Art question need help for fair?

Question

i'm entering drawings in the fair and i need to know what commercial drawing is if i entered work into it what kind of drawing would it have to be??

Answer 1

Drawings which will sell, i.e. local landmarks, local scenes, traditional landscapes, dogs, wildlife, figure studies, nudes

Here is a list which 'Art Business Today' compiled of best selling subjects, traditional landscapes are number 1  http://painting.about.com/od/careerdevel...

Answer 2

Humans and their emotions. No matter what your taste is, or how cultured you are, you will always find a painting about humans (dancing, crying, kissing, hugging, fighting, whatever) far more interesting that landscapes and fruit bowels. A child's smile or a female body is usually more touching that apricots and grapes..

Some Historical theme might be nice too. Something exotic. A turkish harem girl dancing to the sultan, a pharonic princess kissing the hand of poor but handsom hunter, a babylonian battlefield, etc

Answer 3

My take is that it would be something that would fall into the category of illustration, as opposed to fine art images.

As you can see, you got at least four different definitions for what "commercial" drawing means.  I suggest you look into the contest rules for what THEY mean by this term.  That way, you can't go wrong by picking one of OUR definitions.

Answer 4

I would expect commercial drawings to be landscape elevations, advertising layouts, artists concept drawings of municipal projects, etc.  Mostly architectural work. . . not something you would enter if you do fine art.