Sunday, October 8, 2017

In class MOn Oct 9th

Freelance/Selling your Work

Hired to create for a specific job / Selling something you've previously created

                     Selling your Skills / Selling your Creations




Freelance possibilities:
- Basic Design work: logos, posters, CD/DVD covers, announcements, advertisements, PSA's, pamphlets, business cards, show cards

- Basic Photography: portraits, advertisements, reproduction, product shots, weddings, anniversaries & birthdays, portfolios

- Basic Photoshop: reproduction; portrait manipulation; color correction

- Ceramics: series or individual orders for plates, cups, bowls, vases, mugs, tea pots, complete sets

- Painting: portraits, murals, interior design

- Sculpture: building most anything from a deck on someones house to a commissioned public sculpture in a variety of materials including wood, metal, wax

- Printmaking - see "Basic Design Work"

- Basic Digitalmedia: social media wrangler, web page/site design, see "Basic Design Work", video documentation, CD/DVD duplication, digitize media



How much should you charge? How do you price a job?

Fair Hourly rate + supply cost x2 ~ market value



Selling Your Work
Where?
- On-line - Ebay, Etsy, Society 6, personal website, where else????
- Art/Craft Shows
- Trade Shows
- Galleries
- Local Shops
- Art Guilds
- Word of mouth / person to person
- Art Auctions


How much should you sell your work for?


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What have you been making?



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