r/ArtMarketingTalk

Veo que la mayoría de comisiones que venden son de personajes con estilo caricaturesco o de anime, entonces no se si ese es el mercado que hay ahora o es que estoy en el sitio incorrecto y mi arte no atrae. Puede ser por eso o es simplemente un problema de consistencia??

Any tips for getting subs the first month of your mail club? I launched a little over a week ago, and I'm posting on socials every day. I'm offering one art print, 2 stickers, and a letter at the $10 price point. This month I did everything with acrylic paint, but I may play with other mediums in the future. I'm using consistent hashtags relating to mail clubs and sapphic/lesbian art. So far I only have one subscriber who is an artist friend. I would love any advice folks here are willing to share. I'm very excited to grow and I would really appreciate any wisdom from people who are more established. My socials and landing page are linked below if you'd be down to take a look. Thanks in advance!

https://www.posthou.se/dykonicprintclub

https://www.instagram.com/dykonicprintclub/

https://www.tiktok.com/@dykonicprintclub

I have a niche hobby of making 3D shadowbox pokemon cards. I spend many hours cutting, painting, glossing, etching, detailing, and assembling 3D shadowbox pokemon cards. Recently I have started trying to sell them online and have registered for a local card show, but both Etsy and Ebay have revealed that web traffic to my craft and shop listings are abysmal, and I can’t afford to promo stuff for 15% of the revenue. I already know I am way under pricing my works for how much work I put into them, but I also know there are few people that would pay for the amount of work I put into them.

How do I go about getting more online traffic to my craft?

Images are some of the cards I’ve made.

not a “pick me” or “fishing” post. I know my art is good I’ve just been advertising myself and nobody bought anything. How can I market myself better?

I'm Lucas and I specialize in character design for games. As in the title, I also work with props and weapons. Skins and level progression are also my specialty. I produce callout sheets that are production friendly and make sure my iterations follow the project constraints. My main style is realism. Currently I'm looking for work, so if you know anyone in need, feel free to reach out!

Portfolio link
Contact: pufferartcontact@gmail.com

(Full disclaimer, I found being a social media painter to be completely exhausting and now mostly work in the corporate artistic and marketing world.)

I've been full-time creative for a couple years, and almost everything that mattered for actually making money was marketing, not raw skill. Some things I learned the hard/expensive way:

Positioning beats mastery. Being top 25% at five skills is more marketable than being top 1% at one, because a combination is rare and hard to replace. I sell "I can take this from concept to finished product myself," not "I'm the best illustrator." The stacked offer is the differentiator, and it's what got me hired over more talented people.

Community is the actual distribution channel. Nearly every sale and job I've landed traces back to people who already knew my work. Not cold outreach, not the algorithm, relationships. If you have no community, there's no built-in reason for anyone to buy. Audience-building is the marketing.

Virality ≠ conversion. I've had posts blow up and sell nothing. A small audience that consistently buys beats a big one that only watches. Chase resonance and repeat buyers, not view counts.

Lead with the work, not the pitch. The moment a post smells like "please buy this," conversion tanks. Make things that genuinely resonate; the selling comes after people care. My best-performing work was personal and specific, and that's exactly why strangers connected with it and stuck around.

Own the whole line. When you can design it, make it, shoot it, write the copy, and run the store, your margins and your creative control both go up. That vertical integration is a marketing asset, not just an operational one.

Failure is data. I've flopped financially and on specific launches. Each one taught me what my audience actually wanted vs. what I assumed. None of it was wasted.

Curious what's worked for the rest of you, I feel like "community as distribution" is underrated in most art-marketing advice that's all funnels and ad spend.

(I go deeper on all this in a video if the long version is useful — but the above is the core of it, happy to hash any of it out in the comments.) https://youtu.be/z_PF62hyNE0

So I recently got a comment on Facebook telling me that I should try lowering my prices because my style is to simple, the told me that I shouldn't be charging that much. It kinda hurt when I saw the comment but maybe they are right? Idk. Pls let me know I'd I should lower them, I did some research before pricing and I think my prices are pretty average.

I'll leave some examples of my work so you can judge better.

I paint pets. I feel like instagram, facebook and twitter are dead ends for selling my art. I mostly do commissions and sell prints. Where would you recommend I try?

Everything is made entirely from joint papers. The dark parts are colored naturally through the process of smoking the joint. Unsmoked joint papers are used to create the lightest values and whites. The process take a very long time and as far as I know I am the only one in the world doing it professionally. Everyone who sees it absolutely loves it, but I am still having a hard time keeping food on my table. Can I get some advice on how I can make a living at this?

Im currently pretty artbloked and have no idea what to draw. And since i dont get commisions I wanted to draw something for my portfolio! If you have a cool idea or a cool oc buy comms are to pricy here I am! Message me or comment with your stuff and Ill look throu it!. Completly free of course. Actually, this is a way for me to practice as if it was a paid commision, so feel free do to it as challenging for me as possible!!

lately i've been getting too many +200$ commissions that i lowk got used to it but i've been wondering if i should lower my prices.. how much do you think my art is worth or if it were you, how much would you like to pay for my art?

Hi everyone! These are my original artwork - prints. I have formally traditionally painted these on 300 gsm paper with gouache medium and got HD photographs taken for the prints. These are the high quality test prints i have gotten done on textures paper from a professional printer stores in my town.

I really love how they have turned out and i am wanting to sell these but confused about any platforms.

My question is, would you directly buy these from instagram or do i need any e-commerce platforms to sell?

I am also selling digital prints but that is on ko-fi - in dollars. I really want to share my artwork in India more.

I would really appreciate your support and feedback!!!

Xoxo