Starting an Art Business: A Guide for Introverts Without an Audience
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If you like this video and would love to learn more about art business, I would recommend to check out my other videos for emerging artists around various topics including selling art, buying art, art collectors and more. But if you want to go further and really step up your game and start succeeding fast then you can always contact me through my website www.driesketels.com
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Advice I have given to a lot of people is "Ten sales is better than a Hundred likes"
I love this, thank you
holy shit
Sometimes you need a hundred likes to get one sale 🙂
Ace Ventura has never steered me wrong before...
Russell Brand definitely knows what he’s talking about when it comes to art sales
Russel Ventura always gives the best advice
thanks. got me cackling.
Making fun of the creator is gross.
@@elementeight8 who's making fun? Ace Venturas a boss.
"Any way will do" in context that people get stuck in a loop of searching the most efficient way but they end up not doing anything is a gold piece of advice. I would give thumbs up twice if I could.
I see myself on that quot
I actually got this advice in my sword fighting classes. I was trying to get techniques perfect in my sparring and it was causing me to slow down. The instructor was just like "better to do it wrong and actually hit the guy than wait to try for perfection and miss."
I'm disabled and neurodivergent, so just finding energy to complete work is very difficult. And on top of that, having to take good pictures and make a decent post of my work really mess with my executive dysfunction! I'm trying my best to get better at it, I've made some changes in my lifestyle to have more freedom for my art. But as soon as I have enough funds, I'll need to hire an assistant even if it's just someone to post online for me. There's just to much to think about in the art business when I just want to create and connect through my art
I feel torn about social media. It seems like a blessing to have the opportunity to reach so many people from home and make a business take off easily, but at the same time is overwhelming and time consuming. I needed to watch this video! Thanks.
Hey Dries, I just wanted to say that I really appreciate your videos and that you are really there fur us. So many times I've watched a video on other channels giving advice and at the end there is a book you have to buy, or a seminar you have to sign up for to get the real info. You just tell us how it is and help us learn from your personal experiences. I'm at the end of my "career" and just starting as an artist and I'm also a massive introvert, so your message is absolute gold for me. By the way I am jealous of the hair, I'm bald as a babies bottom.
The hair is a vibe and I am here for it
Truly profound! Social media seems to be a productivity based culture, whereas until you get to the level to make money, you are making content to feed the social media beast. Who is always hungry.
“All or nothing” is a nasty thought and gave me more problems than not. The 3 levels habit is pretty simple and straightforward plus can get me out of the procrastination I am guilty of. Thanks, bud, I needed this video.
The 90/10 rule is a great one! I like to think about moving forward in imperfect progress. Your actions don't need to be perfect - just keep moving forward.
I like this idea of imperfect progress... Let's do some imperfect progress
This might be the most genuine and not sugar coated guide/tips to start art business and using social media to do the marketing. A lot of it also applies to other things a person wants to sell.
Your crazy hair is iconic lol keep it going
My takeaways: 10/90, 3 easy levels of habits. Don't be afraid of the thieves and jerks out there. Thanks for your insights, Dries. I've subscribed.
I had a canvas haunting me for 10 years because I couldn't come up with a good enough technical solution to painting a texture. The painting was literally mocking me on a daily basis. It wasn't soul crushing, I moved on to other things, but I have this desire to own that bitch.
I have to ask, what was this terrorizing texture?!
@@sugar-swans It was a knitted blanket. A very simple and basic pattern, but the blanket in the painting wasn't flat, it had pleats. That meant that each individual stitch had to be rendered in perspective to some extent. In my mind, this knitted pattern had to be excuted realistically because the blanket had a meaning as the stitching represented the bonds of family and was important to the composition. I still never went back into that painting, but now I feel as though I will hopefully have the skills to tackle it if I keep progressing. If you're ever really super bored, grab a knitted blanket, put a few pleats into it and try to draw just an 8x10 inch section of it.
I know what you mean, i have that with (way to many) other paintings as well, might as well paint a big middle finger on them because that's what it feels like they are telling me haha but something i tried recently that helped, is painting or drawing the thing that i've built up in my head as this "big end boss" in different styles or mediums where i feel more comfortable with, just so the now irrational fear of that thing goes away abit. Something i try to do sometimes is just making an intentionally "crappy" version of it, but maybe in a fun color scheme that i wouldn't use in the other "scary" painting. The point being, trying to get rid of the anxiety i've built up over the years with the other painting, while also improving the skills i need to get the other painting to look like i want it to. Hope you'll one day be able to finish it and be happy with it 😊 (Sorry for bad grammar, i'm swiss)
@@cindysullivan4867 Cindy, you've brought up some really constructive ways for me to move forward on that painting. I like the idea of taking the daunting task of creating a complex texture and making it fun in some way. I think I will finish it.
@@DK-jg5vk glad to hear that! Wishing you luck ☺️
You nailed it. Just keep showing up and doing the work. Simple but so complex. So here I sit, watching KZhead instead of working in the studio.Thank you for sharing your insights.
Not even 5 minutes in and this video already scalped me. I've been on and off learning to draw since 2017 and have made essentially no progress for exactly the fear-procrastination reasons laid out. I over-consumed art content and now my eye is leagues ahead of my hand, so I hate everything I draw because I know it's wrong but my hands don't know how to do it right. I have a lot of potential (according to feedback from my wife, who is a talented artist), but I choke myself out with the fear that I will hate everything I draw...so I don't draw. And then there's the regret of knowing if I'd dedicated myself over the last 7 years instead of being afraid to start, I'd be an incredible artist by now. It's a big mental trap. Sir, I'm going to go back to the sketchbook that I petered out on back in January. It's time for me to start again. Thank you.
"... is just a form of procrastination." Oh wow, did that call me out! It can be so true! I'm a brand new baby artist (just started painting November 2023 after decades of saying "I wish") who is constantly surprising myself by making art that not only do I like, other people seem to like too, but once I actually got ahold of some watercolors I spent a MONTH binging painting videos before I even took up the brush because I was afraid to start hahaha. This is an excellent video, thank you. The title drew me in, because I am absolutely an introvert without an audience haha. I was unaware of you before, but now I'm going down the rabbit hole! It's not procrastinating if I paint while I listen and learn! 😁
Also, I LOVE your hair and respect the amount of work it must take to make it look that fantastic.
wow, this is me.. lol i just laid paint to paper about 72 hours ago for the first time. after weeks of watchin videos and havin everything i needed already. im still very very hesitant to actually do it, id rather watch everything and learn everything first 🤣 but i wanna also Do It, so bad i cant stand it. lol
@@skotwilt Doooo iiiiiitttttt! Just make art! Literally the best thing I've ever done for my mental health. The joy is real.
but sir, i cant even find your art anywhere, just a load of courses and that seems like a grift
Well spotted
for sale, you mean, right? he has a really easy to find instagram and a saatchi art page with some artworks 🙃
If you search his name on Google, etc. there's plenty of images of his work
Instagram and saatchi have his art, idk how you couldnt find it.
@@BraveAbandon not very easy to find. Last art post 2018. Cool beans
When I saw your hairstyle in the KZhead line-up I had to tune in as an inquiring introverted artist to your video. You're on fire. Crazy! LOL! Love your content! Thanks!
fully resonate with Level-based Habits. Realised that I've been doing ALL or Nothing, all this while; though not a full-time artist yet but I'm on my journey to move away from corporate and pursue illustration as a freelancer. Your content deff ticks off everything that an artsy person hating to post on social media needs to learn early :) . Good stuff!
You are speaking to the part of me that hasn't been acknowledged even by myself because I thought I was being too sensitive and not tough enough. Stuck in the learning spiral, not sure where to start, wearing too many hats and haven't actually created my art in a few years. I am not a traditional artist by any means, I am a pattern maker in the fashion and costume industry trying to express myself online, but too afraid to do so. I've made art for others, but doing so for my own personal brand is debilitatingly overwhelming. 90:10 is something i'm definitely going to be implementing in my goals. Thank you, I just stumbled across your channel, but you are wildly brilliant, and YT algorithm needs to start putting your content out to more people.
I don't know how I ran into this video but I'm really glad I did. It is so jam packed with good advice that I've got to go back and view it a few more times. Thank you so much for taking the time to put this video together.
Great video! The issue of spending so much time learning that you fail to produce art is so spot on. I'd never really associated it with procrastination, but that's exactly what it is. Also appreciated your take on producing for social media - its something I've always struggled with precisely because "they" tell you its the only way to sell your art. And just in case anyone happens to read this - I've sold close to 1,000 prints and custom artworks and have only had two people want their money back. So you're right not to worry about it Dries.
Im subscribed but I rarely watch your videos these days, why? Clickbait. I'm so pleased you have realized what you were doing. It makes me less cynical. I came across the 1000 true fans essay quite a while ago. It's inspiring. Nice work.
I have a strange feeling you're not the only one 🤣
Wow I've been thinking about all these topics for years in the back of my mind while trying to be creative in various ways and you really put into words everything I'd kinda already been feeling while also breaking it all down into a simpler, more conclusive and more actionable whole. I'm fairly comfortable with art, but I was completely new to writing until I decided to start learning it from basically nothing. The research rabbit holes, the seeking of the most correct or efficient path to follow, the setting of draconian and overly demanding habit goals which drained me of all will to keep going, these are all things I've done while trying to learn to write. Good advice transcends its own bounds, it seems.
I really appreciate that rant about social media and vanity metrics and your transparency
This is exactly what I needed to hear. I’ve been an artist all my life but recently started my art business (c. 2021) and I’ve started and stopped so many times. I took breaks from the burnout and also studied and tried to perfect my techniques and rarely posted. I thought I was investing in myself by learning but after watching this video, it seems I was procrastinating and afraid! Keeping posting schedules and getting lost in the sea of likes and followers, was overwhelming to say the least. Last year I got scammed, and it was my first commission (outside of my family & friends). It was disheartening but it did teach me to make sure I’m doing my art for myself. I’ve just got to believe and trust that there’s still an opportunity to make a living out here. Thank you so much for this video! & I wish all of us much success. ⭐️
Getting scammed, having your art stolen online and in person, and having a bad commission where someone talks you down in price and then is never satisfied - these are all things that have happened to me that stopped me from doing art after a while. I’m now getting back into it and only in person. Finished work that people can buy at my booth.
You have a very Ace Ventura: Pet Detective look going on. nice 👍 On a more serious note, thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Just checked ace ventura... You're right I can see the link. Thanks
What’s worked for me to be full time is to try and keep up with sites where people are buying art (at the time) and I have goals to sell 40 pieces a month. I don’t consider it a good month when I’m lower than that and there are those months (seasonal less marketing etc, etc) but for my math it’s livable especially if you can pull off a couple months over 40. But I tell myself all the time it’s this or I have to get a job, so that’s super motivating for me to do certain hours every day, whether it’s a sale day or art production day. I also watch videos do research and basic schedule does help. But it has taken years to figure out what works for me, just to get here. You got to find a pattern based on your square in price what you would need to move (different sizes) to make it full time. I’m also attempting to reduce my living overhead (because of inflation) to keep doing art. Maybe that will be helpful to someone. What I basically saying is make it a passion and try not to get frustrated, the more art and studies you do the better you get. So do it every chance you get! ❤
Anxiety can be so crippling! I used to feel almost crazy trying to explain to my family why I didn't want to post anymore (art theft, fear of someone still stalking me from years ago, fear I'll be "cancelled" even though I have nothing to be cancelled over). I've never heard anyone else speak about it like you have. Now that I've become a mother I've finally found the idea of failing to put my work out there more frightening than the potential consequences of success. But of course now I'm so busy with the baby I hardly have any time! Life has its ironies.... Wonderful video. ♡
I used ALEXA and KZhead for my education. Your channel was one that helped me, so THANK YOU Dries.
That is awesome David! Curious on how you can use Alexa for educational purposes... I have very little experience with those tools.
I just ask Alexa to show me videos on KZhead about what I want to research. Then I have to write the information and learn
Really insightful information here! Many of us eithet get overwhelmed by how fast things move on social media that we get paralyzed or we try to keep up only to burn out. The advice here is just what I needed and hope to implement it. Thanks!
I’m so glad I came across this video!!!! You hit on so many great points. My friend and I were literally just talking about how overwhelming it is to be an artist. Keeping up with social media, making original art, imposter syndrome. And you talked about it all. Definitely appreciate this video ❤
I'm glad you have changed your perspective. I have adjusted my relationship to social media and vanity. Thank goodness you keep it real.
Thank you for your very original and unique information!!! So tired of finding advice on selling Art only to hear same old stuff. Your videos are incredible.
I respect and live the honesty of this video. Thank you for sharing your story🪷
Wow! All those fears are mine! It is so validating to hear someone else say them! Thank you!
I have no idea who you are my friend but I respect and love the creative mind and wish more pple tapped into it. Just wanted to say Im glad you stuck to your authentic origianl self and found a way to keep that original and creative process alive while still building your brand.
Your advice is helping me a lot with planning ! i really like how honest you are, i am happy there are also people like you on youtube 👍
I'm so grateful for all your advice. This can change my life. I'm glad I found you tonight.
Talking so genuinely from passion and experience. The last couple of videos I've watched. You've said some things that have shed new light on my approach to art. One is really truly accepting being an artist is just how I want to make a living simply living and being myself, of which art is a part. Hopefully, managing to inspire someone one else to follow their heart too.
Hey Dries, this is one of your best videos yet, I think. Love how you come real here. What spoke most to me was when you discussed the strategies that artists often over-obsess about to not get scammed or screwed. In my young career, I spent way too much time studying art law to protect myself, and I wrote outrageously stiff contracts. I lost a lot of sales because of my ridiculous contracts. I was proud of my self-protective research, but didn’t see how I was losing my connections to prospective buyers because I was afraid. You are right, its not a big deal if some of these things happen to you. Live and learn, but make the sale today! Oh, but a quick google search about a scam scenario that you might be experiencing never hurts either, only takes a few minutes.
I know the feeling and I'm very happy that you shared your story. I'm sure that there is someone out there that will read this and find great support in it, you've helped someone overcome some struggles today Keith! (Is it Keith Garubba or is that your artists/youtube name?)
Wow, you are such a brilliant man. Love your content. I am an emerging artist and you speak to my soul.
Love this, great advice, super clear. Thank you
Wow! Thank you for the valuable insights. This video is very valuable! Thank you!
How wise advice! I'm watching your video for the second time today, once before i started my full time work and now second time on my lunch break! I will again watch it after i got home! Your words are holy bible to my heart! Thank you so much for this video!
Your comments on social media are spot on. I have had zero luck on Instagram simply because I don't truly understand how to make it work for me. I don't like social media--I think that comes through in every post. *SIGH* I never figured out how to get my images viewed by the general public; I generally only got views by other artists, not possible art collectors.
It's because you need to know who your target audience is, and then hashtag "their" choice of words. Like flowers - flowergarden.... Mental health - overcoming, depression and so on.
Love this video and advices, it's gold.
I appreciate your videos, balance is a struggle I rather create than the business side, I’m pretty sure that’s a common issue with artists lol. These videos help! Thank you
In my experience the most efficient way to find the most efficient way is to actually put technique into practice. Some methods click better with some people and you won’t really know for sure what works best for you until you actually try it. A life changing decision for me was deciding if I read a book about art I’m going to actually try out something from the boo. Made a huge difference for me
I really enjoyed your video, I'm in the process of trying to make my hobby a side hustle. Fantastic advice for another fellow artist.
I'm confident YT is up to something, cause I'm sure as hell stuck in the learning spiral of procrastinating as I was searching for "methods of marketing" for my artwork as a tattoo artist. This video came in the perfect moment!
Dries, Brilliant as always. Great to learn from your videos. All so true. Topsy x
after twitter got hit, I just stopped posting basically and I started drawing for my own sake. For better and worse I started not finishing my paintings also because noone would see them at the time either and they didnt feel good enough. I think its healthy to sometimes just be okay with learning as you are going and not get too focused on making the magnum opus. Shareing is also part of the journey
Thank you for being so honest about social media. I often dont want to be part of the media but it helps😅
You're welcome. Enjoy your week
Thanks man… I really needed to hear this… now I need to get out of here and start painting!!!!!
This is really brilliant and so related to me as I come from the so called "corporate world" and your approach of art is really helpful for people who have never been in art schools and also for artists who were in art school because they sometimes miss the marketing and communication thing.
as always your authenticity is so magnetic! thank youuuu
As always, makes me happy to see that long term viewers are still watching! Thanks
Well done that man! 👍
In all the bla bla bla going on in the art world lately, I found this video extremely useful and you are an incredible teacher. Not sure if you realize it but you covered some major mental blocking issues people face with fear and perfectionism perfectly. Thanks for the insight.
this is one of the most helpful videos I've seen on this subject! thank you so much! I will try to do more!! 💪
Procrastination and fear got no bound!!!
I really appreciate this video and it got my hopes higher to maybe get myself to change in a necessary way. It's openly honest about the daily meaning of life requirements. Then i realized that procrastination, perfectionism and fear of failure are not my actual underlying problems; they're terms from the productivity mill. They're real but i dare to claim it's surface level when it's a case of autistic introverts with adhd. After decades of trying to figure myself and communities out, i always hated the lack of transparency and honesty, while everyone successful and unsuccessful felt it was a taboo to admit the actual amount of time they spent on not making the art and on not growing intellectuallyand conceptually. Hearing this video, spending 70% of the 90% of "doing" on the business side, opens that up more honestly. But then confronts me with my inability to pursue and endure a daily or weekly life in which only 10 % of my time can be about researching and only 27% of my time can be about expressing, feeling, regulating emotions, creating worlds. And 63% is about the business side that doesnt only scare me the most, but also is an artifical hill i can't climb; i live on fascination. I dont get payoffs via tasks. My soul gets crushed very easily. I have zero abilith to park stimuli; i cant do something creatively if ive had to fill my mindspace with something that anti-fascinates and overstimulates me. Living the majority of my time as a tactical promoting entrepreneur, is an environment i cannot durably sustain. I bet artistst centuries ago also had to spend half of their life on networking and boring assignments and other admin. I fear im not cut out for any ancient or modern capitalist neurotypical productivity based mold. It does make me realise i dont need a workplace, i need an office, a place to go to maybe 10-20% of my time to focus on the business sides exclusively, which i can then leave behind me to focus the other other days on fascination to keep me going and on mental health care; to care for and lay to rest the inner trauma demons that come up whenever i connect with feelings and imagination, besides the almost daily overstimulation and coping with normal everyday world sensescapes. I think health care takes 70- 90% ofmy art making time, which is already enough discouragement to bare.
Five minutes in so far and I already feel SO SEEN. Thank you for this video!
I'm so glad!
Beautiful...!
"Doing is more important than thinking"
This video was bomb, I saved it to apply to all my businesses, including my art! And secondly, you look like Wolverine. And that is a compliment!
Great video, thanks for this!
Thanks for your videos,really usefully god bless you!
This is gold, thank you!
Hi Dries!😂🎉 Thank you for your online genuine comedia del arte mixed with laughter yogART coaching! You rock!
That was such an amazing watch! I stumbled across the video in my recommended and it was sooooo good! Also I love your voice and how fluent your english is (I try to be as fluent as you but often forget words D: ) Subscribed
Such a beautiful message 🙂🩷
I am definitely procrastinating and afraid to even try. But somehow watching this video made me realize, "Oh so it's not just me?" Because it feels very lonely as an artist who is afraid of people. I want to have or just be part of a community. Fear is a terrible voice that convinces you that only the worst things happen, but they rarely do. Fantastic video, thank you for sharing this knowledge!
Thank you, inspirational Wolverine♥️
Thank you this was great advise. Well thought out and authentic
You are so welcome
i love your look, reminds me of ace ventura haha. but this video was super real, raw, and a great educational and truly realistic perspective. thank you!
Thanks for your videos.
I've been having a weird relationship with social media and the metrics as an artist. I really appreciate this perspective 🙏
Thank you for the video, this really help with my art value anxiety.
Wow! 😮 Such a good video full of wonderful and funny advice! I had to SUBSCRIBE! 😂❤🎉
I feel like he’s looking into my eyes directly. I feel like he believes in me - but this is impossible.
I dig the Tele Deluxe.
Subbed in under a minute of this. Immediate fan. Jarringly genuine painter from asofyet unknown locale (eastern European or northern middle eastern country? idk I’m generally good with accents but I’m lowkey thrown) with an accent+delivery reminsicing of madness+science but also palpable passion for his craft detailing highly relatable creative paralysis that accompanies pursuing things irl. You, sir, have a new stranger who will now silently contribute one view count to your vids henceforth but also smash the like button and leave this very rare, high value, seldom seen comment left by me, [redacted], an as of yet unrealized man in the shell of a boy he once was, now kinda fat, addled with ailments from years of drink and drug, still chasing his tail on the same neuropathway carousels because the greatness for which he was always doomed looms more daunting than ever, but by god I’m going to put out some of my actually good music not for the youth of today who dress like older kids did when I was an early nineties child but for the three grandmas I haven’t called in a while who haven’t heard a single song in all the ten plus years I’ve been talking about doing the shit….damn it I’m doing it again. Actually don’t do drugs, children. Or wait, do do drugs, children. If you’re anything like I was you will do the opposite. Okthxilybye. [in italics] Exeunt. 🫨😮💨😬👀🤦♂️😅👀
Ignore the fictitious first and last name next to my @ where did that even come from. I don’t know such persons. Disregard….for now…👀
Omg I'm prorastinating so bad trying to find the "best method" cause I'm too scared to even begin taking action. Hope I can fight it back and pursue my dreams soon! Thanks for the vide Dries
You got this Victoria!
Stumbled to this video randomly. Its nice and all especially that hairstyle, just like mine fr
You are good! thank you
Good advice. Plus, a funny ending :)
Wow, your’re brilliant! Amazing video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
My pleasure!
this was the kick up my butt i needed today haha :) thank you for the inspiration❤
Dries, thank you so much for the advices🙏🏻You opened my eyes for many aspects. So useful video🤩😍Warm hugs to you 😊
What an incredible video, wow
I love the idea of personifying procrastination lol😋 Edit: the part where you're talking about the things you regret was REALLY refreshing to hear! I can imagine doing things like that and most people would try to never bring it up ✌️♥️
I like your hair. loved it even
Great monolog. Thanks.
The 1000 fans thing clicks for me! Thanks 🙏🏻
I came for the tittle and found gold 😂 Thanks for the consistency tip, I've been having problems to create a new functional rutine for me and you just gave me an idea 🎉🎉🎉
fantastic and real....rock on Dries ...best post yet !😁
Honoured to still see you in the comments after all these years ❤️
I'm about to post the first volume of manga I've been working on for the last year. And I was delaying that exact moment for a month and a half... I had no idea that I needed this video so badly. Thanks, recommendations!
This is the first time I hear of patenting a painting method, good to know