Sell Prints
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Hi Eleandra,
I don't sell prints so I can't say whether the site makes a difference to numbers sold, but RedBubble allows you to set your own markup whereas at dA, unless you pay for a 'premium print account' which I think is about $30 a year, the artist gets a smaller percentage of the sale fee and can't change the retail price.
Both sites get good feedback for quality..
It's also worth checking out Cafepress and Zazzle
Gill
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Hi Eleandra!
I sell prints through deviantArt, RedBubble, Imagekind and TheUntappedSource. I had better luck with dA so far but I have a premium print account. I wouldn't recommend setting a free account with them, because like WelshWench said, you can't set your own markup and and prints from free accounts are not even checked for quality unless somebody buys them (and it says so in the print page which, imho, looks bad for a customer). Though it may work for more exposure on your work. RedBubble is nice, though apparently you need to be pretty active if you intend to frequently sell. But it's free and their products are great and they are always concerned about adding new features and products. I bought a poster from them last year and I can say I'm was very pleased with the quality and they even offered free shipping (which is great if you plan to sell prints on your own).
Vanessa
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Hi Jackie,
Welcome to the list. Like you, I'm trying to get noticed and get my work to sell. But you have to work it, it's not something that happens all on it's own. I'm aware that The Netherlands is not like USA (where you're from?) but I attend a couple of art fairs every year. People have to see your work. I do have my own website (although it's related to a very large art site, but it's cheep because of that ^_^) that can be found with search machines. Very recently (last week in fact) I was invited to attend an exhibition on CGI in November. And make a mailing list of family, friends and ultimately your customers that you can mail at least once a year with updates on your work. Where to see the new work you've made, where you can be seen in person etc. And always send a card with you own image and your name and website on the back. You never know who might notice it!
Good luck!
Yvonne aka mountmous (Renderosity)
A data point for those of you trying to sell fractal art:
I just finished a show at my church for the month of March -- some photographs, a few scans, and some fractals. I priced them to sell, for example a print 18 by 13.5 inches priced at $125 (approximately $0.50 per square inch), and sold 15 prints. (My cost was about $40 each, and the church took only 20%.) I sold these framed with a single mat in an inexpensive black sectional frame. I had the prints made here, $4.80 per square foot for archival prints.
You can see most of them at [1].
Some of the fractals came from Janet Parke's Ultrafractal Artistry course, which I highly recommend. (The first two of her courses are also excellent and also highly recommended.)
I was there every Sunday to promote sales. My being there, and being known to people, helped sales a lot.
For this crowd, I think that doubling the price would have meant zero sales. We have a show every month, and most of the shows have paintings at $250 to $400 and up. Sales are rare at those prices.
Feel free to guess which pictures sold. (Some sold multiple times.) It was interesting to see which fractals appealed to which people: people with backgrounds as artists differed from people without such backgrounds.
Jim Blue
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David April wrote:
Hey Jim -
Thanks for sharing the info. Where did you get the frames you used and how much were they? Were the mats precut or did you do them yourself?
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I got "Standard" black sectional frames from americanframe.com, with pre-cut mats included. (The higher quality mats are not included.) Typical cost was about $13 for a 24 by 20 inch frame plus about $11 for the acrylic. I bought my own foamcore backing locally and cut it to size, another about $2.
Jim Blue
Here is another link for an interesting discussion regarding numbered
editions of prints. This is a photography magazine but the articles
would also be relevant to all digital art works. [2]
To access this article look at the left side column and download the
"Goodies PDF" file. Then unzip the file and look for the article
entitled, "What size is the edition."
Stephanie
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I also take great care to provide a CoA with every limited edition print I sell. For anyone who wants to see what one looks like, you can see an example of one of mine here: Sample CoA .
Cheers,
Cornelia
