How can I start a business drawing portraits?
I’m an art major in college, and I’d like to start a little portrait-drawing business this summer to make some extra cash. How would I go about doing this? Should I make a website? Flyers? How much should I charge for each drawing?
You could do it simply as a sole proprietor, if you wanted. You could do a website, but unless someone knows your out there, they may have trouble finding you. VistaPrint offers free business cards you can have printed, if you’d like to pass them out, but may not show people what you can do.
If you drew little portraits, I’ve often seen coffee shops displaying different drawings from independent artists. Perhaps you could offer to hang the painting, and give them a percentage of anything you make on them. In this case, you’d have to charge enough to cover your cost, your time, framing, and make enough for the owner of the place to consider putting your picture up. Perhaps you can even rotate the pieces of art between different shops too. When you frame them, make sure to put a business card under the glass so people can contact you for related projects (even if they don’t want the portrait).
February 6th, 2010 at 12:09 am
it’s usely a $10.00 genrael bissness lince
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February 6th, 2010 at 12:14 am
hey, can you email me some of your drawings?
My email: d3nnis_kck@yahoo.com
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February 6th, 2010 at 12:51 am
Hi Sarah,
Its obvious you have the talent to draw very well owing to the fact that you are an art major. Drawing is just a good business but it grows over time except you are just lucky and some of your drawings attracted some good companies or individuals who now gave your work a face lift.
All the same you can start on your own with good paintings and portraits of powerful and influential people around you and keep them where people will see them. You can also do online advert, print flyers, drop notes, business card and send it across so that people will know what you are doing and they will contact you with your address or telephone number. If you have all these, you have started selling your business to other people and money will start coming into your pocket cum bank.
All the best.
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February 6th, 2010 at 1:15 am
go to the beach
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michael
February 6th, 2010 at 1:45 am
You could do it simply as a sole proprietor, if you wanted. You could do a website, but unless someone knows your out there, they may have trouble finding you. VistaPrint offers free business cards you can have printed, if you’d like to pass them out, but may not show people what you can do.
If you drew little portraits, I’ve often seen coffee shops displaying different drawings from independent artists. Perhaps you could offer to hang the painting, and give them a percentage of anything you make on them. In this case, you’d have to charge enough to cover your cost, your time, framing, and make enough for the owner of the place to consider putting your picture up. Perhaps you can even rotate the pieces of art between different shops too. When you frame them, make sure to put a business card under the glass so people can contact you for related projects (even if they don’t want the portrait).
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