114. The Artist Group Chat: Your Questions, Answered

Okay, so the first question is really, I'm gonna let you kinda lead the answer, Kendall.

But the first question is a question I feel like I get a lot online and offline, but how can I make prints of my original artwork?

Yes.

And we have, we have talked about this.

We've done episodes about how this is great passive income, and it's kind of that mailbox money.

Um, you can do limited series prints, or you can do an open-ended number of prints.

There's, there's, there's many ways that you can go, go about it.

But mainly artists wanna know, "Well, how do I even go about doing that?" And so I personally use a local printer.

I have found someone that does a good job.

I like the paper.

I like the quality, and that's who I use.

And so I fulfill all the orders on my website.

But in talking to other artists, they suggested many other companies that will even drop ship for you.

So they will fuf- The order is placed on your website.

It goes through their company, and they ship it out.

And so we kinda wanted to go through the different, um, options there were, and then you can go and do your research and figure out if it works for you.

So, several companies that are online that will take high-resolution photos of your artwork and turn them into prints are, one is called Giclee Today, Finer Works, Luma Prints, and Urban Garden Prints.

Now, some of these interface with Shopify, which I thought was a game changer.

So if you use Shopify as your, your website, uh, fulfillment kinda site, um, the order is placed through your website, but then it goes directly to this third party, who then prints your piece, pack- packages it up, and sends it out.

That's awesome.

That is amazing.

Amazing.

Now, usually there is a cost associated with that, but I think I've even contemplated looking into this because there is also the, the time that it takes for me to fulfill something, um, I could be using that time to make artwork at a higher price, you know? So-

Right

... there's a value in that, even though it might cost you a little bit more, um-