I just thought at least one person would be interested...

Anyway... Not sure why I shared all that. It was just on my mind. I'm happy that I've been able to hobby-collect rather than focusing all my attention on one hobby. But I do wonder if I might have had some success had my plan worked.

I don't have the desire to try this again - or to make being an artist work - but part of me thinks that maybe this experience closed me off from the idea of trying.

& I've definitely had the potential reasons noodling around in my head why these people didn't reach out for free art.

I'm definitely not the best at keeping my inbox/junk monitored, but the first few months I checked at least once a week.

I thought that giving away art for free would be easy. And that trying to sell the art would be the hard part. But I couldn't even give it away!

I can't remember exactly what I put on the voucher, but it had examples of some of my art, my email to get in touch, & I think a little bit about me. They didn't even have an expiry!

There were about 4 or 5 of these vouchers. & I think all of them got won.

No one got in touch.
This was in 2019

I do musical theatre with an amateur group, we do a concert every year - one year I got to be in charge. I put a lot of myself into it. At these concerts we do raffles, & I decided to put a voucher for a free A4 portrait drawn by me into the raffle. I had hopes it would kickstart a side-hustle.