The 2 EASIEST AI art digital products to sell online (digital + print on demand)

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Kate Hayes breaks down what she calls the two easiest AI-art products to sell: a digital printable wall art set and an all-over-print print-on-demand item. She says she validated demand on Etsy first, reporting estimated monthly revenue of over $22,000 for the top safari animal wall art listing she found, over $10,000 for the next, and over $4,000 for another, and over $1,800 for a cottagecore mushroom mouse pad listing — all presented as her research estimates for single listings. Creation is done in Kittle, a design tool with a text-to-image generator. She surveys its image styles (full images such as Art Deco or oil painting), clipart styles for isolated illustrations, a background remover, vector styles that scale without quality loss, and pattern styles for repeating designs. For wall art she uses a 16 by 20 inch poster preset at a minimum of 300 DPI, tries prompts such as ‘peach and blue flowers’ in Art Deco, a color-splatter safari lion and zebra set, a kawaii cactus with the quote ‘Bloom where you are planted,’ and line-art of Africa with a flower inside, then downloads as PDF or JPEG, with background removal as an option, noting an upgraded Kittle plan is needed for some features. For print on demand she generates patterns — cute cats wearing glasses, jewel-tone flowers, and a peacock feather boho pattern — and places them in Printify on a journal cover and a mouse pad to preview the finished products, explaining that the supplier produces and ships orders. On licensing, she relays Kittle’s position that AI content may be used commercially under its terms, but Kittle does not guarantee suitability or cover infringement if a generated image resembles someone else’s work, using a Mickey Mouse example. Prohibited uses she highlights include competing with Kittle or uploading to rival stock/marketplace platforms, registering designs as trademarks, and misleading the Kittle community about AI use; she also warns that each sales platform has its own AI rules to check.

Key takeaways

• Validate the idea on Etsy before creating, as the creator did with safari wall art and mouse pads, using estimated listing revenue as a demand signal — figures here are her reported estimates.
• Start with two low-barrier formats: printable wall art as a digital download and all-over-print print-on-demand products fulfilled by a supplier like Printify.
• In Kittle, match the style to the product — image or clipart for wall art at 16x20 inches and at least 300 DPI, vector for scalable art, and pattern styles for journals and mouse pads.
• Kittle permits commercial use under its terms, but the seller bears infringement risk if a generation resembles existing work, so avoid characters and artwork tied to brands like Disney.
• Respect Kittle’s prohibitions — no competing platforms, no trademark registration of generated designs, no misleading the community — and separately confirm your marketplace allows AI-created products.

Episode details: published July 4, 2023 · 15:07 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kate Hayes’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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