Context: I’m currently a student in medical studies and work p/t in a care facility. When I have a little time on the side I do artistic things, with a niche speciality in illustration. I’ve been told/asked by strangers, family, friends and others if I’d ever find a way to make money on what I do …but aside from the odd print, or a few commissions, I really never have. I’ve thought about somehow getting stickers made, or shirts , but I really would have no clue to go about it. I’d like to have some passive income that came from utilizing art skills I have, but I am my own mental wall when it comes to being confident enough to try.
At the same time, it must be said that I have a condition called “Dyscalculia” , it’s aside of some other learning issues…but the main point being, me understanding business terms, numbers, data, tech and algorithms is very unlikely or difficult. I once had help trying to set up a shopify and I had to stop because the person who was helping me lost patience trying to explain.
Anyway I feel I have all these ideas, for like images, branding concepts, little characters etc and idk if I could ever do much, if anything with that. Any advice, tips, feedback or just general comments ( negative or positive ) is appreciated.
30’s, living in western Canada.
get a job and do art on the side
making art is the easy part. selling it and marketing is hard.
If you are looking for passive income from your art, you might consider creating assets for game developers and selling them on the Unity asset store. It’s not really my jam so I can’t help with specifics, but you could take a look and see if it tickles your fancy: https://assetstore.unity.com/
Anything that involves gaming means code and poly . Assets are made via texture rendering-packing UVWs, etc which is directly tied to numbers and sequence function; unfortunately that’s not something I can do ( my brain isn’t capable) stuff like that is surprisingly less about art and more about computer technology.
I live in an area with a large homeschool community and people pay a lot for art classes of any type. Once a week for an hour, ten kids or so, you can charge about 150 per month. 1500 for four hours is not bad.
Thanks for the suggestion; I’m really not capable of teaching.
Being able to teach artistic things and doing them, unfortunately are 2 separate skill sets and I really only have one of them lol my communication skills are not great tbh