Good websites to sell your art and designs?

October 28, 2008 6:12am CST
Hello to all, I was just wondering if anyone knows of any good websites where you can upload you artwork and sell your images on? A website where you upload it, set a price and thats your job done. Then the website prints them on the matterial the customer wants and they sell them for you? Then the website takes a cut of the sale to cover printing costs and they make some money from it aswel. So you will never actually see your product once printed out, it will just get sent straight to the person who has bought your design. I look forward to hearing your responses. Thank you
2 responses
• Australia
29 Oct 08
Cafepress pioneered this field with T-shirts and prints, but they seem to have had some quality problems of late, and also I seem to remember a report saying they had merged with (or been bought by) Zazzle, which is my main outlet for T-shirts, posters, framed prints, mugs etc. I also use Redbubble and Imageprint, although I have not had as much success with those as I have with Zazzle, which, unlike Cafepress, is free to join (www.zazzle.com/practicaps). I simply upload my images, deign my prducts, set my commission and leave the rest to Zazzle. I could leavr the commissions to Zazzle, too, if I wanted, and on some items, I do. The main difference between Imagekind and Zazzle (apart from the huge range of articles on Zazzle - mouse mats, stamps, skateboards, Panoramic prints....), is that with Imagekind and Redbubble you do not actually do any designing. You upload an image and then tick the boxes for each article you want it to be made available on. Another free print-on-demand service that has a good reputation is Printfection; not as many products as Zazzle last time I looked, but tremendous range of colours in the t-shirts and excellent quality. Printfection and Cafepress set you up as a shop and look like an on-line store. The others are more like artists' galleries. They all provide you with various promotional tools and I am sure that, if your work is up to standard and well promoted, you will find the right one (or ones) for you.
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6 Nov 08
Thanks for such a great response. Iv uploaded a few images onto cafepress but I dont like the fact you can only upload one image per item unless you get the premimuim shop.
6 Nov 08
I heard that in the terms and conditions it says something about when you upload the image, it then becomes property of zazzle. I wouldnt want my designs to become copyrighted by them. Have you heard anything about that?
• Australia
6 Nov 08
No such limitation on Zazzle, and they have just added yet another new line: your designs can now be produced as embroidered shirts!
@jhenen (277)
• Philippines
28 Oct 08
try multiply.com some of my friends used that site on selling thier crafts..
28 Oct 08
Thanks, ill take a look at that now. Iv been thinking of just getting some of my art printed off for myself or going restuarants and cafes and offering them it for free to get my name around which would hopefully lead to bigger better things