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juicemcnewton · 08-15-2007, 03:14 AM

I think you can do that. For instance if you were on a site like myspace or if you got ahold of anyones picture. But the main problem here is that you need to be REALLY good. Now I'm a talented artist, everyone I know says so, but even just when I went to college I saw guys that blew my art out of the water. And that's just locally. In a place as gigantic as the internet, art is one of those things that you need to be REALLY one of the best at (ok maybe not the best, but top tier) to make anykind of living.

The term starving artist does come to mind

On the other hand, drawing is basically free and if it's what you really enjoy then go for it. Worst case you sell a few drawings for 1 cent and improve your artistic abilities.

Of course for the actual question, I'd say build a website. Maybe you could even combine your gallery with a blog, but seriously, so many people are such good artists... To make money from drawing alone online, you'd need to be very very good in my opinion. Got any sample work?

08-15-2007, 03:14 AM	#2 (permalink)
juicemcnewton Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 32	blah I think you can do that. For instance if you were on a site like myspace or if you got ahold of anyones picture. But the main problem here is that you need to be REALLY good. Now I'm a talented artist, everyone I know says so, but even just when I went to college I saw guys that blew my art out of the water. And that's just locally. In a place as gigantic as the internet, art is one of those things that you need to be REALLY one of the best at (ok maybe not the best, but top tier) to make anykind of living. The term starving artist does come to mind On the other hand, drawing is basically free and if it's what you really enjoy then go for it. Worst case you sell a few drawings for 1 cent and improve your artistic abilities. Of course for the actual question, I'd say build a website. Maybe you could even combine your gallery with a blog, but seriously, so many people are such good artists... To make money from drawing alone online, you'd need to be very very good in my opinion. Got any sample work?