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I'm currently trying to decide what to do with my old completed sketch pads.
My first thought was to try to sell them on Etsy to the highest bidder. But this has never been attempted before, I was hoping to find some good samples I could judge a price with by comparison. You can easily find and buy new blank sketch pads with vintage covering for $20 which is tempting but not what I'm looking for.
There didn't seem to be many options to do with old filled sketchpads. It's nice to think that the work inside them is all highly valuable and will inspire, students, teachers and artists alike in their future work. But that has to monetize the whole thing without accounting for how valuable each drawing or painting is within the book. You can spend a lot of time scanning each page with a reliable scanner, adding them to flickr to see if they will gain popularity over time but then it isn'ta book any more it's an unlabelled flickr entry that needs a new home. You can then use snapfish to create a new book based on your existing copies on almost any surface you desire and put it up for sale on ebay or etsy or Gum tree along with commission deducted.
But I don't want to do that, what I want to do is to treat the pad like a glossy magazine sort of like Vogue but more Like Creative review complete with a front cover, contents page, index page and illustrations of all the things or concepts the maker conceives of in the time span it takes to fill the pad. It only ends when the last blank page has been filled. You can number the pages to help readers of it refer back to previous elements in it.
Next you create a public space for the community to browse through your pad at their own leisure. You would explain that the pad cannot leave the premises or be taken away, this would discourage damage of the work or theft. individual drawings in it would be available on request that the artist will have already printed off at a previous date, if more are needed than are available at the time, you'd charge the viewer for prints. You could get an idea for the popularity of different prints through the analytics on flickr. The reader could then pay for a photo print to be produced.
I have a lot to do to make this plan work, like find a solid company to advertise in the target pages, I can make a QR link that will have animations in it, I'm considering using augmented realty layar layers to give viewers an immersive experience that in theory wouldn't date too badly but I remember buying Grand Royale magazine made by the beastie boys and selling that to Test Space gallery of Leeds, now London. I think you have to pay for some of that but I'm thinking out loud right now.
http://www.layar.com/
I'm currently trying to decide what to do with my old completed sketch pads.
My first thought was to try to sell them on Etsy to the highest bidder. But this has never been attempted before, I was hoping to find some good samples I could judge a price with by comparison. You can easily find and buy new blank sketch pads with vintage covering for $20 which is tempting but not what I'm looking for.
There didn't seem to be many options to do with old filled sketchpads. It's nice to think that the work inside them is all highly valuable and will inspire, students, teachers and artists alike in their future work. But that has to monetize the whole thing without accounting for how valuable each drawing or painting is within the book. You can spend a lot of time scanning each page with a reliable scanner, adding them to flickr to see if they will gain popularity over time but then it isn'ta book any more it's an unlabelled flickr entry that needs a new home. You can then use snapfish to create a new book based on your existing copies on almost any surface you desire and put it up for sale on ebay or etsy or Gum tree along with commission deducted.
But I don't want to do that, what I want to do is to treat the pad like a glossy magazine sort of like Vogue but more Like Creative review complete with a front cover, contents page, index page and illustrations of all the things or concepts the maker conceives of in the time span it takes to fill the pad. It only ends when the last blank page has been filled. You can number the pages to help readers of it refer back to previous elements in it.
Next you create a public space for the community to browse through your pad at their own leisure. You would explain that the pad cannot leave the premises or be taken away, this would discourage damage of the work or theft. individual drawings in it would be available on request that the artist will have already printed off at a previous date, if more are needed than are available at the time, you'd charge the viewer for prints. You could get an idea for the popularity of different prints through the analytics on flickr. The reader could then pay for a photo print to be produced.
I have a lot to do to make this plan work, like find a solid company to advertise in the target pages, I can make a QR link that will have animations in it, I'm considering using augmented realty layar layers to give viewers an immersive experience that in theory wouldn't date too badly but I remember buying Grand Royale magazine made by the beastie boys and selling that to Test Space gallery of Leeds, now London. I think you have to pay for some of that but I'm thinking out loud right now.
http://www.layar.com/
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