Fall in Love with Selling for Valentines Day

Get your fans to fall head over heels with your creations in the weeks ahead of Valentine’s Day. Deviants start looking for Valentine art in January so share content now to maximize your sales!

Connect Using Your Personal Style

Authenticity means everything these days. People who love your art want to know more about your individual style. 

Share your own personal slant on what love means to you and see how others identify with it and feel seen. 

Make Valentine-themed artwork available to your potential buyers and watch as they can’t help but snap it up!

Boost Your Valentine’s Content

Increase the visibility of your Valentine’s themed art and entice a wider community by using the Boost feature.

Boosting seasonal content helps expand your audience and captures more interest in your artwork.

Leverage These Products for Valentine’s Day

Improve your chances of making more sales by optimizing these products:

Exclusives 🦄

The two weeks before Valentine’s are an ideal time to sell love-themed adoptables and any other one-of-a-kind creations that spark passion as Exclusives. 

Here’s a popular Valentine 2024 Exclusive as an example:

🎁 Plus, the gifting feature is perfect for encouraging your fans to gift your one-of-a-kind creations as Valentine treats. 

Learn more from the Seller’s Guide to DeviantArt Exclusives.

Premium Downloads 🔐

As Premium Downloads are capable of being downloaded multiple times, this gives you the opportunity to sell more and reach a wider audience with Valentine-themed artwork.

Offer love–related cards, patterns, PNG packs, sticker packs or irresistible creations for sale and the sky’s your limit!

Premium Galleries 💎

This is a great place to keep all your seasonal artwork. It’s super convenient for fans to visit one location and find all your Valentine creations. 

With Premium Galleries, sell access to a collection of deviations with the option of adding to them over time. 

Commissions 🖼️

Valentine-themed commissions containing customized characters celebrating love and passion are really popular this time of year. 

Subscriptions 🔄

Celebrate the spirit of Valentine’s Day by adding seasonal artwork to your Subscription tiers. This helps to entice fans into viewing your artwork and being swept away by it!

If you want to increase engagement with your artwork, create a quirky activity for your subscribers. This could be a poll or puzzle to start a conversation. 

It always pays to say Happy Valentine’s Day to your subscribers, so be sure to post a cute or funny message!

Discover more about Subscription tiers with our  Seller’s Guide to DeviantArt Subscriptions. 

Develop Your Audience With Valentine’s Content

Share Free Content for More Engagement

Experiment with posting free content that’s visible for everyone. As more people see your artwork, the more likely it is they’ll want to buy it!

Post Free Content Regularly

Create a string of deviations or posts through the first two weeks of February to build awareness of your brand as an artist. 

Alongside, share your artwork that celebrates love. This links Valentine’s with your creations for a stronger fan connection. 

Customize Designs

If you sell adoptables or other characters, customize with love-related designs. 

Daily Activity

Post a quick daily activity, conundrum, or quest to entertain fans. 

Make it Fun

Share funny posts, jokes, life observations, or artistic techniques.  Use what you find interesting to engage your audience. 

Tried and Tested Seller Valentine’s Tips

Prep Your Profile

Decorate your profile with a Valentine design or theme using Valentine Profile Skins and Custom Sections. Keep your Valentine artwork at the center of everything you do so deviants know what you’re selling. 

Valentine’s Tags

Include the tags #valentines or #valentinesday on your love themed art so more people discover your creations for sale. 

Getting specific with your tags also helps with discovery. For example, if you have a heart-themed artwork, tag it with "valentines," love," and "heart." 

Love Collaboration 💝

Spread the love by collaborating with other artists on Valentine-themed artwork. This introduces you to their audiences and could expand your buyer fanbase.