Illustration Info
Toon Vectors A New Stock Art Site
What is Toon Vectors?
Toon Vectors is a new stock art site focusing on vector images. The site pays a generous royalty to artists of at least 70%. Images cost $19.99 for the standard license and $99.99 for an extended license. Here’s a little bit more about them from their FAQ:
Toon Vectors is an online collection of royalty-free stock vector graphics and clip art available for download at affordable prices. Toon Vectors is based in Austin, Texas and was launched in early 2012 by Chris Thoman, a software and web developer.
In a marketplace of oversized stock agencies that have become increasingly greedy and hostile to the interests of the actual content creators that make everything possible, our goal is to provide a smaller, more intimate venue for artists and illustrators to sell their creative works. We believe that the original artists, and not the middlemen, should receive the largest share of the profits from their own hard work.
Who runs it?
You may have noticed the site owner’s name above and thought that it sounded familiar. There’s a reason for that. The site was created by my brother, Chris Thoman. While I’m not an employee there or have any special affiliation with the site, I do know the owner pretty well.
How are the Sales?
It’s a brand new site (still has its new car smell), so I can’t give a review on how the sales will be. That said, I am excited about the potential of it.
Can I Sign Up?
Yes and no. Currently, the contributor side is unfinished, but you can contact Toon Vectors to get signed up for when the submission features go live.
Well, that’s all I have to say. It’s nice to have another fair paying agency out there, so go check it out!
Hey Cory,
Wow this sounds great, just what I’ve been looking for.
I’ve been following your work & blog for over a year now, I’ve was very inspired & impressed with how well you did on stock sites.
I’ve only been doing art for a few years & wanted to make some money on the side, so when I discover your site I thought was amazing, I’ll give that a try, so using the help of your tutorials ( because I had never used Illustrator both ) I start uploading to stock sites like you, but I didn’t realise how little you got for a download ( stupid I know ) I only had a few images on these sites but was still getting downloads, but when I look at the money I was getting, 0.25 from companies like Fotolio I soon got disheartened & stopped uploading, until I found Graphicriver which are great, so I just upload to them when I have the time, but at least I get good amount of downloads & half decent money in return.
Now Toon Vectors has come a long, I’m really excited & will defiantly start doing my vector illustrations again & uploading there, thats if I get accepted that is of course
Sorry for the boring life story, but I’m well excited about this.
Come on the Thoman brothers, making Mirco stock fair again!
Kind Regards,
Neil.