecosystem itself to benefit themselves and their circles, -- Start a Community?

.:.

The solutions that I propose are different for each target:

  1. HIVE artists need to do projects that are substancial enough to draw attention from ETH and EOS and FIAT markets and audience pools, and then recenter that attention back into HIVE Communities, and NFTShowroom. -- In order to do this, people need to consider more sincerely what it is they are doing with art, and how they can expand to these areas and resource pools.
  2. IF HIVE artists do this, the communities that they participate in will become more wealthy, because they will have additional income from external markets, and therefore will be able to have more HP. These people will become artist collectors, and their upvotes will increase the value of the communities, -- and they will be worthy of collaboration with FIAT and Non HIVE CryptoArtists. -- This will onboard these two groups [and their correlated collectors] to HIVE.
  3. The real question of How to make an ETH or EOS Whale / Collector, turn into a HIVE Whale / Collector has to do with the value of HIVE itself, and the value of NFTShowroom. If More serious artists are doing remarkable work on NFTShowroom, then there will be more collectors attracted. But, I'd also like to point out that there are many telegram groups and discord groups that are centered around a Whale or a group of collectors. [$WHALE comes to mind].

So, on the lower economic end of things, we need to [each of us who wants NFTShowroom to work for us] -- to make projects that are worthy of the attention and resources we are hoping to secure by posting our NFTs there.

[This would be the strategy for anyone using #nobodyartist]

On the Middle Economic Spectrum -- We need to be establishing ourselves as artists who have multiple resource streams, and then stacking HIVE / HP so that those resources can be allocated toward Communities via vote power, The collective attempt here would also include attracting audiences that follow YOUR work, from outside of HIVE, into shared [or individual / niche ] communities, and then those people and resources can splash outward and cross-pollinate for the less accomplished #nobodyartists.

[This would be a strategy for a working artist, or aspiring working artist.]

On the Higher Economic Spectrum -- We need to encourage and | model Curation projects that are focused on creating HIVE Whales and giving them prestige and financially lucrative investments.

What this means, is people like Boullage, who are collecting and setting up curation galleries on Cryptovoxels, need to be able to have prestige and profit from their activities. If Boullage can make money, and gain status by doing what they are doing, then other cryptoart whales will see and want to gain access to those same rewards.

[This would be a strategy for a whale collector / curator.]

ALL of this starts with Me and You doing better art projects, and understanding how those art projects relate to the people we are hoping will collect our work.

Quality gives way to Quantity.

Amazing blog post I will definitely share with those who may have trouble with creating NFT artwork.

Good Info, it was helpful.