Quick Start Guide: How to Make Money as an Artist

Maybe you’re an aspiring artist hoping to enroll in college. Perhaps you just earned your degree from an art school or have been working in retail for a year now trying to support your real passion – fine art. No matter the circumstance, you may feel the pressure from your parents, your friends, and most importantly from yourself to make a real living from your art. Of course, most of the pressure you receive is born out of concern for your well-being and professional future, rather than any judgment about your artistic choices. Unfortunately, when the pressures of surviving in the real world collide with your professional priorities, many new artists find themselves sacrificing time spent pursuing their true passion – creating art – in favor of meeting expectations or financial obligations. Here, we provide a few important tips and strategies to help you find early success so that you never have to be a self-described “starving artist”.