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Surbhi Grover

9 Years Ago

A Candid Feedback Needed

Hello Everyone,
I am on FAA since last 1.5 years but have not been able to make much in terms of sales. I do not hold a professional degree in art , I am not inclined to any one style,subject or form of painting. But I love to paint and it is purely emotions for me when i create an artwork . I would love to get a candid opinion from all you talented people about my work ..This is basically to understand if there seems to be a problem with my marketing skill here or does my work appear amateur ...this would be really of a great help for me to hear from you all ..thanks !

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Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

you don't need an art degree.

styles will help you a lot in terms of selling.

Art Prints Art Prints
going from this to this is a large jump in style. often you can't just make anything in a whim, unless you have someone in mind. how many will want an image of a guy squeezing a bird? or a picture of the joker holding a lighter? i guess that's what that is.

jumping around like this just makes finding people that might like your stuff much harder to find. i'm not getting the emotion angle from these either. the joker has too much text, in the description, i would remove the quotes it has font issues and looks odd there. the feature i would remove, it adds clutter. there is a bunch of info about the actor, but how many want this for their walls?

Photography Prints
then you jump right to a dog, which is cute, and i can see selling. however it has a questionable title that has a double meaning. and there are no tags. i wouldn't call this playboy, because people think of naked people surrounded by very informative articles. instead i would highlight that its a pilot, and find a catchy name for it. add the right words and a description. these can't be ignored.

Art Prints
this has a chance of selling, though i would add a sunset orange background. a description is needed, more keywords.

Photography Prints
style wise i think you should stick with silhouettes. however this one isn't even for sale, has no tags and has printing issues. i don't really see how that's a camera though.

Art Prints
you have a cropping issue on the top, too many dots in the description - and there are no tags.


Art Prints
looking over everything i think yes, this type of thing is your style and you should make more like this, forget the rest. they are far too random. this need a crop fix and again you have not tags or description. no one will find you .

Art Prints
i would remove the photos though, they don't add enough, and are suddenly there. its like when a cartoon has a real person in it. its hard to say who would want this, a lamp coming out of the truck and all. a description and better words would be nice.

Art Prints
if you can get a better angle of this, and make it sharp - as this won't print ever, you could get something from it. patterns and color, try to make it all that one thing without background.


anyway, you have to market these and if you make it as random as you are, it will be hard to do so. you have to imagine what room in your house these would hang in. and if you can't then it will be hard to market. you have many missing tags and descriptions and this is what people use to find you. find your style and stick to it. the ones i pointed out, do a series of those. and keep the things in it specific to a person. so you can market it to that type of person (fishing, hunting etc)


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com



 

Surbhi Grover

9 Years Ago

Thanks Mike for writing this review for me. It is extremely valuable !

I agree with you that my gallery has random subjects, that probably is because I am keep experimenting with a lot of different things. But yes, I get your point that this looks too random when somebody visits them all together.

I will reorganize the images into different galleries ,so that ways, it will appear organized and not look random.

About the use of enough and appropriate tags, I still have to figure out the best possible way to do so.

And thanks for bringing out the description,resolution and cropping issues with some images in particular.Will correct those today itself :) !!!

 

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

if you experiment, make a couple of them, at least then it will be a series.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

Abbie Shores

9 Years Ago

i wouldn't call this playboy, because people think of naked people surrounded by very informative articles.

That is the funniest thing I have seen in ages.

You have the eye, Surbhi, absolutely. Wonderful.

Just the technical stuff needs tightening as Mike said. Well done

 

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

whats said must be said... for the sake of the bunny. from my understanding they do have many article about something.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

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