What Sells The Most?

Mostly prints, canvas and framed paper.

in order:

1. canvas prints
2. metal prints
3. paper prints usually luster
4. acrylic

cards are last, which is good because it's the cheapest.

for me the sizes usually are 30-48" that seems the most, followed by 24" or so.

critique in general, don't vignette things, it looks silly. many images are too dark, start people in galleries, add more keywords. add a little more meat in the descriptions.


---Mike Savad

My originals sell because they are large. People love large paintings in my area.
I guess with greeting cards a good quote or creative word combination would sell. I see people who love to shop for positive words on boards at the craft shops. Good luck to you.

Mike's list of popular formats will be bang on. Re: content...based purely on what I have observed from the recent sales announcements... I've gathered that roughly 65% of sales are Graphic design/original art pieces and 35% straight photography..

I sell nothing.

And that very large formatet.

for example.

I average around 24*36 and canvas is the most popular followed by some variety of paper prints. One acrylic and zero metal prints. A few cards here and there.

if you sell nothing, why the photobomb?


---Mike Savad

Mike - sometimes you amaze even me - not often - but occasionally.

which part was the amazing part?


---Mike Savad

Some people feel no spark irony.

Pavlov says hello.

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Metal prints are #1 for me.

I sell a mixed bag of products, not as many phone covers or greeting cards.

Canvas and paper prints mostly. A few metal plates...

Focusing on greeting cards may be a lot of fun, I can see it. But they are the low dollar item and my guess is you will have to really promote the living daylights out of them to make any money. But if fun is what you are after and the occasional sale... go for it.

What had been working for me is focusing on sales and not paying any attention to what medium they are.

When cell phone covers first came out, I promoted the heck out of them and was selling maybe a few a month. But then it dawned on me I only needed to sell on 24x36 to make a lot more money then I make on several phone covers. I still sell one now and then. But I never promote them.

You have beautiful art that should sell in all sizes and all medium. Should, but there is no guarantee.

Design Turnpike, I really love what you do. But don't you basically just send the buyer some crazy glue,
a bunch of license plates and a pair of tin snips? lol (That was a joke.)

I have only sold prints in matts and frames or by themselves. I have seriously advised folks to buy metal or canvas prints and when they see the metal, they almost always seem blown away. But still no buyers. Most of my sellers are in the 16X14 or 20X30 size, but I have sold a few 6X8s. As far as subject matter, most of my sellers are, for some reason, bridges, whether highway or railroad. I took this as a sign to start shoting more bridges, but I believe I was already doing that anyway. I ony recently began marketing some stuff as greeting cards only, but have made no sales yet.

Thanks for the advice and replies. I actually did buy some of my own greeting cards as a gift to a friend. She was over-joyed with the quality of the paper that they came on and said the photo , on the home page, didn't do them justice. It is nice to know that the quality is there! The print that I sold, I actually got to see hung up on a wall, it was nice to see my own art in a house belonging to some one else.

Floyd, thank you for the compliment and Mike, you just kill me! I know not everyone likes vignettes. I do on somethings, that I want a darker look on. Not all peaches and cream for this photographer!

I appreciate everyone's input on this subject and I hope to become better as a photographer. I'm thinking of actually taking some classes or at least watching the instructional dvd that came with my camera, LOL! I seem to do things backwards in life...but hey, each to his own, you know? Cheers to all my fellow artists!

If you already specialize in greeting cards, then have at it. But if you think that selling lower priced items is easier --- I don't think it is at least on not on this site. FAA/Pixels has a wider array of framing options that other sites. It attracts people looking for wall art. My card and phone case sales are much lower than print sales.

Edward, I said I would do greeting cards because it may be more fun, (to create them), not thinking it would be easier to sell because of the lower price. I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't fun to explore new designs that I can create and photograph and greeting cards are a way to be expressive with words and art at the same time.