Just wanted to say that I'm almost certainly going to buy 2 over the weekend for my new place!
It's just a matter of deciding which ones and what size now
Love your work
(Any chance of anything Splatoon-y in the future? :d)
Woohoo! Very interested to see how you'll make the magic happen
I'll be sure to poke the people in the official thread too
Nothing to apologize for! Your art is still great, just want to help with how you can improve.
It's alright Orioto we all support you, just do your thing.
These are the latest 2 pieces i bought from you. I have space in my wall for one more piece from you, so I'll probably wait a while before i buy another one.
Just do your thing man, we all have ups and downs and you don't own anyone anything. If your not feeling it you don't need to push yourself to get one out every week.
Pretty hard to see where i'm going right ? I hope it should be nice in the end. But different from the game obviously.
I wanted to make the obvious squid now/kid now joke to be clever but the filename spoils it anyway
You don't remember or missed this?
Oooh. Looking forward to the final product!
I also got the 2 metal prints I ordered a few days back. Just waiting til the weekend to get the stuff I need to hang it up. Looks amaaaaazing
Will post pictures of the final hanging soon----
Assuming Redbubble does a good job, metal prints are nothing short of great for this kind of stuff, especially in matte finish.
Assuming Redbubble does a good job, metal prints are nothing short of great for this kind of stuff, especially in matte finish.
I want to buy a metal print of your Pikmin art, I'm just trying to find a week where I'll be able to receive it easily. I'll post a picture if someone is interested, even if I'm not sure a picture is really revealing.
I've been convinced by metal prints for this kind of "paintings" when I saw Aoji display in Japan Expo a couple years ago. I guess it would be hard/expensive for you to have a display in Japan Expo, but I think you could find possible customers there, btw...
Too bad I left Lille at the end of April and won't come back for several weeks, I would have liked to see your expo there.
I'll probably buy half a dozen smaller ones, too. I really like your art, I just have to settle on the size/material... hard choices... :/ Thanks for your work. The last one is great once again.
Edit: I'll say it (although it's not a request, seeing how the series is not well-known in the West and in bad shape now), I'd be curious to see what you would do with Sakura Taisen. Especially with the third game. More than curious, in fact... avid
Does that actually work out? If so, of course more power to you. But in my case, it's literally a lost sale. Saw the thread being bumped, saw the cool Artorias piece, wanted to buy it, sold out. :/It's pretty simple. It's just me creating an artificial emergency to buy the poster. Cause people are not in a hurry to buy them if i don't, and i need to sell a certain amount of poster every month to make a living
I wouldn't have sold more than 1000 poster in 2015 without this, i'm sure of it. Wouldn't it make sense to have regular reprints of your popular posters?As i was saying, yes and no.
Yes it works cause i wouldn't have sold the 50 in that amount of time if it wasn't limited. People would have waited, maybe even forgotten to buy it.. When people see a poster online they think "it's nice maybe i'll buy it". If they see maybe it won't be available in some weeks, well that force them to make a decision
No cause i'm till struggling and realizing i have really popular pieces that could give me regular income (maybe!) and they are not there anymore.
It's pretty simple. It's just me creating an artificial emergency to buy the poster. Cause people are not in a hurry to buy them if i don't, and i need to sell a certain amount of poster every month to make a living
So yeah it's artificial, the Dark Souls art could still be printed, but i need to keep that unfair rule alive, so next time people buy something they like when it's out
It's not always easy cause at some point, like now, when the sales are low.. Obviously i have to realize my 10 best sellers of the last month are.. not sold anymore. That doesn't help. You need to have new big sellers every months..
Maybe i could rather have a bargain price for the first week or something. I'm looking for better strategies!
About the sold out ones, i have something on my facebook now. Every 500 followers i'll have them vote for a sold out piece to come back for a new run.
Maybe there is a better way i don't know. Sales strategy are complicated!!I totally understand that you've gotta drive sales to support yourself, so I get why you have that limited run rule. Still, I wish there was some other sales driver you could use, because I've missed out on several prints I would have gotten if they were available by the time I'd had the money to buy them. It unfortunately ends up with a lost sale in my case. I like your first week discount idea. Even if I couldn't afford that price at the time, if the prints stayed in production, I could afford it down the road! Can we vote for business strategies?
Limited runs aside, I did manage to get myself one of your Metroid prints (Electric Sky) last year though. I went with the small metal print and it looks stunning. Its easily the nicest piece of art I have, video game related or otherwise. I love it so much and I'm a huge fan of your work. I have been for years, before I even knew NeoGAF existed and that you had an ongoing art thread here! I'm currently saving up for the Pikmin print, which I absolutely love. I also want the F-Zero one... and the Splatoon one... I need a second job, lol! And also more walls to hang them on!
I HIGHLY recommend the metal print with the matte finish. I wasn't sure what to get when I ordered it, but decided to take a chance on the metal, partly because I liked the idea of having Samus in her armor displayed on metal and I'm so glad I did. I'm pretty sure any future print I buy from Orioto's shop will also be metal.
Most people can't afford them. You know most poster sold are in the 20 euros averagely Hoooly shit how did I miss this. Orioto, just damn...this is beautiful.
I agree, and I don't even recognize the scene. I'm surprised it's not more popular.
I'd say that the main issue with the metal prints it that the smallest size is something a bit larger than 430x300. It's not that easy to group a couple on a wall.But metal print are the most expensive you know
I agree, it would be my first pick, even at a higher cost, as I said above. I've bought two from Aoji, one being really large (1m wide), and they're just great.
I wish I knew about it at that time :/ I've known Orioto's art for some time now, but I only discovered this thread (and Redbubble) recently. Too late :/ Now, I'm checking the numbers, so I guess the limited trick works at least a bit...
That's sad to here... If we can do anything about it...
I guess so... I wouldn't mind having a couple "paintings" about places like the Paris theater, hanging on a wall (I actually have plently of Sakura Taisen memorabilia, from a Sakura original cell to huge vintage maps of Paris and Tokyo annotated in Japanese with special places, but there's something missing ^_^ I'm even working on a blueprint of Koubu F2 from time to time).Sakura Taisen ? Haha, i'm a fan actually. I played the second one. But it seems difficult to do
Well yeah that's why i'm doing the every 500 followers thing on facebook
But metal print are the most expensive you know
I'd love better business strategies.. I shouldn't be struggling with everything i did last year..
? or are you Cyprien or le joueur du grenier Indeed, the scarcity is definitely an effective sales tactic as it drives people to buy sooner than later. I just wish it didn't also result in me crying myself to sleep at night when I miss a print I want.
Unfortunately not. But if you think of something...Well it depends, are from gamekult or jv.com
Many thanks. You'll get a couple more sales from me down the road...
So you're saying the frames have some sort of clear layer that shields the art, right? It doesn't have to be literal glass I just want to make sure that if I spend $160 on something, it will be protected from the elements.
So you're saying the frames have some sort of clear layer that shields the art, right? It doesn't have to be literal glass — I just want to make sure that if I spend $160 on something, it will be protected from the elements.
And when I'm looking at the framed options, are the dimensions referring to the art itself, or the art plus the frame?
Also, is a "sold out" item really gone for good? There's no way to make more of them?
Your work is incredible, btw.
One other question: Do you plan to release a book at some point compiling all of your art? Ideally a hardcover I could order on Amazon?
