Thank u for sharing. U have me some motivation in having faith in doing my art work selling and being able make a living. I could use some more tips and advice. God bless u and your business.

Beautiful

update us, how is your business doing after two years?

Goals!

Awesome. Proud of you. And I’m the guy in the video !

Omg

That's the way to go.

ha ha ha, you know that is funny... so many people come to me just ask if I would make a painting for them or just get them a painting that they like. Finally, I learned to tell those friends "you have to pay for it".

If drawers and painters and sculptors are any good, yes. Being artists on the other hand is a stretch for most of us.

You don't make sense when u use the word DESERVE..?? why on earth does anyone deserve to make a living cuz you "love what you do" . Give me a break. You need to earn it my friend, and it's not always fun.

this guy is just telling people how to make money off of the art industry without putting in the work....it cheapens it.....the same thing happened with tattoos 10 years ago...a boom happened for shitty to mediocre tattoo artists to start marketing online and opening shops and finding ways to make money.....all it did was oversaturate the market and drive the prices down to where real artists could barely make a living....

the therorist and Cliff DaRiff Everyone starts somewhere!. Even the best artists in the world were not great when they started their careers. Yes all people should be paid for what they love to do, because we do not want people in the wrong jobs doing work just for money. When people do things just for money and they hate their job we create just greed and people who feel like robots. We create a society that values money over love and it is when you get a dentist, teacher or a lawyer that does a shitty job just to get done with his day and to get a paycheck. All people deserve to get paid for what they do even if they are not able to make the amount of money that well known artist do! With time we all get better at what we do! All artists love to make art not just the emerging artists or the amateurs. He never said you don't have to work hard at your craft, he is teaching how to market your art because it is a business. Without money artists can't produce art. If famous artists do not want to have to compete with all levels under them, they are delusional. Those levels are the steps to become really good at something and all people are going to try to become good. Artists will sell to all kinds of markets, not just to the best collectors because simple those audiences exist and can become collectors too! All markets are oversaturated and all markets are challenging in their own way. What you call mediocre is nothing but the balance that has to exist for us to be able to claim something is great art. In other words great art could not be valued as great, if we do not have the undeveloped artworks made by artists that are not yet well stablished. If you erase childhood, you can't get to maturity! We all need to be mediocre first before we can be like Mozart and so did he! “It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.” ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

LugeTolli same. I've tried some of these ideas and still selling less than other local "artists" who slap some scrap booking paper and copper wire onto a canvas for $200. Makes me literally nauseous. You need to be able to push/sell yourself. I can't. I detest marketing. I'm a very good artist, most people still ask if I can 'just' do something for free. If only they would 'just' pay me what it's actually worth!

Love it!

Who do you use to license your work

@@xBoomslang Porterfield's Fine Art Licensing. But there are MANY companies you can approach. If possible, go to the SURTEX show in NYC. They're all there, and you can speak to them in person. But, online, just Google 'art licensing'. You'll be able to tell who the good companies are!

Every piece of art can be duplicated. It's called a1 art.

I’m glad you got value from it.

Because comments are negative does not mean people are not succeeding. Success is a day to day process - not an end product. And sometimes when we look at videos which purport to be "solutions" for difficult times those videos are NOT solutions not=r are they practical in the real world. They are more often than not hype to motivate the unmotivated or the unsure or the anxious - And in my book that's called "taking advantage of". It is always buyer beware - especially on line. Just because our youtube videos are super spiffy does not make them good. I would say that near 90% of videos online are not worth the time spent to listen to them. There are many writers to day calling themselves author not because they are any good but because independent publishing (rightly) allows both the good and the bad to appear spontaneously. It's always been up to the market to decide what is or is not worthy of their hard earned cash. And working hard at being the best we can be is still the only solution to getting anywhere - despite these "informative" videos. And whether we like it or not - the process has always been and forever will be a slow one - and never sure. C"est la vie.

@@bernardpoulin9684 Great post. I especially like the term spiffy. Have not heard that in a while. ☺

Bernard Poulin 😆

Dan Harmon 😂

Agreed. This information is relatively redundant, but sometimes we take redundancy because it's inspiring and imaginative - a fresh look. This was nothing close.

@@cleverestdevil I think this was all more relevant in February of 2015 when this was posted, which also means this could have been recorded in 2014. But I do agree that the dude is real dry, people have learned to be better at presentation since then as well...

Where I live it's all mountain scenes and bears and eagles.

Originality isn't key. Being new to a set of people is good, but the key is to be unoriginal in theme. The same basic sentiments sell over and over because we're still the same creatures. Sell what humans care about. You can't sell us what we don't.

Yes it's all been done already.

You could eat your kids; there just might be some legal complications if you were discovered.

@@madArt1981 Uhh... I think dude was just Joking - You know, like You Were, too?

A mans children are off limits. No exceptions.

Sir You have all my Respect 🙏

Or Jackson Pollard. Ugh!

I've tried to get into DeviantArt so many times and I always end up in some weird, dark place... maybe i'm using it wrong!

With DA, from I’ve noticed is that you need to either be an already established artist or draw really shit anime to be somewhat relevant.

Wow no wonder I got ganged up on and visciously attacked.

this guy is just telling people how to make money off of the art industry without putting in the work....it cheapens it.....the same thing happened with tattoos 10 years ago...a boom happened for shitty to mediocre tattoo artists to start marketing online and opening shops and finding ways to make money.....all it did was oversaturate the market and drive the prices down to where real artists could barely make a living....

This is not true at all. It may be true that that's the perception people have on Deviantart, but it reality has been the home for some of the greatest contemporary artists right now on the internet that have done this for over 6 years. I even got my first big clients in there. And they just revamped their design. Deviantart is awesome.

You are welcome!

hey where can i see your artworks?

@@DanielMarquezxd Thank you so much. In Facebook :Tiziana Hetherington, or my pages but i did not load everything; Aslo on Flicker.com, and here on my channel there alla the videos. facebook.com/tiziana.hetherington www.flickr.com/photos/77789764@N06/

Yes we are struggling artist. I feel you though i just started back on oil painting and trying to be brave to show my art. ;(

@@yanztanism2002 Sorry.

@@MrsAntilope it's okay. I'm good and i enjoyed doing my art once again. ;)

Sandor Barics make better work duh

hahaha....

I haven't either but what I do now is use the website just to show off my works and then later market myself to potential clients who viewed my site. It's also a great way to start conversations if you could load it to your cell phone. Update: Facebook allows you to make an art page you can market to as many people and friends you want to. Then ask each one what is their favorite type of art. This can lead to a sale.

hi whre did u sell your artworks?

So many sites to sell artwork does not mean anything sells. As in the "real" world, few actually do sell where many less make it. If you can't make it in a "brick and mortar" gallery or with an agent don't expect miracles online. Buyers are just (if not more) picky online as they are in "real life". In the studio we may work at being be painters and sculptors and sketchers. And we may even play artsy games at being an artist. BUT. Once we step outside our studios. . . we become business people - carrying our wares to distributors and buyers. And that is when the game afoot more often than not reveals itself as worthy or not. The internet has NOT made life any easier - just more hopeful. TRYING to be an artist is a waste of time. WE are one when the world says we are. And just being a painter and sketcher and sculptor is enough hard work for anyone. (Most of us should just keep our day jobs and scrap the myths these videos promote.)

Social media is destroying everything

he says um err a lot

@@EdwardOlive i think he means he talks a lot but doesnt actually *say* anything

He skipped #ig but mentioned twitter ?

how much do you make? what type of art do you sell

Which ones lol. I haven't had amazing luck... but I suppose it's at least been on an overall upward trajectory. Been at it close to four months, too, which, I've given myself a target date of at least six months before I start worrying too much over not generating business. But it's been overall good, like I said :)

I really hate the way we constantly have to keep chasing the latest social media fad. It's a lot of work to set that stuff up! Then they change the format and the people move on to the next annoying platform, forcing anyone with a business to adapt over and over. Ugh.

Croatian :-)

Mike Ricci . Get up off your ass and start selling.

Mike Ricci Add something NEW then to the dialogue, guy!

Mike Ricci = Debbie Downer😂

Well I think 'new' is exactly what artists doing

I respectfully disagree. I make a fulltime living off it.

@@angelinecatteeuw r u buying in selling. That what I was doing then people started to tel me to leave it alone and that’s where I’m getting killed

@@kidrockn4vr I’m not a native english speaker so I’m not sure what you meant with your reply. It worked for me to sell online but that doesn’t mean the journey to get where I am was easy 😅 It’s hard work, but now painting is all I do (except for my own administration, website, newsletter…)

@@angelinecatteeuw I’m very glad for you. I would love nothing more. My artist name is chemical Barista. It just seems all of our hard work can get reproduced by box box and the mass produce so people pay $5 for something it takes us a day or two

Thomas Never what type of art do you collect?

I have to see and like it. I spend about a 1000$ per year. I own about 200 works. Mostly drawings, some oil.

I don't sport piercings and tattoos. You can buy my art ANY time! Tiia Johnson Art of Instagram. I really don't care who buys it, obviously I'd prefer someone who LIKES it, but I have no preference for what they look like, lol. How bizarre that that should matter.

They were being silly, looked at you as a desperate farang, stereotyping you as a man who wants to buy a bride, it happens over there I suspect that is probably what happened, their loss though! plenty more art to buy and nicer artists to buy it from too.

I'm sorry, were you trying to ask them on a date, or buy their stuff?

Never once did I suggest not putting in the work. I worked my ass off for over 8 years before successfully exiting dna11/canvaspop this year. PUT IN THE WORK!

It's true, sattchi art lol

What was it in your opinion?

the therorist those who cannot do, teach

So are you, looking at an almost 5 year old KZfaq video for advice....🤣

This video is nearly 8 years old. I'm now a millionaire and sold most of my shares in CanvasPop. So guess it worked :-)

Alondra BENAVIDES I wonder if it even happened when we were painting cave walls.

Thsts because only .01% of artists understand that art is a business, always has been and always will be

I would say that entirely depends on how you define "a living" I've got a well paid job and enjoy a decent standard of living but my job bores the shit out of me. Nothing would make me happier than to be able to quit and make just enough from my painting to pay my bills and put food on the table. What do we really need from life other than to enjoy the finite amount of time we have, life is too short to wonder what if.

Artists do have to be marketers to get shit done, you can't just sit in your basement waiting for someone to magically appear and buy your art.

Karin Jeffrey He had my attention the whole time.

The only thing I thought was questionable was mentioning Deviant Art and MySpace.

Lol you socialists make me laugh

I am with you, Karin!

It's still relevant.

@@xy_77 How long have you been an Artist?

@@JamesDeWeaver All my life.

Hi Billie- thanks for your comment and for sharing your thoughts. I'm an art collector too. I've bought original art pieces from Warhol, Hirst, but also from dozens of unknown artists. I've sold literally 10s of millions of dollars worth of art prints too. Not sure what qualifies knowing about "artists", but I've worked with hundreds of them and helped and supported them too.

Possibly one of the only suggestions made in the video which does make sense. Most artworks (not art) today is priced much above what most people are willing to pay - and as most people are not stupid, maybe it's time to look at ourselves ion the mirror. When artworks are not worth the asking price, they more often than not don't sell. A dollar value on a price tag is only that. It doesn't mean the work is worth the price indicated.

Depends on how much time you spent on that painting I could see prints being a way of making money, otherwise how is even two grand enough for a weeks worth of time on a painting I make that in one day on a weekend if not more for 10 hrs of my time on my job.

Bernard Poulin I agree there has to be another formula in the game. Any galleries I go into has the larger paintings for around 2 grand and they are all nice forest paintings from local artists were I live. Perhaps it's the subject that can make one stand out, cause they are all quite generic I find, but very good .

If things are generic, it's because whatever that thing is appeals to people so strongly there's a wide market for it.

life is short, so don't "waste time doing art"? instead "live life" by getting a soul crushing corporate "real job"? (!!!)

you are wrong. There is a ton of diverse artist : painter, illustrator, graphic designer, colorist, concept designer etc... Art is a Job period I don't understand why most of people think art is for fun only. Making art is a skill that not anyone possess and the artist should get paid decent amount and heck huge money for what they are putting out there Would you say to a singer don't expect to be paid because you are just singing? A writer because you are just writing? An architect because you are just drawing houses? No? art is not only for millionaires :d It's for anyone who love a piece of art and can afford it There is some piece of art in the range of 100-700 $ There is some piece in the range of 1000-20 000 There is some that are higher(in the millions) what is a real job? painting is a Job like any job...that's why the term is you are working in your craft Yes someone /anyone can make good money doing art. They have to think smart and market their work

Alondra BENAVIDES spoken like a truly talentless person.

Alondra BENAVIDES making art is living life especially if it brings you money.... what's your talent? Being a house wife.

How inspiring