Many artists are finding the Internet to be a wonderful opportunity to gain massive exposure for their artwork.
There are tons of ways to promote yourself including social bookmarking, community sites, blogging, and more.
The one promotional tool that many artists miss is participating in the Artist Interview.
With limitless blogs now online and many dedicated to the arts, getting an artist interview is relatively easy.
Generally speaking artists that submit to be considered for an artist interview will receive an interview sheet to fill out.
It might ask questions about their art career or even a little about their personal lives.
The features are usually linked back to the artists website where buyers and interested parties can learn more.
How do Artist Interviews promote artists? The most obvious is that it puts your artwork in front of more people.
Every blog and website has their own audience and you will get a share of those people.
Second, artist interviews bring you to life.
Suddenly it's not just about your artwork, it's also about you and that makes your artwork more personal.
When preparing your interview be sure to make it personable.
Don't be a "down-in-your-luck" artist because nobody will want to hear it.
Stay positive and show how much you love being an artist.
There are always ways to answer questions that might otherwise need a negative answer.
For instance, if you have never made a sale, just don't include that information.
Don't lie, just don't admit.
Buyers want to buy art from artists they feel are successful.
Success can be many things, it doesn't just need to be the volume of your sales.
Did you have a showing, did you win an award, were you featured on other sites? Remember that you want your readers to like you and want to see more of your art.
Select your best work for the interview.
Be sure to ask if they will be inserting a copyright notice on all artwork.
If they don't, be sure that you do.
When you submit your answers and pictures to the website owner for your feature be sure that you follow their instructions.
If they want the interview in plain text, be sure to submit it in plain text.
This means no docs of any kind.
Never, ever submit your interview in a PDF format.
PDF documents cannot be copied and the website/blog owner must be able to copy and paste your interview into their website.
Don't pre-format your interview, let the blog/website owner do it themselves.
Generally every website owner has their own way of putting an interview together so that it looks right for their own website.
When you format it for them, it just causes them problems that they have to undo.