Recent content by picassolite

In my opinion - "It's all your fault Brianvds ... for causing me to stay up way past my bedtime - researching this stuff." Amo - didn't do me any favors by continuing to stoke my curiosity with her comments about Ai. Laika really lit the fuse with his ... "The thing that sticks with me from all...

What ever one thinks ... this Ai stuff is charting a new way of doing things. It will find it's own niche.

Hi Amo ~ Since you are investing in yourself and your art ... just a few suggestions ... 1- "I can't think of AI art without thinking of commercial art, something to sell. So these are all products. Frankly, I try to "recycle" almost all the art I make for sale somewhere, just because I need...

There's an old saying about success - "it's 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration." When artists embrace that blue collar work ethic - they will succeed beyond their wildest imaginings. Let me be clear - the 90% does not apply to producing the art. It applies to learning the marketing of...

Hi Bartc ~ I recognize what you are saying and it reminds me of a story I once experienced with a friend over 30 years ago - a very good graphic artist. He ran a business out of his garage - selling logos and figurines. He called it 'the fastest day in his life.' This day the 3 employees...

Which brings me to another insight ... The self-taught artist has a built-in psychological advantage over the school trained artist. The self-taught artist by their very nature, their persistence, their curiosity ... they know the 'truth of life' vis-a-vis the art world - which is - they are...

Bartc - how right you are. Marketing any site, let alone an art site is not for the feint of heart. It is a 'job' in itself. No getting around it. Which explains why so few artists online make any money - after they put up their site. All this marketing work used to be done by the art...

Building a website is the easy part. You have some great suggestions here. However - once you build it - have you thought how you are going to drive traffic to it? Have you thought about SEO? What I'm getting at is this - nothing equates to the come down you might feel - when very few come...