“Why Don’t You Promote Your Fine Art Online?” — a question I’m often asked.

Ah, I do.  I promote my digital fine art…well…sort of.  Well…not really.  It’s available, but I don’t “hawk it,” or spend inordinate amounts of time drumming up buyers.  But, honestly, my real world and digital fine art already has plenty of homes to live in, thanks.  Do I want yards and yards of my stuff decorating every house in urbanville?  Not really.  Why not?  Well, because, with fame and prestige comes a very nasty price.  You GOTTA do it, and you GOTTA produce to expectation.  Guess what?  I produce.  To expectation. Already.  My graphic art keeps me hopping.  Why should I bake myself like doves in a pie with fine art, too, especially fine art?  If somebody wants something of mine, they can go over to ImageKind and get it there. Or they can email me and ask me to do something just for them.  And pay the price. 

I do professional graphic art for glossy mags, for websites, for pulp mags, for yon local newsletter…for anyone who asks for something that I want to do and think I can do (cues, those) , so long as they pay me, of course.  And, yes, they get the copyright.  Illustrating is just so much “yawn” to me.  There are a few pieces that I don’t let go of copyright, but most of it is just stuff that I look at and shrug.  Not so my fine art, digital or otherwise.  But mine is a very unique style — zen flow.  And, quite honestly, I don’t care if someone likes it or not.  The only opinion that matters to me with my fine art is mine.  Not true for my illustrations.  That stuff’s gotta have mass market appeal, it’s got to fit the article, story, product, or package it is going onto, it’s gotta “grab.”  So, you see, public opinion matters on art that has to do something.  My fine art doesn’t have to do a thing.  It just satisfies me when “it happens.”  Then I’m all grins and pour myself some wine.

BTW, there really are some hot digital graphic artists out there around the Internet.  And you won’t necessarily find them on art.com or the standard “find the artist” website.  Most of them that I really like do their art as an adjunct to making skins for .php apps.  Gotta love it.