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Greg B · 01-22-2004, 04:36 PM

Been futzin' around with EBAY sales of original art and litho-prints.

Can't believe how lucrative this is! For those of you who don't know I'm also a fine artist especially in watercolors. I stay outta oils because it takes too long unless it's something I really like doing ( like book covers ).

Anybody every buy or sell art on Ebay? How'd it go?

With me, If I print 500 - 1,000 limited editioned autographed prints I spend a few hundred bucks doing so. Not like the 2 or 3k just years ago and advertising in magazines. Now with the web I can reach millions with a mouse click, do my own prep work at home or at the office and just ship to order. The changes in this end of the industry are just fantastic. Will definitely be spending way more time from now on doing fine art prints to fans.

That's the ticket. If you have 1,000 die-hard fans ( and I've got wayyyy more than that having been in comics for years ) and you release limited edition prints at even $50 a pop that's $50k with piss overhead. You can release monthly or quarterly or yearly and the fans eat this stuff up.

Shows what the web can do when you think outside the box.

( I knew I was on to something when art speculators would jump on any announcement I made and tried to buy up the runs in bulk. Same guys fucked up the comic book industry doin' that shit. )

01-22-2004, 04:36 PM
Greg B So Fucking Banned Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: EARTH (for the time being) Posts: 7,014	EBAY & Original Art Sales Been futzin' around with EBAY sales of original art and litho-prints. Can't believe how lucrative this is! For those of you who don't know I'm also a fine artist especially in watercolors. I stay outta oils because it takes too long unless it's something I really like doing ( like book covers ). Anybody every buy or sell art on Ebay? How'd it go? With me, If I print 500 - 1,000 limited editioned autographed prints I spend a few hundred bucks doing so. Not like the 2 or 3k just years ago and advertising in magazines. Now with the web I can reach millions with a mouse click, do my own prep work at home or at the office and just ship to order. The changes in this end of the industry are just fantastic. Will definitely be spending way more time from now on doing fine art prints to fans. That's the ticket. If you have 1,000 die-hard fans ( and I've got wayyyy more than that having been in comics for years ) and you release limited edition prints at even $50 a pop that's $50k with piss overhead. You can release monthly or quarterly or yearly and the fans eat this stuff up. Shows what the web can do when you think outside the box. ( I knew I was on to something when art speculators would jump on any announcement I made and tried to buy up the runs in bulk. Same guys fucked up the comic book industry doin' that shit. )