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I have a side hustle where I produce niche desk ornament sculptures and busts made from concrete. Etsy link: https://www.etsy.com/shop/jurgenstudio https://www.
by jurgenwerk 7y ago
I have a side hustle where I produce niche desk ornament sculptures and busts made from concrete. Etsy link: https://www.etsy.com/shop/jurgenstudio https://www.etsy.com/shop/jurgenstudio
This brings me around 500 euros per month. Recently the sales of Marcus Aurelius took off nicely, so I'm seriously thinking about expanding this business by making busts of more famous philosophers and leaders. I'm in the process of adding mini concrete busts of Alan Turing, Steve Jobs, Slavoj Žižek, Nikola Tesla, Plato, Aristotle, Jordan Peterson and more.
If anyone is interested in how I these are made (3d printing, molding, concrete pouring), please check here: https://twitter.com/matixmatix/status/1243116129289146368 https://twitter.com/matixmatix/status/1243116129289146368
- ParanoidShroom 7y agoCool to see your process making the busts!
- mrfusion 7y agoAny advice for running a business on Etsy?
- jurgenwerk 7y agoI'm also running a website where I ask people exactly that! :) https://myhandmadestory.com/ https://myhandmadestory.com/ (success stories from independent makers who sell handmade stuff online)
- mrfusion 7y agoHow do you put the two halves together when they come out of the molds?
- Moogs 7y agoThe two halves of the mold are put back together and the concrete is poured into the bottom. Once it's set, the mold is removed and the result is once piece. Here's a good video from Tested on the process (not with concrete) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEVi0mEaJJQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEVi0mEaJJQ
- mrfusion 7y agoHow did you do the digital sculpting? Any tutorials?
- jurgenwerk 7y agoI outsource that. I find 3D design sculptors on Upwork and CGTrader and tell them what I need. When I'm satisfied with the result, I send it to my 3D print guy who makes a print for me.
- manifoldgeo 7y agoI make and sell (used to sell) art toys on Instagram, and I make my digital sculptures in Blender since it's Free and Open Source. CGCookie.com just came out with an up-to-date course in sculpting with the newest version of Blender (2.8x). I highly recommend it. It's mostly up to par with zBrush, and you get the benefits of the FLOSS community. https://cgcookie.com/course/fundamentals-of-digital-sculpting-blender-2-8 https://cgcookie.com/course/fundamentals-of-digital-sculptin...
- rwmurrayVT 7y agoIt's hilarious how there's so many sellers for that same damn Venus bust on Etsy.