# Sell Your Art Online: Making A Living Through Print On Demand - review & insight | Gareth B. Davies Source: https://garethbdavies.com/course-insights/sell-your-art-online-making-a-living-through-print-on-demand/ [← All courses](https://garethbdavies.com/course-insights/) Business & Marketing · Quick win · Rated 5 /10 # Sell Your Art Online: Making A Living Through Print On Demand Updated August 2026 Patricia Caldeira · Illustrator | Digital Artist | Designer Beginner · 44 min A fast, practical walkthrough of setting up a print-on-demand shop, but too thin to actually build a real income stream. [Get a Free Month on Skillshare](https://skillshare.eqcm.net/c/3155494/298081/4650?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.skillshare.com%2Fclasses%2Fsell-your-art-online-making-a-living-through-print-on-demand%2F1615415643) New to Skillshare? Your first month is free, enough to take this course at no cost. Patricia Caldeira's class does exactly what its 44-minute runtime suggests: it walks a beginner through the mechanics of opening a print-on-demand shop, not the business of making one profitable. The ten lessons move in a straight line from platform comparison to account setup to niche selection to uploading and tagging a single piece of artwork, ending with a short push toward social promotion. There is no filler lesson and no rambling, which is the course's clearest strength. ## What the course actually walks through The platform comparison in lesson three is more specific than most beginner content in this space. Rather than a generic list, Caldeira sorts stores by audience and product type: Redbubble and TeePublic for pop culture and fan art aimed at younger buyers, Society6 for pattern-based home decor aimed at a wider age range. That distinction is useful because it saves a new seller from guessing which platform fits their style. The store setup lesson is screen-recorded step by step in Redbubble, covering account privacy settings, watermarking artwork against theft, uploading a cover image and avatar, and entering payment details. It is genuinely a click-along tutorial, useful for someone who has never built a seller profile before but adds little for anyone who has used any e-commerce platform. The keyword lesson is the strongest piece of instruction in the course. Instead of vague advice to "use good tags," Caldeira demonstrates finding a top-selling design in a similar style, scrolling to its tag list, and pulling relevant terms from it, then supplementing with Pinterest's search-suggestion dropdown to surface phrases like "watercolor floral" or "boho spring." It is a concrete, repeatable technique that a viewer can apply the same day, and it is the one part of the class that would be worth revisiting. ## Where it falls short The course never touches pricing, royalty splits, or how much a seller actually earns per sale on any platform, which is a significant gap for a class explicitly about earning income. It also treats "passive income while you sleep" as a settled premise rather than something to interrogate: there is no discussion of how long it typically takes a new shop to generate meaningful sales, no data on conversion rates, and no warning about how saturated niches like florals or pop culture fan art actually are beyond a single passing caution. The social media lesson is the thinnest section, amounting to "pick one platform, post consistently, tag the store's account, use a link shortener." Anyone who has run any small online store has already heard this. The niche-selection lesson leans heavily on "try things and see what sells," which is honest but not actionable advice for someone starting from zero. As a beginner's launch checklist, the course delivers on its narrow promise: by the end, a viewer really can have a shop live with one tagged product. As a course about "making a living" through print on demand, the title oversells what ten short lessons on setup and tagging can deliver. The standout The keyword-research method of finding a top-selling design in your niche and mining its tag list, then cross-checking with Pinterest search suggestions, is a genuinely reusable tactic beyond print on demand. ## What you will learn - · How to compare print-on-demand platforms like Redbubble, Society6, TeePublic, and Threadless by audience and product type - · How to create and configure a store account, including privacy, watermarking, and payment settings - · How to pick a niche using trending collections and seasonal demand - · How to research and apply keyword tags using competitor listings and Pinterest autosuggest - · How to upload artwork, write descriptions, and assign it across dozens of products - · How to use one social platform strategically to promote a shop without spreading effort too thin Best for: A hobbyist illustrator who already has a body of artwork and just needs a clear checklist to get a Redbubble or Society6 shop live this weekend. Skip it if: Anyone hoping for a monetization strategy, pricing guidance, or a realistic picture of how long passive income actually takes to materialize. Clarity of Instruction Engaging Teacher Actionable Steps Organization of Lessons [Get a Free Month on Skillshare](https://skillshare.eqcm.net/c/3155494/298081/4650?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.skillshare.com%2Fclasses%2Fsell-your-art-online-making-a-living-through-print-on-demand%2F1615415643)