Don Garrett wrote:
I never had much success selling my nude images
-Don

I can't speak to the original poster's message, as I don't produce erotic art.  But Don's experience isn't universal; my nudes are my best selling prints; I have sold dozens of my avatar image alone.

martin vista wrote:
A lot of my digital art work is erotic.  These days how does one sell erotic art work?  There are lots of them on internet, but where do people actually pay and buy them?

are you talking erotic art or porn sets?




there was a huge discussion about zivity.com on here the other day.   if you did well on there maybe you could get collectors for your prints.

I Ference Photography wrote:

I can't speak to the original poster's message, as I don't produce erotic art.  But Don's experience isn't universal; my nudes are my best selling prints; I have sold dozens of my avatar image alone.

I agree that it's not a problem specific to nudes. I do know that there are huge amounts of digital art, erotic or otherwise that is not sold. Similar to the mounds of sketches, crafts and paintings that people have produced over the past years. There's an advantage to the net in that people see it. That doesn't, by itself, usually translate to sales.

I Ference Photography wrote:

I can't speak to the original poster's message, as I don't produce erotic art.  But Don's experience isn't universal; my nudes are my best selling prints; I have sold dozens of my avatar image alone.

I think my pictures are tamer than yours.  I have racier ones that I've never shown on internet but even they are limited.  There's lot of skin, but no texture.

Patchouli Nyx wrote:
there was a huge discussion about zivity.com on here the other day.   if you did well on there maybe you could get collectors for your prints.

Thanks for the info.  I will give it a try.  Not sure about the degree of porn/art mix they want though.

Rollo David Snook wrote:
Seeing is believing.

I sell far more prints to people who have seen prints. The larger they saw the print, the larger they order the print.

Yeah, it gives me pleasure to see my prints, but how to show them?  I have lots of pictures that I've kept offline...  Currently I'm running a sale on ebay.  Really not trying to make money there as the prints cost me around $7 each.  Still not much success.

Decay of Memory wrote:
I agree that it's not a problem specific to nudes. I do know that there are huge amounts of digital art, erotic or otherwise that is not sold. Similar to the mounds of sketches, crafts and paintings that people have produced over the past years. There's an advantage to the net in that people see it. That doesn't, by itself, usually translate to sales.

I agree.  Maybe there are too many pictures on internet these days.

Don Garrett wrote:
I have had one customer at a collectible show, however, that liked my nudes, and bought a number of them.
-Don

Well, that's the trick.  There just have to be more of them...

Richard Northwood wrote:
(I make my own prints on an Epson 4900 HDR currently) and some camera equipment. This allows me to continue to create.

I  have an Epson S9000 that still works from the hey days of ink jet technology.
I went through 2 of them already and own them over 10 years and I hate it's cost to maintain even if it still gives me some acceptable quality proofing of my work after 2 head changes, I am lucky I can still get cartridges but for sales I would only trust my postcards, posters to pro commercial printing outfits.

Jorge Kreimer wrote:
My work is not erotic. I basically sell it as contemporary art rather than photography. It took me some time of insisting to get a mainstream contemporary art gallery to show my work.

This is from my show in Peru. It was a collective, but it had artists like Liu Bolin, Julia Fullerton-Baten, and Gregory Scott; so it was great for my prestige to be around $40k+ pieces. Sales were successful, but only because I turned the photo into an object, and sold it as a photographic sculpture. Also they were big: over 6' tall.

A very cool idea. Well done and congratulations I think you will have a lot of success with this.

martin vista wrote:
Currently I'm running a sale on ebay. Really not trying to make money there as the prints cost me around $7 each.  Still not much success.

Yeah, ebay and a cheap $7 print is not the way to make money.

Jorge Kreimer wrote:
My work is not erotic. I basically sell it as contemporary art rather than photography. It took me some time of insisting to get a mainstream contemporary art gallery to show my work.

That's the way to do it. Thanks for the inspiration.

SME wrote:
Those look awesome, Jorge.  I really like your presentation.  Are they large light boxes?

Yes, custom made.
The censorship is removable as well

I Ference Photography wrote:

I can't speak to the original poster's message, as I don't produce erotic art.  But Don's experience isn't universal; my nudes are my best selling prints; I have sold dozens of my avatar image alone.

The OP was interested in finding out where.

I'm curious about what size and how much you're selling them for.

Jorge Kreimer wrote:

Yes, custom made.
The censorship is removable as well

How much does each one of those cost you?

Mikey McMichaels wrote:
How much does each one of those cost you?

$700 each, made in Peru. $500 for the print at Weldon.

Jorge Kreimer wrote:

$700 each, made in Peru. $500 for the print at Weldon.

$1200 total?

Mikey McMichaels wrote:
$1200 total?

Yes. $3,600.00 for the three.

Karl Johnston wrote:
Marketing mostly. Create a theme, get people interested in it and in you. Create a brand around that it and then find the people interested in that theme. Presenting and selling is an art on its own. Digital art generally doesn't sell well at all, the art world is very traditional..they prefer traditional mediums. You'll see far more film photographic pieces on sale in gallery than you ever will digital. Very few galleries or art consultants or agents will rep you, so you'd be on your own. That in a way is okay, but the learning curve takes a bit. If you have something is another story, the buyer is king. Need to sell what the buyer is looking for. Keep your personal work by all means but if you want to sell you need to find the people buying that kind of work.

Try this site and sign up for their newsletter..they give some decent advice on their blog too for pro artists.

www.fineartviews.com

The theme isn't as important as the photographer's story.

Ultimately what the buyer is looking for is something that shows their identity to their friends and visitors. Content is some of that, but more likely it's usually connected to who the photographer is.

It's really about the photographer as a fashion accessory.

martin vista wrote:
A lot of my digital art work is erotic.  These days how does one sell erotic art work?  There are lots of them on internet, but where do people actually pay and buy them?

Fine Art America dot com