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Taylor Hayes

9 Years Ago

Getting Noticed

hey Yall! im really new on this sight. im only 18 and I just started selling some of my paintings that I have done the past few years etc. Any-who I was just wondering how does one accomplish selling things or get noticed? will I ever sell anything? feedback would be lovely on some of my work. thanks all!

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Heather Applegate

9 Years Ago

First make sure what you are uploading is the right way round, cropped properly and printable.

Then you can delve into marketing by clicking the Help tab in the discussions - loads of free info in there.

 

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

Marketing 101 by Mike Savad

Photography Prints
however this stuff isn't printable. rotating it, cropping it, making sure it looks good is the first part. it should look just as good on the screen as it does in person. scan these.

Photography Prints
this is a little noisy up close, it's sideways and has cropping issues at the top.

Photography Prints
avoid ripples

the art itself is ok, but you'll have to figure out your market and advertise to those people. so fix the work, borrow a scanner from school, help from an art teacher, and then follow my guide.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

Richard Rizzo

9 Years Ago

welcome to FAA Taylor.
(good advice above)

 

Robert Kernodle

9 Years Ago

To get good production-quality art that the public is more likely to buy, follow Mike S.'s wisdom.

To get noticed, ... strip naked and wear your production quality art as body signage on main streets of your town, ...wait for the police to scramble to the scene with news crews that will give you even more exposure on your way to jail, where you can comune with the hardknocks of society to gain deep street wisdom that you can then channel into more mature works that get even more exposure becuse you so exposed yourself to gain this wisdom to get there to gain it.

... suuuuuch helpful advice, I know, ... you're welcome.

 

Edward Fielding

9 Years Ago

The wisest notion I've come across is "when you are ready, they will find you". People can promote themselves all they want when they are not quite ready yet and nothing will happen. Then someone else who quietly toils away is suddenly "discovered" and becomes a sensation.

 

Robert Kernodle

9 Years Ago

Seriously, now, first learn the meaning of the phrase, print-ready file , as it applies to the quality of the images that you submit to this website.

Of chief importance in this regard is the PROPER ORIENTATION of a work, as the viewer would see it in a wall hanging. Some of your pics are sideways. Some of your pics are crooked and have the background in them --- no, no, no ! --- this canNOT be. As someone has hinted, you need images as close to the real thing as possible, ... oriented properly, photographed STRAIGHT ON, with BIGGER file sizes to print a better range of sizes.

 

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