Hopefully in the next month or so, I'll be doing an art sale at the long term care center where I live. I can't afford to do prints of all my hi-res images so I've been asking several people I know online to pick a few of their favorites. I figure if the same images keep         popping up as favorites then those are definitely the ones to get printed.

What I've learned though is that people have widely varied art tastes. I did get a good enough sample that I know which of my images are more popular but there's little consistency in what type of images are popular. I also learned that there is no direct correlation between the difficulty of making an image and its popularity.

I'll post some samples below to illustrate what I'm trying to say. Three of the top ten choices were done in Terragen so I will not be posting those.

Note: None of the people picking favorites were 3D artists. A couple were traditional artists and a few were photographers but the majority were your average Joes and Janes.

This was the most popular image. It's a nice landscape that took quite a while to create.

This was the second most popular image. It's basically a SOW. Or in this case, a SIW (spheres in water). I used a Bryce sky preset with very little modification, a water plane, and three metal spheres. I could reproduce this image in twenty minutes, but tons of people love it. In previous art sales, it was a top seller.  

This was my third most popular image. It's a simple SOIP (spheres over infinite plane). Two glass spheres over a mirrored plane with a standard Bryce sky preset. Simple but people love it and buy it.

makes you kinda sad, well people who dont know how to make them are impressed by it. For my next show ill only dow sow's. lol

The next two most popular images were Terragen images, but this is #6. A swan from Daz with a willow tree (duplicated and rotated) from Scott Tucker I believe.

#7 was a Terragen image, but this is #8. A dog from Daz, a couple benches modeled by me, some grass, a number of Bryce trees, a sphere, etc.     

This is #9, an image trying to duplicate a Thomas Kinkade painting with the same name. Fairly difficult and one of my personal favorites.

And finally #10. Victoria 3 with clothing and pose from Daz.

You might want to check out Zazzle.com. They display your work and if someone likes it they can get it (printed on demand) as posters of several different qualities (the least of which is good) or on Tee Shirts or practically anything. And it doesn't cost you a cent. They, of course, get the lion's share of the profits but you do get a decent cut and it gets your work out there.