Art Is My Career: How to Start an Art Business

Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Find Your Customer, Grow Your Social Media, Build a Website, and Take Your Art Career to the Next Level

By: Sema Martin

Narrated by: Nikki Delgado

Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins

Publisher's summary

Do you dream of being a full-time artist? This friendly, practical guide shows you how to make your dream a reality, with expert advice on everything from writing a business plan to pricing your work and raising your profile as an artist. Learn how to start taking commissions and ensure your long-term success.

This Book Is For:

• Artists who want to start making money from their art
• Artists who are ready to take themselves seriously
• Artists who need help, guidance, and motivation when it comes to the business side of things

Open the Book and Find:

• How to get started
• Why you need a website
• How to gain more social media followers
• What you should charge for your commissions
• How to organize your waiting list

Join Us:

By buying this book you will gain access to our private Facebook community, where you can ask questions and share experiences with other artists trying to make art their career. What are you waiting for? Get your copy now!

©2020, 2021, 2022 Sema Martin (P)2021, 2022 Sema Martin

The content is great but the narration is ANNOYING

The content in this book is fantastic. She provides a lot of useful details about starting an art commission business. However, the narrator sounds like the voice on the elevator at the Ministry of Magic in the Harry Potter movies. Very sing-songy and only useful if what you want is to be lulled into a hypnotic state or fall asleep. Good narrators tell us the STORY in a way that engages us. This narrator reads this book as if she were making a public service announcement...for the duration of the entire book!

I do not recommend narration by Nikki Delgado.

Practical advice

This book was very helpful. It helped me build on the knowledge I had and expanded it to these I hadn’t even thought of. Very useful for artists beginning their career.

Great audiobook

Now I want this book in print! I can’t tell you how much wonderful this was to read.

Excellent for artists wanting to sell their work

I finally finished listening to this one all the way through and I really enjoyed it! It is very motivational to learn and understand how other artists build and develop their art careers. I feel like the resources provided within this book can be some of the most beneficial content that currently exists for artists looking to start a career. Highly recommend!

Highly recommend for all artists!

I have had the pleasure of following along with Sema’s work for over a year now and her book is just another example of how amazing the journey of following your art dreams can be. This book really helped kick me into gear in terms of getting the business side of my art organized and tackling those hard to do tasks I had been avoiding, or didn’t even know I needed to be doing. Highly recommend!

Great content, shame about the delivery

There is some really useful information shared by the author in this audible but unfortunately I found myself drifting in and out of consciousness due to the robotic voice of the narrator. 🤖 Will need to listen again or get a paper copy to fully soak in the details.

Returned

Sorry to say I couldn’t get much past the first chapter due to the uncomfortable narration. I’m sure this book has useful content but not for me as an audio book.

Every creative person should listen to this!

The book which covers pretty much everything about starting and maintaining a creative business successfully! I bought the hardback version too earlier this year so was thrilled that Sema decided to do an audio version too- very useful to listen to whilst working!

Amazing book! Highly Recommend

’Sema Martin now has an audio book version of her ‘Art is my Career: How to start an art business’ narrated by Nikki Delgado and I have had the pleasure of listening to it whilst working on a Christmas portrait over the past week. Nikki Delgado does an amazing job as the narrator and I felt very motivated whilst listening to this book. When I first read Sema’s book last year, I was so pleased I did as she had shared SO much useful information! I wrote a review about Sema’s book which you can find on my website www.shanddonblundenart.co.uk
Now, I love that I can listen to it whilst drawing a portrait or pottering around the house! I really enjoy having the option of listening to the book as I don’t always feel like sitting reading so to have someone to read it for me is amazing! And means I have more time to be creative and enjoy the book at the same time! I often find myself jotting things down when I hear something that sparks an idea! It’s a great wait to generate new ideas as the narrator talks through Semas’ advice. The book is beautifully read and Audible saves where your up to when you’ve finished listening so when you next come to listen it picks up where you left off! I would highly recommend signing up to Audible and purchasing the Audio book! 😃 Sema is doing a wonderful job helping us artists work towards our dreams, cannot thank her enough!!