Selling Custom Portrait Art 🎨 Art Business Plan
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 มิ.ย. 2024
- If you’re thinking about starting an art portrait business from home, watch this video first. I’m going to break down your business plan, we’ll talk about challenges you should look out for, how to stand out amongst other artists, how you should do pricing and so much more, so stay tuned.
So first let’s define a portrait business. A portrait business is you creating art that's a portrait of someone else. The portraits can come in lots of different varieties. You could do oil painting, watercolor, pencil sketches, line drawings. You could get really creative here. The biggest appeal of a portrait business is that it can be a really good money earner. People love anything personalized to them. People love their family and friends, they love their pets and they will pay top dollar to get a really nice, personalized gift. And this isn’t just another trend. People have and will always want stuff that’s personalized.
However, there are some challenges to look out for when you're thinking of starting a portrait business.
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Im a 42 year old amateur portrait artist, i lost my job due to my son’s autism. One parent was requires to stay home and the wife makes more. I decided to give the portrait business a whirl and it’s been wildly successful on a local level. I’m about to try Etsy out very soon thanks for the video. Very helpful!
That's incredible! You've taken a challenging situation and turned it into something amazing! Thank you for watching 😊
Hi Mei, very helpful video as always, thx so much. My business is predominantly portraits and an overview like this is very helpful as I review my priorities with it going forward :)
I'm happy to hear it helped, Rebecca! Thank you for watching!
Thank you SO MUCH Mai!!
You are so welcome Vincent!
Great Video. (if you wonder why u should read what I say, a little info at end) Just a few random thoughts (they are my personal ones so u may tweak or disagree with some as circumstances are different):
1.Definitely don't compete on time and price (also generally if you spend more than 20 hours on a piece, something is either wrong or u should get paid 5 figures)
2. Don't be afraid of individual customers, talk to them as equal, they seen your work, they looking and want your stuff. And in my experience 99.9% of people are really nice.
3. I keep telling people create art in a different style is extremely important these days. eg. You don't want to specialize in a typical one that just a carbon copy of a reference.
4. A bit more regarding marketing. Have account on ALL major social media and have your stuff on there. why not? free marketing and engagement. (plan your time accordingly, don't burn out)
5. Ads are extremely tricky. Unless you know what you are doing, is a super expert at it. Get help or something cuz it's gonna drain your money so fast it'll make your head spin. Social media and word of mouth is what you want.
6. Treat your art (at least in your own head) as veblen goods. (price goes higher, demand doesn't change or sometimes goes higher too) Think luxury item. You are the ONLY person in the world that can create that piece of art.
I been doing this for over 10 year. I have done theater released stuff. High 3digit or 4digit is usually the lowest I go (for charcoal pencil). I never paid for any advertising.
These are great pieces of advice! Thanks so much for sharing.
Excellent tips for one looking to get started with a portrait sketch business.
Glad you enjoyed it, William! Thank you so much for watching!
Very helpful thank you❤️
I'm glad to hear it! Thank you so much for watching!
very helpful video, thank you so much!
You're very welcome! And thank you for watching!
This was so helpful! I got a message today from someone wanting a portrait commission (I've not done any others yet) - what great timing! Really appreciate your videos, Mei xxxx
That's so amazing, Joy! Good luck moving forward with the commission!
hello how u doing now? im starting my own fb page to do portraits so im eager to know how it all going after 1 year to boost my confidence
Ahh lucky, i haven't got any orders yet since a year
Can you please help me get my first orders?
I can work assistant for you, you can check my drawings, and if that interests you we can talk in details
Thanks
About to start doing digital portraits, this was helpful thanks!
Good luck Micah! Thank you so much for watching!! ❤️
Hi Mei, thank you for the insightful video. You alluded to a recent live stream touching on the power of facebook ads. Is that link available? Again thanks for the great content,
Hi Barrett! Here you go: th-cam.com/video/0dnunIe-Epo/w-d-xo.html
Am always interested in checking up for your new contents because I learn alot from it 👍. Anyway art is my best but I specialize in CROCHET. Am thankful to you for inspiring me to grow my own TH-cam channel and selling my products 🙏
Thank you for always checking in! Did you see this video I did on crochet? th-cam.com/video/FhvmYUEO3fs/w-d-xo.html
@@CreativeHiveCo Yes dia I did👍 and it's your first video that I watched. I even can't choose which of all is my best... Because I find all your videos have a serious inspiration towards my plans 🙏👍❣️🌹
Thank you so much for that - that makes my day to hear! 💖
Very nice , great art work😉😉
Thank you so much for watching!
I love how your thumbnail image is the exact image I have on the front of my Pennelli Art Supplies Sketch pad :,)))))))))
Yay, so fun!! Thank you so much for watching, Cody!
Thank you for the information! Do you have any tips on how to take custom orders? What I mean by that is how do you figure out how many orders to take at once? Do you work on multiple orders at once or one at a time? Any tips, links, or otherwise would be greatly appreciated! Thanks again for what you do!
This is all going to depend on your process and the amount of time you have to devote to orders. If you can work on multiple items at once then you can certainly do that, but if that's a struggle you can tell someone you are in the middle of a comission and can start theirs in 1/2/3 weeks, etc.
Mei Pak, you are so ADORABLE! This is great information, thank you! I would love you to pose for me!
I've been thinking of doing portraits Live by using the side by side video chat. But I have no clue how to get started. I would also have to get the group app, maybe? Do you think the Zoom app on my iphone would work?( I never opened it). Thank You!
Awww, you are so sweet! The live portrait idea is really interesting! So you would be drawing while chatting with the person? You could definitely use Zoom or Skype or even FaceTime for something like that.
How is it going? Did you try it?
This was very helpful, thank you! Would you consider portraits to be a product or service? I feel like it’s something in between 🤔
I would consider it a product, because they are getting a physical piece at the end, whereas a service would be if you were consulting people on how to do their own portraits.
Very helpful video. But,
I have some questions tho.
1. Can we sell the scanned image of a custom portrait on online? Or we can only can sell the the artself by shipping it in their hands?
2. Can we transfer money anywhere and safely?
3. Which app is suitable for selling custom portraits?
If you are doing a custom portrait of someone, I would ask for permission from them to sell their image before selling prints of something they commissioned. You can sell prints of your own work as much as you want, though. If you want to sell your own work, I would suggest your own website, which I would recommend you build using Shopify. For printables, many people like RedBubble and Printful.
@@CreativeHiveCo thx for your help❤. I have one more question..
On redbubble or printful, Can we chat to the customer about the price, quality, sample piece. And the customer send their pic and I'll draw it and send the scanned image of it and then they can print it?
If not, which app is suitable for it?
On sites like this, you set up the products you want to use and the art you want to upload to it. It's not usually a custom-based site. You may be interested in one of these sites: news.artnet.com/art-world/sell-your-art-without-a-gallery-1322180
@@CreativeHiveCo oh. Thank you so much! It'll be helpful for me❤❤❤
Could you share where your print business is located...your link did not show up. Thank you
The print on demand business is run by my husband so I don't typically share it here on my own things.
you really inspire me, actually I am photograph and i co-op with an artist doing potraits, and we find a way to cooperate togheder and selling art at good quality for our customers,
find trusted pearson to cooperate and you'll do great things togheder
Regards from Romania !!!
That is awesome! Good luck with your venture together!
@@CreativeHiveCo thanks !
Hi , thank you for that helpful video , but I need your advice, I wanna start a business of jewelry and portrait drawing, actually I used to draw but stopped for months and decided to start a business and the main idea was handmade jewelry but today an idea comes into my mind cause handmade jewelry they won't give a good income by itself and also there's a lot of people in my hometown having that business so there's many competitors , so I said what if I make a project where I can combine both of portrait drawing and selling jewelry in optional boxes and both of the jewelry and the portrait are customized products, so give me your honest advice please
Hi Mounib! Sounds like a great idea! I highly encourage you to conduct a profitability research on your target market first though. Is there a demand/market for it? Will this product appeal to your ideal customers?
@@CreativeHiveCo honestly as I mentioned before there's a lot of competitors on selling jewelry but not all of people are common with drawing portraits, I haven't even found any online page in my hometown about drawing portraits, so I thought I might promote to my jewelries by also drawing portraits and adding a gift of jewelry with each portrait, as u Mentioned a lot of people they like to gift there beloved ones a portrait but here there's no workplace or an online business for that so ?
It does sound like a great idea. If you think there could be a market for it and it's going to be profitable, I'd say go for it! ❤️
Hola! Quiero empezar a hacer retratos con vidrio molido y vidrio fundido.
Hi Moisés! I had to Google translate your comment. Go for it Moisés!! You got this!! ❤️
Hello! I want to start doing art commissions, but I want to know if I need a business permit in order to be allowed to get money on that??? I cannot see anything mentioning that 😕
Hi! The links/threads below might be helpful for you. Since rules/laws can differ depending on the location, I would suggest you still consult/verify with the experts or your local government.
www.reddit.com/r/ArtistLounge/comments/gso8vg/advice_on_doing_art_commissions/
www.quora.com/Do-you-need-a-permit-to-do-art-commissions
Good luck! ❤️
Hey there, I’ve been trying to figure out if you can sell celebrity portraiture online, as I love to draw movie characters and celebrities but I, not sure if there are copyright laws against it. I have researched but I’m still not confident about it. Do you know if I can do this or what steps I need to take to be able to do this? Thanks
Movie characters are definitely licensed/trademarked entities that you need permission to use. As far as celebrities go, I'm not sure if they can put a license on themselves, but I would think that it would generally be frowned upon to use their likeness for profit. I suppose you could contact their management to see if they have an issue with it, but as a small business owner I would personally shy away from doing this and would rather use my own art.
Creative Hive thanks for your response, people have told me to contact the celebrity but their management I never thought about, thinking if it they will know the legal issues surrounding these things.
Thanks a lot for your help I think your content is really good and helpful😁👍🏻
It depends on how and where you plan to sell them. I exhibit at comic-book and anime conventions and I see a lot of artists selling nothing but artwork of famous-people and trademarked-characters.
Even celebrities that might actually _be_ at these events are fine with it as some people buy the artwork from one of the artists at the show, then the take it to the celebrity to have them sign that as well as take a picture with them.
Most people and companies have better things to do than to chase down every random-artist in the world selling pictures here and there of their IPs. The process of doing so would cost them far more than they could ever argue in the court of law that your work "cost" them in revenue.
*HOWEVER,*
You CAN be hit with a "cease and desist" letter and once that happens you _have_ to stop. Nowadays major companies are hiring 3rd-party companies overseas to do their copyright-claims for them, as well as using BOTs and algorithms. You can get hit with a Copyright-claim or strike and never be able to talk to a person to rectify the situation.
Online is where it gets tricky. It really all depends on the actual company or person, and how much revenue you are making. If you are just making a couple of bucks here and there, they aren't going to mess with you, but if you are making thousands of dollars and are well-known for selling their trademarked IPs, they WILL come after you. Some companies will come after you if you even THINK of selling artwork of their trademark IPs or post anything of theirs on TH-cam. ESPECIALLY TH-cam.
It's really like navigating and old minefield. You just have to be careful.
Do u hav a guide on how to create a website?
I teach this in my A Sale A Day program but you can also check out free resources. If you'd like to create a website through Shopify, you can check this link: www.shopify.com/website/builder?term=shopify+create+website&adid=565784600560&campaignid=15436644439&branded_enterprise=1&BOID=brand&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwiYOxBhC5ARIsAIvdH51cJ3TxzY_nAqX0XTpH0MdmMH7bRpEXmSmkFqVkIAwdQFybqUiwNREaAqYOEALw_wcB&cmadid=516586854;cmadvertiserid=10730501;cmcampaignid=26990768;cmplacementid=324494812;cmcreativeid=163722649;cmsiteid=5500011
*_Photo-manipulation_* is the term that should be used for taking photographs and using graphics-software to alter them. Photo-manipulation is a _form_ of Digital art and it's been around since graphics-software has been around. It's pretty much what Adobe Photoshop was created for.
Thanks for sharing that information!
I'm in
Thanks for watching, Michael!
@@CreativeHiveCo I really love hyperrealism artist but I will do it for my family
What type of Art is profitable right now? (Abstract/Animals/Landscape/Food etc... )
Hi! This really depends and I don't think there's a definite answer for this. Start by finding your target market/ideal customers first and conduct a research on what type of art you think would appeal and would be profitable for your chosen niche.
What websites do you recommend to sell your portrait drawings?
Hi! I would recommend to have your own website and Shopify is a great website builder platform.
Why no one noticed that your face is so accurate with mighty morphine Yellow Power Ranger
Aww, thank you, I take that as a compliment! 💖
as a digital artist, I'm disappointed you'd say that digital art is a filter scam :/ tsk.
I don't believe I said that digital art is a filter scam. I said that there are people who will filter photos and say they are handmade portraits, which is not the same as a portrait artist who is creating an original drawing by hand. I said that digital artists who are doing this are competition for the original artists and can affect pricing.
You may have misunderstood it, as she totally didn´t say that. I´ve been painting portraits both traditionally and digitally for over 2 decades, and I love both. That being said, there ARE people just using photoshop actions / plugins / apps that turn photos into "watercolor style portraits" in a matter of seconds. THAT is how they´re able to put out 20 portraits a day, and undercharge every one who is actually painting it (digitally or not). Hope that helps.
@@johnny_belmont The problem is by just saying "digital art" as a blanket-statement it does not differentiate people do what you are saying from people like myself who do everything from scratch i.e. pencil sketch or digital sketch, line-art, and color rendering.
Photo-manipulation is the correct-term for people who take photos and use graphics software like Adobe Photoshop to alter them. That's literally what Photoshop was originally designed to do. So it's not a new thing.
Is art still profitable with how the economy is going for October 2022 ? 🥲
Hi! Personally, I really think it's still profitable. You just have to find your audience/ideal customers.