Artist Alley Aftermath
4 years ago
General
It was alright. Not amazing, but alright. Made $107.00 total, so better than nothing. Unfortunately not a single person (except for my boss and his wife) purchased any of the posters which was my main goal. The bead sprites sold the best out of everything, the non-pornographic ones of course. Who knew? A few people laughed, a few were very impressed, and one dude even wanted to do a custom bead sprite so I gave him my info. A couple people said, "Man, I'd love to buy your stuff, but I just wouldn't know where to put it!" It's so weird to me that people are still put off from having nudity or porn on their walls. Cowards! Ya know how many fuckin' French painting have naked women on them? If the artist is long since dead, THEN it's okay.... Just in case Grandma comes over and looks at for 2 seconds and everything gets really awkward.
I was strategically placed next to the only other artist selling porn, who enjoyed drawing naked demon women. Big boobs and spread pussies front n center. Of course I bought one of her prints. I was originally told that I was going to be sharing half a table with her, but since we had less than the original number of artists we both got our own tables. And thank fucking shit we did. Because I severely underestimated the space and resources of just ONE table. My table was a cluttered mess! However this was my first attempt and a good one at that. The only bad thing that happened is some bitch spilled her beer on some of my cards and the front of my information poster. Luckily they were the cheapest ones, and also I can always print out another poster.
Things to remember for next time:
-Buy card baskets
-Have something to hold the prints
-Don't let people with a full beer over
-Make some fucking business cards already you lazy turd!
-Make a banner or at the very least a better sign. One that you didn't write yourself with a fucking sharpie
-Tell Instagram whiners to fuck off! Seriously, I had 4 or 5 people keep telling me, "Duuuuuude! You GOTTA post yer stuff to Instagram, man! You'll be so damn popular and be rollin' in the dough if you do that!" 95% of my work is pornography! I was told the same fucking thing about Facebook! I was told the same exact thing about Tumblr! I was told the same exact thing about Twitter! Can we all just STOP! Someone else told me I should make a tik-tok. I'm sorry, I'm not twelve. You also can't monetize tik-tok. What the fuck is even the point!?
My boss told me that we were going to try to do an Artist Alley once a month. Although I kinda feel like it's a little too ambitious. But we'll see. I'll be looking forward to the next one now that I'm at least a little bit wiser about this sort of thing.
I was strategically placed next to the only other artist selling porn, who enjoyed drawing naked demon women. Big boobs and spread pussies front n center. Of course I bought one of her prints. I was originally told that I was going to be sharing half a table with her, but since we had less than the original number of artists we both got our own tables. And thank fucking shit we did. Because I severely underestimated the space and resources of just ONE table. My table was a cluttered mess! However this was my first attempt and a good one at that. The only bad thing that happened is some bitch spilled her beer on some of my cards and the front of my information poster. Luckily they were the cheapest ones, and also I can always print out another poster.
Things to remember for next time:
-Buy card baskets
-Have something to hold the prints
-Don't let people with a full beer over
-Make some fucking business cards already you lazy turd!
-Make a banner or at the very least a better sign. One that you didn't write yourself with a fucking sharpie
-Tell Instagram whiners to fuck off! Seriously, I had 4 or 5 people keep telling me, "Duuuuuude! You GOTTA post yer stuff to Instagram, man! You'll be so damn popular and be rollin' in the dough if you do that!" 95% of my work is pornography! I was told the same fucking thing about Facebook! I was told the same exact thing about Tumblr! I was told the same exact thing about Twitter! Can we all just STOP! Someone else told me I should make a tik-tok. I'm sorry, I'm not twelve. You also can't monetize tik-tok. What the fuck is even the point!?
My boss told me that we were going to try to do an Artist Alley once a month. Although I kinda feel like it's a little too ambitious. But we'll see. I'll be looking forward to the next one now that I'm at least a little bit wiser about this sort of thing.
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I can tell ya, Instagram is not a great place for artists. The algorithm is stacked against most folks.
I don't see why anyone uses it for art. It's an awful set up.