You are competing with all the other artists on Redbubble marketplace once you send your customer to Redbubble, you are also sending that customer to every single other artist on Redbubble! There is every chance that they end up distracted by someone else’s work. Sales you make on Redbubble may be passive, but you’ve still got to take care of the two hardest, most time consuming and most valuable steps yourself: making the art, and finding the customers. Once products are up, any sales you make on Redbubble are passive income, requiring no further time from you. Redbubble let’s you completely control your products and your profit margin - you decide your prices, you pay a flat fee to Redbubble for every product sold, and what’s left is yours to keep. Redbubble will handle payment processing, printing and manufacture, quality control, worldwide delivery, and customer service, so you don't have to and instead can concentrate on making the art (this might sound like a big deal, and it is, but I’ll explain later in the article why Redbubble doesn't deserve much props for this). Setting up the same amount of products on your own website would take a lot more work and time. You only need to upload one jpg for each piece of art you want to sell, and Redbubble will quickly put that art on all of their products with only a small amount of tweaking needed to make the art fit properly. Redbubble will host your store and gallery for you - setting up your own site with a store would generally cost around $20+ a month, so it’s a reasonable monthly saving. Pros of Redbubbleĭespite being a little down on Redbubble, I do recognise there are upsides to using it:

What Redbubble isn't making clear, is that the artist has to take care of the hardest parts, while Redbubble does the easy stuff and keeps the lion’s share of the profits. Redbubble offers to take care of all the other stuff, so the artist can concentrate on making art. I think most artists that turn to Redbubble are using it because they are short on time and energy. More importantly, a lot of us want to spend our time making art, NOT on all that other stuff. Making the art is just step 1 next you have to turn it into a product, then you have to find customers, and THEN you have to sell and ship it! Most of us aren’t able or willing to make printed T-shirts at home, and most of us don’t have the money to open a high street store and employ staff to sell those T-shirts. Basically, Redbubble will print your art on a lot of different stuff. Stationery including greetings cards, spiral notebooks, hardcover journals, postcards and pencil cases. Home & living including Acrylic blocks, Bath mats, Bedding, Coasters, Clocks, Floor pillows, Mugs, Shower curtains, Pillows and BlanketsĪccessories including Drawstring bags, tote bags, travel mugs, water bottles, zipper pouches, pins and buttons and cloth face masks. Wall art including Paper Prints, Art Board Prints, Framed Prints, Canvas, Metal, Mounted Prints, Photographic prints, Posters and Tapestries. Stickers including car stickers, helmet stickers, and laptop stickersĭevice cases, including wallets and skins for laptops, iPads, iPhones and Samsung galaxy phones Redbubble has a fairly extensive product catalogue:Ĭlothing, including T-shirts, Hoodies and sweatshirts, Tank tops, Dresses, Leggings, Skirts, Socks, Scarves, and Kids and Babies clothes All the artist has to do is upload their work, choose which products their work will be sold on, and get a payment from Redbubble once a month! Redbubble handles all of the manufacture, printing, shipping and customer service as well as giving each artist their own personal store on the platform. is an online print-on-demand store, designed to help artists sell their work on products and merchandise including T-shirts, stickers, device cases and posters. Let’s dig deeper into Redbubble and the various factors that will affect your success on the platform, and whether you should even consider using it. Getting customers is the hardest part of selling artwork, so ultimately I think Redbubble should only be considered by a small percentage of artists. In my opinion, Redbubble is an easy way to reduce the number of steps it takes to sell artwork, but at a big cost and you will still have to actively send people to your shop to make any money. So, I’ve dug into it to figure out if Redbubble is too good to be true. Redbubble, on the surface, looks like it would simplify all of that for me: I just upload my art, Redbubble handles everything else, and I get a regular monthly cheque! Sounds like a great deal! I’ve found myself constantly researching, trying to work out what the best options are - which websites should I be using, what products should I be providing, how much time and effort will I have to invest? The list of ways to sell artwork is HUGE.

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