I love your videos! Thanks for the helpful information. I have questions about licensing: do you search out the opportunities on your own or do you go through an agent? If you find the opportunities, how do you negotiate the contracts? Also, how do you find jobs? A video on this would be great!! Thanks!
I do reach out to companies myself, every month, and negotiate myself. It's entirely possible without an agent but requires some research so you're really knowledgeable about pricing, your rights, and negotiation tactics. It would take hours to explain so it's a bit too much for a TH-cam video, but I break it all down in my online course: www.artbusinesswithness.com/level2
I've switched from pursuing art licensing to editorial illustration. I was having *no luck* with surface design and was getting really discouraged. I'd dropped so much cash on classes by industry professionals and just I dunno, maybe I don't make marketable work??? So I thought editorial would be a faster turnaround for money (for the reasons you mentioned) and I can keep trying to improve my portfolio. I Basically, want to know more about how to make marketable work that doesn't feel like I'm selling my soul! And man, I started youtube too, and that shit is hard!
Surface design is very saturated, so it can be tricky to get started! It's very competitive. It's working out for me but it took me a while to figure out a style that's marketable but still me, and find out where it fits best in the industry. But other markets like editorial, publishing, etc are quite competitive too, so in the end the most important thing is to find what you really want to do, what speaks to you, and go all in on that :) Classes can help figure it out, but if you've spent so much money and got discouraged, I honestly wouldn't recommend buying anymore. In art, there can be such a thing as "too much education" because you can get conflicting information and just get more confused. Can I see your website?
Greetings, I just watched your video and I am interested in print on demand but I haven't had success on it. I set up my first shop over two years ago and and the only time I sold anything was July/August 2021. How can I attract more people to buy on my shop? Thank you.
Print one demand platforms are really quite saturated and competitive so it takes a lot of effort to succeed there. It sounds so easy when we first hear about it (just upload your art and they do all the rest!) but in reality if you actually want to make sales, you have to do marketing and direct customers to your shop yourself. Each platform has different requirements and different popular products so you have to do some research and lean into what sells best there. It's also a bit of a numbers game, you have to upload a lot of designs. All and all it is a high effort revenue stream, so keep that in mind!
Love the transparency on the earnings topic! Remember watching your old vid while working on my first published picture book. So nice to see the updated version :) Personally I'd love to try art licensing as well as getting more storyboarding gigs. I'm all over the place - I work full time as illustrator, do children's books and personal commissions on side, dabbled in 2d game art and character design. Keep on posting and sharing!
Hello! I am a fellow Ottawa Valley artist. Thanks for the transparency about your art journey. I am a artist as well with a few different revenue streams but I would like to expand on some of them. I have sold some patterns but I would like to expand on this. I have always been curious about picture book illustrating but after you mentioned how time consuming and long the projects are, I wonder if I would enjoy that.
Oh really you are! It's so nice to meet you :) I have no artist friends since moving to Pembroke, it's so hard to meet new people as a self-employed adult 😅 Where in the Ottawa Valley do you live?
Awesome! Already some sales in spoonflower!! I'm on it as well since August, but I have a small account and I haven't seen sales so far, I'm 🤞 to see something in 2024! I know the ball takes some time to roll..
Best of luck with your Spoonflower in 2024!! You can do it! I have noticed that participating in the design challenges really gave me a lot of visibility. Even though I didn't win any of them, when I enter designs I get a lot of likes and visits :)
Thanks! I've been doing that and I plan to keep going with that strategy, now that the challenges will occur every two weeks it gives me more time to do a more complex design. And I keep pressing my family and followers to vote 😂! (I value those who do it because it can be very tedious to look at 100 patterns before they find yours! )
It really doesn't matter. There is no shortcut to selling art. You have to create a good product that people want and market it to the right people who want it. If you do that, you can succeed anywhere. If you don't, you will fail everywhere.
Hi ness thanks for sharing these business videos occasionally. Its very helpful to know about various streams of income available for artists. I am pravin from India, and i am a hobby character design artist . I haven't made much from art less than 50$😢 so far. I really want to generate soon but still not sure where and how to find leads. Hope figure it out soon
Are any of the revenue streams I mentioned in the videos ones that you would like to try yourself? :) Which one?
I love your videos! Thanks for the helpful information. I have questions about licensing: do you search out the opportunities on your own or do you go through an agent? If you find the opportunities, how do you negotiate the contracts? Also, how do you find jobs? A video on this would be great!! Thanks!
I do reach out to companies myself, every month, and negotiate myself. It's entirely possible without an agent but requires some research so you're really knowledgeable about pricing, your rights, and negotiation tactics. It would take hours to explain so it's a bit too much for a TH-cam video, but I break it all down in my online course: www.artbusinesswithness.com/level2
I've switched from pursuing art licensing to editorial illustration. I was having *no luck* with surface design and was getting really discouraged. I'd dropped so much cash on classes by industry professionals and just I dunno, maybe I don't make marketable work??? So I thought editorial would be a faster turnaround for money (for the reasons you mentioned) and I can keep trying to improve my portfolio. I
Basically, want to know more about how to make marketable work that doesn't feel like I'm selling my soul! And man, I started youtube too, and that shit is hard!
Surface design is very saturated, so it can be tricky to get started! It's very competitive. It's working out for me but it took me a while to figure out a style that's marketable but still me, and find out where it fits best in the industry. But other markets like editorial, publishing, etc are quite competitive too, so in the end the most important thing is to find what you really want to do, what speaks to you, and go all in on that :) Classes can help figure it out, but if you've spent so much money and got discouraged, I honestly wouldn't recommend buying anymore. In art, there can be such a thing as "too much education" because you can get conflicting information and just get more confused. Can I see your website?
Art licencing is a good topic, and I have no idea how it works.
Same here! I have absolutely no idea where to start.
I can make a video about that! 🥰
I would really appriciate it.@@ArtBusinesswithNess
Greetings, I just watched your video and I am interested in print on demand but I haven't had success on it. I set up my first shop over two years ago and and the only time I sold anything was July/August 2021. How can I attract more people to buy on my shop? Thank you.
Print one demand platforms are really quite saturated and competitive so it takes a lot of effort to succeed there. It sounds so easy when we first hear about it (just upload your art and they do all the rest!) but in reality if you actually want to make sales, you have to do marketing and direct customers to your shop yourself. Each platform has different requirements and different popular products so you have to do some research and lean into what sells best there. It's also a bit of a numbers game, you have to upload a lot of designs. All and all it is a high effort revenue stream, so keep that in mind!
@@ArtBusinesswithNess Thank you so much for your reply! Very helpful.
Love the transparency on the earnings topic! Remember watching your old vid while working on my first published picture book. So nice to see the updated version :) Personally I'd love to try art licensing as well as getting more storyboarding gigs. I'm all over the place - I work full time as illustrator, do children's books and personal commissions on side, dabbled in 2d game art and character design.
Keep on posting and sharing!
You are multi-talented!
Hello! I am a fellow Ottawa Valley artist. Thanks for the transparency about your art journey. I am a artist as well with a few different revenue streams but I would like to expand on some of them. I have sold some patterns but I would like to expand on this. I have always been curious about picture book illustrating but after you mentioned how time consuming and long the projects are, I wonder if I would enjoy that.
Oh really you are! It's so nice to meet you :) I have no artist friends since moving to Pembroke, it's so hard to meet new people as a self-employed adult 😅 Where in the Ottawa Valley do you live?
Awesome! Already some sales in spoonflower!! I'm on it as well since August, but I have a small account and I haven't seen sales so far, I'm 🤞 to see something in 2024! I know the ball takes some time to roll..
Best of luck with your Spoonflower in 2024!! You can do it! I have noticed that participating in the design challenges really gave me a lot of visibility. Even though I didn't win any of them, when I enter designs I get a lot of likes and visits :)
Thanks! I've been doing that and I plan to keep going with that strategy, now that the challenges will occur every two weeks it gives me more time to do a more complex design. And I keep pressing my family and followers to vote 😂! (I value those who do it because it can be very tedious to look at 100 patterns before they find yours! )
Which website or market best for sell artwork?
It really doesn't matter. There is no shortcut to selling art. You have to create a good product that people want and market it to the right people who want it. If you do that, you can succeed anywhere. If you don't, you will fail everywhere.
@@ArtBusinesswithNess thanks you so much please give me your fb id name or any number how can i talk with you actually i need some help about my work?
Yeah! I sold my artworks as book illustrations , total 9 which earned me Rs. 4500
Congrats!
As usual a very informative.
I'm glad you liked the video, thanks for stopping by!
Hi ness thanks for sharing these business videos occasionally. Its very helpful to know about various streams of income available for artists. I am pravin from India, and i am a hobby character design artist . I haven't made much from art less than 50$😢 so far. I really want to generate soon but still not sure where and how to find leads. Hope figure it out soon
Glad it was helpful! We all start somewhere, Pravin 🙂
Hi, how many designs have you uploaded in Spoonflower? I have only a few in Patternbank, only sold one and its little money.
I only have 65 so far... and at least 100 waiting to be uploaded 😅 I really need to get off my ass and dedicate some time to Spoonflower!
thats a lot for me!
@@laurab3240 Everything is relative isn't it!
Love the new studio, great color.
Thank you so much hun!! I'm so in love with my new work space!