I use a Canon 6D Mark 2 (DSLR) and photograph at them 300 dpi then adjust/crop/edit in Photoshop.
As I tend to paint larger, I most often have to take photos of my art.
As a mainly traditional artist using watercolor, gouache and oil paint, it’s not quite that easy for me! If you create small works of art, I recommend a scanner, as it allows for a very high resolution image and very little blur or distortion. This is where digital artists excel because their art is already digitalised and easy to reproduce. Step two is to have a high-resolution scan or photo of your art. Someone out there is bound to want to hang one of your paintings on their wall. There are over 7 billion people on earth. It comes down to getting your art in front of the right eyes. I’m saying this from experience! I started selling prints of my art well before I was good (by my own standards). It doesn’t have to be world-class, it doesn’t even have to be “great.” Plenty of artists sell mediocre art. Step one would be – of course – to make good art. Let’s talk about a few easy ways to make money online as an artist. And the cool thing is that passive income is an option for artists. The point of this is to demonstrate that it takes far more effort than anyone imagines – but once you have a system in place, you find a way to balance it all.
The reality of being a full time artist is that I paint far less than I do all the other things. As much as I would love to spend all day every day creating art, and have a lovely deposit in my bank account each month – that’s a fantasy. It’s not as easy as just getting really good at painting. While that is still an option, I’m assuming you’re here because you’d prefer to learn all the ways that artists make money TODAY. You either needed to know the right people, or, to work for decades (maybe even a lifetime) and enter countless exhibitions until your name was recognized worldwide. Before the internet became a prominent fixture in our lives, the road to becoming a famous (and well paid) artist was quite different than it is now.