Just as well as for digital artists, for painters and hand-crafter too is is a hard thing. I tried for 2 years to get my thing on Ebay and in sales after a year only i sold something. Maybe 2 k in the last year when later i dropped it, and since i joined Steemit and started video creating too I started to get ahead a bit.
I think this monetization phase and this era is a great chance better than ever was, for new artists any kind to have their time and their glory.