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Since people ask me about it sometimes. I am by no means an expert, other people's advice very much welcomed in the comments. (And I'm sure I have posted about this before but can't find it!)

So! For the last few years I've been selling art, shirts, stickers, and cards at redbubble. I make very little money off this (about $20 a year, looking at my receipts), but I also put in very little effort. In general, I've found it a pretty positive experience just challenging myself to try and be at least semi professional, making polished designs I think people will like and then having people like them. I sold a lot more when I was adding works to groups, commenting on other people's art, and promoting things on social media. This is probably necessary wherever you go.

And now, all the options I know of, and what little I know of them. I have only used redbubble.

These all sell clothes, prints, cards, and homewares with original designs:

• redbubble The objects are fairly expensive even if you only add a small profit margin, but they're of reasonably high quality and the site is inviting for purchasers. The only criticism of redbubble I know of is that one time they refused to ban some offensive shirts, though I think they backpeddled after enough complaints. Also the shirt colours come out muted.
  
• Society 6 Very similar to redbubble as far as I can tell.
  
• Cafepress A bit cheaper/tackier, wide range of options, very easy to get started. You used to have to make a separate shop per design but I'm not sure you do any more.
  
• Zazzle similar to cafepress, apparently better quality.

More specific:

• Threadless Send in tshirt designs, they get voted on and if you win you get a set payout of a thousand dollars or so.
  
• Teefury Send in tshirt designs, make $1 per shirt for 24 hours and keep your copyright.
  
• Spoonflower: sell fabric, gift paper, and wallpaper with repeating designs.

If you google "cafepress redbubble society 6" you get a bunch of people comparing them and suggesting several other sites I'd never heard of, as well as suggestions on how to use them best. I found How to Make Money with Zazzle Redbubble and Cafepress interesting. Apparently I make double the average of $10 per year /o\

Finally: while you're here, check out my redbubble follows and buy some of my friends' stuff ;) (though I'm not friends with tanaudel I just think she's cool)

Various serious things have been happening in people's lives recently, best wishes to you all.

And now some cheerful things.

First: via sassamifrass(*), This Is Perth. Both informative and entertaining, explains the joy of our bustling, giant-flying-squid-guarded city.

Second, various random arty things I have made:

Kitten and Dragon. I sort of linked this a while ago, but was waiting until the postcard I originally designed it for got to it's recipient (rainbow) before properly linking it.

Baby_elvis in a very expensive dress.

Dick Grayson as Batman (hopefully) looking sexy at greteldragon's request. Before you get too impressed I traced/photoshopped most of it :)

I've been trying to expand my style and the sorts of things I draw, so these were all useful.

(*)It's funny how I often only notice what someone's username actually is when I try and link it. I've been reading it as sassimfrass all this time.

It's meant to be a play on those pretentious faded "sports" shirts with numbers on them, but Cam read it as post-apocalyptic. I thought about adding some text to make it more obvious, but I like the simplicity of it as is.

Made using this texture. I love the way Flickr makes it so easy to find Creative Commons stuff to use.

There is an adorable black and white kitten hanging around our set of units (he belongs to people in the next set of units) So Cute. Also very friendly, in a rambunctous kind of way.

The ginger turkish delight from Kakulus brothers is really nice. I thought you all should know (except those of you who hate ginger, but you don't count)

( The second t-shirt transfer I did )