You’re an artist or a designer, and you’ve heard that a Beeple digital artwork sold for $69 million. No, you won’t ever have that degree of mania (unless you have contacts with your buyer’s Singaporean businesses), but you can still try to create an NFT that you can claim as your own. You’ll usually lose some cash during the process; however, you’ll have joined the bandwagon, and you’ll be able to boast about it on Twitter and Instagram.

Choose what you want

Selecting the art is the primary thing you must do. Any digital file can be represented by a non-fungible token. An NFT can be created from a digital image, text, song, or video, anything that is a multimedia file and can be copied. In the end, the NFT game focuses on creating “unique” works of digital art in the era of their unlimited replication.

Keep some Ether on hand

Now that you’ve decided on your digital asset, go buy some ether.

There are many alternative blockchains where you can create NFTs, but for the purpose of simplicity, we’ll assume you’ll use Ethereum. The most well-known NFT markets support that as it is the most popular.

Money will be needed to mint an NFT. As a result, you will require an Ethereum wallet containing some Ether. “MetaMask” is currently among the simplest to use. On your iPhone or Android smartphone, you may get it for free. The cost proposed to build the NFT is rather erratic. Have at least $100 worth of Ether on hand, but be aware that, dependent on the daily operating price, the minting procedure can cost you even more.

Although the procedure is free if you mint the NFT on OpenSea due to the type of token it will produce, you must still link a wallet to establish an account.

Select a marketplace

After getting everything set up, you must decide which marketplace you will use to construct and list your NFT.

The most well-known ones are Mintable, OpenSea, and Rarible. For the purposes of this article, we’ll choose the last option because joining is free and there is no content moderation. This implies that in order to sell on the site, you do not need to be a recognized artist. However, this also implies that the market is flooded with digital accessories that no one will ever buy.

Click “My Profile” after selecting the user icon on OpenSea. You can select how to link your ETH wallet on this page in order to move on. By clicking on WalletConnect after choosing “Use a different Wallet,” MetaMask users may link their wallet to the platform. The process is rather simple. After confirming the Wallet Connect action from your MetaMask app, follow the platform’s instructions.

Make the NFT

You can proceed to generate your first NFT after establishing a connection between OpenSea and the ETH Wallet. Create a collection by selecting Create from the top menu. Complete all required fields, then hit “Save.” You are now prepared to begin the actual minting of a new NFT. Select New Item, add your artwork and provide as much information as you like. When you’re prepared to take action, click create.

Congratulations on creating a token successfully! However, you must open the freshly created item in the portfolio and select the sale option in order to sell it on OpenSea. You may select the Ethereum tokens you’ll take as payment, whether you want to sell for a specific price or at an auction, and the royalties you want to get from the first and future sales on the selling page.

Profit

You’ve made an NFT and successfully put it on the OpenSea marketplace. Now what? It won’t help you much if you wait for someone to notice your priceless symbol. You’ll need to promote the product on your own, maybe to an already-existing group of individuals that might be interested in your work. It has absolutely nothing to do with the creative process itself, but that is the most difficult aspect. Yes, it is just as cutthroat and picky as the real world of art. Unless you’re a meme or another online sensation’s fictional persona. If so, kudos to you since you’ve likely discovered a method to profit off the humiliating photo that others have consistently used to make fun of you.