HOW TO MAKE MONEY FROM YOUR ART, PHOTOGRAPHY & CREATIVITY
SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE : Earning an income doing what you love..
Ok, so you've taken all these great photos, or you've been producing some great designs on Photoshop and everyone's ravin how great they are! But what now?
If you are not in a hurry to get rich (!) and enjoy the feeling you get when someone comments on your creations - and you ponder if you could make some money out of it, to pay for the materials or even time, for starters.
Here i hope to bring you some ideas and inspiration and hopefully even some motivation to get you to at LEAST try and see if your stuff are sellable. I will only 'teach' what i know and have tried.. and as i learn, and share - hopefully you too get to share the same feeling when you earn some money doing something you created (manifestation)
CREATIVE COMMUNITIES : ONLINE - websites to visit to keep your inspiration alight
- FreelanceSwitch
FreelanceSwitch, a Community & Resource for freelancers of all varieties - designers, writers, programmers, illustrators, photographers ... - ARTDICTIVE : Intuitive Visions
Get inspired and see what others are making, Whats happening in the Creative community around the world. Support others, make new friends.. share your stories.. - Ink-Hound.com
Design your own shirts and hats - Ink Hound hosts an online community of artists and unique apparel seekers. Here is how the site works: 1) Artists submit graphic designs placed on hats or shirts. 2) The community rates and provides feedback on t - Gawker Artists
Gawker Artists is a curated online art community and exhibition program promoting the works of artists of all media. Participating artists receive profile pages on Gawker Artists and are eligible to have their works published in the ad space on Gawke
PLACES TO SELL YOUR ARTS - Recommended sites and community where you can sell your photos, creative arts and designs and much more.
Some sites you can upload your image, and make stuff from the products they offer, and sell them thru their marketplace, they handle the financial transaction, delivery, returns, etc
and some sites offer you a shopfront service, so you add details of what you have for sale (either elsewhere online or from your home)and you are responsible for payments, delivery of goods, etc..
- ZAZZLE
Zazzle - We make quality custom products designed by you. Choose from over 350 products to design. Post them for sale in the Zazzle marketplace. When someone buys your product, you make $$! * Powerful online design tools * Millions of visitors * Name - RedBubble - Art Gallery and Creative Community
RedBubble is an online art gallery and creative community. You can use RedBubble to: - Sell your work online; - Connect with a vibrant community of creative folk; or - Buy framed prints, posters, canvas prints, t-shirts, greeting cards or your very o - EBSQ - Self Representing Artists
Self Representing Artists - Compare Art Selling Websites: Sell your Artwork Online
Compare websites to sell art online. See features, prices, and restrictions side-by-side for several art selling websites. Find out where to sell artwork on the internet. - District Lines
Online Store & Order Fulfillment Provider What can District Lines do for you? * Custom Online Storefront * Order Fulfillment * Apparel Printing * Graphic and Web Design - Instantly Personalized
They sell a massive range of personalised gifts, toys, books, music, puzzles, childrens products, accessories and much more.. Like Cafepress but even a BiGGeR range of products! - Shopit - The Social Commerce Network
Shopit is designed to be a faster, easier and more cost effective selling and trading environment than any other available today. It is the world′s first and largest peer-to-peer social commerce network that enables users to buy, sell and trade anyth - Greeting Card Universe
Turn your art and photos into Greeting Cards and sell them here. This place is only for cards, and you make USD 0.50cents per card you sell. You get your own 'shop' and tools to help you promote your card/shop. Free to join, no cost to you at all. On - Online Shirt Stores
Online Shirt Stores provides designers with their own FREE webpage and online designer so that they can display their work and create their own t-shirt store
Read your way to creative success
Most artists would rather focus on art than struggle with the details of a business plan. Now, they can. Based on artist and teacher Cay Lang's popular seminars, Taking the Leap teaches artists how to succeed in today's complex and competitive art world. Offering inside information on how to show at galleries, nonprofit spaces, and museums, as well as a host of nontraditional venues, this behind-the-scenes look at the art world reveals how decisions are made and what artists can expect. Lang exp...
This book has been written to help you become more skilled at the art of selling your art. It is a workbook, a book to write in. It will guide you through the process of learning how to sell your art and how to make money doing it! The making of art and the selling of art are essentially different. For most of us, artmaking is intensely personal and private. Only when we are finished are we willing to share what we have done. Selling art is, on the other hand, a social activity in which we need...
Visual artists will find this book to be an invaluable reference. It provides insights, advice, examples and resources; all intended to help demystify the arcane world of art print marketing. Barney Davey uses his experiences and perspective culled from advising and observing leading art publishers and print artists in three decades to guide artists towards making informed decisions. By learning to accurately assess their resources, which results in making wise choices, artists can eliminate man...
The classic handbook for launching and sustaining a career that "explodes the romantic notion of the starving artist", with new and expanded resources for succeeding in the burgeoning Internet art market (The New York Times)Now in its fifth edition, with over 85,000 copies of previous editions sold, How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist is the preeminent guide to taking control of your career and making a good living in the art world. Drawing on over two decades of experience, Caroll Michels w...
Answers the question, "What can I do with a major in . . . ?" This series helps students explore career options within their field of study. From assessing individual talents and skills to taking the necessary steps to land a job, every aspect of identifying and getting started in a career choice is covered. Readers learn to explore their options, target an ideal career, present a major as an asset to a job, perfect a job search, and follow through and get results.
DESIGNING & MAKING T-SHIRT / APPAREL : TIPS & IDEAS - collection of resources and ideas to get your art onto t shirts to sell
- MAKING TSHIRTS ; Photoshop tutorial: Tricolor images
posterize images :) That effect is perfect in posters and t-shirts designs! - Picture Perfect Products Australia - Sublimation and Heat Transfer Solutions
Visit Picture Perfect Products Australia where you can learn about Heat Transfer Paper for both Light and Dark fabrics. You will find the needed skill to determine the best heat press for your application and a full range of many manufactured heat pr - compete-tee-tion
Compete-tee-tion is a new blog geared towards collecting information on the web's many t-shirt design competitions. My goal is to make this space a one-stop destination for anyone who is interested in these competitions, either as a designer or as a - Wholesale T shirts/ Shirts, Design Your Own Shirt (Australia)
T-shirt/Shirt Wholesaler,Plain or Printed T Shirts or Design Your Own Shirt. There are no minimums, you can buy one T-Shirt for only $21.95, you can also chose from one of our 43 colours,the biggest colour selection for Design Your Own T-Shirts avai - Custom Your Shirt (Australia)
customyourshirt.com : T-Shirt Printing - Australia-based screen printing & digital to garment specialists - design your own (one/small orders) or big orders.. Reasonable prices. - LOGO SPORTS WEAR
Large range of apparel, and looks like good quality stuff too. They also stock tie-die tshirts and hoodies, that you can print on! USA based, can do international orders. - tsdesigns | printing t-shirts for good
T. S. Designs is an innovative, full-service apparel domestic manufacturing and screenprinting company. We help our customers accomplish their market goals throughout the product design process—from initial concept to "speed to market" delivery. We a - T-Shirt Forums
Online forum and newsgroup to discuss custom t-shirts, starting a business, screen printing, hard to find t-shirts, and announce your t-shirt site
PROMOTING YOURSELF - Where and How to Promote Yourself
Creating and making your art into something to sell, is just ONE of the things you've got to do, the other major and most important step, is Promoting yourself and/or the things you have made, to sell. Here i will add websites, tutorials and anything else of valued interest that will help you and me achieve some sales..
- OpenAd > The world's biggest creative department
OpenAd is a global online marketplace for great advertising, marketing and design ideas. The smarter way to create your advertising We are the first online marketplace for buying and selling advertising, marketing and design ideas. Let our 10,000+ c
PROMOTING YOUR CREATIVE BUSINESS
It's called self-promotion for a reason: If you don't do it yourself, it usually doesn't get done! It's definitely a do-it-yourself proposition. It's an overwhelming proposition to make it big in the arts, and impossible if you don't take a proactive role in your promotion. This book will take the mystery out of marketing. It can't force you to embrace the concept, but it will teach you how to do it. It is the willingness (and ability) to market yourself and your art that increases your odds of making it. A lot of creative people have talent, but few have the know-how or desire to promote themselves.
Craft Creative Products - craft and art products
Products, craft items that you make things from, or bags, boxes, you can paint and decorate.. Cellophane bags and product display.. all found here on ebay with great prices..
CREATIVE ART & BUSINESS RESOURCES
How to make money from your art Resources : links and tutorials and even success stories that i find useful and motivating. Links to HOW other people have made stuff and sharing the information, and especially HOW TO GUIDES, where to find hard to find products to help you create..
- PUREBUTTONS INC - HIGH-QUALITY, CUSTOM 1 INCH, 1.25 INCH, 1.5 INCH, and 2.25 INCH BUTTONS!
Really well priced buttons (badges)in various sizes. Upload your own designs and order and resell? Great for promotions too ;) Good potential to do something here with designs especially.. - Photography and The Law: Know Your Rights (Photojojo)
Know where you stand with the law regarding Photography : where you are allowed or not allowed to take photos, what happens if you get some trouble, or they want to take your camera off you.. things like that.. - Free Invitation Wording Ideas
Free Invitation Wording Ideas for your invitations. Make your own invitations with our free invitation wording guide. Use our invitation wording ideas as a guide and add your own wording verse ideas - 30 Scripts For Galleries, Slideshows and Lightboxes
Family photos, vacation snapshots or creative artistic works: whatever images you have to present, can present them in a variety of ways. On big screen, - Beads4u.com.au
Beads4u.com.au Wholesalers of Beads, sequins, seed beads, bugle beads, faceted beads, pony beads, round beads, pearls, cloissone, semi-precious, firepolished czech glass, wooden beads, findings, rice beads and much more - Starting a Greeting Card Business
Even with the growing threat of e-cards, the greeting card industry remains very strong. Industry estimates show that over 7.4 billion cards were sold to Americans last year; that breaks down to approximately 235 cards sold per second! The good news - Fabric Shops, Fabric Stores and Retail Outlets Around Australia.
Fabric Shops, Fabric Stores and Retails Outlets in Australia. A complete listing of Fabric Shops that can be found throughout Australia for all your sewing projects. - ZOOICIDAL
Australias little personalised printing business where the customer is the most important person in the world. - Photopreneur
Make Money Selling Your Photos and Marketing Your Photography Business: Photopreneur exists to identify the new opportunities that these changes are churning up for professionals, hobbyists and for camera-owners who want to earn from their photograph
