It would be absolutely incredible for someone to build a Steem tool that is optimised for the purchasing of Steemian's art and even the commissioning of art.
We all love to adorn our posts with interesting, eye-catching images and use particular images to act as a visual cue for a post series. There are relatively few sources of high quality free art so why don't we encourage our Steemian artists to display their portfolios and reward them for their work?
We could have an owner tag built into the market for each piece of art and allow it to be traded...the blockchain could be referenced at any time to validate use of the image within the Steem economy.
Commission requests can be made of a specific artist, a price agreed and Steem or SBD held in escrow for once the commission is completed.
General commissions can be listed for any artist to pick up.
Art competitions could be held.
We certainly need to nurture the vibrant artistic community and in the end, a vast body of work will hopefully be born that will enrich and inspire all of us. Perhaps a great body of high quality free art will also develop and grow!?
Happy Steeming
Thank you for posting @benjojo.
Lovely article and idea.
Yes...bleujay has been encouraging @edje to start up a Steem Art Gallery.....he has such a good eye for art. A brick and mortar gallery has recently joined Steemit @reddragonfly.
All the best to you and your family. Cheers.
That's fantastic, nice one! Thank you for the heads up abut the gallery....what a cool development! Thank you for your support as always bud.
My name is (BillEon) Billy Johnson Art and I am an artist. I think that your idea is a great idea... Meanwhile, until that project comes into fruition, hopefully sooner than later. People are welcome to use my art for free, all I ask for is recognition (credit) for my artwork but I also don't mind donations if people like 😅. My art can be accessed through my page here on steemit or/and my online gallery at https://www.BillyJohnsonArt.com. The art that I create by hand is in the Quicken Spirit Gallery section and my digital art is in The Realm Beyond Gallery. All artwork images are high quality and look great as phone/computer backgrounds, post or whatever.
Here is one of my digital artwork ⤵️
This is fantastic and exactly why we need a market, to support artists like you so that you can produce more and make your excess available for free. This is an awesome image, I really like it.
Thank you very much... 😁
i honestly think it's coming, i really do :)
Do you know something along these lines is already in development? That would be brilliant
hey @benjojo not seen anything apart from the tag #steemgigs and i'm not sure what they are working on, i'm just about to try and learn electron (see my blog) so i'm thinking in the short term some kind of desktop app for aggregating rss feeds or tags that we all agree could work. but i think that's an area to get together on for sure for the community. if i see anything i'll loop you in!
sounds good to me :) I think the kind of tool I'm talking about would need to be a mobile tool with functionality that fits this particular use-case, but then once there are several well used and popular tools, someone needs to build a mobile UI that stitches it all seamlessly together.
to be honest once you have the code base made, building a mobile wrapper app is fairly easy with something like phonegap. so build the web app and mobile view would be easy, the only issue i can think of right now is handling payments/steem part but i'm sure libraries and code exists and so many app developers on here, maybe something similar to steemshot would be able to bolt that in easier. it's like instagram but for steem. it's really new but it works quite well.
That sounds really positive and very very exciting. I'm not technical at all so I get quite anxious that there are suitable ways to make all this happen. Thank you for all the info!
Yes , Hope one day it is Possible ...
It is certainly possible and I believe sustained demand is there! The artists are certainly up for it! :)
That is a brilliant idea @benjojo, I'm sure there would be much demand for this.
It's far beyond my capabilities to build but I will watch it with interest.
Hmmm, you have given me an idea....let me formulate 🤔
That's cool! Don't forget to let me know what it is once properly formulated! :)
I will, not sure it will work but there is a market..
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You are very kind, thank you.
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This is so CoOL man :)
I'm really glad you think so. Hopefully one of our enterprising devs can rustle something up that will be even better than I'm imagining!
YEah! That would be Awesome :)
That really would be an awesome thing. Maybe some day it will become reality :-)
I don't see how it can't. Steemit helping to create a massive and sustained demand for interesting images, we just need to provide the tools so that our artists can meet it more efficiently.
You're right that's a very good idea, being a developer in my lost hours I could try. Thank you
Thank you. Wow, great! If you are serious, I would reach out to the other developers working on other tools because they may be able to help!
I kinda want a marketplace for steem with searchable categories rather than getting redirected via links to 3rd party sites which i hate. Not sure if it can be programmed but would be interested to find out.
I think I understand what you mean. I think communities, which is in development as I understand it, will help with this kind of issue. Eventually there will be a steem tool which unifies and gives access to all the best, most commonly used tools from within a single user interface.
Exactly my point @reddust @playfulfoodie @jangalangdesigns @krizia
We have some very talented artists here so I'd think this is a great idea
Cool thank you! I couldn't agree more.
Great thought @benjojo
It's great to appreciate good work of art.
Your contributions always add value to this community.
I've always appreciated your work.
.... following you and please do stay in touch.
Thank you mcekworo, it is deeply rewarding to know that you appreciate my some of my efforts.
You are welcome.
shit if no one has started maybe i can lol this is a dope idea.
Fantastic! So glad you like it! I would definitely check in with some of the other Steemian developers....they might be able to help or give you a headstart with existing code etc....
This would be certainly a great thing ! Wonderful idea @benjojo ^_^
Wow, isn't he (or she?) just the cutest alien you've ever seen! :)
Haha ! This is a he , from the Wonkie Tribe,
As an artist I believe in this idea immensely. Steemgigs is useful to, but there's a real need for better interfacing on steemit. Hope this happens. I'm quite certain it is though.
I really believe it won't be long before a steemian developer or two implement something along these lines.
Would be interesting to create a market for not just stills but videography stock footage too.
Absolutely!
Would love to have this implemented! Was looking for something the last days... since I design some things myself and was hoping to find a place to do these things! Following you for more updates! Appreciate it :)
It really cant be long before someone develops something along these lines, I think it will be a great success all around.
Fellow artist here as well. I think this is a really cool idea.
Having weekly art competitions would be a great way for more people to participate in Steemit and just make art. Each week could have a specific theme.
Cool idea!!!
I am sure with time Steem it will develop and it will become as popular as other media platforms.