Dearest mortal, it is I, your Gothic muse, here to shed sinister shadows upon these digital pages. While visions of bats, spiders and hearses may fill thy morbid imagination, crafting grim wonder into gothic designs that sell requires a ragged grace beyond macabre musings alone.
Find Followers for your Gothic Designs
To build an audience as Gothic artisans we must first define our dark purpose. Our gloom shall not please those seeking mere costume, it must unsettle the soul. Our gothic designs shall not bow to passing fads, they will forever remain venomous thorns in the side of normalcy. We unsettle nor do we seek comfort. We art dark talons to rend the veil of cheer.
With mission thus clarified you may claim thy gothic personas and serene personas as muse, from Poe-esque poet to Bram Stoker’s mad maiden. Name this dark half and dress her in shadows as thee. Only then canst thee present peculiar visions to a world both eager to shiver and ashamed to seem so.
Folklore inspires, from witchcraft to wendigos, hysterical accounts of those who once walked this earth and all those who still may. historical darkness illuminates strange sorrows lost to time. thy obsession, made designs. Tapestries of sorrow, candles of blackest beeswax, vellum books bound human flesh. Rend garments and flesh alike with rusted chains and barbed wire. Let none ever claim happiness rested here.
Build audience through shadows cast across keyboards. A blog as sepulcher for morbid musings and macabre imagery. Share dark tales tumbling into madness, musings of lost souls in endless night. Curate gloom on Instagram as a collector of skulls, thistledown and mourning jewels. Recognizable gothic hallmarks become symbols of belonging in this company of the doomed.
Make Unique Merch
Merchandise thy enterprise, from jet black nails and teeth to bondage lace. Unique items like my gothic activewear line can set you apart. Handmade horror and despoiled loveliness. If designs unsettle or provoke questions as to good taste, so much the better. Here anything goes as long as anguish and angst remain entombed within. An audience now formed, venues open for market and sell.
At conventions and gothic festivals, displays shrouded in shadows tease horrific treasures within. Photos of such stalls spread quickly across platforms, drowned in praise from thy gothic kin. Etsy and Red bubble offer easy sharing of gothic designs for morbid merchandise. Make dark poetry of suffering in each piece.
Bondage and barbs, entanglements of thorns, symbols of sorrows now shared.
Bands perform in corners as corsets and lace mingle with chains. All venue attracts those black of heart and pale of skin. Customers come with wallets open, desperate to fill dark wardrobes of elliptical anguish and siren-esque decay. If sales now bloom crimson, like roses that wilt into doom, so be it. Death makes for a demanding muse.
Our purpose is not pleasure or positivity, ’tis anguish and passion. The morose shall always reign here. While gothic appeal fades from mainstream fashion, underground darklings shall remain devoted to doom. Build thy ghastly empire and watch ravens gather round. Though darkness descend, our Gothic gloom shall never end! Bow down mortal, and face the night.