Options for Live Art Performance
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A local agriculture and art festival is hiring artists to do Live Art Performances. I was going to apply, but as a mostly digital artist, I wasn't sure how to run it. My first thought was to do a table on making comics and let people make their own mini comic, but my husband was concerned that wouldn't really help sell me or any potential products that I brought.
The other idea is to do a live drawing using alcohol markers and have a bunch of my prints on display to sell with the website link to my web comic. (and have a digital print of the live drawing available) I'm tight on a deadline for this and need to get it rolling out soon, I have just over a month before the festival. I've never done a "selling" event as I am still building up my catalog (most my drawing time is spent on my comic)
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@ksfabian Maybe a stupid question: I'm struggling to picture what a Live Art Performance at an art festival looks like so it's hard to brainstorm ideas for you. Are people walking by all day while you draw and sell your art, or are you scheduled at a certain time for people to come see you "perform" art and is it meant to teach? Anyway, as far as it being digital, if you have a monitor you could hook up to a wacom (can you hook one up to an iPad if you use Procreate?) then the monitor could be facing out so people can see what you're drawing. Whether your teaching how to make comics or doing a live drawing, I agree with your husband about having prints available for sale. Maybe also do up a postcard with website info as a SWAG item to give away. Another thought, there are a LOT of artists that only work traditionally and would be interested in how you draw digitally. So maybe that could be the focus of your performance. You could explain your work flow, how you mimic pencils, pens, paint, how you publish or print your digital art. (Not sure if any of this helped...
But I think it would be exciting for you to put yourself out there.)
