β¨MAKING MONEY AS A 2D ONLINE DIGITAL ARTISTβ¨
People underestimate all the ways you can make money from art. Yes, we have the regular full body, half body, bust commissions, but there are other things too!
COMMISSION TYPES:
full body
half body
bust
paintings/renders
logo design
Your Character Here (YCH)
Body pillows
Emotes
Expression sheets
Character Turnarounds
Backgrounds
Custom Character designs
Comics
Animatics
Storyboards
Pixel art
NSFW
PNGtubers
ART STYLE REPLICATION:
Can you draw anime? open " Fake screen shots " commissions!
Do you draw cartoons? Copy a cartoon art style and advertise it as " hey, I can draw your OC in accurate art style!" or " I can draw a scene and the characters can do whatever you want!"
Can you do pixel art? Look for pixel art games! Undertale for example and draw people's characters in the Undertale art style
Does a famous artist have a popular style? i saw someone open Commissions based on Rebecca sugar's doodle style! I saw someone replicate the TADC storyboards!
SELLING ART TYPES:
Brushes - Braids, books, city buildings, crowds, i heard are very popular and useful!
Bases - Don't be limited to the full bodies, treat it like a YCH, draw the characters doing a selfie or a family portrait or literally anything!
Adoptables - Do you like drawing characters but don't know where to store them? Sell them! get your old unused OCs and sell them too! (also its most popular on toyhouse!)
MOST IMPORTANTLY...
advertise
ADVERTISE
ADVERTISE!!
Self reblog, repost, post on other social medias, join niches, join discord servers, make fanart of popular media, you can't blame others for not commissioning you when they don't know your commissions are open! I advertise my commissions to know end and there are STILL people asking if they're open!
DON'T GET LOST IN THE MONEY
Money is so lovely, but it's also good to build rapport with your commissioners! You don't have to be besties, but don't treat them like money bags.
Be genuine, still be apart of the community! there are still people who stick around for you and don't have money to support you. Don't forget about them! build a community, not a business.
