Why Your Art Commissions are ABSOLUTE SH!T
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- Опубліковано 25 лют 2024
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Sorry unless you live in a very poor country, you won't make a living doing 15 USD portraits.
Let's be honest, 99% of artists make between zero and terrible money doing commissions and there are way too many bad pieces of advice on them.
Art Commissions are clearly not the wonderful adventure most people try to make you think they are. While there are always some outliers, we need to have a solid strategy if we want to make them profitable.
This video is going to ruffle a lot of people's feathers, this is perfectly fine.
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The math of how little commissions earn when compared to MINIMUM WAGE really put it all into perspective. Better to get a job so you can work on art when you can and not stress about the bills
Exactly. As hard of a reality it is, if you want to be time efficient it's actually a very clever move to secure the money you need to live and use all the rest of your time working on your portfolio to eventually get hired
No shame in honest work and accumulating wealth to build up capital. More artists should have that mindset to be honest. Colleges promote a sunken cost fallacy, since they’re known to not give a good ROI for the cost of the degree one receives.
Straight to the point!👌
thank you!
You're welcome !
This video feels like a personal attack (in a good way ofc, I'm one of those failures of an artist)
Would you be able to make a video about algorithms? I post to so many socials at so many different times and I feel like after 10+ years of doing this I will never get any public.
I get shadowbanned, my posts have no interactions (even when I offer FREE RESOURCES for other artists to download and use) and I'm forced to work full time while chronically ill, this unsustainable to me. I need a part time job and to be able to rely on what I can do from home and at my rythm in order to study.
I live in a very low income country and I don't even eat on the daily.
If you have the chance to make a video on how to work with algorithms (instagram, facebook, threads, Twitter) what hashtags, what times to post, what content, anything, that would help me, and many of us, a lot, Twitter will hide your post if you use any term related to selling your work, Facebook will do this as well, if you post links too, it feels like the entire world is against poor people trying to eat 3 times a day, I'm losing my cr*p.
Thanks for your time and work and I hope I'm not asking for a lot.
Glad you enjoyed it :)
Feel free to check out the videos I mentioned in the Free course, they will tell you everything you need to know about sourcing commissions better.
Hashtags and Algorithm... at the risk of being disappointing, this is 99% irrelevant...
Let's get this straight : whether we like it or not everyone deserve the amount of views/likes they have
What matters is the quality of your work and the content of your post.
No hashtag will save bad work, there is no hack or whatever.
Even people growing an audience, they just do content that people enjoy engaging with.
The only small algorithm play you can do is on Artstation once your full portfolio is ready to be posted:
- You want to grow followers : post your pieces one by one once every 4-5 days
- You want to gain a lot of attention on your work : put it in only one post.
- You want to gain a lot of traction : get your work liked by a lot of other big people on Artstation
Aside from that, again, if your work doesn't gain traction, it means that there is a reason people don't engage with it.
And honestly, best tip : let's forget about the amount of like, what matters is your network and the amount of clients willing to work with you?
I only have 4k followers on Artstation, I've not posted in ages, my Artstation work is totally random, yet I've not been lacking jobs since 2016 because my connexions and the professional recommendations I get from companies is enough to carry me.
Could/Should I optimise my Artstation? Sure it cannot hurt.
Is it mandatory? at a certain point in your career, not anymore.