This video was amazingly helpful, I’ll follow you forever and I have tons to watch, 您是我新的英雄，非常感谢！ 🙏 Please would you be able to provide advise for me with a question relatively specific to my case? I want to write my resumes as a relatively experienced graphic designer, pattern designer, and illustrator. People online suggest that it’s ok to include your personal website* on your resume, but in my case, “my personal website” (aside of an Artstation portfolio that I plan to include as well) is mainly a shop of my prints, is it advisable to add it to my resume? or do you think it would put employers off because it may “scare” them by making them think this is what I’d do for them? (somebody already said that my stuff is “scary”). Having your input would be incredibly helpful, probably life saving as I’m really searching for a stable position, I’m so done depending on freelancing!

Thanks a lot for these so useful advices!!!

Thank you. Very informative

Your art is worth as much as someone is willing to pay. Unless you can get them to pay more!

Thank you - I really appreciate the no nonsense/no added commentary to your instructional video.

Is annoyinh that i need money to invest in everything i need to put my art out there. In the old day you had talent and some rich person would gladly pay you to paint their homes,make portraits,maybe even the church would have you do their art. But that doesnt happen no more, i used yo paint murals but people didn't pay ,it was hard to get he second half from them very often.the rich people do not invest in art. Im trying to sell prints and stickers from my art but only broke people buy. They pick one little thing out of all my stuff. How can people get ahead if no one is actually buying? People need you to get succesfu and famou to look at you and appreciate you. It sucks to bee poor. I see rich people just purchase nice printers and all kinds of machines to do trendy stuff but im always a few light years behind because i live paycheck by paycheck.

Do I know what’s that canon camera and lens too!???

You never answered the question.

They’re focusing on African artists like they focused on off-shoring the manufacturing jobs to Asia. 👍😂

Very interesting. I appreciated even if being independent is not so easy.

I’m starting my art journey in my 40s. Next month I’ll enroll in an online art course with a local mentor. Not ashamed. I’m living with intention!

Much thanks

Building a network and community.

Art has no age! When we look to a beautiful art work, we don't think about the age of the artist who made it! But we would love to know about the artist, their techniques and other artworks, their personality, their personal experience, how they become artists, their challenges and stories they went through in their journey, etc Age is instead important in moving from a stable job to any "new business" as business building requires to have financial savings to live on while setting the business (any business not only art) and wait for the required time for the business to become lucrative. Having a part time job or a full time one will help in reducing the financial risks and this can apply to anyone starting a new business and in any domain. Art is not about age. And if I get to know that a certain beatiful art is made by a late bloomer, that artist becomes more precious to me !! If certain gallaries may refuse fome artists because of their age or their starting age in the art industry, there may exist also other galleries who will do the opposite. Moreover, online galleries and online presence (website, social media, groups, forums,..) are also another alternative!

@VeryPrivateGallery Thank you for this amazing video, I do really need it since I made the lip recently from office work to start my creative business and persue my art career, my childhood dream now that I'm more than 40!! One thing that really surprized me here is your experiece in some European restaurants! I found it was very rude from those people to think you are a waitress! This proves that they lack the ability to see and observe and they just behave according to their own "false" stereotypes like a troop lacking any kind of "consciousness" and "awareness"!! Such people must make more effort to grow and improve their mentality! This has really surprised me and I wanted to leave a note here just in case someone from the same "stereotype background" came to read it. I'm not an Asian nor a European. Besides, "humblness" is not the quality of many people... Thank you so much for this video, really informative. You are great! Keep shining 😊🫶🌍.

Great video tutorial. Glad I found you. I created a 13 minute compilation of my paintings and illustrations, with music on my mac computer in 2021. It's like a movie with animation and I have never shown it to a mass audience. I want to create a You Tube Channel to launch this movie about my art. But I want to grab people's interest immediately and begin with the movie, which ends with credits. What do you suggest? Should I open it with my face talking about what I am about to present? Should I end with my face talking about what I have just presented, or go faceless and not talk at all?

CAn you help me sell my art ? They're really good

How to get into a gallery instructions from a gallerist per this video: "You have to learn this yourself" "Establish yourself" "Figure it out through experience" Also "I don't care about your art education" and "make a CV and list who you've studied under" are directly conflicting statements This is what gatekeeping is

Regarding the "art buyback" idea. I know an artist who doesn't buy their art back, but WILL allow the customer to bring it back and the artist will RESELL it for a negotiated commission. No cost to the artist, but the buyer gets THE best representative to sell it again.

Reminder that galleries take 40-60%... your art is worth what someone is willing to pay. Galleries want someone who is ALREADY successfully selling art (and likely don't need galleries anymore) Don't get discouraged. Most famous artists (before social media) made a rich friend or contact that bought a piece for lots of money and then talked about it with other art collectors... thats it. Thats the secret. That or money laundering. Lots of that too

Very nicely explained thanks

Thank you so much for this insightful video, I have learnt some new things to run with.

Hi this video helped so much! But it’s five years ago, could you please do an updated version lovely?

Thanks so much…

My son is 45 yrs old ,is a Fulbright scholar, has an MFA from CCA. and a CV pages long and I don’t think any of his original non-commissioned paintings go for more than $3,500. It is TOUGH out there!

interesting logical advice, especially in regards to pricing particularly how the so much space costing so much money it defiantly doesn't work well when you get down to the smaller sizes your not making any money at all if your selling through somewhere which takes commission out the sale... also finding a fair price was a good point... building it seems building a group of collectors or following and then directing to a website would probably be a better outcome long term but then you also have website fees to contend with...

We are almost the same age. I was born in March 1985. I started guitar building school with just 36. I wanted to do guitar art and that is what I do now.

It is too late when we are dead! We might be tomorrow, so let's effing do it now!!!

Hi , thank you for the information. It was super helpful.

The cat is more trustworthy than these scam dm guys.

Thank you for your help. It is very important information . If I have instagram , but don’t have a website, What do you think?

Both Picasso and Chagall regretted selling some of their paintings and would probably agree with a buy-back scheme.

Thanks so much!

Can you please guide me I want to sale my skitch Wich is the best 6 skitch sale website name

There are no similar artists in my case. I build art guitars with resin, LEDs, food samples. I am a proper guitar luthier (still at school, 4th year), they are instruments you can play, but I sell them as sculptures, since regular guitarists rather buy an old Fender with a bend neck for crazy amounts.

Great Conversation: I am trying to get an answer for a question.This is a question of materials and gallery acceptance. I create collages. The magazines are not acid free. The substrate backing glue may not be acid free. The paper backing is acid free. Sometimes I mix in painting and drawing into the drawing. I am not a well known artist. Can you state from a gallerist position if such art work made with non archival materials makes sense in terms of achieving a sale or is a hindrance to acceptance? Would a digital image be preferred, as made from the digital cut and paste rather than the analog cut and paste? is the original analog cut and paste sellable usually? Would a gallery prefer some techniques for longevity such as sealing the paper with acrylic to make the original artwork sellable?. If these questions can be passed along as I did not really see any of these kind of forums on their website or their you tube channel discussed

great video, Thaks!

great video, thanks!

Wow! I really love your video. Happy new suscriber.

Great video! I might add one more category, although much rarer, which is the artist who is simply unconventional concerning a mix of formal training and routes that lead to popularity. Although there was no internet, Andy Warhol comes to mind. He kind of broke the mold for what an artist had to be. What do you think?

In the Space!

I did not think of numbered and signed giclees as a type of original -- thanks!

I used Cafe Press and Zazzle. It seemed almost impossible to search my work on both even when putting in the full name so that explained the low views. Unless they have significantly upgraded their search features, take if for granted that both just feed your potential clients to their own preferred sellers.

Hey can u share the links for these

Hello! Can this setup also good for food photography flat lay setup?

Anyone who says 35 is too old to pursue a phd research post is extremely envious. There is no logic whatsoever to the statement. It's up there with suggesting aliens are visiting soon 😀

really good video, really useful for real artists; thanks!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Is there a larger holder for IPads?

Singulart is open now I got approval yesterday

An hourly rate is not fair because the more time an artist puts in they become faster in executing their work as it is accomplished by putting in the work and develop their skills. Time should not be a monetary factor in this case