You also want to give yourself time to discover whether or not you can create a consistent body of work. Give yourself time to learn what a medium is capable of (and what you’re capable of!) before you start selling. Yes, I did sell drawings from those early years, including the one shown here, but I really wish I had waited a little longer to start selling. The two drawings below show my skill level in 1999 (left) and 2013. Actually, it’s not that difficult to do offline, either. It’s so easy to start selling on the internet that many artists rush into sales too soon. Nothing hurts sales more than pieces that don’t look finished, or that look amateurish. You should only expect to sell your drawings if you create well-rendered, professional-looking artwork.
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Promoting & marketing How to create professional-quality drawings.So to help you start selling your drawings more successfully, today I’m going to address three main areas: Put an oil painting and a colored pencil drawing side-by-side-even if both subjects are rendered equally well, many artists will find it easier to sell the oil painting than the drawing. Simply because many artists find it more difficult to sell drawings than other forms of art. Why does this type of art merit a separate discussion? That includes charcoal, graphite, colored pencils, even ink. My expertise is in colored pencils, specifically, but these techniques will help you sell any type of two-dimensional drawing on paper.
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Today, however, I want to narrow my focus, and talk about how to sell drawings. I recently wrote an article describing how to get started selling art, no matter what kind of art you create. By Carrie Lewis in Art Business Advice > General Art Advice