Help Me Plan My Art Business Launch
your honest response is very much appreciated
I’m planning to launch my art business soon, and I decided to start by drawing the President. This is a decision I made after I found myself getting unexpectedly emotional while reflecting on the anniversary of his near-assassination in Butler, PA. An inch in the other direction and we would live in a very different world.
Each drawing follows my favorite technique — selective coloring, meaning they’re all graphite except for a single color element. These are examples of graphite drawings with the selective coloring technique:
I’m saving the full images for the launch but here’s a work-in-progress pic from the first one to give you an idea.
There will be three choices to start with, and the purpose of this poll is to assess demand so I know how many to order (each will be limited and numbered; when they’re gone, they’re gone).
An official POTUS portrait.
Fight fight fight! from the July 13, 2024 event in Butler, PA.
A LEGO image using my LEGO White House and LEGO Trump.
The purpose of this project is to get my student loans paid off, so they’ll be a little expensive for prints, but super high quality, and I’ll be personally handling the packaging so I will be verifying each one, putting it in a rigid mailer, and printing the label for mailing myself.
I’ve gotten a very good deal from a subscriber who owns professional printing equipment, but I still want to make the best choice I can about what to offer first.
So your honest response is very much appreciated.
This is just published on the web, with a URL I spread around Notes.
The lego one interests me least. I think people would like the fight fight fight one the most. Personally, I like your other art better because I’m not one to hang up a political portrait. However, plenty of people do and your style is really cool.
I was happy to see that the iconic image was by far the most popular choice, although I am very unlikely to buy such a print, and would display it somewhere only if a good friend gave me one in seriousness, which is even more unlikely. But the image is inspiring. I did not choose the last category, and was pleased to see no one else had, because while none of these prints call out to my wallet, I expect that one soon will. Good luck, and good fortune!