Can I market this at events and galleries? 🎨
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Corporate-style packaging helps here, but skip the meeting circus. Build 3 offers - live event sketches, gallery demos, and private commissions. Set 2 rates per hour plus a day rate. Show 12 strong samples on one page. Pitch 20 venues, 20 planners, and 10 galleries with a short PDF and Instagram clips from real sessions.
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Yeah, that’s a real pain point - live sketching can look like a hobby until you package it right. Start by making a tight 10-piece portfolio, post 30-60 sec reels from events, then pitch galleries, weddings, brand activations, and conferences with a simple rate sheet. Fwiw, events love “2 hours = 20 portraits” type numbers.
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Yes, and the cleanest path is to treat it like a service with atmosphere, not a cute side hobby. Build a tiny portfolio from real moments, show speed and style in short clips, then send that to event planners, galeries, museums, weddings, and brand activations with one simple sheet listing your setup time, hourly rate, and what clients get
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Skip the gallery-first angle. Galleries buy finished work, not a person drawing in real time for a crowd.
Pitch events with a clean rate card and photos of you working live. Post clips from openings, markets, and private bookings - I watched a whole team get fired over fuzzy positioning like this.
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