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 Change Your
Mindset
So you enjoy creating art
piecesfor yourself (maybe your
social media followers) and
consider it a hobby or a lifestyle?
You’ve probably been told by
many that artists don’t make a
lot of money, and it’s hard to
make it a career?
Maybe you try balancing a job,
your family, and your
art hobby LIFESTYLE and it
SUCKS because you wish you
could just create art full-time?
After listening to all the
negativity you probably have
thought like, “Why would
someone want to buy my art?..”,
“It’s just a silly hobby…”, “I
will never make it as an artist…”, “I
just don’t have enough luck…”, “I
will starve…”.
Is this the right mindset for a
winner?
Do you think successful artists
had those thoughts when they
started?
As a matter of fact, THEY DID!
But they didn’t let those
thoughts stop them from trying
and achieving their goals!
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Famous artists had a bumpy ride,
but they got to greatness and
happiness because they could do
what they love and get paid for
it!
Guess what?
We live in a wonderful time full
of opportunities!
Artists all around the world are
lucky enough to be able to
create art and reach their
potential customers via social
media, website portfolios and a
variety of sites created to sell
original art/art prints and art on
merchandise!
All you have to do is to change
your mindset about getting
commissioned to paint a portrait
to make money…
21st century is full of awesome
opportunities for all beginner
and professional artists to make
money in all sorts of different
new age ways!
I’m not telling you not to get
commissioned, all I’m saying is
that you can have multiple ways
of getting income. And believe it
or not, some of it will be my
favorite – passive income.
Ready to give it a shot?
Variety of Income
Sources for Artists
First things first, I will walk you
through all of these steps one-
by-one below, but I just want to
give you a quick overview of what
your options are.
Remember, don’t just pick one
source. Diversification is the key!
I would start with two or three ways,
and then add more one by one!
Let me first quickly explain what
I mean by “diversification is the
key”:
If you only rely on one source of
income online or are active on
only one platform – there is a
high chance that you will fail.
So what that your Etsy store has
thousands of sales? So what that
you have a million followers on
Instagram?
I mean, it’s awesome an all.
But what happens when these
platforms shut down? What will
you do?
One second you are a trending
famous artist – and the next you
have nothing to show and no way
to make money!
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That’s why you need to make sure
you are active on many platforms,
that you have a portfolio website,
a few online stores and a few
social media accounts.
Sounds like a lot of work?
Well, it is.
But at the end of the day, you
receive financial freedom and the
ability to make a living with your
passion.
So it’s definitely worth taking a
shot!
Now, here is a brief table of content on
the topics I will cover in depth below:
1. Sell Your Art.
2. Commissioned Work.
3. Art on Merchandise.
4. Teach a Class.
5. Youtube Videos.
6. Start an Art Blog.
1. Sell Your Art
Online
Okay, so this one is pretty simple:
you let people know about your
existence-> they like your art
->they buy from you
. your products.
Easy right?
Not so fast!
You first need to put yourself out
there and build a following of
people!
Where do you start?
Social Media!
We are looking for a platform that
has a lot of people who enjoy art –
potential buyers.
The best social platforms for that
are Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest,  to buy from this site).
Instagram.
My personal favorites are
Instagram and Pinterest as there
are so many wonderful artists in
there!
Then, you need to build a social
following (and that’s an entire
blog post of its own). Pretty
much, don’t hope to post 3
artworks and get a lot of people
asking you for prints.
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Then you can post about selling
your artworks, or opening
commissions, or leading them to
your own website where you sell
Websites where you can
sell your art:
ETSY
My absolute favorite is of
course Etsy. It gives you a lot of
freedom, many people trust it
and already have accounts with
Etsy (which means they will trust
All you have to do is set up an
account, set up your own prices
and publish items for sale. Then
get your social followers to the
website.
And if Etsy thinks your stuff is
awesome – they will bump it up
in their search and you will get
organic free traffic to your
products!
1. Sell Your Art
Online
Other websites where you can sell
your art include:
Artplode.com
Artpal.com
ArtWeb.com
SaatchiArt.com
AllArtists.com
And a couple of others, but these
are the most popular in my
opinion.
KICKSTARTER
If you have a large social media
following and enough works, you
can create a Kickstarter
campaign.
There you can promise people to
create any sorts of product – a
book full of
sketches/paintings/tutorials or
other art products.
Then you let your following know
about your project and ask them
to ‘back you up‘ (pay upfront).
This way you have enough capital
to create your product, then
deliver it to your ‘backers’ and
make some extra income on the
way! Truly awesome stuff
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GUMROAD
Gumroad is a platform that enables
creators to sell products directly to
consumers.
A lot of popular Instagram artists
sell bundles of their works on
this platform for 1$-5$. You might
ask what’s the point for such
little price?
Well, let’s do some math – let’s
say you have 10 thousand
followers on Instagram. Every
month you make a bundle of
your sketches (that you don’t
post on any social media) for 3$.
10% of your followers (1
thousand) see the post, and only
20% of them (200) check it out.
Then the 10% (100) buy it.
100 people x 3$ = 300$ in your pocket
from simply putting all of your sketches
(that you create anyway to improve!)
and selling them on Gumroad. Pretty
cool, right?
Of course for that, you will need
to have your social media skills
on point! And I recommend
the “Instagram Marketing 2018: A
Step-By-Step to 10,000
Followers” Udemy course
 1. Sell Your Art
Online
PORTFOLIO WEBSITE

This last one is pretty simple as

well, you NEED to have a
portfolio!
AND it’s only 3.95$/month! That’s
With a simple portfolio website, the price of your coffee cup!
you attract new buyers as well as
you can get commissioned to do Can you sacrifice one coffee for a
work. beautiful website to show off to
your family, friends, following
If you are just starting out and and potential customers?
want to try the waters without big
investments of paying over 500$ I thought so.
for a “professional” website and
its’ hosting + safety, I strongly
recommend starting simple with 
BlueHost.

The beauty of a website is that

the earlier you start – the better.
With time your website will get
more authority in Google’s eyes,
and you will see some organic
free traffic! You just have to stick
to it

Also, if you don’t like the idea of

having your own portfolio (which I
doubt) you can always cancel,
and BlueHost offers a 30-day
money back guarantee period.

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2. Commissioned
Work
When you work as an artist in a
big firm – who do you work for
and who gets the cut of your pay?
Guess what, your supervisor, art
director, art director’s assistant
and the owner of the firm – they
all get a cut out of what YOU are
creating for the customer!
As a result – you get a salary. And
a lot of headaches from the
people “above you”.
Don’t get me wrong, working for a
big firm is awesome because you
always have work and stability.
But sometimes you have to take
the risk and try working for
yourself – freelancing!
Going back to social media – if
you want to earn money working
from home you need to be seen!
That’s what social media is for
People will love your stuff – and
they will offer you a job.
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Sometimes you might get
messages saying something like ”
Hey, can you paint me this
awesome family portrait of 99
people that you will spend  1
billion hours working on and I will
pay you 10$ “
Well, then you tell them to go
and… VISIT YOUR WEBSITE as it
has ALL the pricing ready for
them to choose from and then
they can either pay you what you
deserve or go look for someone
else who doesn’t have a website
with all the rules and pricing!
Now, how you price your
commission work is an absolutely
different topic.
I would suggest finding people
who are around your skill level
and see what they charge. Or
taking the average hourly rate
you would receive at any other
part-time job, multiply it by the
number of hours it will take you
to complete it + add the
approximate price you spent on
the materials used.
Also, original work tends to sell
for way higher than prints, so
keep that in mind when
explaining to your customers.
 3. Art On
Merchandise
There are a lot of websites out
there that let you upload your art
on their website, and decide
which mock-ups to put it on
(clothing, mugs, pillows, pencil
cases etc.)
Then you lead your own
customers there, or your merch
an be found organically through
the search.
When someone purchases your
product, those websites handle
the making of it, the financial
side, deliveries and returns.
Oh, and you get to set your own
prices too!
So, pretty much nothing is
required of you except making
your awesome art!
Even though the cut you get out
of the sale is not huge, it’s
still passive income.
So, here are my favorite (and the most
famous) websites:
- REDBUBBLE
- SOCIETY6
- ZAZZLE
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I wrote an entire article on RedBubble
"How to sell art on Redbubble and
actually make money $$$ doing it", so
I won't be covering it in great depth
here.
Society6 is home to hundreds of
thousands of artists from around
the globe, uploading and selling
their original works as 30+
premium consumer goods from
Art Prints to Throw Blankets.
They create, we produce and
fulfill, and every purchase pays
an artist. ( As described
at https://society6.com/about ).
Zazzle is an American online
marketplace that allows
designers and customers to
create their own products with
independent manufacturers,
as well as use images
from participating
companies.
( from Wikipedia )
 4.
Teach A Class
Now, don’t be alarmed!
You are awesome and have a lot
of valuable info you can share
without even realizing it!
I was just like you at one point…
so scared. Can I teach? I am no
master at anything!
I still decided to try, and rewards
were awesome! In my first month
of teaching a simple “Make an
animated Gif in
Photoshop” lesson I earned
almost 100$!
It might seem like nothing, but I
spent 10 hours creating it, and
the video brings me a bit
of passive income every day!
SKILLSHARE
With Skillshare, the sign-up is free and
then you can watch tutorials that
people ‘tag’ as free.
You can also look for coupons online to
watch videos for free that are for paid
members only.
Or you can get a paid membership
and enjoy ALL the courses available all
the time.
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Skillshare is my absolute favorite!
Maybe it’s because I started on
Skillshare as a learner myself.
I learned a great deal about painting,
drawing, and blogging from this
platform, and you can too!
Here is my link that will give you
 2 months of Skillshare FOR FREE! 
As soon as you sign up, you can start
learning AND teaching.
On Skillshare, your paycheck depends
on how many minutes a person
watches your course.
UDEMY
Udemy is also a learning platform that
has a variety of lessons from how to
draw pin-up girls to how to master
social media.
With Udemy the sign-up is free, and
then you have to purchase each course
individually.
When you make a course, you get paid
a cut when someone buys it.
 5.
Make Videos
YOUTUBE Then, all that traffic that comes from
YouTube to your website will check out
your site and products you offer.
We all watch YouTube all the time and
then hate on the ads that pop-up.
And I’m sure some will want to order
your stuff/commission you to do work!
Well, once you get into YouTube you
will realize that those ads help artists
What to make videos about?
and all the video creators to make
money online.
Simple, just record your process of
making an art piece and share it with
Once you publish a video, you have to
the world, or create a tutorial.
reach a certain threshold before
YouTube will start giving you a cut from
And if you decide to teach classes in
advertisers.
the future, creating videos for YouTube
is a great way to get started.
The longer ads people will watch and
the more they click on it – the more
money you will make.

It takes time to get out there and

actually start earning income, but the
good thing is that once you build a
following on YouTube, you can
start sending traffic from there
to your website
(again, I recommend building your
portfolio with BlueHost).

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 6.
Start an Art Blog
Art Blog VS Portfolio When I first got started, I learned about
how to start a successful blog from a
website I can't recommend (it ended
As you guys know, yourartpath.com is
up bringing me more pain that help).
an Art Blog for Artists.

And yes, there are a lot of things you

There is a difference between an “Art
need to know as a blogger - but there
Blog” and an “Art Portfolio”. (They could
are so many free and paid resources
be merged into one if you wanted to.)
out in the web that will teach you.

Art Portfolio is a place for you to feature

The hardest thing for most people is to
your art pieces, talk about yourself,
start, but if you take destiny in your
constantly update with only your art
own hands - you can set up a website
and provide people with the options
in 10 minutes with BlueHost.
they have of commissioning you or
buying your products.
They are the company I'm using right
now, and I simply can't recommend
Art Blog is a blog about art. No way,
them enough.
right? 

Well, the biggest differences are that

you don’t focus on yourself, but rather
on all the people out there that want to
know more about art.

For example, you can interview

artists, review art products or create
tutorials. You can talk about anything
at all in the art field for people to read!

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 6.
Start an Art Blog
How is an Art Blog helpful to you for
making money online?
Well, you get to stay at home, make art,
blog about it and earn income! Sounds
awesome, right?
Moreover, you get to build a large
following of people who trust you and
your great quality content, and when
you make a product ready to sell – your
readers will become your buyers.
Not a writer? No problem. I’m not
either.
But if you think about blogging
as writing an email to your best friend –
you will do just fine!
At least it helps me out
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There are so many ways to make
money online as a blogger, but the
most common ones include:
- Display Advertising (putting ads on
your blog)
- Affiliate Marketing (special links that
readers click - and if they buy
something you get a cut)
- Commissions (you can promote your
art skills, and people will commission
you to do work from there from your
blog)
- Products (creating and selling your
own printable, e-courses, process work
and so on)
 Next Steps

1. Pick one or two out of the ways we covered.

2. Go back to the section where I talk about them and figure

out your first steps;

3. Get your Social Media game ON;

4. Create an Art Blog or a Portfolio Website;

5. Get to work!

6. Come back and pick one more from the list!

Do the work no-one wants to do now, and you will

live a future they can't have.

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