How do you sell and monetize your art? What websites are available to do?
- arjunasokanr
- Jun 23, 2024
- 3 min read
An artist always wishes to make money through art. Artit's dream is to get recognized for the artwork they did and to establish a style of their own. Nowadays, there are several platforms to sell their art, but it requires a lot of steps to set up the profile. The only drawback nowadays is that every art undergoes AI detection, which reduces the artist's confidence. This happens because several fake artists even faked theirs by stealing and mixing AI.
The list of art-sharing websites is:
1. Etsy: A popular art-sharing website which is used by most artist to share their work and sell it. The platform is popular for handmade and vintage items, including art.
Website name: etsy.com Links: https://www.etsy.com
2. Saatchi Art: A wonderful website that connects artists to people who intend to buy art.
Website name: saatchiart.com Link: https://www.saatchiart.com
3. Redbubble: This website allows you to sell your art, but this website has a unique feature that will put your art in a lot of things like mouse pads, clocks, banyans, etc. This will give the customer a good look at the art and how it will look. They will take care of your printing and other services you need to provide for your artwork. But getting your profile approved is hectic.
Website name: redbubble.com
These are the prominent websites commonly used by the artist to sell their content. However, several more websites can help artists kickstart their careers. They are,
1. Society6
Website: society6.com Link: https://www.society6.com
2. Artfinder
Website: artfinder.comLink: https://www.artfinder.com
3. Fine Art America
Website: fineartamerica.com
4. Zazzle
Website: zazzle.com
Link: https://www.zazzle.com
5. DeviantArt
Website: deviantart.com
6. Big Cartel
Website: bigcartel.com
7. ArtPal
Website: artpal.com
Link: https://www.artpal.com
8. Artsy
Website: artsy.net
Link: https://www.artsy.net
9. Bluethumb
Website: bluethumb.com.au
10. Artplode
Website: artplode.com
Link: https://www.artplode.com
11. UGallery
Website: ugallery.com
Link: https://www.ugallery.com
12. Minted
Website: minted.com
Link: https://www.minted.com
13. Vango Art
Website: vangoart.co
14. Shopify
Website: shopify.com
Link: https://www.shopify.com
15. Artmajeur
Website: artmajeur.com
Most websites allow selling art and other products like handicrafts and DIY stuff. Some of them even allow photographs and stock images.
The main advantage of having a profile on an art-selling platform is that it acts as a portfolio. When you want to show all the artwork and photographs to a client or someone who wants to buy the art, giving this link will be a great idea. This helps to market yourself over the internet by doing SEO for each art that you are putting up on the profile, which could generate profile views and portfolio views, and then the viewers who generally visit the page can be converted to customers one day.
Integrating art-selling sites with social media pages can boost your brand's authenticity and credibility among customers. No customer will buy art from a person if the artist doesn’t feel credible because many people have made art through AI or stolen art from other artists and sell on different platforms. To avoid these issues, the social media page should have the same posting and images behind the scenes while working on the artwork shows and define that it’s the artwork made by the person.
The next thing is that the portfolio should have a valuable contact number, mail ID and, If possible, a physical ID. It also gives a good image to the people who visit the portfolio or the profile.
As an artist, I have gone through all the phases of it: people stealing my work, buying the art and then ghosting me, so it's better for every artist to make an initial payment of the total amount first and then sell the artwork, after that the final transaction should be made.
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