The following ideas will help you to think about your passion and how you could earn money with your design and art work.

Making money with design

1. Make a portfolio and sell your services
2. Design icons and symbols and sell them trough stock-sites
3. Offer web design services
4. Design logos and build identity’s for other businesses
5. As web designer you could specialize on blog design or in another niche
6. Build high quality templates and themes for blogs or other software and sell them
7. Sell your rejected graphics and designs over at graphicleftovers

Making money with art

1. Build your own t-shirt online shop
2. Have your own doodle character? Build a shop with some merchandise (buttons, stickers)
3. Selling prints of your artwork on community’s like deviantart
4. Make hand made products and sell them on etsy

Making money with photography

1. Going local and advertise your services
2. Sell stock-photos
3. Build your own portfolio or photo-blog to show your work
4. Sell your images trough a agency

How you’ll be successful

And don’t forget:

• Have a sense of humor
• Be yourself
• Be a simplifier, not a complicator
• Be original. Be grateful. Be courageous
• Don’t cut and paste other designers work

I will publish an article on every single one of these ideas in the near future, so if you need more in depth details on any of them, they’re coming.

Do you have more ideas? Please write them down in the comments. I’ll pick them up and place them in the list.

You can use it for whatever you want, as long as you give credit to me. The free Vector download is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

I would love to see what you’ve done so please send me a link to your work. Maybe I love your work so much that I write a feature about you and your work. Leave a comment or contact me.

Use the .ai file with Adobe Illustrator and the .svg file with the open source Inkscape. Both files are included in the download archive.

From personal experience I know that earning a living with web design, logo- and print design is not easy at all. You have to be patience, must out stand from the competition and have good contacts for word of mouth marketing.

It’s not easy being a designer these days but with enough effort and creativity it’s manageable. Actually it’s a lot of fun.

Also prepare to receive lots of good design-resources, vector-packs, web-graphics and Photoshop utilities.

From this day on I’ll do my best to provide you as much informative and useful content as I can produce. As I mention in the about page I want to thank the whole online design community. They provided me so many useful resources that I think it’s time to give something in return.

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You’ll get freelance advice, marketing tips and design inspiration. All things belong to make money with design and art. The information on this blog will help you start or grow your design business, find new ways to market you design services and finally build your brand.

The plan is to give you my knowledge about design and marketing and on the other hand I’ll learn new things and strategies from you, the reader.

If you look at the main navigation above you can see a freebies and a tutorials tab. These are the main categories, meaning most of the posts will be either a tutorial or a downloadable freebie for you. Additional there will be a advice and a inspiration category.

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