NFTs are shit and mostly bought by peoplewith no interest in art.
However, it does feel like there are enough people who want to buy things like skins for games, that if there was a centralised place where digital artists could sell bespoke artwork or take commissions, then there is an audience for that. I don't think there is a place where people can browse such things at the moment that aren't NFT based.
If nothing else, NFTs show that with enough marketing budget you can get people to want to buy a digital picture to be in the cool club (even if I suspect most of them don't know what they have actually bought).
I think I can see how a Bandcampy approach could work for digital art, though you'd need someone with lots of money, deals with game makers, and a desire to do right by the artists, or such a site would just end up as Red Bubble and printing your picture on a pair of y-fronts.
(However, it does feel like there are enough people who want to buy things like skins for games, that if there was a centralised place where digital artists could sell bespoke artwork or take commissions, then there is an audience for that. I don't think there is a place where people can browse such things at the moment that aren't NFT based.
If nothing else, NFTs show that with enough marketing budget you can get people to want to buy a digital picture to be in the cool club (even if I suspect most of them don't know what they have actually bought).
I think I can see how a Bandcampy approach could work for digital art, though you'd need someone with lots of money, deals with game makers, and a desire to do right by the artists, or such a site would just end up as Red Bubble and printing your picture on a pair of y-fronts.
monkeon schmonkeon,
Fri 8 Apr 2022, 10:43,
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