New Scanner

Blaine, looks good to me but not my area. Have a new artist to take a look at ,that seems down your alley. Google them, go to images. Artist name is Kenneth Patchen.

From what I can see you've done a good job scanning your work so that it is available in large size prints. I had trouble with that starting out too and had to do some re-scans to make my art available in larger sizes. I still have some that need to be scanned again but haven't had the time. The problem I do see is you have a very low markup on your items. If you do sell something you're not going to be making much. I'd definitely say to raise your prices, but don't overprice either. You do want to be sure though that if you have a sale that you can at least pocket enough to go get a nice lunch somewhere. Anyways, your art is unique. Do as much free advertising as you can by making a Twitter account, Facebook page just for your art, and you may even use Google + or some of the other social media but personally I don't have the time to do all of them. Also, you can set it up so that when you add a new item here on FAA that it automatically posts it to your Facebook & Twitter pages. Good luck! :)

The scans seem good. I can zoom in and the lines seem clear and crisp. I see some of the images by 3000 by 4000 or some. You may wish to scan some of these again at a higher PPI(I think is what it's called) to see if you can get all available in all sizes but 3000 by 4000 is plenty big for a lot of sizes.I find 600 PPI a good balance. I was trying 1200 by it took to long and the image got too large. If you scan the image at 600 PPI (or DPI I forget what one is right) you may have to play around in a image editing program to lower the quality just a bit.The super good quality can be lowered from 12 to 11 or 10 in Photoshop when you save. This reduces the image size by a lot. This only needs to be done if your image is over 24 MB

Now in terms of your style I wonder how these would look as acrylic or oil painting's. Now they may be fine as they are but you may wish to try doing the same style but trying them as acrylic and oil painting's. Doing them this way may yield more powerful images.

Was thinking only problem if you did a painting most likely it would be bigger then the size of your scanner and would need to be photographed with a high resolution DSLR or point and shoot(but dslr would be better) Or you would need to get them scanned at the local printing places. However with painting's you can sell your originals for more and that is good.

its clearer, but you'll want to clean the smudge marks with an eraser or clean up the background in photoshop making the background brighter before upload. you'll want a description explaining the piece. this seems like it was cropped too tight, as parts look like they are off the edge.


this should print, but doesn't seem sharp up close. and really. replace this description. this is what the buyers read, and it's just plain confusing.


this one does not look good up close.


only upload the whole drawing. it shouldn't be sent up as a preview, pieces are missing.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Hi Blaine, what a tremendous improvement, you have been working so hard! I like this one though you need to crop off the left side where you tore it out of your notebook.



I see what you are trying to do with 'What The'. You can create this much more effectively by having one really good scanned image and then using software to tile it (putting lots of copies of the image together, a bit like tiling a wall in your bathroom). The important thing is that first clean image that you scan in, making sure you have cropped off any rough edges using the software and got rid of any finger marks. You could also use the software to add a bit of colour to that design and see how you like it. There is so much to learn and it is so exciting!

I love the penguin - I saw it mentioned in one of your other threads and it is a nice personal touch to have him on there. I also like the write up you made about that which is quite cute. For the others it would be good if you could sit and write down what you were thinking in your head when you produced each of these drawings and what feelings or ideas you were trying to get across. Imagine you have someone in front of you that you are trying to describe it to. Then edit that down to make the description for each image.

thanks

Blaine,

Are you asking how to post your work here on this discussion page.

Here is Lady Abbie's tutorial on tiis matter

http://1stangel.co.uk/fineartamerica/2011/10/07/how-do-i-put-one-of-my-images-from-my-galleries-into-the-discussions-or-on-another-page/