Shutterstock continues to account for 41% of our entire earnings. And we actually had several of our illustrations taken out. I while ago I was doing a series of celebrity illustrations (one of George Clooney, Natalie Portman, Diablo Cody, and Zach Braff)...and since that went nowhere, I put them on the microstock sites. They should have been only available for editorial licenses...but after almost two years online they were all pulled from the site...citing possible copyright infringement. And it's not like they illustrations were, but Shutterstock likes to be careful...and it doesn't matter that much because they weren't big sellers anyway. But that's what accounts for the portfolio going from 702 to 700.
Istockphoto sold a lot less this last month...it's been very spotty as of late...I feel that with baseball season coming back it should start doing much better. I have a series of baseball caps that sell very well during the spring months.
Dreamstime made a strong showing of it this month...and I'm hoping for even more in the coming months as I'm going to try my hardest to make time for their new contests as they come up. I have one illustration already approved for this month's contest (the fireman, which I posted last week on this blog) and another one that's still a rough drawing.
The rest of the sites were alright. Vectorstock sells decently considering it's a smaller site with less customers. And, as I said before, it's nice to continue to make over $200 each month without having to spend much, if any, time creating new illustrations for these sites...I mean, more money could be had if I spent more time at it, but making money and spending no time sounds pretty good too...
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