Where to sell your art?

While you are sharpening your skills and sense of art, you may start to think of ways to sell it. I'm sure it's every artist's dream to be able to make a living off his/her own art. Yet many of us ended up on a job not even close to the art category. Even if you manage to get into a nice art studio, you're still working for the client, drawing stuffs you don't like or forced to bear a hell of deadline. Don' you want to express your art freely, draw whenever you have the mood, and even earn money from it? 

Well there's actually some options to consider.

One of the option is to print it on a product such as poster, mouse pad, or t-shirt, and then sell it. And zazzle.com serves that purpose perfectly. Zazzle.com is home to many great designers and illustrators, a place to showcase your artwork in the form of useful products. You can have one design applied to numerous products, editing each one of them so it fits perfectly, and then put it on your own shop page. An best of all it's completely free! You don't need a single dollar to start selling your art!

What you need is a high resolution image of your art so it won't be pixelated when applied to large products. Surely you want to deliver your art in it's best potential right? So start making a habit of doing high resolution image for each of your artwork. Around 2000x2000 pixel would be fine, but if you can manage higher resolution, it would be better. 

Another tip is to make your art wider and has a lot of safe area to crop. You can see on the mousepad above where some details got cropped. You should avoid it if you can and put the center of your artwork on a safe frame.

A pattern designer or those with art nouveau style would find it easier to apply it here. Do you have an interesting design that you think would fit great in these products? Simply register and start selling your art!