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The Advantages of Buying and Selling Art on the Web
Are you looking for a way to get the word out about your artwork, or just looking to make some extra money? Are you looking to purchase artwork at a reasonable price? Learn a little bit about how I am using the web to further my art career and how you can use the web to make money too, artist or not.
I have been drawing seriously since I was about eight years old and specialize in portraits and figures. It has been a little over a year since I started seriously promoting my art career, and I am REALLY enjoying it. I am a WORKING artist, the best kind of artist to be!
Start-up costs are what prevented me from promotion in the past, but with the internet and some elbow grease, it costs nothing to promote and sell my artwork.
I have learned so much and met so many kind hearted people, it's been great. I enjoy promoting my work on the web because so many people can enjoy it and offer insights. There are some great sites that are terrific support networks for an aspiring artist. It took some time to get established, so give yourself a few months to a year, just depending on how many hours a day you can invest.
My full time career is Social Work. I love it, but it is tough stuff sometimes, and for some reason, many don't know or care a whole lot about Social Workers or the work they do to keep our society functioning.
Right now I have a few websites that display my original fine art and my artwork on different products like t-shirts, coffee mugs, stamps and the like.
I have lenses about artwork, pets, organic food, and hope to have a bunch more soon.
I have been drawing seriously since I was about eight years old and specialize in portraits and figures. It has been a little over a year since I started seriously promoting my art career, and I am REALLY enjoying it. I am a WORKING artist, the best kind of artist to be!
Start-up costs are what prevented me from promotion in the past, but with the internet and some elbow grease, it costs nothing to promote and sell my artwork.
I have learned so much and met so many kind hearted people, it's been great. I enjoy promoting my work on the web because so many people can enjoy it and offer insights. There are some great sites that are terrific support networks for an aspiring artist. It took some time to get established, so give yourself a few months to a year, just depending on how many hours a day you can invest.
My full time career is Social Work. I love it, but it is tough stuff sometimes, and for some reason, many don't know or care a whole lot about Social Workers or the work they do to keep our society functioning.
Right now I have a few websites that display my original fine art and my artwork on different products like t-shirts, coffee mugs, stamps and the like.
I have lenses about artwork, pets, organic food, and hope to have a bunch more soon.
New Table of Contents
- Zazzle is a Good Place to Start
- Great Links for Artists and Art Buyers
- Figure Drawing - "Bathing Suit"
- New Art Stuff on You Tube
- Sample of a Commissioned Portrait
- The Amazon Art Search Is On
- DS Art n Design Shop at Zazzle
- Amazon Art Related Items Just For You
- Visit CafePress
- Donations to the Arts
- So, what do you think ?
Zazzle is a Good Place to Start
To the right is a stamp I designed for Zazzle, which is a site where artists like me put their work on products for all the world to see, and purchase.There are thousands of designers there who are extremely talented and very supportive of each other. Joining is free and the site is fairly simple to navigate.
This site is cool because you can create your own customized product at a reasonable price, and don't have to buy 200 of them for it to be customized! You can take your favorite picture and make it an ornament, a coffee mug, or you can ask one of the Zazzlers to make something special for you.
If you are just starting out and have questions, drop me a line, I'd be happy to assist!
DS Art n Design
Great Links for Artists and Art Buyers
This is the result of my hours and hours of searches for good and valid websites to promote my artwork and learn about selling online. Save time and use my "ready-made" list for success. Learn how to promote your artwork online, buy original artwork, create virtual art shows, guided art techniques, promotion tools, and more.
- Foundmyself-Free Online Art Gallery
- Buy and sell artwork online for free. Own your own domain for a less than $40 a year. Use your website as a screensaver. Your own online gallery.
- Spy n Buy
- Video and Picture Ads, cool up and coming social selling site.
List your ad for free!
Almost Guaranteed increase in traffic to your site. - Zazzle
- Unique and original products from thousands of designers, or design your own! They have shoes, skateboards, mugs, tees, and on and on...
No minimum orders, ships within 24 hours. - Artsnow
- This site offers jewelry, office items, etc ... with original art designs, pretty cool stuff. Put your face or art on earrings or a clock, whatever!
- Deviant Art
- The artwork on this site is not deviant (well, maybe just a little), but original and modern, a lot of high quality digital artwork. Put your work here!
- Pet Portait and Wildlife art Forum
- Website and forum specializing in pet and wildife artwork. Tutorials available.
- Associated Content
- An open Content network. Upload content, learn how to promote, gain income.
- 45 best freeware design programs
- Free design software downloads.
- Free Copyright
- Protect your work with a free copyright.
- Juried Art Shows
- National art shows with minimal cost to enter and prize money if you win. Put yourself out there!
- Digital Art Tutuorials
- Be the master of your digital art domain. Learn the latest techniques and how to navigate popular digital art programs.
- Wacom Digital Drawing Tablets
- I love the Wacom tablet I have. Check out their affordbale tablets. This is a necessity for anyone who wants do serious digital artwork.
- Etsy
- A forum to buy and sell handmade items. Small fee for posting items, but still cool.
- Google Rocks
- Google has a ton of free tools for the beginner or experienced online seller. You can track site hits and sales with google analytics, use google adwords to find the best web words, and so much more cool stuff created by smart people--a must for anyone selling online, especially starving artists.
Figure Drawing - "Bathing Suit"
Sample of a Commissioned Portrait
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This is a sample of a recently commissioned portait. I am able to make portraits from a picture sent to me by the client. It's a pretty simple way for the buyer to get a fine art piece for a fraction of the cost of a formal sitting. The Amazon Art Search Is On
Go ahead, try it out
Enter your search and Amazon will find related items just for you.
DS Art n Design Shop at Zazzle
Find just what you need for you or that someone special with your pick from hundreds of unique products.
Every product is fully customizeable and there is no minimum purchase!
Every product is fully customizeable and there is no minimum purchase!
powered by Zazzle.com
Amazon Art Related Items Just For You
Vote your favorite artwork item up, or your not so favorite down. Find some neat stuff at a good price.
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Roger Clemens Limited Edition Autographed Artwork - Yankees
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Visit CafePress
Extreme Pug Closeup Dog T-Shirt
Dog T-Shirt
Price: 17.99
Extreme Pug Closeup Large Pet Bowl
Is it time to eat yet?
Large Pet Bowl
Price: 21.99
Warrior Preparing for Battle Mug
Mug
Price: 11.99
Donations to the Arts
Made purely of content submitted by these young women, Alive strives to encourage women to create the positive media they want to see by publishing their artwork, stories, photography and poetry.
So, what do you think ?
What do you like here, what don't you like? How was your day? Let me know ...
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- CrypticFragments CrypticFragments Aug 25, 2008 @ 10:46 am
- Hi Donna, just getting around to reviewing your lens and gallery for the Squidoo Zazzle Co-Op...
Have you checked out bdkz's lenses about creating a lens for your Zazzle gallery? Lots of great info!
Best wishes!
by DSArtnDesign
I am a Social Worker by day, artist by weekend and every other minute I have free. I learned to draw from my father at a very young age and have had a... (more)
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