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Making Money as an Artist
I think you have seen this topic trending all over town. But there are plenty of ways to get that bag as an Artist. I'm going to give you at least 3 ways on to make money. So grab them creative minds because you gonna need em.
Blogging...
Unconventional am I right buuut if you are like me then this might be a little something for you to do. Granted this is gonna take a while but if you stick with I'm sure you'll be fine. But where should I blog? Well where are you reading this rn? Isn't it tumblr? Yup you can use tumblr, there are alot of artist on here that you interact with and reblog. Of course you have quotev (used to be there but not anymore), quora, Twitter or any other blogging media you can think off. Hwoever if you got some coins unlike some of use you can buy a domain and build your own unique website and drive traffic to it.
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate? As an Artist? Yup there are good ones out there such as bloop or other art and craft companies that ask for affiliates. This a simple and enjoyable way to make money since you already now what artists need and what they want. You are the perfect person to market for such companies since you are an artist yourself.
POD
Aka print on demand. There are hundreds of POD platforms. I suggest trying out printfy and prinitful if you know of others share them in comments below. So guys there you have it stay tuned for more art stuff.
Stay healthy and stay cute.🌿
#making money as an artist#beginner artist#artists on tumblr#artist block#artist blog#art blog#artistsupport#art help
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Fuel artistic triumph with our Artist Business Plan—a dynamic strategy for creative brilliance and financial success. Elevate your career with a professionally curated plan as vibrant and dynamic as your unique creations! 🎨✨
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the thing about art is that it was always supposed to be about us, about the human-ness of us, the impossible and beautiful reality that we (for centuries) have stood still, transfixed by music. that we can close our eyes and cry about the same book passage; the events of which aren't real and never happened. theatre in shakespeare's time was as real as it is now; we all laugh at the same cue (pursued by bear), separated hundreds of years apart.
three years ago my housemates were jamming outdoors, just messing around with their instruments, mostly just making noise. our neighbors - shy, cautious, a little sheepish - sat down and started playing. i don't really know how it happened; i was somehow in charge of dancing, barefoot and laughing - but i looked up, and our yard was full of people. kids stacked on the shoulders of parents. old couples holding hands. someone had brought sidewalk chalk; our front walk became a riot of color. someone ran in with a flute and played the most astounding solo i've ever heard in my life, upright and wiggling, skipping as she did so. she only paused because the violin player was kicking his heels up and she was laughing too hard to continue.
two weeks ago my friend and i met in the basement of her apartment complex so she could work out a piece of choreography. we have a language barrier - i'm not as good at ASL as i'd like to be (i'm still learning!) so we communicate mostly through the notes app and this strange secret language of dancers - we have the same movement vocabulary. the two of us cracking jokes at each other, giggling. there were kids in the basement too, who had been playing soccer until we took up the far corner of the room. one by one they made their slow way over like feral cats - they laid down, belly-flat against the floor, just watching. my friend and i were not in tutus - we were in slouchy shirts and leggings and socks. nothing fancy. but when i asked the kids would you like to dance too? they were immediately on their feet and spinning. i love when people dance with abandon, the wild and leggy fervor of childhood. i think it is gorgeous.
their adults showed up eventually, and a few of them said hey, let's not bother the nice ladies. but they weren't bothering us, they were just having fun - so. a few of the adults started dancing awkwardly along, and then most of the adults. someone brought down a better sound system. someone opened a watermelon and started handing out slices. it was 8 PM on a tuesday and nothing about that day was particularly special; we might as well party.
one time i hosted a free "paint along party" and about 20 adults worked quietly while i taught them how to paint nessie. one time i taught community dance classes and so many people showed up we had to move the whole thing outside. we used chairs and coatracks to balance. one time i showed up to a random band playing in a random location, and the whole thing got packed so quickly we had to open every door and window in the place.
i don't think i can tell you how much people want to be making art and engaging with art. they want to, desperately. so many people would be stunning artists, but they are lied to and told from a very young age that art only matters if it is planned, purposeful, beautiful. that if you have an idea, you need to be able to express it perfectly. this is not true. you don't get only 1 chance to communicate. you can spend a lifetime trying to display exactly 1 thing you can never quite language. you can just express the "!!??!!!"-ing-ness of being alive; that is something none of us really have a full grasp on creating. and even when we can't make what we want - god, it feels fucking good to try. and even just enjoying other artists - art inherently rewards the act of participating.
i wasn't raised wealthy. whenever i make a post about art, someone inevitably says something along the lines of well some of us aren't that lucky. i am not lucky; i am dedicated. i have a chronic condition, my hands are constantly in pain. i am not neurotypical, nor was i raised safe. i worked 5-7 jobs while some of these memories happened. i chose art because it mattered to me more than anything on this fucking planet - i would work 80 hours a week just so i could afford to write in 3 of them.
and i am still telling you - if you are called to make art, you are called to the part of you that is human. you do not have to be good at it. you do not have to have enormous amounts of privilege. you can just... give yourself permission. you can just say i'm going to make something now and then - go out and make it. raquel it won't be good though that is okay, i don't make good things every time either. besides. who decides what good even is?
you weren't called to make something because you wanted it to be good, you were called to make something because it is a basic instinct. you were taught to judge its worth and over-value perfection. you are doing something impossible. a god's ability: from nothing springs creation.
a few months ago i found a piece of sidewalk chalk and started drawing. within an hour i had somehow collected a small classroom of young children. their adults often brought their own chalk. i looked up and about fifteen families had joined me from around the block. we drew scrangly unicorns and messed up flowers and one girl asked me to draw charizard. i am not good at drawing. i basically drew an orb with wings. you would have thought i drew her the mona lisa. she dragged her mother over and pointed and said look! look what she drew for me and, in the moment, i admit i flinched (sorry, i don't -). but the mother just grinned at me. he's beautiful. and then she sat down and started drawing.
someone took a picture of it. it was in the local newspaper. the summary underneath said joyful and spontaneous artwork from local artists springs up in public gallery. in the picture, a little girl covered in chalk dust has her head thrown back, delighted. laughing.
#writeblr#warm up#this is longer than i wanted i really considered removing that part about myself and what i went thru#but i think it really fucking bothers me that EVERY time i talk about being an artist#ppl assume i just like. had the skill and ability to drop everything and pay for grad school.#like sir i grew up poor. my house wasn't a safe space. i gave up a FREE RIDE TO LAW SCHOOL. for THIS. bc i chose it.#was it fucking hard? was i choosing the hard thing?? yes.#but we need to stop seeing artists as lazy layabouts that can ''afford'' to just ''sit around and create''#when MANY - if not MOST - of us are NOT like that. we have to work our fucking ASSES off. hard work. long and hard work#part of valuing artists is recognizing the amount we sacrifice to make our art. bc it doesn't just#like HAPPEN to us. also btw it rarely has anything to do with true talent.#speaking as someone with a chronic condition i hate when ppl are like u have it easy. like actively as i'm writing this my hands r#ACTIVELY hurting me. i haven't been posting bc my left hand was curled in a claw for the last week#this isn't fucking luck. after a certain point it's not even TALENT. it's dedication & sacrifice.#''u get to flounce around and do nothing with ur life'' is a narrative that is a direct result of capitalism#imagine if we said that about literally any other profession.#''oh so u give up 10 yrs of ur life to be a doctor? u sacrifice having a social life and u get SUPER in debt?#u need to work countless hours and it will often be thankless? well i wish i was that lucky''#we should be applying that logic to landlords ONLY#''oh ur mom and dad gave u the money to buy a house? and all u did was paint it white and rent it? huh.''
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no talk me i angy cant stop thinking about my girlfriend who's been kidnapped by a crazy powerful ancient magician
#art#dunmeshi#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#marcille#dunmeshi spoilers#dunmeshi fanart#marcille fanart#falin x marcille#marcille dunmeshi#digital art#artists on tumblr#illustration#queer art#clip studio paint#my art#hmmmm this took me about an hour i think#maybe a lil more#thats fast for me#still thinking abt how to open commissions in a way taht works for me#technically i have doodle coms open but i only advertised them on tumblr and i think the price is a bit low#sorry i mean tiktok#anyway ill delete that post and make an official ad#im thinking 30 for lineart#50 for color#that way ppl will be more likely to order#and i wont feel too pressured to spend hours or days on each one#but also its not too cheap#i gotta make money!!!#i gotta make about $900 in the next 3 months
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finally watched the movie and was so disappointed I had to draw the man to cope
#there’s more I just think they deserve their own posts#ALSO GIRLIES IM SO SORRY THE MOVIE WAS JUST NOT IT BESTIE NOT AT ALL#ACTUALLY had to apologize to my gf for making her watch it with me#im sure its objectively a decent movie but THE HATER IN ME IS STRONG#artists on tumblr#digital art#discworld#discworld fanart#going postal#making money#moist von lipwig
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hii everyone 🥀🪽 i wanted to share that i will be traveling to cairo at the end of november and will be meeting with displaced Palestinian families. til then, i will be fundraising for these families in hopes of providing funds for them to pay for their rent, clothing, food, medical expenses, and any other needs.
to meet my goal, i am also planning on having a couple raffles throughout the next two months so stay tuned <3
update 9/14: enter my first raffle! [closed, prize claimed]
update 10/6: enter my second raffle [closed, prize claimed]
update 10/26: enter my last raffle
but for now, please reblog/share and donate to my campaign
#free palestine#will be traveling with Palestinian Egyptian and Sudanese artists / practitioners and can show proof of donation when the time comes!!#also will be updating my depop with new items and that money will be going to this too#if anyone has any questions pls reach out to me! i won't be publicly sharing exact details on my trip/group for safety reasons#kinda nervous to make this post bc of how little engagement any palestine posts that i reblog even though i have a large following#would be the world if yall can reblog/donate <3#*would mean the world
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He’s gay colour
#hermitcraft season 10#fanart#hermits#hermitblr#hermitcraft#hermitcraft cubfan#cubfan135#cubfan fanart#cubfan#my little guy#he’s about to kill someone with a rocket#and then make money or something#minecraft#mcytumblr#mcytblr#mcyt fanart#mcyt#vex cub#he pukes rainbows#bilby art tag#artists on tumblr
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sylvia plath, todd anderson and virginia woolf (aka ACTUAL tortured poets) watching taylor “im breaking up with my boyfriend for his intense depression and blaming it on him, im dating a racist who enjoys watching woc being brutalized and harasses young woc artists, i sent my fans out on a hate train to attack a young woc actress for a line she had to say as part of her job to show how mentally ill her character was, im dating a maga supporter, i refuse to say anything about a current genocide despite being the most influential person in the world right now, i am a billionaire, i fly 13 minute flights and have the highest carbon emission of any celebrity, i am a known white feminist who only speaks about issues when it affects me and has constantly let my fans get away with extreme racism and even encouraged it by associating myself with known racists” swift call herself a tortured poet (her writing sounds like a bunch of thesaurus words slapped over gabba hanna and rupi kaur-esque poetry that was created purely as a trinket for an edgy pinterest board)
#anti taylor swift#like she can be problematic that’s okay#there are SO many problematic artists i like#but she’s not even that good#like read sylvia plath or virginia woolf or listen to LDR or fiona apple or mitski or lorde or boygenius or olivia rodrigo#aka her peers#and realise how much better they are#they truly write art because they have a compassion and rawness for it#whereas taytay only writes to get more money LOL#she’s so extremely privileged that her life is not at all relatable and now she tries to make it so#by romanticizing the most mundane#thats never been your brand babe now it’s going to sound like dogshit#GUTS by olivia rodrigo is better because it has such an intensity to it. liv means what she says and you can feel it!#fiona apple means what she says when she writes about begging her lover to love her back!#mitski means what she says when she writes that she is self destructive and puts herself in bad situations since that’s all she knows!#lana means what she says when she writes about her suicide attempt at 15 because of constant abuse from her mother and crippling depression#all of it such haunting and beautiful works because it truly comes from the soul and isn’t a cash grab#Anyway i’m so sorry virginia and sylvia and todd#todd anderson#AND JOE ALWYN#joe alwyn my favourite man ever#joe alwyn#dead poets society#anderperry#sylvia plath#virginia woolf#the bell jar#lana del rey#fiona apple#mitski
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posts that joke abt how furry artists make bank and so op is gonna start drawin dog ppl are sooo annoying like babe you dont have it in you. u do not have the gumption to draw bad furry art til you get noticed. you dont have the drive or the respect for the craft!!! you will fail
#strato.txt#i think if ur only in it for the cash money then you have an inherent disrespect for the art of drawing furries#i say this as a furry artist who makes jack shit. i dont do this for money i do this bc i love animal ppl#i need to post more of my furry art sigh
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Watcher announcing they’re leaving YouTube and putting all their new content behind a paywall via a new streaming service in a nutshell:
#look I get that being beholden to the whims of advertisers sucks and that making these videos costs a lot of money#and artists should absolutely be paid what they’re worth#but making a streaming service for ONLY their content is a really dumb business decision#and while I will entertain theories suggesting otherwise#I believe all three of them are equally to blame for this dumb idea until they explain how and why they did this#watcher#shane madej#ryan bergara#steven lim#ghost files#mystery files#puppet history
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Happy Juneteenth!! Want to support a black lesbian?
Here are my commissions and kofi!!! All support is appreciated. Have a lovely day!!
#juneteenth#commissions#my art#art#illustration#drawing#digital art#clip studio paint#black artists#black creatives#blease im. losijg money because of juneteenth i make so little money already#vgen#commissions open
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🏃♀️Hi hi I'm reopening my commission again since I am in the middle of my final year project and I needed funds to support my art project _(:'3」∠)_
*also if you see my previous commission post minutes ago, please disregard that I put the wrong info there ;w; Also appreciate if you guys delete my previous post too if you reblogged it 🥲
Please take note that since I am in the middle of my final year and I also have 3 pending commissions to go right now, I only be able to fully commit to this slot around the end of July!
SLOTS TAKEN: 2/5
*Taken slots will be updated from time to time!
‼️PLEASE READ MY TOS AND RULES BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO COMMISSION ME!!‼️
🔷️My TOS, art samples and additional rules/info can be read on my carrd here.
🔷️No rush orders will be accepted as I am currently in the middle of my final. If you need an estimate for commission turnarounds please refer to my Trello! I date stamp all of my progress from start to finish! Please commission me only if you don't mind waiting for me!!
I'm also posting my art samples (personal art) undercut!
And as always, reblogs are highly appreciated 🥰💕💕
🔷️Please DM me if you're interested or have any inquiries regarding my commission!
🔷️There’s no pressure at all if you don’t want to reblog/share but I greatly appreciate it very much if you do
🥺👉👈Reblogs are definitely very much appreciated 🥰💕💕
#//making a summoning circle in the middle of my room to summon tumblr server and personally hit it with a bat for fucking up my post#i guess this is pretty much an emergency commission too since I am so serious about looking for funds for my art project#why do i have to sacrifice my sanity and money just for a piece of paper that says i have a diploma???#anyway im going to reblog this post a lot until all my slots are taken ;w; so sorry about that guys#also very sorry if you see an increase jn my price my render takes a lot of time and im actually dealing with wrist pain lately#and my arms are making sounds that i didnt know its possible for me to crack before thats crayzyyy i dont even know i have a joint there#okay tag spam oof#commission#commission open#commission art#commission info#selfship commission#selfship art#selfship headcanon#selfship talk#selfship#selfshipping#selfship community#selfshipping community#self insert oc#self insert art#self insert community#artist on tumblr#art commission#art#art community
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My piece for @hkhallowzine ! My old computer really wanted to perish while making this but I didn't allow it ❤️
#hollow knight#hallowzine#the knight#ghost#hk#the hive#fanart#my art#That old computer has been replaced somewhat recently btw#I had saved up some money last year because my old one was starting to be slow at literally everything#now it's so slow it's unusable#anyways#this zine was fun! I don't draw detailed-ish backgrounds very often so it was cool to make one for something like this#artists on tumblr
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thank you
#cowmix#im not sure what else to put here#other than this is a comic ive wanted to make for a long time#and i really. really appreciate the continued support#i have never and will never run off with money. i never want to. if you have paid me for something and i never made it-#please reach out to me. i have felt like a corpse for many many months. but i know i can get better. i know i *am* getting better#i want to finish my queues and focus on personal projects and a better patreon. i want to make big beautiful fun art.#but. like the comic says. i have bills to pay. i have to keep taking work. i have Actual brain damage and am a slow artist#on top of the Aforementioned Everything Else#i'll probably never be able to fully express my gratitude#but. love love love love forever to everyone whos still here#love love love love forever to everyone who believes in me#thank you
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idk what possessed me but. MOIST
#THE GUY THE GUY THE GUY#I almost forgot how fun he is to draw#moist von lipwig you will always be gender to me#artists on tumblr#discworld#discworld fanart#going postal#making money#moist von lipwig#adora belle dearheart#watch this get significantly less notes because I’m not feeding the malev girlies lmaooo
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I liked you right from the start
#GUESS WHO DID A PERRYSHMIRTZ ANIMATIC BITCHES#well technically is more of an storyboard than an animatic but still#animatic#storyboard#edit#I feel so sorry for all the non brazilians that don't get to listen to this song having brazilian portuguese as their first language#perryshmirtz#perry the human#perry the platypus#heinz doofenshmirtz#owca pnf#pnf fanart#phineas and ferb#my art#digital art#digital aritst#artists on tumblr#the word “caramassa” is not literally translated 'cause there isn't an word for it btw - I did what I could here#and I didn't render anything 'cause if I did I'd just give up on it#pnf#art#artwork#fanart#oh and I'm never making an storyboard of them ever again 'cause omfg they're so hard to draw - ESPECIALLY Perry#that goddamn fendora#comissions are open btw#pls see my other drawings on my page ✦#am I capable of doing it fully rendered? yes - would I do it for free? nop just not worth it#but i WOULD do it for money lol#human perry
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