I got 68 illustrations online  and about 100 still in the pending area for over a month.
I contacted Jamie why my illustrations are still in the pending area.she was telling me that a lot of new artist were at clipartof
and she got a lot to do  so it takes time to get the illustrations online.

Uptill now no sales.

Online since June 01:

50 images and 8 sales so far. I really like this site and its personal touch. So happy to be a part of an agency where I feel I'm not just a drop in the ocean, and where the owners are actually communicating with its contributors A very special agency. Hope they never change!

Online since June 01:

50 images and 8 sales so far. I really like this site and its personal touch. So happy to be a part of an agency where I feel I'm not just a drop in the ocean, and where the owners are actually communicating with its contributors A very special agency. Hope they never change!

Yeah me too.  I've really been impressed with the responsiveness of Jamie.  Good to see that some people have sales with just a few images online.  It sounds like it's going to be a while before the que shortens since they had such an influx of contributors.

Yeah me too.  I've really been impressed with the responsiveness of Jamie.  Good to see that some people have sales with just a few images online.  It sounds like it's going to be a while before the que shortens since they had such an influx of contributors.

The number of images is not important.

What matters is the quality of images. So you may have more images and sell much less.

I saw a profile on istockphoto(no offense to him); the guy says in his blog that "his aim is to reach 10.000 vectors in a certain amount of time." Good luck to him if he only wants to have 10.000 vectors.

If he can hear me here, I would suggest him that he needs to stop worrying about the quantity and focus on the quality. Because his sales numbers aren't that impressive for the number of vectors he has online. I don't mean to offend that guy if he is reading the forum but I can see he is actually capable of creating better images but because he worries about his numbers, he does them carelessly and that's why the quality of individual images are not as good as they can be.

One good selling image is much better than 100 non-selling rubbish images.

Quote from: cidepix on August 06, 2009, 10:53

The number of images is not important.

What matters is the quality of images. So you may have more images and sell much less.

I don't know if that is necessarily true. Yes, quality matters, but I think quantity is important as well. My strategy in stock has always been hitting base hits and not home runs. I saw the kind of files that got big sales and I didn't want to make those kind of files. I wanted to draw in my own style. Maybe, I have to work harder and make more files, but I find it more satisfying.

Well, that's what I am saying.  

You don't just draw, just to reach 10.000 drawings! You should have your soul in every single drawing. Do I manage to do this thing I am saying? Not always, but usually yes.

I occasionaly draw things I later regret drawing. Sometimes I draw something I know will never sell. Just to make my port look more complex. But I don't do it very often.

For example I draw many icons and yes they sell well. But it is not just for money. I was drawing icons even when I was a kid of 15 years old and there was no way of selling them.

Who could have known I was destined to do that!  

The problem is, Jamie is still absolutely swamped with images in the queue - she's doing a great job, but since she reviews them all herself, it takes forever to get images online.

I suggested they restrict the number of images each contributor could submit (say on a weekly basis) but they didn't want to.

I sent a fairly small batch of illustrations in late May and they have just been put online in early August. Right around the time I submitted my illustrations, someone else had just FTP'd their entire collection of 10,000 files, which caused the huge backlog.

Even now it seems there is still a 1 - 2 month backlog, and they have also stopped accepting new contributors for the time being. Unless they put some restrictions in place, I can't see the queue clearing anytime soon 

Yes that is the impression I got from speaking with her. They want a large number of illustrations from a small number of illustrators. Once it all got stirred up here and a large number of illustrators applied all at once, things didn't quite fit into the system they had going well up to that point. I'm sure she's doing a great job, and maybe they don't care if artists lose interest waiting at the gate.

As a loger term contributor I can say that, as predicted, following you know who's promotion/ forum spamming frenzy sales have dropped to about half what they were.

All the art should be up now.

Last month was quiet but this month is booming.

Jamie is looking for more artists. http://www.clipartof.com
3d and vector only, prefer American artists. must be able to take Paypal!
Looking for artists that do not have similar styles to those she already has.

She is also going to contact existing artists requesting specific work from what I've heard.

For those that have just got their work uploaded it takes awhile for the work to be picked up by google, once that happens sales should be good.

Cheers
Dennis

Doing well there with 101 images, and I'm still very impressed with the way Jamie runs her business.

I've emailed Jamie several times since Dennis brought this site to our attention, no reply, nothing, nada, not even a polite rejection note.

I've emailed Jamie several times since Dennis brought this site to our attention, no reply, nothing, nada, not even a polite rejection note.

She is looking at the moment. Try emailing from another account.

I don't think she thinks that, I didn't show her any of my work, just told I work with vectors.