Meet female artists building on Singular, the NFT platform built on Kusama

If you ever wondered wherever NFT artists find their inspiration, oregon what the cardinal ingredients are for launching a palmy NFT collection, support reading, due to the fact that Lady Kusama (Rachel), Yumi (Diana), Kate, and Marlua volition bring you up to speed.

These 4 pistillate artists person 1 evident happening successful common–they each chose Singular, a level for minting and trading Kusama-native NFTs.

Without further ado, present are their stories, plans for 2022, and proposal for those who are considering releasing NFTs.

Lady Kusama (Rachel)

Rachel’s NFT communicative started erstwhile she was introduced to crypto by her relative and concern partner, KBL.

“He was already funny successful Dotsama specifically, and requested my creator skills to motorboat an NFT postulation together–the Kusama Kings,” remembers Rachel.

Kusama Kings Collection, featuring ‘#075 Dragon’ (source: Singular)

Rachel, who has since rolled retired her ain collection–Kutes, has been drafting for arsenic agelong arsenic she tin remember, and got into integer creation astatine 12 years old. She studied Computer Animation and Visual Effects and worked some successful studios, and arsenic a freelance artist.

“Most of my acquisition lies successful integer creation and illustration, peculiarly creation tailored for the animation industry,” said Rachel, revealing that her inspirations see Claire Hummel and Lois van Baarle.

Kute Collection, featuring ‘Kute Tiger’ (Source: Singular)

When asked astir what’s successful store for this year, Rachel revealed plans for launching 2 caller collections successful aboriginal 2022–once the last Kusama Kings are released.

Yumi (Diana)

“I was successful crypto since 2017, but didn’t delve overmuch beyond BTC and ETH. In 2021 I started to perceive a batch astir Dotsama ecosystem, bought my archetypal DOT, past recovered Singular marketplace and got into KSM,” remembers Diana, the creator down NFT collections Kitty Paradise and Dreamscapes.

Diana has been drafting sketches and doodles since childhood, and started utilizing integer creation tools similar photoshop and SAI erstwhile she was 10.

“I tried myself successful pixel creation and truly got into the style,” said Diana, revealing that her inspiration often comes from imagery of antithetic gods and deities.

Kitty Paradise collection, featuring ‘Kitty Paradise #206’ (Source: Singular)

“This is the main taxable of my Dreamscapes collections. At the aforesaid time, I besides emotion drafting cute stuff–like Kitty Paradise,” she added.

When asked astir plans for this year, Diana said evolving Kitty postulation is connected the apical of the list.

“We are moving to RMRK 2.0, from pixel kitties to non-pixel mage cats. There are immense plans for this postulation and I anticipation to amusement immoderate artworks soon already,” taunted the artist.

Dreamscapes postulation featuring, ‘CHAOS | 5/10’ (Source: Singular).

“For Dreamscapes I privation to decorativeness the started postulation and proceed with carnal point rewards for holders–it would beryllium large to spot these items displayed successful existent life. Then again, RMRK 2.0 it is,” she added.

Kate

“I was 8 years aged erstwhile I got into creation school. I attended classes determination for similar 8 to 9 years. I made tons of canvas paintings there, and adjacent sold immoderate of them for a fewer dollars,” Kate revealed astir her background.

As for crypto, she said–“three months agone I had nary thought astir it.” In November, a person of hers told her astir NFTs and, intrigued, Kate started to research.

“In a mates of weeks of Twitter exploring I came crossed the Singular nexus which changed my beingness radically,” remembered Kate, who launched her archetypal Singular postulation Chaos Giraffes connected November 26.

Chaos Giraffes collection, featuring ‘Mythic Giraffe | Dragonborn’ (Source Singular)

The creator explained she tin make antithetic artworks successful antithetic styles astatine the aforesaid clip and consciousness bully astir it. “My creation is Chaos”–she summed it up.

“Now I americium backmost to canvas aft a three-year pause, astatine the aforesaid clip I gully a postulation astir the miss satan connected my iPad and marque Giraffe items for RMRK 2.0,” she explained, adding that she takes her inspiration “from beauteous radical and beauteous bodies.”

Marlua

Similar to Kate, Marlua besides admitted not having a agelong way grounds with crypto.

“I started taking announcement of Crypto erstwhile Covid-19 situation started–my fellow helped maine a batch due to the fact that helium is simply a large instrumentality of the Dotsama ecosystem,” said Maurla, whose inheritance arsenic an creator started astatine an creation gymnasium 12 years ago.

“I was ever funny astir creation and I was admiring however radical tin construe thoughts oregon feelings connected paper–that’s wherefore my postulation is named Marlua’s Emotions,” said Marlua.

Marlua’s Emotions collection, featuring ‘Marknight’ (Source: Singular).

She describes her enactment arsenic a premix of abstract and expressionism art, and concludes her creator inspiration is hard to pinpoint.

“Everytime it is thing antithetic and I effort to subordinate and beryllium guided by my feelings. For lawsuit making ‘Corrector’ erstwhile the marketplace crashed–everyone could subordinate and truthful did I,” she explained.

When asked astir plans for this year, Marlua kept it short. “I deliberation it volition be–go with the flow,” she said.

“I would emotion to marque immoderate immense integrations of RMRK 2.0. due to the fact that I truly deliberation it’s the astir precocious NFT protocol successful the world. Still not definite if it volition beryllium imaginable for my Emotion postulation but I would emotion to person thing made connected RMRK 2.0 successful future,” concluded the artist.

Key to a palmy NFT collection

All 4 artists agreed that gathering a assemblage is paramount to a palmy NFT collection.

“It truly depends connected the collection/artist, but successful astir cases, assemblage is crucial,” explained Diana, adding this includes perpetually making events, communicating with the audience, keeping the speech connected societal platforms alive, and participating successful assorted activities.

“Community has been cardinal to our success,” argued Rachel, adding that changeless engagement with the assemblage and predominant giveaways are an important portion of the puzzle.

Maurla, besides shares the aforesaid view, explaining she tries to foster assemblage engagement mostly with giveaways.

Kate had nary antithetic explanation. ”Community is everything”–the creator concluded.

All 4 of them had the aforesaid proposal for artists who are considering releasing NFTs–build a assemblage and marque them a portion of the journey.

The Singular Marketplace (Source: Singular)

“Build. Don’t driblet your creation and beryllium and hold for radical to bargain it,” Kate advised, underscoring the value of being proactive successful making radical funny and involved.

Also encouraging artists to not beryllium acrophobic to scope retired to others for guidance, Rachel added:

“Create a constricted postulation and found wide rarity wrong the collection–this allows buyers to beryllium much assured that their NFT volition clasp its rarity,”

Finally, the past happening that CryptoSlate uncovered each 4 artists had successful communal were their reasons for choosing Singular.

According to them, the beardown assemblage was the main factor, alongside inexpensive minting, that attracted them to the Dotsama ecosystem.

“It’s truly important to person enactment erstwhile you are opening your mode and virtually everyone here–staff, collectors and different artists were and are perpetually motivating me,” Diana added.