BEST DIGITAL ART MARKETPLACES 2022 [UPDATED OCTOBER]

These days we all use photos, pictures, illustrations. We use those in various places: social media, websites, crafts. We express our emotions, moods, thoughts. In this blog, you will find about digital art marketplaces, where you can buy designs and use them in your daily life or even business. Digital marketplaces I divided into two parts: for crafters and designers.

Marketplaces for crafters are:

• Design Bundles
• Creative Fabrica
• The Hungry JPEG
• So Fontsy
• Etsy

Marketplaces for designers are:

• Creative Market
• Design Cuts

So what’s the difference between marketplaces for crafters and designers? Marketplaces for crafters usually offer ready-made designs. Those you can use for yourself, for family members, for gifts. Also, the license is suitable and for business.

Marketplaces for designers usually suggest premium products. Those products tell you the story. Those products include design elements, with those you can make your own designs. Not all designers can be invited to sell their products to those marketplaces, like Creative Market and Design Cuts, except Etsy.

Marketplaces for crafters

Design Bundles and Font Bundles

DesignBundles.net and FontBundles.net are launched in 2016, in the UK. They offer exclusive deals on high-quality premium design resources and free design resources. These marketplaces are popular among crafters who like to make something for themselves, friends, and family members, also for small craft businesses. If you looking for ready-made designs then you need to check here. Most popular on those sites are bundles. They consist of 3 to about 500 designs in one product with low prices. The most popular format are SVG (scalable vector graphics), JPG, PNG, DXF. Here are about 1 881 000 products.

On Design Bundles you will find so popular SVG files. These are vector-made files, you can resize them without losing quality. Here are graphics with a lot of illustrations for sublimation, patterns for fabrics or scrapbooking, mockups, 3D designs.

On Font Bundles, there are a lot of fonts for your craft, brand, creative projects. Here you will find various types of fonts: script fonts, web fonts, monogram, duo, trio fonts, embroidery fonts. Here is also a popular bundle.

On both sites, you will find sections with new designs, bundles, deals, and free designs. Here you communicate in a forum, read a blog, make a monogram, and learn in design school.

I need to mention that support is working very well for customers and designers. They respond fast and are very helpful.

Subscription and prices

If you decide to buy some designs on Design Bundles or Font Bundles you can checkout as a guest, then you don’t need to create an account. Or you can create an account and then buy.

Also, you can subscribe for PLUS membership and get even more designs from the PLUS section. There are nearly 214 000 designs and fonts. You will not find those designs elsewhere, they are unique and only on the PLUS section. Subscription works if you pay monthly. There are 3 types of subscriptions: Bronze, Gold, and Silver. The subscription you can cancel at any time.

In the ending of every month: Wednesday and Saturday there are One dollar deals. Where they are offering 42 digital design products, each 1 dollar. You only have 1 hour to shop. PLUS memebership has even more time to buy those products.

Creative Fabrica

CreativeFabrica.com is founded in 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Here is the marketplace for creative people who like crafting. Here you will find more than 106 000 fonts and 5 672 000 graphics. You can find fonts by category. There are 3445 categories only for fonts. Most fonts are in OTF and TTF formats. In the graphic category, there are 3D SVG, home craft, coloring books, teaching materials, crochet patterns, knitting patterns, cross stitch patterns, quilt patterns, sewing patterns, product mockups, logos, illustrations, and backgrounds, KDP interiors.

You will find a section especially for crafters with all designs, crafter club, and deals. Also here are online classes: how to use Cricut, how to sew, paint, crocket, how to make things with paper, clays.

They offer free designs, classes, and daily gifts.

I will say honestly this site is popular for crafters.

Subscription and prices

If you choose this marketplace the best choice for you is to subscribe. With one subscription for $29 per month, you can buy all the stuff on that site. And if you subscribe the first time, then the first month will cost only $1.

If you decide to buy something without a subscription, then you need to check the price of each product. No matter what you choose the commercial license is included in every product.

The Hungry JPEG

TheHungryJPEG.com was founded in 2014 in the UK. Here you will find Add ons, digital stuff for crafters, various fonts, graphics – illustrations, icons, mockups, patterns, textures, templates for your celebrities, business, logos, websites, social media.

Also, they offer Premium Design Graphic Design Bundles, the section with $1 Deals, where you can buy each product only for $1, here you can find bundles, fonts, illustrations, patterns. $1 deal products available only for one month.

Freebies are the other section. Every week they offer one free product with a commercial license. There are two more freebies: Font bundle and Craft bundle. If you want to get a Font bundle, first you need to share it on social networks: Twitter or Facebook. After that, you can download the bundle. If you want to get a Craft bundle, then you need to register or log in to their site.

Registration is very simple. You need to write first name, last name, email address, where you are from, and password. After that, you will get an email with confirmation.

Subscription and prices

On The Hungry JPEG, there are no subscriptions. Only one thing you need to do, register or log in. After that choose the products, put them in your basket and buy. So simple, so easy.

So Fontsy

SoFontsy.com was founded in 2011, in the US. This marketplace is growing very fast, there are about 191 000 SVG file products, 9860 fonts, more than 20 000 sublimation products. Here you can find stuff for software: Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, Affinity. In the Graphics section: icons, t-shirt designs, fonts, illustrations, textures, backgrounds, vectors, cliparts, text effects. Also here are templates, addons, photo, video editors, stock photos.

There are Freebies too. Paper textures, mockups, SVG, backgrounds. They have freebies weekly freebies, daily freebies.

$1 Deal section has more than 6000 free SVG files.

Subscription and prices

Before purchasing something on this marketplace, you need to register. Registration is very simple, write your email and password.

If you decide you can join the So Fontsy VIP Membership and get a monthly voucher up to $30, save on every product in every order, and gain exclusive access, and extra freebies.

Etsy

The biggest marketplace on the web is Etsy.com. Sellers from all over the world offer physical and digital products. There is a huge assortment, for every taste. Here you can find everything from socks to wall art and vintages. In this post, I won’t write about physical products, only digital. This e-commerce platform is the oldest, founded in 2005, in the US.

For the best result, you can use the search tab. Here you better need to know what you are looking for. Or maybe you have friends who suggest to you what they searched for and what they bought. If you need to find digital products, in the search tab you can use words such a: digital, download, and word that you a looking for. Maybe it will be flowers, planners, animals, watercolor, hand-painted, and so on. After you type the first letters you get suggestions in the drop-down list. That list shows most popular searches on this site. For the best result, type more than one word in the search tab.

Also, you can search in the categories, but that will be the longest way to find something.

Some sellers suggest you customize the product on the site. You don’t find this feature on the other marketplaces, where you can type in the fields what you like to be written on the invitation, for example. Also, there are products, where you can choose to buy a digital or physical product, for example, a postcard. If you buy a digital product, after purchase you just need to download it to your device. If you buy a physical then you need to wait till it comes to your home, or post office.

You can find sellers who will digitize your portrait or pet portrait. They suggest you the sizes, from the drop-down list, you can choose what color it should be: black and white or colorized.

Subscription and prices

On Etsy, there is no subscription. If you want to purchase, you need to register.

Prices are various. The same product you can find at different prices. The same product I mean, for example, watercolor flowers clipart. It can vary from $0.2 to up to $300. The First 4 products on the list are always promotions, no matter how you sort them.

Marketplaces for designers

Creative Market

CreativeMarket.com is founded in 2010, in San Francisco, California, United States. The sellers are talented artists and designers from all over the world. If you are looking for trends that are the best place to find them. The artists make quality premium products, each product is telling you a story.

On this marketplace, you can find fonts, graphics, templates, add-ons, photos, web themes, 3D. Fonts you can search by category and by style. Graphics can browse by category and by the tool they were created.

I need to mention Staff Picks section, here are handpicked products from different categories, from various artists. The staff picks the products and places them in this section.

The Free Goods section is revenue every week on Monday. In this section usually are fonts, graphics, templates, and text effects. Mostly they took small products and place them in the free section. Make sure you check the license before downloading and using the products.

The blog section consists of articles about trends, announcements, there are interviews. Here you can find inspiration for your projects. Blog articles you can browse by category. Also, here are tutorials, mostly on how to design.

From 10th of November, 2021 you will see a lot of new products added every day. That’s because the artists can sell their products when they open Pro account on Dribbble. I think, most of those products doesn’t meet the Creative Market requirements.

Subscription and prices

If you decide to buy, first you need to register. It’s free.

They have subscription, where you can get credits and spend to buy products.

The prices in the Graphic section starts from $2, in the Font section from $12, Templates from $6, Add-ons from $3, Photos from $4, Web themes from $19, 3D from $19.

Design Cuts

DesignCuts.com is founded in 2015, Chertsey, Surrey, United Kingdom. Not so long ago Design Cuts team was looking talented artists and designers and invited them to join their marketplace. Design Cuts was looking for really talented persons. Now designers and artists can try to open a shop on the site, and hopefully wait for approvement.

On this marketplace you will find top quality products and support which is working for you.

Let’s start from first page. Here you can find popular products and new created products. There are sections with Graphics, Templates, Fonts, Add-ons, Affinity, Procreate and Festive Products – here you find products for the holidays. On this marketplaces are a lot of top quality products. This marketplace co-works with designers and create exclusive products. All products, including free are with commercial license.

In the Lerning Hub you can read Articles. Those articles wrote designers and artists. Here you can find section News, participate in competitions, about sofftware updates. In Tutorial section you will learn how to make designs, how to paint, how to paint in Procreate. In the Product Academy section you will find courses for free how to create and sell designs.

Subscription and prices

There is no subscription. Registration is free, after you sign up, you will get bundle for free. This bundle include 20+ products: graphics, fonts, add-ons, templates, procreate brushes, scrapbooking elements. Every months they add new products.

When you buy products you can save up to 30% on every purchase. How does it works? When you buy two products, you save 20%, when you buy three and more, then you save 30%. And that’s amazing price for top quality products.

In this marketplace prices starts from $2.