I need money...how do i earn? how do amateur artists earn?

[TomSawyer]

Easy Solution: Stop getting birthday / christmas gifts. Only ask for money and you'll get a decent amount... eventually

[inactiveaccount]

Most amateur artists have to start somewhere and you will need to have a part time job (Fast food, supermarket, baristas for example) to ensure you have a steady income. Really, this may be the only way but understandably, its tough to even get one of these dead end jobs too.

[Shanny8]

If you have people that like your art, charge to do either pencil commissions or black & white ink commissions. If you have a webcomic on here, open up a Patreon page and see if some of your readers can contribute to keeping you doing what you like. They help support you, and you give them the art that they love to read.

[Shanny8]

hahahaha

[omarsassi88]

everybody say to you: go to work. that's right I agree with them. But It's ages that I am working to pay bill,rent, watercolor, alcool and all the stuff required to live trying to became an artist... But I am sure that you, like many other people, feel that you need to earn money in some kind of different way that is not working for someone else.I left my work and I try to sell my stuff but I earn so few that I had to find a new work again. I left my work again and same crap happen. then I understood that I don't have to make money with my art, I mix my art and my life togheter. so is more then one year that I decided to work in different country to LIVE my life, but I have got anytime my watercolor by my side. and in my freetime I make my comic. Is really hard anyway, I still don't want to work. But meanwhile that I am not famous and without ability to survive with my art skill, I just do the better I can and I try to enjoy what is around my art..be ossesioned by the idea of doing money willl just bring you nowhere. that is what I think. sorry tu be rude! that's my comic if you are interested. goodnightVolpino's adventures

[KoalaMari]

Get a job or sell some of your stuff.

OR (if you can't find a job yet) PRACTICE WHAT YOU LACK. Being an artist doesn't really need to go buy some stuff like color palette for you to get started. Sometimes a pen, pencil. eraser and paper are all you need to practice, to GET STARTED. When you get better, you can finally do commissions.

When I was in grade school I used to sell bracelets and necklaces that I made on my own (from scratch). My profit from selling bracelets still wasn't enough to buy art supplies so I used things like pens and papers that I saw at my home to draw.

Point is, be creative not only in arts but also with life. Think smart kid. Take advantage of what you have and not think of what you lack.