posted on 1st of september, 2010
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I learned that photos and drawings can be sold through the Internet somehow about 8 years ago (I was 17 years old), don't recall any agencies of that time though. I tried my luck in microstock as soon as I managed to buy my first camera (I was 20 at the moment). I don't really remember what's my first agency was but it was not DT, I'm sure. My camera was a very simple and cheap one and photos appeared to be far from good quality, none were accepted. So I gave up and forgot about the idea I liked so much.
I became interested in microstock again when I began to draw (I'm a very late beginner, was about 20 or 21 when started), but a dream remained a dream until all pieces of the puzzle joined together. It took time...
First, I thought I drew so bad that I was shy to merely show... [ Read more... ] |
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To Gsteve.
Sorry, I've been looking everywhere, but couldn't find the source photo. I remember it to be of a very bad quality, so probably I've deleted if from my computer long time ago.
But I still have the white cat :) and can make a new photo if needed and make a collage with your text then.
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Posted by Gsteve on February 06, 2012
Do you have the original image of the cat that you used for this image 9499366.
That's the cover of a book in Switzerland. But I wanted to put text in French, that's why I need the image. I love your images of pictorial typography, I am passionate about this art, and I've already done a study on this subject.
Thank you.
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Posted by Alionaz on September 02, 2010
my story is like yours. when I started on DT I now nothing about photography or illustrations, but now I learn much but I have to learn more!
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posted on 5th of july, 2010
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My portfolio has grown up again. Now it contains 500 images. A great number and a big milestone for me.
Most of these 500 are drawings or collages, and only 56 are photos. Sales are about 70% of portfolio (according to statistics). Not bad, I think)
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Wow! Congrats!!!
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Congratulations Olga! I love your work :)
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Thank you very much :) Next milestone is 1000.
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posted on 17th of june, 2010
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For me, people are really hard to draw. I'm no professional artist, just a mere amateur. Drawing people is a great challenge for me. I often fail, seldom succeed in it. I usually notice myself trying to avoid people in new picture's composition. Possibility of failure frightens me off.
And now here comes time I'll have to face the problem... I'm on the way to publish my book, the Omnis Trilogy. Having ho money to pay the professional artist I must draw all three covers myself. I managed to avoid drawing people for the first part's cover and drew a curious little dragon instead (that's how the cover looks) , but that will not work with the others.
Cartoonish people... [ Read more... ] |
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Oh, I'm puzzled with your question... I don't understand what you really mean, but I'll try to guess... I suppose you should take a proper program (like Gimp, it's free) and try to create some pics there. Or just draw on paper and scan drawings then. Pencil drawings do sell too.
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Posted by Rheane on May 13, 2010
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Thanks fir sharing.Great tutorial
Debbie
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posted on 17th of march, 2010
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You know, sometimes I read of the new generation people or meet them myself - people that had never seen a floppy disc. They ask: "What's that square on the Save button?"
I feel old. Ancient even)))
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Audio tapes and VHS tapes are kind of gone, aren't they! :) We still tape things on a VHS tape, but I know a lot of people switched to Tivo and such.
I remember floppy disks--I even remember the larger floppies that went into A drives. :) Do you guys remember zip drives? I sold some old ones of those a few weeks ago on Amazon since we don't use those anymore. I have a lot of my old files still on floppy and had to buy a drive to plug into my laptop to use them. All my files since 2007 have been on CD though.
A repair guy at my workplace this week had a digital camera that used floppies instead of a memory card. I had never seen anything like that before. He wanted to put the floppy into one of our office computers to look at the photos, but sadly we didn't have one of those drives and my USB plug-in floppy drive was at home. :(
It was really interesting, though!
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Posted by Dan1 on March 23, 2010
Milkmen delivered milk and eggs and etc every day.
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Gee! I remember when you could go to almost any market, test and buy replacement tubes for your black and white TV! WOW1
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posted on 4th of february, 2010
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By this moment I have 242 sales, which include different types of images. There are some facts I've found...
1. Artistic pictures like these above that took a great deal of time usually sell very bad (and mostly - by subscription) or don't sell at all. This is a biggest disappointment, to be sure. But there are two exceptions that brought me 21$ and 18$ when others - zero or usually 0.42$
2. Sketches sell surprisingly well, even when their colored variants have no sales at all.
3. Borders and frames sell well if hand drawn and don't sell at all if they are collage or vector
4. Crayon drawings (I have few of them) sell... [ Read more... ] |
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Join... :)
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posted on 25th of january, 2010
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I'm mostly an illustrator and have many pencil drawings in my portfolio. They have very different subjects: from fantasy dragons to common landscapes, but it's curious that often they (despite they variety) used to be found by the same keyword - sketch - and bought then. Just a peice of advice for fellow illustrators: if you have pencil drawings in your portfolio, don't forget to add the keyword "sketch" to all of them, this simple action will bring you many sales.
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Nice drawings! Cockroaches creep me out because I used to live in an area that had a lot of them. Yuck! But you did a good job on the drawing!!
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Cute image! Voted for this one too. Good luck!
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Thank you very much :) It's nice to know my image won't go unnoticed among lots (really lots this time) of great photos and illustrations on the assignment.
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