Artist & Illustrator website template

A free artist website template for an illustrator or painter, with a gallery of three cards for your paintings, your sketchbook and your studio, and a note that commissions are open. Swap in your own pieces, then add prints people can buy and a form for commission requests.

At the top sits your name, a round photo of an open sketchbook and a line on what you draw, with Instagram, TikTok and Pinterest underneath, and a line at the bottom says commissions are open. The page is warm coral with deep indigo text, square corners, thick indigo outlines and hard shadows set off to one side.

What’s on this page

Paintings
Up to five photos with a title and a line of text. A card can show your work, an item for sale with a link to buy it, a product you recommend, or a code to copy.
Paintings opens the gallery, and its photos swipe one after another, up to five of them. Choose finished pieces that look good side by side, and say in the line which are originals and which come as prints, the way the template does. If you keep a larger archive somewhere else, give the card a button to it.
Sketchbook
Up to five photos with a title and a line of text. A card can show your work, an item for sale with a link to buy it, a product you recommend, or a code to copy.
A sketchbook card shows how you work between the finished pieces, and people who follow an illustrator often like this part best. Photograph a spread from this month, name the month in the line, and swap the page when the next one fills up.
Studio
Up to five photos with a title and a line of text. A card can show your work, an item for sale with a link to buy it, a product you recommend, or a code to copy.
The studio card is a small look at where you make things: the desk, the jars of brushes, the paper stacked by the window. Collectors and clients like to see the person behind the work, and one line about your materials or the light in the room is enough.

Add to it

Fox in the rain, A4 print
An item you sell, with photos, a price and a buy button. Buyers pay on the page through your own Stripe account.
Turn a favourite painting into a run of signed prints, each its own product with a photo of the print and a line on the paper and how you sign it. Buyers pay through your own Stripe account. For an edition of fifty, set the stock limit to fifty and it stops selling when the fiftieth has gone. Ask at checkout whether they would like it dedicated to someone.
Ask for a commission
A form with the questions you choose, for enquiries, quotes or feedback. Every answer is saved for you in Keepp.
The template ends by saying commissions are open, and a form gives those requests somewhere to land. Ask what the piece is, the size and the date they need it by, and leave a box for the story behind it, like the dog it is for. Each request is kept in your dashboard, where you can tag it and add notes while you work out a quote.
How a commission works
A piece of writing, like a guide or a list, that opens to be read in full with its own photos and items.
People who have never commissioned art want to know what happens after they ask. Lay it out as an article, one item per step from the first message to the finished piece, and it opens on your page to be read in full. Its own link is handy to send whenever someone asks how commissions work.

Questions

What should an artist website include?

Your best work grouped so it is easy to look through, a little about you and how you work, where to follow you, and a way to buy prints or ask for a commission. This template has the gallery, a studio card and a commissions note, and products and a form can be added as blocks of their own.

Can I sell prints?

Yes. Make each piece you print its own product, with the paper and edition size in its description. The money goes to your own Stripe account, and once a numbered edition reaches its stock limit it stops selling.

Can I take commissions?

Yes. Add a form that asks what they would like, the size and the date, and every request waits in your dashboard with its answers. Tag the ones you have quoted for so you can see where each one stands.