The Wealthy Artist: 6 Myths and 6 Tips on Marketing your Art

@thatsbadasswoodart 3 years ago

I started a custom scroll saw wood art business out of my garage in December 2019. My goal was to make custom wood art for those who wouldn’t find what they wanted at generic home decor stores. I wanted to appeal to an audience like myself who’s into anime, video games and more. I’m happy to say that it’s been one whole year since I began, I have been self employed all year, gained all the legal knowledge of running my LLC legitimately, and have made nearly twice what I was making when I had an employer and was working 40+ hours a week. I get to work from home and be with my family. I get to create the custom art that makes me happy and makes me money. It wasn’t easy in the beginning few months, but I was patient and am fortunate for where I am today. If you’re reading this and want to make a living off of your art, don’t settle. Do/create what you love. Be patient. Life is good!

@wubologist 5 years ago

the best tip from this video is to sell bite size art (ie stickers or something) that is affordable to the masses as opposed to only expensive originals as to help get your name out there and create buzz. everything else is common sense =P

@highstax_xylophones 5 years ago

Paint what you feel like painting if you want to feel great; paint what they want you to paint to get paid. I stopped painting what others want and it feels great. It was boring.

@JohnHarrisOnGoogle 7 years ago

Yes, even artists deserve to make a good living doing what they love.

@PeterChorao 5 years ago

Thank you Adrian! You're amazing and inspirational, those dna11 artworks are very beautiful, i love the glowing colors. For those frustrated artists still waiting for a magic formula after listening to this video (sorry it takes work to sell art there is no magic formula) Here are the notes i took on what advice Adrian rattles on about: Myths: 1 selling out (you don't have to sign with the devil to make it) 2 Art galleries are the only way (not) 3 techie (you dont have to be a computer technician to sell on line) 4 you need a lot of money (not, there are even free options btw) 5 Prints cheapen art (not) 6 Put a very high price tag on your art (no, have a range of item prices) Tips: 1 Know thy self 2 Know who are your buyers (know who you want to sell to) 3 Make remarkable art -best advertising is word of mouth 4 Make great art 5 make prints of your art to sell 6 Set up a website - or a blog, Adrain says he just has a blog on wordpress, 6a. Be on social media b. Share c. Use Online stores d. Get ink (Printed media) e. Dont use pr firms, only you or maybe a personal team member can do a proper job (sorry) you are gonna have to do your own pitching. - What's your angle? Why is your art buzz worthy? That's it that's all he gives us. Sorry unfortunately no magic formulas or how to sign with the devil to get out of doing the work, that probably wouldn't be a good idea to do anyway.

@friedricengravy6646 5 years ago

Selling out is when u compromise ur craft, ur morals, or ur honesty in the pursuit of success. Making a living (even mad stacks jk lol) doing anything....even art is NOT selling out. Going from realism to abstract or singing pop songs though u prefer the blues....being someone u r not, supporting a false image, manipulation for the sake of popularity is selling out. Just my opinion. Make Art, Love Life

@ivycooper5087 6 years ago

I'm a beginner in the art world and now I'm researching on what I have to do to become a successful artist, your video is great, your knowledge of becoming a successful artist is really helpful to me!

@devondevon2454 5 years ago

Outside family I find art to be the most noble pursuit

@kirtimistry7611 3 years ago

Simply amazing bro. I just loved the every words you spoke. it is so true. Mostry artist don't like word marketing, or they feel shy to sale, or they reserved to ask for money as an artist. But now new modern day artist will have ( Must have to ) learn marketing and feel proud about you. and Internet has made their job easy to sale. with maintaing 100% dignity. I pray for all artist for great journey.

@pedrojuan1505 5 years ago

wow this was so useful, heard it all the way through and a few of these were things i dont usually consider, i tend to be very self concious when trying to be confident cause i do not want to come out as cocky or arrogant, so its a bit dificult showing my work off to the world