Today we want to present you a curious project that we have recently learned about. It is a new resource for illustrators, which acts as online art gallery, but also a promotional platform for illustrators from all over the world: We are talking about the imartgine.es website, although it has two other versions in English and French, (imartgine.com and imartgine.fr) respectively.
The idea of the project is connect illustrators around the world with collectors and art lovers, by means of illustration. In a simple way and under a theme related to social awareness, there are three large categories of illustrations: Love, Peace and Environment.
A new market niche?
It is evident that today, the market is saturated with multimedia content. There are a multitude of search engines for free images, resources for photographers and publicists, or platforms for the sale of photographs at laughable prices and infinite stocks. But the same is not the case with the world of illustration, right?
We have found a different initiative interesting, which breaks a spear in favor of the forgotten illustration as the most effective means of communicating a message. Its authors say that when an abstract idea needs to be expressed, the best medium is illustration, which invites reflection and above all, to complete the interpret a message subjectively.
Illustrations not just for collectors
The platform offers several different formats when acquiring illustrations. From the physical format on high-quality paper and in a numbered print run, to the purchase of the user license and its subsequent digital download. There are also exhibitions, made up of various illustrations on the same theme, or illustrated literature.
Any art collector you will find exclusive, original and high quality illustrations on this platform. However, there are also a multitude of resources oriented towards marketing or design agencies, which can complete their strategies and campaigns with unique illustrations.
Extra income for illustrators
Being part of the imartgine illustrator community is very simple. By filling in a short form, an online store is created in an instant, in which exhibit illustrations and sell them anywhere in the world. Both in physical and virtual format.
Once the original illustrations are uploaded to the platform, a jury of experts will take care of validar both the quality and the theme, and if it passes the screen, it will immediately go to the catalog and therefore, to be able to be sold. As simple as that. With each sale, the artist receives a good commission that can be collected at any time.
Are you curious? Try the platform and let us know what you think!
It is a wonderful initiative that effectively encourages the promotion of potential artists who want to break through in this world. I also believe however and, being realistic, that it is more a space of expectations and illusions than a real income / job opportunity.
I would say that it is rather a place of exhibition, to see but not to touch ... like when you enter a beautiful store, from which you would take a lot of things, but in the end you do not buy anything because they are expensive or you think they would not be useful for nothing at the end.