Over 30 ways you can MAKE MONEY as an artist in 2023

Thank you so much for these videos ❤ I’m feeling inspired ✨

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Thanks for this amazing content I liked and subscribed please keep up the amazing work🎉❤ I'm looking forward to more this New Year🎉 Happy Holidays P. S. this was inspiring for me as a artist.

You are a godsend, Kelsy. I love how helpful you are with your content keeping us artists motivated and informed of the right stuff, thank you

Maybe artists don't starve. After attaining 2 degrees in fine art and in graphic art, I made a damned good living at it. I also spent time as a costume designer doing reproductions of different clothing styles, I also made a lot of lace -Venetian, Irish crochet. I did pretty well but I always felt "Phony and pretentious, unfulfilled. After much soul searching I embarked on a medical career and it opened my eyes . I saw what a vain, phony, shallow, pretentious person I had been. I mean, who really cares about art history, knowing all about famous artists and duplicating their style. This does nothing to help other people. For me, art was a display of ego and being hung up on trivia! I.proceeded to BURN EVERY DRAWING, PAINTING, SCULPTURE, BOOK , ART MAGAZINE AND DESTROYED MY ART SUPPLIES WITH ACID. I NOW HAVE MY GOAL OF EVENTUALLY BECOMING A SURGEON OF RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY. I want to use my life to help people by restoring them to a normal appearance. All those years I wasted f--king around on canvas when I could have done something REALLY WORTH WHILE. I was happy though because I had to do illustration work for my medical classes which got a lot of compliments. Oh well, at least all the years I spent on art weren't a TOTAL WASTE

Ik this is like 1 year old, but this helped me so much rn. Hearing that there really are so many things I could do as an artist that can make money is really reassuring, and I really needed that. I'm very glad that this channel exists, and I'm sure it'll be helpful to me again :]

Super useful tip! Thank you sm!

"there is aplace for you in this world" the most helpful phrase i needed today cuz just yesterday i was questioning everething i've done and if i've been a failure for not have been able to make the grow i wanted this year, if i had to just let my dream die..... now you gave me aa boost to keep trying

what was the name of the book illustrator?

Thank you this helped keep my head on straight when figuring out my next step I subscribed ❤

I would love to make copies of my originals. But most to copy a 11X14 cost 10 dollars just for ONE Print , problem is I do not always have money to pay for prints. 8X10" would be 7 dollars. But told it does not sell, but could try. Art fairs cost MONEY to enter, but best to have art in Fames, $$$more money ,extra hidden costs. such as transportation booth fee. I cant 't afford a Phone, borrowing internet while Pet sitting. Do not own a laptop. So, how . People do NOT KNOW days I go without affording FOOD, so I can pay my rent, and energy bill. which is LOW but charged the SERVICE CHARGE, even I did not use the gas .

Every artist needs someone to sponsor them like the olden days

I found a good solution for myself. I became a medical caregiver. I decided that the medical field was the way to go. Now Ino longer have to struggle with money, I find more satisfaction helping sick people than I ever did wasting my time with art. There is more of a need for people with good,practical skills. Even when I went to art college, my teachers told me that they had had to do more than scribblings on paper or canvas and get a REAL JOB TO SURVIVE. PRESENTLY WHAT THAT MEANT FOR ME WAS BEING A CAREGIVER WORKING LIVE IN 5 DAYS A WEEK AND MAKING HANDMADE LACE IN MY SPARE TIME WHICH GIVES ME MORE SATISFACTION THAN ART EVER DID. IF YOU ENJOY ART, FINE. DO IT. JUST SAYING, FOR ME , IT WASN'T THE ANSWER!

Well, the starving artist is a myth. Maybe it was born from the 19th century change of the modern artist with Van Gogh, or Modigliani but Van Gogh.These two artists had problems with drugs and alcohol but if they lived longer they probably would become very rich. Chaim Soutine was a starving artist who manage to get rich for example. Picasso and Salvador Dali were really rich. But actually most artists have been quite rich people. From Velasquez, to Titian, Tintoretto, Michelangelo, Leonardo, they all had a lot of priviledge and were sponsored by kings. Rembrandt had a collection of gold and ancient artworks. Some had financial struggle as every person in the world....

I wish we had a channel like your for dancers and other kinds of artists.

Though I appreciate the sentiment this video does seem to come from a position of privilege.
I would urge people to be cautious and take what is said with a grain of salt.

My mother is an artist, she has a degree and has been trying to work self employed for 10 or so years but unfortunately without a substantial fund or considerable social media following (which is near impossible to build especially since apps like Instagram have changed their algorithms) a lot of people will find that their work just doesn’t sell.
Nowadays it is actually MORE difficult to make a career as an artist because the majority of people just don’t have the money to spend on luxuries like art. Alongside this it has become more common to see cheap art, either machine produced from stores or put together through applying filters being purchased in favour of actual art made by a person; not to mention the rise of ai art.

The same difficulty can be found with trying to find jobs in the art industry as most companies want previous experience for all roles meaning that you are expected to work unpaid which is not feasible for anyone of a lower class background.

I would say that you should be cautious in pursuing an art career. Don’t be deterred but if you don’t have money to fall back on ensure that you have supplementary income, of course this sadly means you would be unable to work full time on your passion.
I would also say that if you want a career in the industry get some unpaid work in whilst you are young and able… you know without bills.

this video really stresses me out and is giving me major anxiety... thinking of all they ways I'm failing yeah, for some reason her voice just feels very expecting and it stresses me out

OH my gosh thank you soooo much for posting this! I've been an artist most of my life and a career in art has always felt so out of my reach.. I really hope that maybe this can be my turning point! Thank you for all the tips and help! I'm going to re-watch this probably a few times and take notes and do the same with other videos of yours! This is huge to me!

Bravo ! I watched your video and decided to pursue printing my art creations to sell and possibly to have puzzles made ,thank you for keeping it real .

Dont forget the whole animation and game industri

What's a zine?

This video is a part of capitalism manipulating you, and using you as a commodity.

You just have to be rich and pretty

Thank you beautiful soul for sharing. 🙏❤

God bless you for all the work you put on getting us this resources <3

Great video. Thanks!

all of this require fame first mlady

I am comic artist & illustrator since 2015, and I'm selling my products (99,9% of them are physical) online since end of 2016. I made thousands of mistakes in this time, I also have learned a lot, but I'm still not happy with my income. And I find your channel very inspirational. I respect your business view, and I hope I will take your advices seriously and make a lot of progess with my little company!

I LOVED THIS/YOUR VIDEO with that much important information. I just have one concern - I am from Spain. I am currently living in my hometown, although I ve spent 5 years living in Japan as an artist but I had to come back for personal issues and now I feel the Spanish community / audience is not always happy to invert money in my art or from my fellow Spanish colleagues. We could sadly say I am starving artist now in Spain. Maybe I should start writing my web page in my bad English and trying to sell overseas … because I think people there are more likely to buy and consume things related to art and culture. what to you think? Actually I am focus on illustrating things related to my culture - so I fight as an illustrator to solve some problems we have with our culture, that’s why I do brand voice on my RRSS in my mother tongue but it is been years and it looks no one in my country have interest in their own culture … I am struggling with this.

Guys, could u explain me (like for 5 year old baby) pls what are commission? Cuz i cant understand it from Google 🤧

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Very very beautiful picture: colors, plants, you - all thats are gorgeous. Thank you for a lot of ideas c:

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Ms Rodriguez thanks very much, been looking for ways to make honest earning, yet I’ve been raised to believe I cannot use my resources for the sake of personal benefit, which is quite challenging to choose what material to use like that! Any tips on recycled resources that are safe for re use?

Okay, great. But for noobs, there is no explanation how I create my digital art and print them physically to sell to people by the internet/mail. How? There is a service online that helps on that? Plz explain better. Details... details... =(

Another thing you can get paid to post on twitter (x) if you have blue

This video was so helpful thank you so much

I really hope I can someday make a living with drawing my own illustrations, the thought of having to work in corporate from 9-5 for the rest of my life sounds like absolute torture

The biggest problem is that the competition is big and you need to work on yourself pretty hard to earn money as an artist (:

Me starving as an artist: "We don't starve as artists?😢"

number 1: work at starbucks or mcdonald

Christmas Tree Ornaments are Cat Toys.

I've been a 'starving artist' for the past 8-9 years and still go the same. I have lost hope to earn by my art style. I may be wrong but I don't think without having that business/marketing type personality anyone is able to make money with whatever they do. As marketing and doing business is another kind of art , so basically you need to have or learn two art forms.

Girl, PLEASE Drink Water

Great video but hard to listen to because it sounds like you're about to cry the whole time