The biggest thing i've learned as an artist who sells prints and merch is don't make what people ask for. They won't buy it. Make what you, the artist, want to see printed on the support of ur choice. I can't explain why but THAT'S what will sell. People who buy the most are the silent ones. 🫶
Remember, artists: when people say, “I’d buy a print of this,” they don’t mean it. That sentence itself is just a weird compliment that rarely converts to an actual print sale. It’s like if someone ate a very good hot dog and then said, “I could eat 10,000 of these right now.”
November 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The biggest thing i've learned as an artist who sells prints and merch is don't make what people ask for. They won't buy it. Make what you, the artist, want to see printed on the support of ur choice. I can't explain why but THAT'S what will sell. People who buy the most are the silent ones. 🫶
i think its very beautiful that your art might be viewed slightly differently based on the device a person views it through, and the history behind the device and the person's relationship to it. in many ways the device is the frame of the digital art - this is a medium characteristic to me
Listen to me. Listen. If you're making images that will only be displayed on screens, YOU HAVE TO LET GO. You can calibrate your screens perfectly, but then 25k people will see it on their shitty $50 monitors or cracked phone and its out of your hands. Don't think of it. Achieve enlightenment.
October 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
i think its very beautiful that your art might be viewed slightly differently based on the device a person views it through, and the history behind the device and the person's relationship to it. in many ways the device is the frame of the digital art - this is a medium characteristic to me
feeling kind of reluctant to keep posting my art on bsky again 😭😭 i'd like to think i'm mostly over social media numbers on art but when i'm crossposting and bsky consistently gets less engagement i'm just like what's the point if the audience is elsewhere...?
October 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
feeling kind of reluctant to keep posting my art on bsky again 😭😭 i'd like to think i'm mostly over social media numbers on art but when i'm crossposting and bsky consistently gets less engagement i'm just like what's the point if the audience is elsewhere...?
letting myself (?) draw fanart of a bunch of different things has been nice... but it's also reminding me how difficult it can be for me to get used to drawing certain chars orz drgl chars matched my style really well so it hasn't been something i thought about for a long time
October 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
letting myself (?) draw fanart of a bunch of different things has been nice... but it's also reminding me how difficult it can be for me to get used to drawing certain chars orz drgl chars matched my style really well so it hasn't been something i thought about for a long time