How to Make Money as an Artist

5 Platforms to Make Money For Artists

If you are an artist looking for a platform to sell your artworks, you might find the following art marketplaces useful. On these marketplaces, you can sell any kind of artwork including digital art.

Etsy: Etsy specializes in selling handmade products. Since arts are classified, Etsy is an ideal platform for selling arts.

Amazon: Amazon is a great platform to sell any products including artworks.

Fine Art America: This is an art marketplace for artists to sell not only art for also art prints in different formats.

Pixels: This is an art marketplace that allows you to sell your canvas artworks. You can also sell clothing items with your unique designs and artwork.

UGallery: This is an online art gallery where artists can showcase their arts and buyers can buy artworks. UGallery is one of the best platforms for emerging artists.

TurningArt: TurningArt is a turnkey service for artists.

Society6: This is a platform where artists can not only sell artworks but also use their artworks in the clothing items and other accessories as sell through the platform.

 Make Money By Selling Art Bundles

If you are an artist, you can sell art bundles instead of single art piece. For example, as an artist, you can create the same kind of art in different moods, a different perspective, or different expressions and sell the entire art piece as a collection. Let’s say you created an image of a girl, you can create different variations of the art such as a crying girl, smiling girl, angry girl, laughing girl, yawning girl, etc. There are people who like to buy entire art pieces in bundles instead of just buying one art piece.

Instead of selling just an art bundle, you can also mint your art pieces as NFT collections. If you visit NFT marketplace like Opensea, you will see a lot of NFT collections listed for 95-96 Ethereum.

You can either create an artwork manually on canvas and convert it to digital art or NFT art, or create the art piece digitally through graphic designing software.  There are multiple platforms to sell your artworks, for instance, Etsy, Pixels, etc. 

6 Websites to Make Money on Autopilot For Graphic Artists

Fine Art America: This is an art marketplace where photographers and digital artists can sell photos and artworks not only as canvas prints but also as a poster, postcards, cushions, phone covers, mugs, etc. You are only required to list your product, printing products and shipping will be handled by the site.

RedBubble: This website is a Print-On-Demand marketplace with its own Print-On-Demand factory. In order to make money on this site, you have to upload your design and create a product such as t-shirts, hoodies, caps, mugs, rugs, towels, etc. When your product sells, the store will handle all work.

Etsy: I am also using Etsy. Etsy is basically a platform where you can sell handmade products, as well as sell through the Print-On-Demand method. f you list your product on Etsy, you will have an option to directly ship to the buyers, however, if you use Print-On-Demand, you will have to link another store to your Etsy account. I use Printify with Etsy.

Printify: Another platform that I am using is printify. You can sell over 200 products on this marketplace. This is also a free platform.

Pixabay: Uploading your photographs and arts on a free photography site like Pixabay is also good. ON this site you don’t sell photographs but can collect donation from people.

Your Own Website: You can sell digital items not only through third-party sites like ebay, etsy, fine art America, etc. but also from your own online store You can sell photographs, digital arts, digital printables, etc.

Note: Even though you make money on autopilot on these platforms, you still need to do things like creating new products, listing your products, running ads for your products, answering queries from your potential customers, and providing customer service. But these tasks do not require more than 20-30 minutes work in a day. By the way, Fine  Art America is the best platform for a photographer and digital artist, you can sell photographs not only as prints but also as phone case, pillow case, canvas, posters, caps, etc.