How to Sell Art on fuelforart.com

Gino Orlandi, an artist, designer, and marketing guy, let me read a book of his found at fuelforart.com, and asked if I would give a review of it on my blog. And to be honest, said he might slip me a bit of money if I did.

In all, I thought the read was excellent. I could tell that he had spent a lot of time researching the best methods for marketing art online, and being an artist himself, was able to address many of the struggles artists go through when trying to sell their work. I've met plenty of artists that don't even know where to begin. I thought it was a very practical and informative. If your a good artist but can't seem to sell your art, or don't know where to start, this book will more than pay for itself. I've been doing freelance art and animation on my own for a while now, and feel like I've been quite successful at it. But I'm really excited about implementing the techniques in his book, and believe that they will help me find more work, and more of the kind of work I would like to be working on.

If it sounds interesting to you, I put a link to the site under Friends and links on my side bar, or you can click on the title of the post and that should send you to his page. From there you you can see what kind of info is in his book, and decide if this is something you think could help you out.

Brave Arrow

Rattlesnake Jake Designs and layout

YEEEE HAWWWW! Time for a new wild west video game. I don't really know much about the game or when it's comming out, but you should go check it out at www.rattlesnakejake.com

They wanted to do a cinematic to get the gamers into the story. So over here at Flash Potatoes I've been working on all the layouts, and character designs. I love these kind of projects!

Golf Courses

I havn't been able to post much lately because I'm really busy working, and most of the stuff I'm doing I can't put on my blog, at least not untill the stuff comes out.

Anyway, these are some sketches I did for a golf video game that I'm almost finished doing the artwork and animation for.

here are some shots from our short commercial

Doritos Commercial

Here is a short commercial me and a couple friends from FLash Potatoes did for the Doritos Competition. This was all Wyatts ingenious idea, and it was a heck of a lot of fun, and a good break from the regular stuff we do. I was responsible for all of the animation, and design of the gorilla, and all of the abstract backgrounds.

updated bunny painting

alligator sketches

Egyption Dalmation Creation

This guy is a concept work for a video game being produced by a group of students at UVSU I believe. Jasone Kyser asked me if I wanted to do some stuff for them, and it sounded like fun. They are creating a game with all different kinds of creatures. They wanted to have some Egypt ion anamorphic characters but not the traditional ones. Instead of doing a jackal, I was told to pick some other kind of dog.
This bottom one is just to show you how angry my laptop makes me. The bottom one is how it looked when I transferred the image from my laptop to a desktop. I had to do color corrections to get it to look right again. Laptops are a little darker than a desktop, but whats up with the the drastic color differences too. I used to think it was just my laptop, but I went to Best Buy a couple weeks ago and they let me load some of my images on to different laptops---They're all like this; that is, if they are a PC. Those who own a Mac laptop, you made the right choice. The makers of the Mac made their colors match up with the average desktop. So those people who say PC's are better than Macs may be right when they are talking about desktops, but a Laptops, no way. The Most expensive, nicest PC laptop had messed up colors. So if your an artist, and color is important to you, don't make the mistake I did And if you can afford it. Unfortunately Macs are more expensive. I am going to try and get a color correction done on my laptop, and hopefully that will help.

some quick bunny sketches

At work we are working on a new bunny builder game. These are some quick sketches I did for it. As soon as we put the game up on the web, I'll post a link so you can all check out some of the phsycotic stuff we are dong at Flash Potatoes. Hopefully once some of the games we are working on are released, I can put up some of the animation I've been doing too---Some fun stuff.

Lions

The colors are a bit skewy because I did this on my laptop.

Future Cowboy

Of course there will be cowboys in the future. We still have tons of em today. Based on my own statistical analysis, most cowboys today don't ride horses, they ride really big trucks. They still wear tight pants and a cowboy hat. Tight pants because Those old trucks with big lifts and bad shocks get bumpy off roads. They wear the hat because it looks cool. I'll admit it, I want to wear a cowboy hat. If I did I would wear it a bit sideways like John Wayne. And John Wayne was a real man; he just slapped girls around and kissed them whenever he wanted and they still liked him. Man, I wish it was like that today. But times have changed. Women used to want a guy that was strong and new how to sling a gun to protect her honor. Nowadays they just sling lawyers at you. Tough cowboys are not needed anymore. So "where have all the cowboys gone"--Mexico I think.