Number 2
Create Fancy Font, Digital Files and Templates Then Sell Your Amazing Magic
For the creative lovers who enjoy to making beautiful templates there are many resources you can make and design only to have your work much-admired and then paid money for. One way to get a name for yourself is to start selling your digital files or sidebar adverts, social media images and Facebook Images. If you can make fonts, graphics, textures or designs you can sell the digital files online. There are a few ways to sell the images. You can either join a marketplace where the company will promote your files for you or you can run your own site, enhance and sell your files for all the profits.
Fonts are a huge part of any website and now more than ever before when Graphic Designers and Web Designers and Internet giant Google pay extra consideration to issues like website readability and usability.
According to Monotype, the US company specialise in making fonts, the interest in original typefaces is growing dramatically. The proof is in the pudding when you consider: last year in 2018, the company reported circa £299 million in takings, huge figures in such a creative space.
There are already a handful of graphic designers that are earning money online by selling digital a resource that otherwise may perhaps find itself not making any money. You’ll be amazed how much people are willing to part with their money for quirky and personable designs especially if it’s going to have a sentimental value or emotional element like a wedding letter template for example. There are also so many platforms for selling templates and fancy fonts which are all an increasingly big business and it’s a really great way to make extra money with your design skills.
If people subscribe to a subscription service, then you could charge a monthly fee for use of templates and by acquiring fans you can create a new revenue stream and it’s straightforward to sell your work on those sites. It’s surprisingly effortless to sell your work and there so many platforms for selling fonts. With good fonts and templates, you can start developing fans and then you can create a whole new revenue stream for yourself or a freelancing site!
One favoured choice among Graphic Designers is Creative Market, which is a magnificent location to market your artistic creations whether it be fonts, template or other graphics. There’s no exclusivity contractual period which allows you to set your own prices and bag 70 per cent of each transaction that is made.
New to the scene and popular among Graphic Designers too is Big Cartel – a great handy platforms for any creative looking to sell their design work online and feel the appreciation. People will sometimes pay good money for their favourite designs and the good thing about this site it that, it allows you to customise and personalise your own e-commerce store within theirs to give it a unique feel as well as even adapting it to your website (if you have one that is).
Art Web is an e-commerce website that focuses on selling art online and connecting international buyers and sellers. A community of different Graphic Designers and Artists of all kinds use this platform to grow their business as well as make connections and most importantly money too!
Finally, for those wanting to make a little bit of side money and for very little output I would suggest using Etsy. Create printable images and icons and selling these on Etsy is easy. Do you remember seeing all those catchy (sometimes cheesy) quotes you see on Instagram or Pinterest? Well, you can make (and sell) your own digital downloads on Etsy. It is simple to do, straight forward and allows you to play with fonts in a productive way and gets you using Illustrator because you’re creating things, and this can only be a good thing!
Number 3
Create Comic Books and Sell Them Online!
Through selling digital comics over the internet you’ll have the opportunity to claim a good a piece of the market share and see those golden shiny pounds (or your local currency) coming in!
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This is how and why?
Comic drawing is a huge business and one just needs to look at the likes of Marvel to possibly imagine just how big their business is- start small and grow is our advice. During the month of July this year 1289 new comic books and 355 new graphic novels were released, according to Wired. This statistic is somewhat assuring because it is encouraging to know that people are interested in this form of art, and more importantly willing to pay for it.
With that said, if you enjoy design and sketching then consider going into comic designing. People and companies will buy rights to use the comic image and sketches and you can make income for years after you’ve designed the these.