As a designer, specifically involved in visual or illustration design, sometimes it comes in your mind, after a lot of vector arts or vector illustrations you have made, where to sell your vector arts online. Either you start thinking to slow down on servicing fussy clients, or just to fulfill your passion in creating more vector arts, you can start thinking to sell your vector arts and survey some top digital stock agencies that provide best offer for you to sell your masterpieces. Usually they called it micro stock agency, and we listed down some of the most popular sites among designers and buyers as well.
Vector graphic market still considered less available compared to stocks image or stocks photo market that flooded anywhere in the digital media stocks we can find. So this is our opportunity to fulfill the buyers demand out there, in fact creating vector graphics can only be done by artist or designer like you, not everybody can do it.
FAQ to Selling Your Vector Arts Online
Vector (vector graphic file format), usually called vector graphic or vector arts or vector file, is a graphic media format that created using Adobe Illustrator, or Corel Draw, or InkScape, or any other vector graphic editor. Contrary with ‘Raster image’ or pixel based image (i.e jpeg, png, gif, bmp, tiff, psd, etc.), vector graphic can be scaled to any size without losing its quality, because it contains the physical attributes with it, such as width, height, line-stroke, fill-colors value that can easily be edited back with vector graphic editor.
Look around, everything requires graphic. From product packaging, brochure, flyers, magazines, internet, mobile apps, many more, all contains vector graphics. Who create them? Every single vector graphic in this world is created by someone, and you might be one of the original source creator. We create graphics and buyers, either they are designers as well or non designers, buy from us. Designers buy from us because it is much cheaper and time-saving than to create new for a project.
We don’t sell it ourselves. We upload them to micro stock agencies and buyers will buy from there. This is just like how hypermarket works. Buyers search for the thing they want, they pay for it, and we got money.
There are so many out there. But we will recommend top 15 sites as listed below due to popularity among designers and buyers looking for it.
Different micro stock agencies have different royalties percentage. Some take more, some take less. You earned between 15% to 60% from the total revenue.
No. They will have to review your vector graphics first in term of quality and technical requirements before they put it up for sale.
No. They will be continue to sell forever. That is how designers make money while sleeping :)
It depends. Some agencies allow you to sell the same artworks on other sites. Some are not allow you to do that, so always read the terms & conditions before you proceed.
From $20/month to $20,000 a month. Some statistic survey saying average vector artists made about $300 a month.
Anything, such as wallpaper, icons, abstract arts, background graphics, floral elements, animals, tools, furniture, characters, etc.
Anything that is good looking will sell. Some good tips said prepare for the coming big festivals like new year celebration related arts can be hot selling stuffs.
Sure, almost everyone in this industry do it as part time. And there are also many millionaire artists or designers doing it ‘full time’ at home.
You can opt your agency to pay you through PayPal, MoneyBookers, cheque. Some agencies may offer extra options.
When you have a business model whereby everyone has to pay to gain, it is then obvious that it is not a scam.
Micro stock industries spent millions of dollar in advertisement and they already have hundreds of thousands buyers there.
You should only concentrate on producing more works and not marketing.
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Where to Sell your Vector Arts ?
Shutterstock is well known for its photo stocks, graphic stocks, video clips and they also provide vector stock as well. They claim to cover near to 200 million royalty-free images, stock video clips, and music tracks. Besides that, they also have huge amount of vectors for high demand vector graphic users.. and what make Shutterstock one of the best option for designers or artists to submit is they provide contributors with comprehensive support, forum, guideline, etc.
iStockPhoto is one of big name in this industry owned by Getty Images. As the name given, you will see more photo stock sources, but at the same time they do have vector sources under Illustration category. You don’t want to missed this name in your list. Now with iStockPhoto you can Generate Ai image from Text with peace of mind..
3. Adobe Stock
Adobe Stock among the youngest ‘stock photo providers’, since 2015, we can find out there. Indeed Adobe needs one to complete their Creative Cloud features with digital stocks, and they was acquire Fotolia, one of the most popular stock photo. Adobe Stock provides creative assets from photography, videos, vectors and many more for creative users looking for digital assets on their jobs. Before you proceed, understand their rules on How to submit & sell on Adobe Stock.
4. Graphic River
Graphic River is one of the most popular and rich contents of creative stock or digital assets category owned by Envato, an Australia based company. It is also among the most searched by creative users simply because they provide variety of sub-categories, from fonts, logos, icons, vectors, templates, presets, web elements, 3D, mock-ups, and many more.
5. Creative Market
Creative Market is another big name in creative digital assets market place. 5 star rating handcrafted digital assets made by creative designers all over the globe, offers so many categories for buyer to choose from. Buyers can just insert a keyword to find the digital asset that come in their mind and the result lists are so many, make it easier for them to get the perfect one. Creative Market is a must have list for designers wanted to sell vector arts and also a must visit website for buyers looking for digital assets.
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7. Pond5
Pond5 providing not just photos, but they also offer rich royalty-free multimedia categories including video footage, music tracks, sound effects, After Effect templates, Vectors, Photoshop (PSD) and 3D models as well. Check it out, and see under your prefered category.
8. 123RF
123RF have an impressive 97 million stock images, vectors, video & audio clips and they claimed to offer low prices for users to get their stocks. ‘RF’ simply means Royalty-Free. With huge amount of graphic stocks, they also attract millions of buyers. This will be an another good agency to sell your vector stocks.
9. Freepik Contributor
A well known free graphic resources from vectors to any graphic items that can be downloaded free (with credit) and premiums stocks. Find out how to join them selling premium vectors graphics as freepik contributor.
10. Vector Stock
Vector Stock as their name, the site specifically dedicated to vector graphics, designed for vector artists, designers and anyone looking for royalty-free vectors. So vector artist, illustrator, this is the place you need to try sell your vector arts..
11. Dreamstime
Dreamstime claimed to have 74 million images, from photography and vector graphics. With quite impressive numbers of graphic stocks, they are among popular royalty-free graphic stocks being searched. Try sell your vector arts with them..
12. MasterBundles
13. Alamy
Alamy has separated sellers or contributors from photo seller and vector seller.. so check it out..
14. Go Media
Go Media is well known for their collections of vector packs, such as silhouettes, vector textures, patterns, symbol elements, etc. Find out how to join them selling your vector packs.
15. Cutcaster
Cutcaster is another photo & vector stocks provider and they do offer for designer selling stock as well.
16. PayLoadz
PayLoadz probably might not be a familiar name for some, but they simply offer almost anything that can be downloaded for selling, including digital arts – vectors..
There are many more options too choose, creative e-commerce sites that offers printed vector designs & artworks with their selling products that you can sell your artwork design is another good choice to start. They mostly offer selling creative T-Shirts with your designs printed on it, canvas framed arts, creative bags or other souvenir items, and you can promote it yourself, selling your designs and getting commissions at the same time. Happy surveying 😊
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A designer, illustrator, blogger and founder of Vectorise. Have been worked as an interior designer and currently enjoying visual design activities & involved in printing industry. Besides being permanent vectorise logo contributor, he also has passion in blogging about designs related, technology enthusiast, likes to try and review graphic apps, sharing freebies, etc.
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12 thoughts on “15 Sites Where To Sell Your Vector Arts”
Hey there, thanks for the information. I have question. Can I upload one vector in two or more websites? or each vector can be uploaded ones (in one website)? Thanks
it depends, but most of the sites not allowed to sell the same vector to other sites, anyway you are advice to read their terms and policy..
Thanks a lot… I´ve just start with selling vectors on my website, but these 15 places are much better choice..
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Thanks a lot… I´ve just start with selling vectors on my website,
Thank you very much for presenting this data about 15 sites where to sell your vector arts, it’s known how to get approved, but what are the next steps after getting the approval… Wonderful information, thanks a lot for sharing the kind of content with us… great post!
nice artilce , thank you Admin . keep it up have a great day
Nice Post, It would be great to see for vector download websites for premium and free.
Yes, you can always find premium & free vector downloads online.
What a great job you have done. All the 15 sites you have shared looks great as a portal to sell vector designs. Thank you very much for this kind of useful stuff.
Welcome Vectra.. hope it will benefits other freelancers looking for it :)