An Artist's Journey and Frustrations

Being an artist can be filled with frustration and trials. Nothing about it is easy. Thankfully I have a job I do from home that pays the bills, but allows me the time to pursue my art dreams. That said, some days I wonder if this will ever happen.

As many of you know, I tend to move my site around and try different things out. Maybe its my bipolar and autism, but I seem to lack the patience to see something through and tend to be quick to make changes before I have a good set of data. That said, I know I have this problem, but it still doesn't stop me.

So this past week, I tried out the Ghost.org blog site again, as well as listing art on Redbubble and Teepublic. I figured those are market places and I have  a better chance of my stuff being seen and someone taking something home.

None of that happened, granted it was only a week, but from the sites analytics my stuff was barely getting any views, even though I know I had some good tags on there. Its just that those sites have SO much stuff and there is so much competition, unless someone is specifially looking for your items, it can be hard to be seen at all. Not to say someone can't do well on there. I know people who are doing great, but they have more pop culture style artwork. My stuff is more quirky and probably only appeals to certain people.

So I'm back here and cleaned out my shop and re-listed some of my newer things. I've been experimenting with cubism and cubism style cats. Its been a lot of fun and I like this style a lot. Much more than I thought I would. And they seem to get more attention and traction than my digital liquid art.

Now, I don't create art out of what might sell. Though I DO want to sell art. I'm not to the point of doing strictly what markets dictate and doing things I don't even like. I still do my art for me, I just try to present it in a way others will want to take it home.

Which leads me to the new look of the store. I currently don't have any prints up and not sure I'll put any up. Prints are a really hard sell. I don't even buy many prints. Just because for a person to hang art in their house, they need both wall space and a matching aesthetic.

So, I'm focusing my online store on t-shirts and apparel. Just shirts for now and I may add other things later. I know I for one collect shirt. I have tons of graphic tees from horror shirts, to art shirt and other movies, pictures and other things. If I see a cool shirt, I usually get it no matter where its from.

So my shop currently has several shirts with my various drawings on them. I'll be adding more later. Maybe this is a dumb idea, maybe its brilliant. Just where I've landed for the time being. This art journey isn't easy and isn't always fun, but I always try. I always give it my best and always will keep going.

That's really all we can do in the end. I have no control over world politics or economics. I'm worried about tariffs and other things that may come, but all I can do is focus on what I can control, and I';m doing that the best I can. I feel like continuing to put art out into the world, someone somewhere will be helped or put at peace by it. Even if I can give someone 30 seconds of joy, I've achieved something.

Its hard to keep that in mind some days, but its something I need to remember, all artists should. So, I'm staying on this blog site with this page and everything for a good while. I paid for a year so may as well use it and keep everything in one place. I'm going to keep on pushing forward until the right people find me. Until then, I keep creating.