| I had considered myself a professional artist for years | | | | you put in now, is the most you ever need to do. The |
| before "breaking out" into art sales in 2006. I had | | | | art sells itself once on the internet. Every time |
| worked freelance online before that, but I never had a | | | | someone downloads one piece of art, I get paid $3.00. |
| real art job. I did however start working for a cartoon | | | | and that's just one piece of art! I have hundreds or art |
| company and had a short run at that, but I soon found | | | | pieces being downloaded everyday and thousands of |
| out that jobs for artists weren't what they seemed to | | | | photos I have taken giving me a quarter every time. I |
| be. I went online and found an incredible opportunity to | | | | might as well have an arcade! But with this, no upkeep, |
| submit artwork and photos via email, and I took off | | | | etc. |
| with it. | | | | I keep the rights to everything I have ever done, so if |
| Nowadays, work consists of a couple hours a day, | | | | someone ever purchases the actual work exclusively, I |
| and the money is tremendous. Sure work can get on | | | | can have my copies taken down off the websites |
| your nerves, deep inside your skin, but this art job pays. | | | | immediately. There are tricks you can do to make |
| After 2006, the income became very stable. I had no | | | | more as well. Here's where it gets good: You can |
| challenges until I began outsourcing the work in 2007. | | | | promote yourself and make even more. See, you don't |
| See I was always very good at doing it all myself, but | | | | need to if you don't feel like it, but do you want to |
| there is a financial limit to that because you can't | | | | make a lot of money doing this? Well I don't know |
| possibly do all of the work yourself, or can you? | | | | about you, but I know I do. What I have done is painted |
| Well I found the best and most rewarding way to do it | | | | 35 paintings in the last year, designed digital art in |
| right is to create hundreds of pieces first, then submit | | | | Photoshop and taken 3500 photos and uploaded them |
| them to as many photo databases as possible. | | | | to 240 sites. On average, I get 1200 downloads a day. |
| Without the distribution, the paychecks are simply | | | | Now many of these downloads are for 0.25, but some |
| smaller. There really is not limit to how much you can | | | | of them are up to $5.00. I promoted my profiles on |
| make, but it is most important to understand the work | | | | these sites and now the income is scary. Great stuff. |