Making money as an artist just got waaaaaay easier. Follow this friendly guide and playbook to sell your original artwork, earn higher profits, and dominate the Displate marketplace!
In this post, we reveal to you the 10 top ways to become a successful artist on Displate.
Precisely, you’ll learn best practices, clever strategies, and easy tools to help you excel.
The ultimate goal is for you to get paid for your original artwork and skyrocket your earnings on the Displate marketplace!
Whooooosh!

Table of Contents:
1. Choose How You Wanna Proceed
2. Upload Your Best Original Art
3. List Many Artworks For Sale
4. See What’s Trending Now
5. Stick To The Categories
6. Use The Best Keywords
7. Power Up Your Artist Profile
8. Create Stunning Art Collections
9. Specialize In Something
10. Research The Marketplace
[Please note: All of the recommendations we provide in this guide will be easy for you to follow. Start at the beginning or simply skip around to the topics that interest you most. However, if you want to dominate on Displate and sell more original artwork than you’ve ever sold before, we recommend that you read everything here to get the most value possible.]
Are you ready to learn the top 10 things you can do to sell your original art on Displate?
We’ll start with the most important thing first….
1. Choose How You Wanna Proceed
There are plenty of great reasons to join Displate community of artists, but here is the top 3 that we find the most important.

2. Upload Your Best Original Art

Millions of people shop the Displate marketplace to find the best original artwork on the face of the planet — just like yours!
To satisfy these awesome art lovers who want to buy your artwork, you should only upload your best original art for sale on Displate.
By offering your highest quality designs:
- ◾ You will bring more attention to your artwork
For bonus points, if you can make the Displate Team fall in love your original artwork...
We’ll feature your art in our blog or Instagram channel to help you promote it to our wide and growing audience of original artwork fans.
So believe it, folks!
Uploading your best original artwork is the #1 way to sell more of it on the Displate marketplace!

How to Upload Your Best Original Art:
To upload your best original artwork for sale on Displate, simply be positive about 4 things:
- 1. Your artwork will look great as a wall decoration for someone’s home or office space.
If everything here checks off with you, then congratulations.
You’ve got amazing artwork that Displate shoppers will buy!
Upload it for sale to the Displate marketplace as soon as possible and start getting paid!
3. List Many Artworks For Sale

The quality of your original artwork will always have an effect on how much money you’ll earn with Displate.
The quantity of artwork you have for sale will have an effect on your earnings, too.
It’s easy to understand why.
When you upload and list many artworks for sale on the Displate marketplace ...
- ◾ People will have more opportunities to discover your art on our website
Cha-ching!

How to List Many Artworks For Sale
If you want to add more artwork for sale to the Displate marketplace in a short amount of time...
We recommend you do 3 simple things:
- ◾ Upload new artworks for sale every month to Displate
Ultimately, the more original artwork you have for sale on the Displate marketplace…
The more art sales you’re likely to get!
4. See What’s Trending Now

Creating artwork that is trending with shoppers is a clever way to sell more original art on the Displate marketplace!
But … how do you find out what’s currently trending with online art shoppers?
That’s easy.
Just use these 3 tools and resources — especially the Trending Topics Tool by Displate!
- 1. Trending Topics Tool by Displate
How to Know What’s Trending Now
You can discover what artwork is trending with online art shoppers quite easily with just 3 things:
1. Trending Topics Tool by Displate
With the all-new Trending Topics Tool by Displate…
You can instantly find which topics are trending with Displate shoppers in up to 10 countries!
This tool is awesome and you will love using it.
How the Trending Topics Tool by Displate works:
To access the Trending Topics Tools, simply login to your Displate account now.
Once you’ve got the tool open, you can discover what’s trending with shoppers in 3 steps!
- 1. Pick 1 of the top 10 countries where Displate is most popular.
Simple enough, right?
This is the #1 tool for selling original art on Displate.
We highly recommend you start using it now to sell more of your original art.
2. Popular Culture

Displate shoppers love to buy original artwork related to their favorite things in popular culture.
Luckily, you can find out exactly what’s trending in popular culture today if you pay attention to:
- ◾ Movies and popular TV series
Do your best to stay in the loop of these things so you can create and sell more of your artwork.
Paying attention to popular culture can seriously get you paid as an artist on Displate!
3. Social Media

The majority of Displate shoppers, like most other people, use social media every day or week.
Due to this fact, another popular way to see what’s trending with Displate shoppers is to pay attention to the things you see on social media.
These are the specific things we recommend you check out:
- ◾ Facebook artist groups
All of these are great resources — so go ahead and try them all.
Ultimately, by knowing what’s currently trending with Displate shoppers and people in general, you’ll have an extremely clear idea on what type of artwork you should create for sale!
5. Stick To The Categories
We encourage you to upload any original artwork you want to sell on the Displate marketplace.
However, it is a wise move if you stick to the categories of art listed on our website!
By creating artwork that is specifically related to the art categories on Displate, you will:
- ◾ Satisfy and meet the expectations of customers who shop Displate
This is a winning solution to sell more original art!

How to Stick To The Categories
Creating artwork that's associated with a category of art featured on Displate is easy.
To prove it, you can get a lot of art ideas for any category of art by doing this:
- ◾ Find an art category on Displate you’re familiar with and enjoy
Boom, there you go.
Instant inspiration for any category of artwork you want to create and sell on Displate.
(You’re welcome!)
6. Use The Best Keywords

Everytime you upload a brand new original artwork for sale on the Displate marketplace…
We always ask you to do three very important things:
- 1. Title your artwork
If you use the best keywords to do this, shoppers will discover your art for sale more easily!
To give you one example …
Check out the following artwork including some of the best keywords that describe it.

Keywords that describe this artwork:
(wine taster, woman, lady, wine, alcohol, drink, drinking, taste, tasting, beverage, glass, sip, sipping, watercolor, watercolour, red, white, funny, humor, humourous, caricature, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, Merlot, Pinot Noir, etc.)
As you can see, those keywords accurately describe the artwork and they’re very specific.
This is exactly what you should do, too, whenever you upload and apply keywords to your art!
Luckily, coming up with the keywords for your artwork is easy.
Read below to find out how you can do it in 3 minutes or less! ...

How to Use The Best Keywords For Your Artwork
First, you’ll want to grab a pencil and paper or find something to write with.
Next, write a list of 5 to 10 keywords that best describe the original artwork you want to upload and sell on the Displate marketplace. (Look at your artwork to do this correctly).
To come up with the best keywords for your artwork, focus on words that define just 5 things:
- ◾ The subject matter
See how easy this is?
Finding keywords for your artwork’s title, tags, and description really is this simple!
For best results, you should …
- ◾ Put the main keyword that describes the subject matter of your artwork somewhere in the title.
- ◾ Use any of the keywords you’d like for your artwork’s tags and description.
Finally, whenever you’re ready, submit your artwork for sale!
Now all of the Displate shoppers who want to find and buy your type of artwork can!
We pretty sure you’re cool with that!
7. Power Up Your Artist Profile

Do you want to know a big secret about Displate shoppers?
They will buy more of your original artwork if you have a powerful Artist Profile.
For you to create one that shoppers will fall in love with, your Artist Profile should reveal:
- ◾ Your talent
By using your Artist Profile to demonstrate these things and impress shoppers, they will feel more influenced to buy your art!

How to Power Up Your Artist Profile
You can wow and excite all of the shoppers who explore your Artist Profile on Displate by:
- 1. Selling an abundance of high quality artwork only
- ◾ What type of art you mostly create
To make the most powerful impression on your Artist Profile, you should also:
- 1, Upload your photo

Remember, the shoppers who are checking out your Artist Profile are just one click away from buying your artwork.
So, your Artist Profile, like your artwork for sale, should always look visually appealing.
Don't just make it look good enough.
You should make that baby pop!
The more powerful of an impression you can make with your Artist Profile — the more art sales and money you'll earn with Displate.
That's a guarantee.
8. Create Stunning Art Collections

One of the most profitable ways to sell your art on Displate is to create stunning art collections.
Create stunning art collections to sell more original art on the Displate marketplace.
By having your own art collections for sale, shoppers will be able to:
- ◾ Discover your artwork when they shop by collections
You have nothing to lose but everything to gain by selling collections of your artwork!
Give it a try if you want an easy way to multiply your earnings.

How to Create Stunning Art Collections
Art collections on the Displate marketplace consist of 8 or more related artworks.
So the best and fastest way to create your own art collection is to just get started!
Here’s what we recommend you do:
- ◾ Add new art collections one at a time
Sure, creating a stunning art collection takes time.
All great things do.
With all the extra money you'll be making, it will be totally worth your effort.
9. Specialize In Something

Have you specialized yourself as an artist, yet?
Choosing a subject matter to specialize in is a genius way for you to sell more original art on the Displate marketplace!
By uploading for sale many pieces of artwork devoted to the same subject matter, you will...
- ◾ Be featured more on the Displate marketplace to people searching that subject matter
All of these things sound great, right?
When you specialize in one subject matter, everything lines up to you getting more art sales!

How to Specialize In Something
You can specialize yourself as an artist on the Displate marketplace in 3 simple steps.
- 1. Pick one subject matter you’re good at illustrating or photographing.
Remember — the more artworks you create with the same subject matter, the greater likelihood someone will find and buy your artwork when they search for it on the Displate marketplace.
Specializing yourself is smart.
This strategy works even better after you’ve learned how to research the Displate marketplace like a pro….
10. Research The Marketplace

Do you want to become an expert seller on Displate in record-breaking time?
Then you should research what’s already on the marketplace!
By researching the other artworks available for sale on Displate, you will be able to:
- ◾ Know what other artists are selling for comparison
What’s not to love?
By doing just a little research, your mission of selling more artwork will be accomplished!
Luckily, it’s super simple for you to do….

How To Research The Marketplace
The following 4 methods will help you research and discover fun, easy, and profitable artwork ideas to sell on Displate!
- 1. Search for specific artwork ideas by using the Displate search bar
To get the most value from your research, we recommend you try them all!
The reason is simple...
Effectively researching the Displate marketplace will prepare you to only create artwork that sells and makes you money!
Continue The Conversation!

Good move, buddy!
You just learned the 10 best ways to sell your original artwork on Displate.
Now that you know all about the best practices, strategies, and tools to use...
You can dominate the Displate marketplace and begin to earn more money as an artist!
Now we want to hear from you…
Out of the 10 strategies we just gave you, which one are you going to try first?
Let us know in the comments section below!