Should I Get A Website For My Art Career? - Tips For Artists 

Exactly my thought, but at least the blazer has paint on the sleeve, so you know that he's not just some super serious imposter.

@@mysterymccarthy6851 I know! Paint in a bunch of places! Too cute.

Awww! Thank you so much!

OMG! That's terrible! I'm so sorry that happened to you!

I use weebly as well just because I've worked with it before with someone else years ago. I think it's pretty easy to manage but it's defiantly a challenge for me to remember to update it.

Don't wait to buy your address. Someone else might take it. Or it might already be taken and you'll have to backtrack. It is the most important--and least expensive--thing you're going to need. If you just buy it for a year, it won't cost more than maybe $15. Then you can either renew on a yearly basis or more long term as you develop your business.

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You Rock @claybutler6194!

The internet has been the newspaper/phone book for many years now. "Get on it, get on it"

Emerald Queen why would you do that. Nobody cares.

Sharon White take a look at their website and see how you like all their activities married together on one site. Would you like this for yourself or not?

elsa Grace ok will check it out.

It conjured up for me the scene of flag planting in Far and Away, lol

@@Rafiwashere I do understand that. I just need to have patience and work on my inventory. I'm hoping I/we can do shows next summer. One way or another, It would be nice to have a platform by then.

Lisa Kirwan part of mental stability is knowing yourself better than others know you. If you don’t you should work on it, please for the grace of god, for everyone around you’ s sanity, please 😂🤣😂 okay I don’t know you but your self description has me imagining you are like some peeps I know and wish I didn’t.

@@elsagrace3893 I was looking for the joke in your comment, but I don't really see it.. Sorry I don't see what your opinion of me, (someone you don't know) has anything to do with the post or my comment. You "don't know me" so I will leave it at that .. as far as the "grace of God" I will leave on this note, Judge Less, Pray More.

Melissa Jeanne Foster hello. Find a class at a Junior College. It will be affordable and a decent start.. how did you become so entitled?

When you can't get the instructions for a "control value" in your camera, take 3 pic's and deliberately only pay attention to that control... First with the value turned "all the way down"... Second with it "in the middle"... and Third with it "turned all the way up". JUST put the pic's on your computer, and examine all three in order... This part's a bit important... This process SHOWS you what the control does, value for value... It works for just about everything, and it won't matter what kind of camera you've got. Remember, all film is digital for online work, so film is cheap and renewable... Time is best "Invested" so that you understand more of what you're doing (at least in the beginning)... Instructions aren't always clear, and even video tutorials can be painfully difficult to quite understand... SO make every "shoot" or "project" work for you as much as you work for it. A cheap tripod is worth it's weight in gold (so long as it's stable). This takes "personal feel and judgment" out of the equation when you set up a shot. You can best practice and increase your skill with inanimate objects anyway... SO refine your work and skill with a tripod (yes, even a mini-tripod that stands on tables and chairs and stools and stuff) and a tape measure (another cheap buy, because you don't need new) will allow you to physically measure the shots by range, height, whatever... Finally, don't forget to take notes. Keep a small tablet or theme book around specifically for your camera of choice... I even label mine for every camera separately. Some companies are a little different from others by the specific numbers for things like "aperture" or "Exposure Value" (EV)... etc... The notepads start with just basic stuff you don't want to forget later... and they help with the damned "internal number assignments" that confuse the shit out of me from one camera to the next... so I can keep my pic's in order... Later on, special notes can be taken for certain lighting set ups, and specific effects you tried or improved, etc... Hope this helps with the whole camera thing... Presently working out a design for mounting a long distance scope and my camera onto a rifle stock so they line up... to see if I can get that idea to work better than "freehand". ;o)

@@gnarthdarkanen7464 Thanks, I'll try that - Part of it is also finding good things to drape pieces -over-, because the composition looks off without it, but half is quality - or they are too good, and get details I don't want, like stray cat fuzz >.>

@@yukifoxscales Kind of depends on the size of the piece... BUT there are "indoor clothes-lines" or perhaps it's a "drying frame" or "drying rack".... In any case, for hanging / draping pieces, there's a freestanding frame of metal tubing. It's not the most stable (in my experience) so better indoors on flat flooring, BUT you can use that as a standard... More important to "quality and composition" I'd worry about my lighting, exposure (EV), and background... Background... I've had pretty decent luck, starting with a large (king or queen size) sheet I just staple up to the wall, or hang across the room behind the piece. If you're slick and pick Blue, Green, or Red depending on what color-schemes your work has, you can then use any of the freeware "photo suites" to swap the plain-colored background out for just about anything you want... I try to watch occasional "behind the scenes" vid's to get tips on the blue and green screen technology, and reserve colors like red, yellow, etc... for special cases where I don't have a lot of choices for what screen color does NOT match some difficult aspect of my color-scheme... A little practice "fiddling" and you can even build your own elaborate background sceneries to inject for your photo's and just wow the audience for having looked at it in the first place... Their admiration of your effort for just the photo can be enough to draw them to pay for something. ;o)

I pay $300 a year for a full ecommerce site. That's $25 a month. However, we make more than that a month, so really it's up to you.

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