Who loves small victories in life? Okay, they aren't as wonderful as epic victories, but they still take the ho-hum out of the day, right? I especially love to celebrate small art victories. Because art can be a frustrating thing. Never more so than when it is time to market it and sell it. Last month I had the exquisite pleasure of making my first Etsy sale. After a year I had literally given up and had left myself a note to close my account (because who wants to pay for something that isn't reaping any rewards at all?) My first sale wasn't just "good". It was pretty cool too... I sold a digital download print of this incredibly green abstract painting. Which is good. But it was purchased by someone to use as a set prop. That is cool. Following that, I sold two coloring pages: my Alice and Wonderland design, and my toy sailboat coloring page. I'm actually amazed that this happened because I am very much lagging behind in the technology department. I don't have a great scanner or printer, an awesome camera, or any type of fancy art and design software. I definitely feel like the poor kid with the knock-off shoes on all the art sites. Heck, I can't even make those files big enough to qualify for most of the products on Society 6. And my stuff almost always starts out hand-drawn, so there are real artistic errors present at times. As in art work that actually looks like hand-drawn artwork instead of computer generated perfection. But everything has to have a fan somewhere, right? That's what we have to keep telling ourselves. Just draw, and eventually, the drawings will find the right people. Speaking of poor kids, my little art victory for today was selling a print of my Halloween Raggedy Cats on Zazzle! This makes me feel so insanely happy, because it's the first Raggedy Cat to sell on that site. And the first time that particular Raggedy Cat art has sold at all. This one with the quilting cat is the popular one. I'm still trying to decide whether or not Etsy is worth it. I've had the most luck with Zazzle and Redbubble, and they don't charge any posting fees. The fee on Etsy is small, but it can definitely eat your lunch if you have a lot of postings and few sales!
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