Making Money From Photos

In a Sunday Newspaper that I read yesterday I came across an article where an amateur photographer who took pictures for the past 40 years. He started making money from selling his phots to the tune of £70K or $140K. He turned his love of photographs, he had 3000 of them, into an extremely lucrative venture. This is something that can easily be done online thanks to sites that pay you for the photographs you submit to them. These include scoopt,artist bank and picurination where your photos can sell for as little as $0.30 to as much as $70.

There are also lots of other places to find sell your photographs. A paid for resource that I found most useful, you can find out at this site. Infact not only can you make money selling your photographs but there are places scattered around the internet that will pay you for your drawings and even doodles? This might sound strange but after all the internet offers the quickest way to exchange information especially when it comes to sending and receiving photographs and graphics.

You read it right. Maybe you are struggling to get an art job (or even any job) but did you know that instead you could more easily set yourself up in business instead of knocking on door after door looking for that elusive art job?

The best thing is that you do not even have to know how to be an artist. Yes even if you do not know a scooby-doo about art, drawing or taking photos, when it comes to the internet anything is possible thanks to its global reach and flexibility to make it do for you almost anything that can be done in the real world. So to know how to make money online as an artist or photographer with or without the skill or training, then this is how you can easily go about it.

As you may or may not have noticed, every occupation that is out there has some presence on the internet. Therefore when it comes to media which can be easily transmitted digitally via email like photos, drawings, doodles, etc, businesses specialising in design, journalism or advertising have in the internet a very easy and fast way for getting hold of photos, drawing and all manner of designs from professionals and amateurs the world over who want to sell them. Yes, these are sites on the net that will pay each time someone downloads a drawing or photo that you submit to them. They will of course get a cut and give you yours, or in some cases offer you a lump sum to buy the full rights which sometimes can even run in the thousands or more!

But where do you find such sites? If you type stock photos on any search engine you will be presented with a myriad of sites that sell or buy photographs. Getty images is probably one of the most famous and where professional and not so professional photographers (paparrazzi?) submit their work from where ever they are in the world. Each time one of the clients of such sites downloads the photos you submitted you will then get paid a fee or royalty. Of course there has to be a demand for it and you never know what the client might be looking for. So let's say someone is setting up a site about milk and you just photographed your milk carton in a nice setting and submit it to a stock photo site, you could find that that the webmaster of the milk site might pay you a nice fee for the photo that probably took you 20 seconds to set up. A ridiculous example, I know, but not so ridiculous once you see the money rolling in for what is very little work.

When it comes to submitting drawings, the possibilities are even more diverse. Different niches require different requirements and there are a plethora of businesses out there that demand art or designs you may have for them. For example the tatoo business is booming online and always looking for art jobs you could sell them. Then you have textile firms looking for art jobs and designs for their materials. The number of firms that you could court business for your art is really immense including not only the North American and European market but also that of the Far East.

When you start out doing your art jobs to submit to companies, a good way to test the water are sites like "Artist Bank" or its sister site "Art Bank" where artwork can be submitted on a great variety of subject matter; from surreal stills, to nude drawing, or to religion. Such sites do have cheap subscription fees but have an initial free quota meaning that if you sell anything then it will pay for itself in due course.

And finally remember that even if you do not have great drawing, artistic or photographic skills, that this is something that you will be able to do easily online using a pc, especially if you check the resources at the end here which will get you up and started in learning how to draw and where to sell it fast and easily to make good money with your very own digital art selling business.

Graham Grant shows you how to how to make money from your art, drawings, photographs and doodles. Even if you have limited drawing skills this is easy to do whether you have artistic skill or not Click here to find out more

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