Personal photo agency? SYMBIOSTOCK!

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Here it is, a brand new content management system for visual artists
trying to show or sell their art online, photos or illustrations... and somehow to get a level up from others in all that overcrowded microstock agencies
or PODs (post own design).

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I have already set up my personal site, which may be also internally linked to other artists in the Symbiostock Network. What for?

If a customer searches for a 'pirates' image at my own site (Imagerion) -  Symbiostock is going to show results from my portfolio plus below, pictures found in portfolios of other artists in my network.
Nice... if there are no 'pirates' on my site - network search is not performed.

There is a lot more interesting features in this framework and one of the best news is that it's based on the Wordpress engine. So it's easy to use, customizable and realy powerful.

Check out my personal photo agency - Imagerion Stock Images. It's still a work in progress, for example I did not enable Paypal and prices yet.
First I need to configure it better and add some more visual features.
But there is a lot of information you can find there about the Symbiostock initiative and links to other artists in the network which already have Paypal enabled.

Selling graphics and photos in 09/2012

Selling images in September 2012 - statistics 

The overal result was almost the same as August sales. So I am not going to write much. Still it's about -20 % to the best month ever.

Most interesting fact is that Squidoo is now ahead of the Bigstock agency in terms of making money. Of course Squidoo is not a microstock agency, but as I've said in the report for August, it's here as the online money making site, just for comparison.

Same leaders as always are Shutterstock, Dreamstime and Fotolia.

Definition of Time - two color drawing

Pencil/graphite and pastel on location - workshop LESSON 6

Our job at home was to create a drawing which shows our definition of TIME in any style and technique.
I thought we' re going then to draw or paint it on location in a large format, add some surrounding objects or
include the tips from our teacher.

It wasn't easy to came up with some vision of TIME which would not be already created and at the same time it would still  have a bit of a  ganuine idea.

Mixed media - Daily sketch series (29~34)

6 works - from pencil and graphite through gouache watercolor to pen marker

3 drawings in pencil and graphite where, I am studying another animal,
- The cock. Pretty easy to draw, took me about 5 minutes. Great sketch for some watercolor painting
- The artist drawing a masterpiece ;) - quick 15 minute sketch
- A copy of the "Girl with a Pearl Earring" - by Vermeer - 30 minute sketch
- 2 tree studies in watercolor gouache

Tree study in gouache using four colors

Tree study - lesson 5

Something I really don't like to paint. This subjects just seems too complicated. You'd think it will take so much time to draw all those lines...
Well.. the trick is to not draw them all. Yet one needs to understand it first and that's why we was told to study these trees.

I am not happy with the look of this painting, colors, some shapes, but I am pretty satisfied with what I've  learned: patience, observation, understanding the shapes, the negative shapes, lengths and proportions, angles etc..