Its Andy from Greenbanks here. Found your site at last. I would like to find ways of selling some images if there are worth anything Would be nice to stop working sooner. See you soon

Andy

Thanks for the post.

First let’s look at the positives.
You realise that you need to do something to promote your work.
When you do show your work people seem to like it.
You have two degrees which shows that you have the ability to take on a project and stick to it.

So what are you going to do about it?
Do you have a web site? Your drawings may be the worlds best drawings, but if people don’t know about them you won’t make money from them.
If you don’t have a site get yourself onto GoDaddy and purchase an interesting .com address relating to your work
Next buy yourself some hosting from Hostmonster. This will all cost about $15 and you will not need to spend anything else.

Get to WordPress through your Cpanel at your Hostmonster hosting and build a Wordpres blog.

Find an art related theme for your blog by Googling “Free art related WordPress Themes” (or photography related) Find one that allows you to put a gallery widget on the blog.

You will need a free account at Mail Chimp (http://www.mailchimp.com) in order to build up your email list. The advice and instruction on this site is great.

You need something to bribe people to give you their email address. Suggestion – You say that when you make booklets of your drawings people like them. Why not make an ebook of your drawings and give it away for free: Well not quite for free, but in exchange for an email address.

Open a free account at Paypal.

There you go. For about $15 and a couple of days work you are up and running.

Get all of that going and then you can think about developing other outlets, such as printing your drawings onto T shirts,mugs, notelets etc using sites such as Etsy, Cafe Press etc.
Print on demand sites etc.
Your work is at the moment all in monochrome. It doesn’t cost a lot to have books made in black and white at Blurr. – This is all for the future. The important thing is to make a start NOW.

Best of luck in your endeavours,
Bob Maddison.

I have noticed many people around me making names or selling their art because they seem to got a handle on the marketing aspect through galleries of friends of friends of the Sydney gallery scene and so on.

I am 42 years of age and I sometimes come out and I show my art at zine fairs to which i make small booklet’s of a carefully selected drawings. I do not make a great deal of money from this method but it is wonderful to see people’s reaction to my work’s. I recently had some work shown in a group exhibition at an independent gallery (recently opened gallery in Sydney) and I got a huge positive response with people telling me to have a solo show etc. I am anxious towards this but I will need to do it sometime, in order for me to start making some sought of living from the many years I have made art. I currently use ink , nib’s and fountain pen to make my own drawing and I do a lot of freestyle works from my imagination.

Demetra Christopher ( I am at facebook if you would like to become my friend there you can see some of my works)