What is the prospect of hand painting? How about opening a hand-painted shop?

Yesterday, the reporter saw such a specialty store in Beihe Street in the city. The owner is Zhu Xiao, a girl born in the 1980s. By hand-painting shoes, T-shirts and hats, she can earn 1000 yuan a month. When the price of canvas shoes doubled due to "hand painting", Zhu Xiao joked: "That was an accident!" Zhu Xiao studied art design. After graduating from college in 2005, she found a job unrelated to her major. At the end of 2008, Zhu Xiao began to think about what to do part-time. A scene in a TV series inspired her, in which the hero hand-painted a pair of unique shoes for the heroine and finally gained love. "At that time, I felt that I could also hand-paint such shoes." Zhu Xiao said it inspired her. Since so many people are interested in hand-painted items, why not open a hand-painted shop? "Preparations began before the Spring Festival this year and officially opened in February to welcome guests." Zhu Xiao said that, in fact, the store didn't invest much. In order to save the cost of renting a house, she set up a special counter in the clothing store opened by her sister-in-law, which can also attract tourists and kill two birds with one stone. Zhu Xiao gave the reporter a rough calculation. Her cost input includes hand-painted tools, rent, flat shoes and so on. She spent more than 3000 yuan, just within her tolerance. The reporter saw in front of the small hand-painted counter that quiet mountains and green waters, cute cartoon characters and complex abstract paintings can all appear on hand-painted canvas shoes. "I didn't have much hope at first." Zhu Xiao said frankly, but to her surprise, she sold more than a dozen pairs of shoes on the opening day. Soon, the store gained a certain popularity. In the hot summer of canvas shoes, customers came in an endless stream, mainly teenagers chasing fashion. Zhu Xiao told reporters that the polished canvas shoes on the market are generally around 30 to 40 yuan per pair. After some elaborate hand-painting, each pair of shoes can be sold for 70 to 80 yuan. Judging from the sales situation of hand-painted shops in Zhu Xiao for five months, more and more people like hand-painted shoes. Many people come here to buy novel shoes. Some people even use their imagination to design their own shoes, and some even ask to draw lovers' heads on shoes. Zhu Xiao introduced that hand-painted canvas shoes are not the patent of young people, and many middle-aged and elderly people also like them very much. Generally, young people prefer cartoons or some personalized patterns, while middle-aged and elderly people will choose some more elegant patterns. Seeing that the business of the small shop is getting better and better, Zhu Xiao registered an online shop, which enriched the sales channels and sold personalized hand-painted canvas shoes to Yantai. Zhu Xiao said that she is very optimistic about the market prospect of hand-painted shops, but because she is a part-time worker, she can't spare more time to paint, which also affects certain sales. The reporter saw in the online shop in Zhu Xiao that there are many kinds of her hand-painted canvas shoes, including low-top hand-painted shoes, low-top hand-painted shoes, middle-top hand-painted shoes, high-top hand-painted shoes, high-heeled women's boots, baby cartoon hand-painted shoes, two sets of parents and children, two sets of lovers, hand-painted nurse shoes, DIY hand-painted cute lace princess shoes, etc ... Zhu Xiao told reporters that she is walking on two legs now, one is a shop and the other is A, and there are two sales channels. Brush a pair of shoes 16 hours customer satisfaction is the most important. "The only technical threshold for hand-painted shops is to be able to draw by yourself. The original shop is not big, so it is not appropriate to hire a painter. " Zhu Xiao said that it happened that she had this professional advantage. In her opinion, the most important thing for hand-painting is to know something about the design of shoes. When painting on "smooth canvas shoes", be careful not to regard shoes as canvas, and always remember that patterns serve the whole shoes. Painters should not only have the basic skills of painting, but also have a certain understanding of the design of shoes in order to make hand-painted shoes more beautiful. The biggest selling point of hand-painted shops is hand-painted paintings on goods. Because customers choose patterns, or take materials directly from customers and make them by hand, each hand-painted work is "unique", so customers will feel that hand-painted products are "special". Customer satisfaction is often a criterion for the success of hand-painted shops. "Only when the customer's requirements are fully met will the other party accept the goods." Zhu Xiao said that it took her about five or six hours to draw a pair of shoes, and at most it even reached 16 hours.