Based on our record, Commiss.io seems to be a lot more popular than Dotgrid. While we know about 14 links to Commiss.io, we've tracked only 1 mention of Dotgrid. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Everything else is an SVG. I am using a very cool tool and easy to use called DOTGRID for my svg graphics, you can find it on itch.io. Just be careful with the svgs because when importing you cannot scale them as vectors anymore, so a good rule of thumb is to generate svgs ~1.5-2x and use them at .5 scale so you have some wiggle room to scale them up without losing quality. Source: about 2 years ago
Be very careful, scammers tend to target newer accounts. Talk to them as much as possible and ask a lot of questions up front. Don't do any work until you've been paid at least partially. You can set up and direct them to a commissio (a platform that is very secure and protects both artists and clients). Source: about 1 year ago
Just to add to this, from the perspective of an artist working on building their own brand/fanbase: I feel like listing myself on some of these sites would be antithetical to my goals. I simply don't want to be another drop in the ocean. I want clients to want a piece from me because they associate quality and a one-of-a-kind style with my brand, so I could charge a premium. Listing myself on commiss.io would do... Source: over 1 year ago
Commiss.io (charges 5% or pay subscription for 0%)-> Was decent as a marketplace and for artists to manage their commissions, but the founding team has kind of fallen apart so there's only one staff member left who seems to be overwhelmed in running the site and goes months without responding to the community or dealing with support requests (including artists not completing work, people can't give refunds without... Source: over 1 year ago
I use commiss.io to show my portfolio. Source: over 1 year ago
Commiss.io though... yeah, that actually looks like direct competition for what I have in mind. The layout I'm envisioning is a little more professional, a lot more searchable, and less like a profile page, but there's enough overlap that I can see this not working out. Source: almost 2 years ago
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