The Artist APPEALS: The 7 Step System to Make Money with Your Art

Discover how to invent a best selling toy in this interview with the CEO of Crazy Aaron's Thinking Putty! Learn how he started his company. The crazy pivots its taken, and all the details in the Artist APPEALS system. we cover: creating your Art or idea; developing a Product, Presenting your idea and work to the world, Educating your audience with marketing tips and tricks, Amplifying your outreach or scaling and Licensing and contract terms you need to know!

Donato Giancola is a well-known Science Fiction and Fantasy Artist. He has illustrated Middle Earth and Lord of the Rings, Magic cards, and many covers of books. What advice will this accomplished artist be offering today? Watch his episode to find out!

Amelia Leonards creates fantastical imagery and deals with design/branding for clients and exhibitions. She draws upon world folklore and mythology to inspire her Fantasy Illustrations. In this episode, we ramble about other artists, conventions, taxidermy, and discuss cultural appropriation, telling stories about your works, and sites like Lately.AI and LinkTree!

Join the wisecracking Jim Ewing and I as we discuss pricing and promoting art, helping other artists, creating a good website and advertising, art as investments, commissions, and more! We tell stories and discuss quite a few other topics, and introduce a new rapid-fire question in this episode!

Content warning - Language, drinking

Join Todd Arsenault and me as we talk about the line between abstraction vs representation, how our media shapes our world, and using digital media to aid his traditional works. He tells stories of people trying to make money off his work, how the internet ties with his art, and catching his students making master copies of art found on social media.

Todd Arsenault is the director of the art department at Dickenson's College. He was the associate professor as of 2007.

In this episode, Drake Fleege, a professional landscape photographer, discusses his personal stories and experiences with us, how a mountain trip got him into photography, and how one print opened up many doors for him.

Drake gives us an honest take on his experiences and shares with you what he thinks goes into making a good photo, as well as some advice for taking, storing, and printing photos, sharing art online, and more!

You've heard of patenting mechanisms, toys, and electronics, but have you heard of patenting colored pencil art techniques? Learn how to do just that in this episode with today's guest, Tracy Frein!

In this episode, Tracy and I discuss his patented technique, subtractive drawing, the story and techniques behind it, and touch on his workshops, framing, and other career-related stories and advice. We will also begin a new segment where I ask my guest five rapid-fire questions.