After Christie’s sold an NFT of artist Beeple’s “Every Day: The First 5,000 Days” for $69 million, the media was filled with stories of overnight success. But the artists and young artists saw another story. In the traditional sales model of artists, collectors generally directly connect with artists, and the average income of artists accounts for about 30% to 50% of the income of the entire industry chain. In the secondary market transactions, generally, galleries entrust well-known artists to auction houses for secondary market sales of artworks. Among them, the two largest auction houses - Sotheby's and Christie's, will 13.5% - 26% commission varies.

Galleries generally determine the artist's bargaining power based on the artist's reputation. For example, a well-known artist can obtain 85% or even higher income ratio in the game with the gallery, while if the well-known or even unknown artist, the highest income may only be about 50% of the selling price.

NFT allows artists to see a different future.

When artworks are sold on the NFT trading platform, compared with galleries and auction houses, there is no middleman who earns all or most of the price difference, and the proportion of income earned by artists will naturally increase.

NFT also makes people pay more attention to the work itself, while the author's gender, age, skin color and experience are not so important. This also gives artists, especially non-famous artists, a chance to be seen fairly by the world.

LULU.Z and Misaki-S26, the virtual kitten, have proved with their personal experience that based on NFT, new grassroots creators can also get fair traffic and stand out with their excellent works.

When you see LULU.Z for the first time, you can't even connect this lively and beautiful girl with the author of "NFT ERA: The Ghost Warrior".

At the closing event of "Masquerade Carnival: When Thinker Meets Artist" jointly organized by Conflux and Crypto C, we finally met LULU.Z himself. LULU.Z is real, sunny, and lively, while her works adopt a darker way of expression. The author and works are the first wave of shock brought to us by LULU.Z.

LULU.Z, a cutting-edge encryption artist, is good at using color to create. He has participated in art exhibitions at home and abroad and won many awards. At a young age, in May 2021 after the epidemic, she held her first NFT art solo exhibition "Yuan Universe | Insomnia Cookies" at Song Yang Art Museum in Beijing 798 Art District.

Many people think that talent and beauty cannot coexist, and LULU.Z is here to break their prejudice.

"History always moves forward in a spiral way. With the iteration of technology, new production methods and expression forms will always emerge with the emergence of new tools, and then new art forms will also emerge as the times require. Just like a full body in 30,000 BC The fluffy primitive man picked up a sharp piece of ochre, and he created the first realistic art work of human beings on the Altamira cave with the help of the faint firelight, an animal that looks like a cow and a horse. Later, people have Brushes, paints, computers, poetry, movies, and now the ninth art form: video games."

LULU.Z did not show an overly eager embrace or resistance to the emergence of NFT. On the contrary, her point of view allows us to see a calmness different from her age: "The so-called traditional art is just some of our subjective definitions. I believe that NFT will also become traditional art in a few decades. Because traditional and non-traditional The difference is actually just the relationship between the new and the old.” “Art is iterated step by step. Human beings are always eager to express, and they will always use their brains and hands to create and update new ways of expression and media. Create new works and new worlds."

Once the topic entered the field of art, we discovered that this girl who seemed to be always happy was the real "sane in the world".

The ability to get acquainted with him is due to the artist DAO organization in the Conflux community - ART101.

ART101 Art Creation Alliance is a spontaneous artist organization originating from the Conflux community. The original intention of its establishment is to help emerging artists strive for more opportunities, so that their talents can be displayed and discovered. Most of the members of the ART101 Alliance are emerging artists from various industries with outstanding works. LULU.Z is the chief artist of ART101.

When it comes to the fate with ART101, LULU.Z has the meaning of "feeling the kindness of knowing you".

"In the beginning, a friend invited me to participate in the ART101 activity, the creation of the theme AI. I liked the idea very much, so I participated in the (event), and then became acquainted with the platform, and also met many friends who are doing NFT ART."

AI is a themed art creation activity jointly initiated by ART101, the NFT interactive platform NFTBox, and an Indian art creation team. It collects works from artists around the world that integrate the unique style and characteristics of the author's hometown, city, and nation. This activity has completed the collection of works and voting, and the work of LULU.Z ranked first in this activity.

And everyone quickly discovered this "interesting soul" with both beauty and talent. ART101 responded very quickly and formed her fan group around LULU.Z. The enthusiasm of the fans also moved LULU.Z.

Everyone even crazily sent LULU.Z self-made emoticons to each other in the chat, and the author, collectors and fans played together.

The unremitting promotion of ART101 and LULU.Z fans allowed her to quickly integrate into the Conflux community. Tspace, a digital art trading platform on the Conflux network, found her through ART101 and planned to launch an NFT auction for her work "NFT ERA: The Ghost Warrior".

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("NFT ERA: The Ghost Warrior": Miao)

This series also made LULU.Z truly aware of the pursuit of high-quality works by collectors on the chain. "NFT ERA: The Ghost Warrior" series has five NFTs (Yao, Miao, Mustache, Qi, and Lie), and each NFT is limited to 5 pieces. "It was released at 7 o'clock in the evening on June 22. By twelve o'clock, I found that the work was sold out in the background data. I am very grateful for the help of the platform and the enthusiasm of the user collectors." Currently in the "NFT ERA: The Ghost Warrior" series , the highest price reached 9999 U.

A series of enthusiastic feedback from collectors and fans has also made LULU.Z more motivated, "In the future, we will definitely live up to everyone's goodwill and expectations, and will continue to output and create."

ART101 provides a brand new stage for authors like LULU.Z who strive to expand their popularity in the encryption world. Here, they can use ART101 as a springboard and a link to access more diversified platforms and creative opportunities. You can get richer rewards by virtue of your own talent and popularity.

For the virtual kitten Misaki-S26, ART101 means a different meaning.

Of course, this is another creator's story.

We'll break it down next time.