Ciomara Valentine
Ciomara Valentine is an Interactive Multimedia major with a minor in Fine Arts. Since a young age she has had an interest in many forms of art, from traditional oil painting to digital art. She believes that their is an artist in everyone, and wanted to inspire people that art is a viable career choice in the modern era.
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Why online?
It is a well known fact that any art career, is a hard career. It is not easy making a living as an artist. And while the art industry is hard to get into, it is even harder when you can’t get out and start networking in person, so we are forced to improvise. But as computers become more and more advanced, we are putting more things on the internet, including artwork. From people posting to social media, so making their own craft stores online, the art world has flourished in the digital age. And with thousands of people still stuck at home in quarantine we are relying on the internet more than ever. It is so easy nowadays to make an sell art online, but while the internet is an amazing tool, but it can be easy to get lost in all the websites and forums. This guide will serve as an introduction on how one would navigate the wild plains of the internet and find success.
My Process
I have sold artwork before (albeit in person) so I know the steps that it takes. I also know that it can become an extremely complicated process if you don’t know what you’re doing. I took the selling process and broke it down into the fewest amount of necessary steps, those steps ended up being:
Hosting
Advertising
Pricing
Payment
Shipping
I determined that these 5 steps were the absolute minimum someone needed to be successful in selling art of any kind. Hosting is how and where people can see the work you have for sale, in this case, different websites. Advertising is how you get people to actually see your work. Pricing and payment is the process of determining how much a piece or work is worth, and how you get people to pay for it. And shipping is how you actually deliver the finished product to the customer.
Much of this can vary on what kind of artwork you are creating, where you are in the world, how skilled you are, etc. This guide is meant to be a starting point, to make the idea of selling artwork look much easier than it may seem.
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