Hand drawn sketches

oliviarosejackson

Hi,

my other half is currently trying to make a bit of extra money doing hand drawn sketches. He is an artist and is very good at what he does. He has had 3 people who have had a sketch done.

I was wondering, apart from the people who he works with, how else could he get people interested? He has set up a facebook page and is currently in the process of uploading pictures of his work.

Do any of you have any other ideas of how he can get more work.

Thanks for any help that you can give.

bloss0m

Artists shops and art galleries may work on some sort of commission basis. Get local paper involved, if its slow news day it may work

RoxyK

I know someone that draws dogs from photos, Shih Tzu in particular and does it through Facebook and word of mouth. A friend had a portrait of her pup done, posted about it and thats how I heard, then the artist sent me details about charges and regularly posts pics of her latest drawings and clients. HTH

oliviarosejackson

RoxyK wrote: »

I know someone that draws dogs from photos, Shih Tzu in particular and does it through Facebook and word of mouth. A friend had a portrait of her pup done, posted about it and thats how I heard, then the artist sent me details about charges and regularly posts pics of her latest drawings and clients. HTH

Hi, thanks for both of your replies.

We have just set up a FB page and we are currently in the process of getting his work uploaded.

He has done 3 sketches so far, for people who he works with. He is hoping a few more people will want pictures now they have seen what he has done. And you have given us a good positive on the whole FB idea, glad to see that it has worked for somebody else

skintbint_2

http://www.facebook.com/EnglandSITT try this the theory is they have a march day i.e. a day when new businesses lists in the comments box and all the other new businesses go and like the pages bringing on a pyramid affect getting out to hundreds of people.

step one : sign in to Fb and like S.I.T.T.
wait on them notifying you of a "march" day
list your business in the comments box of that march notification
go in after the "add to list" closing time and "like" all the other businesses and in turn they will "like" you.
keep updating your pictures, writing comments etc and that way you keep popping up!

hth - am gonna try it tomorrow on the scotland site (scottish businesses only)

cocolgooh

If there's any artists fairs where you live, he could have a stall there or something?

wombles_forever

Could also try doing a few generic sketches and selling them on somewhere like etsy.com.
Once this is set up you could offer custom drawn sketches as well.
Best of luck

oliviarosejackson

wombles_forever wrote: »

Could also try doing a few generic sketches and selling them on somewhere like etsy.com.
Once this is set up you could offer custom drawn sketches as well.
Best of luck

That is a great site, thanks for that He is going to start doing a few sketches to add to his portfolio and that would be an excellent place to put that work on.

Thank you for your help.

oliviarosejackson

cocolgooh wrote: »

If there's any artists fairs where you live, he could have a stall there or something?

We have not thought about this. Will Google to see if there is anything going on in our local area.

Thanks for your help.

oliviarosejackson

skintbint wrote: »

http://www.facebook.com/EnglandSITT try this the theory is they have a march day i.e. a day when new businesses lists in the comments box and all the other new businesses go and like the pages bringing on a pyramid affect getting out to hundreds of people.

step one : sign in to Fb and like S.I.T.T.
wait on them notifying you of a "march" day
list your business in the comments box of that march notification
go in after the "add to list" closing time and "like" all the other businesses and in turn they will "like" you.
keep updating your pictures, writing comments etc and that way you keep popping up!

hth - am gonna try it tomorrow on the scotland site (scottish businesses only)

That is a great idea, thank you. I am going to go off and do that now.

Thank you very much for your help.

oliviarosejackson

Many thanks to everyone who has taken the time to reply and help us

We have got a lot of different ideas we can try now.

I have also posted up a notice on Netmums website, it is free and hopefully somebody will take a look.

We have set up our FB page and have uploaded some of his work. He has got two weeks off now. So he is going to get a few more sketches done to build up his portfolio. I have also ordered some business cards and we are waiting for them to arrive through the post. We are getting our parents to mention it to people who they work with too. We can them give them a business card to take a look at our page. So hopefully things should take off a little now.

Thanks again to everyone. And if anybody else has any different ideas, please share with us