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I first stumbled across the artist Jason Baalman via the Wetcanvas Forum as he did a post about Being successful on eBay…year long study and I found him to be very informative in his analysis of what worked and what didn’t work with selling art on eBay. 

However since then he has discovered YouTube as the best way to market his art, with novel portrait competitions that really pull in the YouTube crowds.  His user name is EclecticAsylumArt and from starting with YouTube back in February 2007, he now has 73 videos of him producing his portrait art, some in crazy materials. He has a massive 39,259 subscribers to his videos, with his profile page having been viewed 1,255,180 times (each video also having huge viewing figures).

Jason creates competitions for fellow YouTubers to have their portrait done, then videos the drawing process for YouTube. Check the one above to get a feel for how compelling his portraits are, and what a great marketing tool YouTube can be for artists.

Also you can click here to read his early observations on how being on YouTube affected traffic to his Ebay listings.

And also click here to read about why he doesn’t over commercialise his YouTube presence.  

Really fascinating to see how artists are pioneering the new territory of social media. 

Leave comments below on what you think of artists using YouTube.