Bluegirl Graphics

Whimsical Illustrations by LDG

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I’m a Texas native and artist who enjoys photography, digital illustration and the internet. I love the game Myst, and all it’s sequels along with fantasy, sci-fi, White Collar, penguins and other fictional pursuits.

chinstrap penguin witch

death takes a coffee break

Frida Kahlostein

Joker Peng

Crappybara

Penguin snowglobe

Happy 4th Penguins

Racing Peng

Folklorico Spanish Pengs

Mountain shores 3D

Please buy my art

just chilling penguin

Hamburger Penguin

Sailor Penguin

Easter Penguin

baseball penguin

Beatnik Penguin

Starry Penguin

strippeng

eclipsed peng

flying penguin

rainy day penguin

golfing penguin

Avocado Moon landing

Parisian Peng

chinstrap sk8r peng

Alamo penguin

dustosaurus

St Patrick’s Peng

Pianosaurus

Year of the Dragon

Be my Chum Valentine Shark

Bluegirl Graphics Logo

Nativity penguins

Remember the Alamo

Couple Pengs

Brace yourself for Easter

We can Peng it

Love you to the core

Ranger Penguin

Year of the Rat cute

Burger face

2026 Where to Sell Your Art

December 20, 2023

I had forgotten I wrote a little something in 2007 about where to sell and buy your art online. Updated to express any changes in sites I currently sell on or use to print my art.

Zazzle – Still a very good place to upload and sell your art without any upfront costs. Lots of options from stickers, tees, bandanas, prints, gift bags and more. They have online options for customers to get some cards in E-format. You make a sale but a bit less than the physical cards.

Threadless – Free to upload your art to sell on various things from tees to socks and prints. They have contests too for those who like to design. You can win some good money there. I haven’t personally won any of the contests but some of the winning designs are impressive.

TeePublic – Free to upload your art to sell on tees, stickers, buttons, magnets and more.

Fine Art America / Pixels – Free to join at the basic level. Limited to about 10 to 20 free listings. Prints, canvases, greeting cards and more to add your art to.

Greeting Card Universe – Free to join, no upfront fees. Customers send requests to site about what they want in a greeting card. It gets listed on the forum for members to see. If you want to make a design for the idea, you create it to place in your shop then add the link on the forum post, the customer gets to pick which one(s) they like and the site owners let you know if you were picked or not. Meanwhile, any card designs you make that are approved can be added to your own individual card store. You can also make custom items if someone contacts you directly. Payment is every 3 to 4 months if you make $50 or more. Minimum earned per card is usually around 10 cents a sale.

Redbubble – No limit on designs. Lots of options with stickers, tees and more. There may be some tiers that are fee based currently.

Avery – The company most recognize as making printable sheets for your printers, they have an online shop to buy your art. I took part in a promo for 10 huge stickers (6 inches I think) and they came out BEAUTIFULLY! So if you need some good custom printing, this is your place.

I have no affiliate links for these sites unless you want to visit my personal pages to buy my art. I’d be ever so grateful. 🙂 https://linktr.ee/elledeegee

Thanks for reading.
chinstrap penguin witch

death takes a coffee break

Frida Kahlostein

Joker Peng

Crappybara

Penguin snowglobe

Happy 4th Penguins

Racing Peng

Folklorico Spanish Pengs

Mountain shores 3D

Please buy my art

just chilling penguin

Hamburger Penguin

Sailor Penguin

Easter Penguin

baseball penguin

Beatnik Penguin

Starry Penguin

strippeng

eclipsed peng

flying penguin

rainy day penguin

golfing penguin

Avocado Moon landing

Parisian Peng

chinstrap sk8r peng

Alamo penguin

dustosaurus

St Patrick’s Peng

Pianosaurus

Year of the Dragon

Be my Chum Valentine Shark

Bluegirl Graphics Logo

Nativity penguins

Remember the Alamo

Couple Pengs

Brace yourself for Easter

We can Peng it

Love you to the core

Ranger Penguin

Year of the Rat cute

Burger face

Orphan works – Should I be worried?

April 14, 2008

Here’s a good link to what this seems to be about: Orphan Works.

It seems this is about your works being stolen should someone try to contact you, can’t and after waiting a reasonable amount of time can claim your work and use it how they wish. Seems unfair to me if this is a new way for people to screw you out of your artworks or other creations. Lucky for me… I haven’t NOT gotten rid of any of my original emails so if someone is honestly trying to contact me about an art work I have listed, they should reasonably be able to get in contact with me. I check all my original and new email accounts atleast once a week or more.

So … fyi!

~L~
chinstrap penguin witch

death takes a coffee break

Frida Kahlostein

Joker Peng

Crappybara

Penguin snowglobe

Happy 4th Penguins

Racing Peng

Folklorico Spanish Pengs

Mountain shores 3D

Please buy my art

just chilling penguin

Hamburger Penguin

Sailor Penguin

Easter Penguin

baseball penguin

Beatnik Penguin

Starry Penguin

strippeng

eclipsed peng

flying penguin

rainy day penguin

golfing penguin

Avocado Moon landing

Parisian Peng

chinstrap sk8r peng

Alamo penguin

dustosaurus

St Patrick’s Peng

Pianosaurus

Year of the Dragon

Be my Chum Valentine Shark

Bluegirl Graphics Logo

Nativity penguins

Remember the Alamo

Couple Pengs

Brace yourself for Easter

We can Peng it

Love you to the core

Ranger Penguin

Year of the Rat cute

Burger face

I’ve been publish… sort of

April 13, 2008

Check this out: Schmaps Guide Online.

Someone contacted me through Flickr that they liked my photo so I checked out the site. Looks legit enough so I went ahead and let them use it.

I’m also tempted to try another site I found that sends books to children in countries who are trying to learn English. All illustrations are contributed freely and there is no profit made. All non-profit. I think I could do it but I have to see what they have available. 😀

Other than that… nothing much new on the art scene. I’ve been adding a few new things to sites here and there.

~L~
chinstrap penguin witch

death takes a coffee break

Frida Kahlostein

Joker Peng

Crappybara

Penguin snowglobe

Happy 4th Penguins

Racing Peng

Folklorico Spanish Pengs

Mountain shores 3D

Please buy my art

just chilling penguin

Hamburger Penguin

Sailor Penguin

Easter Penguin

baseball penguin

Beatnik Penguin

Starry Penguin

strippeng

eclipsed peng

flying penguin

rainy day penguin

golfing penguin

Avocado Moon landing

Parisian Peng

chinstrap sk8r peng

Alamo penguin

dustosaurus

St Patrick’s Peng

Pianosaurus

Year of the Dragon

Be my Chum Valentine Shark

Bluegirl Graphics Logo

Nativity penguins

Remember the Alamo

Couple Pengs

Brace yourself for Easter

We can Peng it

Love you to the core

Ranger Penguin

Year of the Rat cute

Burger face

Prickie goes on vacation

April 4, 2008

Unfortunately I received an email from Prickie.com today saying they were going to shut down shop for a bit. They’re low on funding, so for now Prickie will become a gallery of badge art. They will not be selling any button badges while they figure out what’s going to happen. I’m hoping they will be able to get funding and come back up as a shop. I guess for now I will have to sell buttons from my zazzle and cafepress shops. *shrugs*

I do still have some buttons from Prickie I bought a while back when I made some cash off Ebay. Spent my earnings on buttons thinking I’d sell them then never had a chance to. 😦 I think I’ve managed to sell two when I used to go to the local Graphic Designer Meetups. Too bad all the local meetups seem to become either inconvenient for me to get to or they end up closing up and disappearing. Just a bad market here in my area for clubs and such that don’t involve something like dogs, cats, divorcee’s or something really bizarre like pagan worship. That’s how it is in a small big city (yes I meant to say that… we’re a big city with a small city mind set.) 😛

~L~
chinstrap penguin witch

death takes a coffee break

Frida Kahlostein

Joker Peng

Crappybara

Penguin snowglobe

Happy 4th Penguins

Racing Peng

Folklorico Spanish Pengs

Mountain shores 3D

Please buy my art

just chilling penguin

Hamburger Penguin

Sailor Penguin

Easter Penguin

baseball penguin

Beatnik Penguin

Starry Penguin

strippeng

eclipsed peng

flying penguin

rainy day penguin

golfing penguin

Avocado Moon landing

Parisian Peng

chinstrap sk8r peng

Alamo penguin

dustosaurus

St Patrick’s Peng

Pianosaurus

Year of the Dragon

Be my Chum Valentine Shark

Bluegirl Graphics Logo

Nativity penguins

Remember the Alamo

Couple Pengs

Brace yourself for Easter

We can Peng it

Love you to the core

Ranger Penguin

Year of the Rat cute

Burger face

Haru no Onna – The Spring Maiden

April 1, 2008

Here is a pretty good example of what I can do when I’m bored enough and play with photoshop:

This was prepped by me removing the background by hand. I really need to find how to use more shortcuts and such. At this point the image is ready to be manipulated but only the bare minimum has been done by removing the background.

After some work and probably a good hour or so of work, this is the end result. It’s nowhere near perfect but it’s 100% better than what I had and much brighter colorwise. I even added the background as if she were outside along with some layered shadows. Makes me think of a shadowbox or something.

This item is for sale as the final product at my Deviantart and Zazzle shops.

~L~
chinstrap penguin witch

death takes a coffee break

Frida Kahlostein

Joker Peng

Crappybara

Penguin snowglobe

Happy 4th Penguins

Racing Peng

Folklorico Spanish Pengs

Mountain shores 3D

Please buy my art

just chilling penguin

Hamburger Penguin

Sailor Penguin

Easter Penguin

baseball penguin

Beatnik Penguin

Starry Penguin

strippeng

eclipsed peng

flying penguin

rainy day penguin

golfing penguin

Avocado Moon landing

Parisian Peng

chinstrap sk8r peng

Alamo penguin

dustosaurus

St Patrick’s Peng

Pianosaurus

Year of the Dragon

Be my Chum Valentine Shark

Bluegirl Graphics Logo

Nativity penguins

Remember the Alamo

Couple Pengs

Brace yourself for Easter

We can Peng it

Love you to the core

Ranger Penguin

Year of the Rat cute

Burger face

Big Brother comes to Fotolia

March 20, 2008

Maybe that’s a little harsh but this is why I’ve chosen this title for my blog today:

Fotolia has always been a pretty good site and I had no major issues with it over all. I’ve only been a member since 2006, but it was fun to get an idea what people liked out of my illustrations. The pay wasn’t too great with them selling stuff for a Buck and me getting .33 cents a sale. I’m lucky I made anything at all from the site (less than a 100 bucks in the almost 3 yrs I’ve been there.)

Well today I thought I’d transfer over what little meager funds I had in the Fotolia account to my Paypal. I hit the convert credits to dollars button and got this: “All contributers must upload an image of your govt issues id or passport to process funds.” I was like “WTF!!!???” Cause up till now I hadn’t heard a damn thing about this. When did this happen?!? I know they’re based in Europe but this was news to me. I also noticed somehow my account is set up to NOT get the newsletters and I know I was getting them in the past. I never changed that option so I find that odd.

So I wrote them through support and they sent me the email for their “U.S.” liason. I wrote him and he tells me “oh yeah that’s our new policy so that we can fight theft, fraud and just get to know you a little better.” Mind you… they already have my social because every site just about now requires that if you want to sell anything. I just think that it’s ludicrous to require more than that. Giving out your social is risky at best unless you know the site is safe and I knew they were safe but this whole “govt id / passport” requirement has got me up in arms and angry. Plus I just want my $15 bucks or a good portion of it and I’ll just leave. I earned it fair and square. I’ve already deleted all my files. I don’t want them using my stuff w/o my permission if I’m quitting… and I am.

So that is why I chose my title. I think it fits just right especially after what a friend of mine who used to work for the U.S. govt told me. I won’t go into details but it fits the situation.

Anyhow… I guess I just have to wait and see what they say. They, of all the sites I sell at, are somehow lacking in a “delete my account” option. Didn’t they think someone “may” just want to leave? Seems strange…

~L~
chinstrap penguin witch

death takes a coffee break

Frida Kahlostein

Joker Peng

Crappybara

Penguin snowglobe

Happy 4th Penguins

Racing Peng

Folklorico Spanish Pengs

Mountain shores 3D

Please buy my art

just chilling penguin

Hamburger Penguin

Sailor Penguin

Easter Penguin

baseball penguin

Beatnik Penguin

Starry Penguin

strippeng

eclipsed peng

flying penguin

rainy day penguin

golfing penguin

Avocado Moon landing

Parisian Peng

chinstrap sk8r peng

Alamo penguin

dustosaurus

St Patrick’s Peng

Pianosaurus

Year of the Dragon

Be my Chum Valentine Shark

Bluegirl Graphics Logo

Nativity penguins

Remember the Alamo

Couple Pengs

Brace yourself for Easter

We can Peng it

Love you to the core

Ranger Penguin

Year of the Rat cute

Burger face

Imagekind ROCKS!

March 11, 2008

I have to say the people at Imagekind are a great bunch of people!

I bought a framed print of my own work (my “year of the rat” series as a dual print, single frame) and it came out beautiful! The only issue I had was that the frame was slightly marred. Normally I wouldn’t have too much of an issue but since it is my own work and I might consider selling it later on (kind of why I bought it / assessing how their service is) I let them know the frame had problems.

Tasha was the main person I chatted with both on the phone and in email. She was very professional and friendly and sent me a call slip to send my frame back after they assessed damage from the photos I sent. I got the call slip in good time, printed it out and was able to have FedEX pick it up from my apt and deliver it back. In about a week (Today) I got another framed print of the same item back! I was very surprised and very happy with their quick turn around. This new frame and print is perfectly framed and matted.

If you need something printed and framed, Imagekind is the place to go. They are a top-notch company!

If you are interested in this print (it is for sale) Please contact me for more information.

~L~
chinstrap penguin witch

death takes a coffee break

Frida Kahlostein

Joker Peng

Crappybara

Penguin snowglobe

Happy 4th Penguins

Racing Peng

Folklorico Spanish Pengs

Mountain shores 3D

Please buy my art

just chilling penguin

Hamburger Penguin

Sailor Penguin

Easter Penguin

baseball penguin

Beatnik Penguin

Starry Penguin

strippeng

eclipsed peng

flying penguin

rainy day penguin

golfing penguin

Avocado Moon landing

Parisian Peng

chinstrap sk8r peng

Alamo penguin

dustosaurus

St Patrick’s Peng

Pianosaurus

Year of the Dragon

Be my Chum Valentine Shark

Bluegirl Graphics Logo

Nativity penguins

Remember the Alamo

Couple Pengs

Brace yourself for Easter

We can Peng it

Love you to the core

Ranger Penguin

Year of the Rat cute

Burger face

Art Contest Galore!

February 23, 2008

I’m not a professional artist by far. I think I’m good but I wouldn’t go so far as to say I’m a pro. I guess I haven’t gotten that conceit yet. I’ve known many an artist type, student etc who did have it and sometimes they rightly have it as they are very talented and some of them you’re like “uhm… sure… if you say so.” ;P

So as confident as I am in some ways with my art, I have been trying to come up with an idea for this one site called Momiji. They are asking people to contribute a new doll idea. Their dolls remind me of the old clothes pin dolls… the old big wooden clothes pins that don’t snap… the ones that had a big wooden ball type head and just clipped like a paper clip does. They probably don’t sell those type anymore as people have taken to the clippy ones that snap. So I am trying to make a doll and have gone through so many incarnation I don’t know what to do. I need to decide soon though. The contest ends in March but you have to have had people vote on yours to qualify at all I think.

Other than that, I have subbed to a great many free newsletters or have been spammed with a few good ones off and on that give me updates on online contests. The only problem I have is I feel intimidated if they’re open enough. I know I’ll have to compete against someone who’s probably better than me or has atleast some art school degree or something. I just have my natural talent and alot of work at making it better on my own to push me fwd. I’d love to take art classes but my folks always seemed dead set against it. I didn’t show the talent my brother did. He did alot of drawing, illustration and other more traditional art. I did stuff but I hadn’t really started to shine till I found digital mediums like Photoshop to play with. Now my mom is really happy with my art but then my brother isn’t there to compete with much on that front anymore. I wish he would atleast try. He was always really good at drawing and everything else. I think he’d profit by getting online and trying his luck at stockart or other such things.

I should sleep… gawd it’s late!

Wish me luck on the art contests.

I’m going to need it!

~L~
chinstrap penguin witch

death takes a coffee break

Frida Kahlostein

Joker Peng

Crappybara

Penguin snowglobe

Happy 4th Penguins

Racing Peng

Folklorico Spanish Pengs

Mountain shores 3D

Please buy my art

just chilling penguin

Hamburger Penguin

Sailor Penguin

Easter Penguin

baseball penguin

Beatnik Penguin

Starry Penguin

strippeng

eclipsed peng

flying penguin

rainy day penguin

golfing penguin

Avocado Moon landing

Parisian Peng

chinstrap sk8r peng

Alamo penguin

dustosaurus

St Patrick’s Peng

Pianosaurus

Year of the Dragon

Be my Chum Valentine Shark

Bluegirl Graphics Logo

Nativity penguins

Remember the Alamo

Couple Pengs

Brace yourself for Easter

We can Peng it

Love you to the core

Ranger Penguin

Year of the Rat cute

Burger face

Photoworks… WORKS!

February 17, 2008

Yep… I finally made my first order when they had 50% off their keychains a few weeks back. I bought one of their keychains they had and put my “tiffany stained glass styled dragonfly” illustration on it. I received it this week and it was just BEAUTIFUL! Check out the pic:

I’m selling this for $10 dollars plus $1 dollar shipping if anyone’s interested.

I only have one but I can get more if more people show interest. I can put other art of mine if you’d like a different print. Let me know. ^_^

~L~
chinstrap penguin witch

death takes a coffee break

Frida Kahlostein

Joker Peng

Crappybara

Penguin snowglobe

Happy 4th Penguins

Racing Peng

Folklorico Spanish Pengs

Mountain shores 3D

Please buy my art

just chilling penguin

Hamburger Penguin

Sailor Penguin

Easter Penguin

baseball penguin

Beatnik Penguin

Starry Penguin

strippeng

eclipsed peng

flying penguin

rainy day penguin

golfing penguin

Avocado Moon landing

Parisian Peng

chinstrap sk8r peng

Alamo penguin

dustosaurus

St Patrick’s Peng

Pianosaurus

Year of the Dragon

Be my Chum Valentine Shark

Bluegirl Graphics Logo

Nativity penguins

Remember the Alamo

Couple Pengs

Brace yourself for Easter

We can Peng it

Love you to the core

Ranger Penguin

Year of the Rat cute

Burger face

Copyright issues…

January 31, 2008

For those of you out there that publish your photos or art at Photobucket and other sites like Deviantart, some of you have experience with art theft. Here is another case of a site that unfortunately creates an atmosphere for art theft: http://www.polyvore.com

This link goes to the Photobucket section of Polyvore. Polyvore is apparently a site that allows members to create their own collages from images and upload them. Although their site obvious states “use your own images” several members insist on borrowing / stealing art of others and ruining it in ugly tacky collages.

If you have photos or art at Photobucket and Deviantart , check out that site to be sure your photos and artwork haven’t been stolen. They also seem to steal directly from people’s websites too. It’s pathetic how people think JUST because images are online, they must be free. At least ask permission to use something. If it’s not your art… DON’T USE IT!!!

~L~
chinstrap penguin witch

death takes a coffee break

Frida Kahlostein

Joker Peng

Crappybara

Penguin snowglobe

Happy 4th Penguins

Racing Peng

Folklorico Spanish Pengs

Mountain shores 3D

Please buy my art

just chilling penguin

Hamburger Penguin

Sailor Penguin

Easter Penguin

baseball penguin

Beatnik Penguin

Starry Penguin

strippeng

eclipsed peng

flying penguin

rainy day penguin

golfing penguin

Avocado Moon landing

Parisian Peng

chinstrap sk8r peng

Alamo penguin

dustosaurus

St Patrick’s Peng

Pianosaurus

Year of the Dragon

Be my Chum Valentine Shark

Bluegirl Graphics Logo

Nativity penguins

Remember the Alamo

Couple Pengs

Brace yourself for Easter

We can Peng it

Love you to the core

Ranger Penguin

Year of the Rat cute

Burger face

Qassia… what is this?

January 23, 2008

I was wondering that same thing when an online acquaintance referred me. I’m still a bit in the dark but I’m getting an inkling as to what the site is about.

Qassia.com appears to be an ad revenue sharing site that involves people joining up to share their personal sites and information on various topics. Every time you add a personal site (they insist you have permission to add sites) you get a certain percentage of virtual revenue to use to pay for your ads online. They also pass this along to any sites you may already have joined such as Google Adsense. The amount of hits and referrers (haven’t tried this bit yet) as well as how interesting people rate your original news articles that you’ve written adds up to virtual ad revenue from Qassia and is split as you decide between your listed pages. So far I’ve managed to acquire close to $450 Quassia dollars for ad revenue.

The site is still in Beta so I’m still trying to figure out exactly what their purpose is and how it works. They seem to be trying to run a kind of virtual advertising budget that helps to get people out in the forefront with help by their online peers and draw traffic to member sites through this same peer system. I just like seeing how things are and what they are for if they’re helping to advertise sites. Plus it’s free and you can quit when you like.

Check it out for yourself… don’t take my word for it.

~L~