Let’s Get Down to Business

Let’s face it most of us can’t go to school and not have a job on the side. Aside of tuition, a place to live and food there are other expenses to be considered. We don’t live under a rock and we want to buy new clothes, go out to eat, go drinking with friends (if you are 21, of course). This stuff costs money that not all parents can help out with. This is where your art comes into play. Since high school I have been making my way through life selling my artworks and doing commissions for people. No, it is not paying for my college tuition, or even for my apartment. But it helps me pay for the fun things like shopping and going out to eat.

Artistic ability is a tool that not everyone has. Some people cannot even draw a stick figure.  Use your ability to feed yourself and give yourself new things that you may not usually be able to do.

How do you market yourself? Create an Instagram or Facebook page. Get your parents to brag about your work (as I’m sure they already do), if you hear a business is looking for some new decorating go and talk to them about making stuff for them. It is a way to have fun with things while also making some extra money. Your pieces won’t be as highly priced as a professional artists work would be, but you aren’t a professional artist. You are giving yourself extra money so that you can have fun in the four years you have to do whatever you want.