A change is gonna come
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. - Einstein
And moving is what I'm going to be doing for the next few weeks.
First, I'd like you to take a few minutes and peruse these novel excerpts, and then share your opinion with me - which novel should I write next?
Second - please go enjoy my first official ACEO. It will probably go up for sale very soon on eBay - so here's the link to my About Me page on eBay.
Third - two times this week I have had people contact me asking if they may please use my original clip art to create products that they intend to sell for their own monetary benefit. Their reason for why I should give them my work for free is that they are just small business people trying to get a start.
After eight years of providing free clipart and free coloring pages on the Internet, I am now earning approximately $20 per month on Adsense ads on those sites. Each month I pay $60 for my Internet access, $20 for my webhosting, and spend six to eight hours or more working on these websites every single day. I have created many works of art to fulfill requests. And in that time I have had exactly two people actually pay me for original artwork for their logos.
Your thank yous and praise are very nice - but when it comes time to make a car payment, the loan company doesn't seem to regard them as legal tender. I earned more in three hours scrubbing out toilets in a motel, than I make a month doing artwork. Apparently, toilet scrubbing skills are more valuable than artistic talent.
I would also like to point out that you may put my artwork on various products available through my Zazzle store. My Zazzle store currently earns approximately $10 PER YEAR.
Today I finally realized that I cannot blame the people who write me. By making my work available to the public for free, I have essentially told you that it is worthless. So that is going to change. If you want some free clipart or coloring pages, I suggest you get to my websites very soon and download them. They will be removed and replaced with links to search engines, ads, and my Zazzle store and eBay auctions.
That is all.
On the other hand, that may mean I will begin doing greyhound portraits again. For a suitable price.
Summer Fey Foovay
Posted: Friday 22nd August 2008, 6:15 PM
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