My First $1,000 Passive Income as a Digital Artist - and with a tiny social media following
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- čas přidán 17. 12. 2023
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Get a behind-the-scenes look at my small art business. In the video, I’ll show you which income sources generated my first passive $1,000. It’s a huge milestone, and there’s still a ton of work to be done to expand my business. However, getting $1,000 passively (less actively) is a huge one for me as an artist. Enjoy the video.
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This is really cool, I never expected you could earn that much almost passively. Then again, it's not "easy", because you must have worked really hard to create the quality content to purchase or to create the traffic. I wonder though, how stable this figure is? Surely not every month is the same.
Yup, you can! And yes, there's nothing easy about this, like nothing. It has required a lot of work, and just like you wondered about the stability of this figure. It's not stable. It's sometimes less, sometimes more. So it's not stable (currently), and that is the thing I'm trying to improve in the next year or so. To make it stable, you need more eyes on your content and products, and you need to improve your products year after year.
One thing to remember is that online business is probably never stable. So I will try to increase the average revenue per month above my monthly expenses so that when there are slower/lower months, then it's ok as it's still above monthly expenses. That's the next goal.
When I started freelance, conventions helped me a lot to get traction and I was able to live the bare minimum with what I made the first year. It’s very doable!
Amazing, thank you so much 🙏 . I am never motivated by all of those people that show big numbers, make thosuands in a month by doing this, this and this etc. But yours down to earth progress & transparency is absoulte gem. Keep up, your gonna make it in life!
Thank you so much for your comment! I do have to agree that I'm also quite demotivated by different influencers that make a ton of money and make it seem so easy. Reality is so different though.
Such gorgeous art, and thank you for sharing your experience!
My pleasure 😊
Love the transparency, good video!
Thanks! Purpose was to be 100% transparent and I'm glad it showed through.
Really insightful. While I make videos on my art progress, I never really thought about starting a blog. Seems like an interesting thing I could make; an art blog about my art journey 🤔
Thanks for the comment. Weeeeell, if you start a blog and want to make money with it...it can't be about your art journey...unfortunately. If you want to start a blog and don't want to make money with it, then surely you can document your art journey. Google: "what is SEO" to get things rolling if interested.
this is very helpful, ty so much! your art is also incredible!!
You're so welcome!
Thanks for sharing the knowledge, its helpful to us starting artists.
My pleasure!
Well done mate and thanks for sharing. It's nice to see how other artists make money
My pleasure!
Thank you for sharing this! Best of luck
Thank you! You too!
thank you for your Wisdom. What blog service do you use? And are the ads google adsense?
I use WordPress and Mediavine adnetwork.
oh wow nice. Who do you have as a host? @@okuha
At times it feels so difficult for scatterbrained ol me. I think my skill has value already but I struggle to find ways to apply it to make a living without actionable steps. My best shot is just posting on Twitter a lot but even that I don't manage to keep up for long periods at a time. It's hard.
It is hard to make money with your skills, no matter what skills you have. Consistency, focus, perseverance are probably the things that I keep in mind when trying to build my small art business.
I relate so hard to this. Im trying to make the baby steps and make things that I love so that I can start to do something like make stickers to sell, or bookmarks. Something really small but achievable and brings me joy.
Don't give up. Instagram, twitter, tumblr, you can even post a recording of your drawing process on youtube and youtube shorts. Tiktok too. Keep it up and I think consistency in uploading is really important. You will get there, it is hard but you absolutely can make it bro. Little steps!
Thank you for sharing your experience! It's really helpful
Glad it was helpful! Doing my best here :D
@okuha what blogging site do you use?
Absolutely excellent and wonderful video my dear friend :) so good and so intriguing :)
Thank you! Cheers!
This video is super interesting. I’m a freelance graphic and motion designer since almost 10 years. I live almost exclusively by client work which can be quite exhausting and boring so I’m looking into other solutions to earn money.
If I understand correctly your 2 main places driving your traffic are you blog and yt channel.
Would you recommend one over another?
At how much traffic you were able to reach mediavine?
Yes, 2 main traffic sources are YT and my blog. When it comes to recommending one or another...that is too tough to say. YT has its own benefits and blog has its own. Blogging is harder than YT, but it's super passive and easy to outsource. YT is "easier" as a platform to get views, but it requires different kind of consistency. So it's all about what type of content production you enjoy the most.
Mediavine required/require 50,000 sessions, approx. 60,000 pageviews/month
Woow you're awesome to share us your income, this info is GOLD thank you thank you
Any time! I'm happy that you got value out of this :)
@@okuha of course! It's really hard to find info on how to make money of art, hope you keep growing
I'm still 1 year in art things, i guess my journey still long. thanks for the video, it gives me motivation
Best of luck!
Thank you for this video with more relatable and realistic numbers for people who are trying to figure out how to make ends meet as an artist!
Do you think that we need to have industry-grade skill levels to make a course that will sell well? Out of what you've mentioned, blog writing is probably not something I will get into and I also don't have a following, but making courses might be something I'll try if the sites can bring in traffic for me.
No problem, glad you enjoyed the video!
I think the better skills you have in any topic, the better sales you make (taking into account general market demand for a given product/service). Do you need to have industry-grade skills...I believe that when your course brings value to people then that should be enough. Now, it's another topic altogether to determine what is value. People value different things at different levels.
@@okuha that is very true! I have been holding back from trying because my experience is just as an independent freelancer, but you've given me some hope! I'd like to ask too - while you have mentioned that skillshare and udemy brings in organic traffic, how many percent do you think your sales originate from traffic driven by the platform and how many percent from your efforts (social media, CZcams, blog etc)?
So, as a fact you don't earn money as an artist, you get them as a blogger and a teacher.
I guess it depends on how people view things.
I know you mean earn money doing art but it's still all art related, so i guess it still counts
As an ART blogger and an ART teacher. Yeah. So... What's the issue with that?
He's using things related to art, most of which he already uses, but is now monetizing.
This is actually pretty ingenious for lesser-known artists and provides something of a regular income stream for a career choice that tends to be volatile insofar as income potential.
Hey Okuha. Congrats on your win! Wish you nothing but the best for the next years. I want to start a blog about graphic/motion design, but I know nothing about blogging, so Im wondering, did you use wordpress, or did you code it?
Go for it! I use WordPress and can't recommend anything else (when it comes to blogging). You might want to check this page: okuha.com/tools/ (affiliate links). It lists all the tools I use to run my blog.
I struggle with my art but i dont have to like promote it or what links or how to open a shop.
:)
I just wanted to say 🙌🙌🙌
Thank you!!!
Oh, hi. I read your articles
Awesome!
Thanks for sharing! :D BTW, you mentioned a media ads name VINE or V or something (CZcams' CC is not correct). May I have a link or name of that media?
No problem! The ad network is called Mediavine.
@@okuha Thanks, bro! I watched your other clip "CEL SHADING FOR BEGINNERS", but can't comment. Can you do some clips like that for other techniques? (soft shading, B-W, etc..)
Hey Okuha, this is the first time your videos have popped up in my feed and it seems like this one is getting some decent traction! I love your art style and when you mentioned a udemy course i was excited to check it out, however, i dont see any links to your udemy course or gumroad page? Maybe you could add those links to the description of all your videos and channel description to make them as easy to find as possible. It may help increase your sales a bit. Anyways, I've subscribed and am watching your other videos now while searching for that udemy course! Good luck! Im looking forward to seeing more of your content in my feed :)
Hi Dave and thanks for the comment. I don't promote Udemy that much. I have one link attached to this channel and it (behind that one link) has all the links to different stores and products. Hope you can find the one link from the channel header :D Thanks again for subscribing!
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That's really interesting ! It's not easy but we must keep working hehe ! By the way, where did you find the brush PENCIL no 1 please? I'm on CSP too but didn't find it, it's so smooth ! Thank you !!
I made it ;) It's a custom-made brush (took quite many hours to produce it) and not a standard one.
@@okuha Ooh I see ! Did you maybe think or already share it free or for sale ? It's so beautiful ! ^^ Thanks for answering !
how to do affiliate and such though do u have any videos about it?
not yet ;) but I will add that to my video ideas list. Thank you!
Hmm money😫😫
yeah,it sounds easy but when you look at the implication of ads,the fact that it takes a big starting budget and marketing knowledge,the fact that you will have to have many skills in order to sell a valuable digital product,the fact that your ad accounts will get permanently suspended with no chance of getting them back,the fact that you could have a high spend with low roas,the fact that you dont know how to market or even sell a mid ticket affiliate link product so that goes to shit because you dont know anything about marketing,the fact that all these skills take monumental amounts of time to actually master and if you try to master them while also drawing it will become physically imposible to get good at both,the fact that partnerships of 16$ will not permit you to be alive in a month,the fact that AI will render a lot of art jobs useless unless you sell a course specifically design for a category of people that want to learn a certain skill and that skill should be something that you are very profficient at so that people will acutally buy your stuff,the fact that you will someday in the very near future have to inevitably deal with you as an artist being rendered useless by a machine that can do 100x the work in a fraction of the time,and so on...
Please,if you read through,go get a job for 8 hours a day,you will not be able to survive like this. Especially in the US because 1k/pm will allow you to comfortably live in a car and scrape by with your life. You are welcome. It is highly unrealistic that you will make something even if you learn about all the skills needed which are in the number of tens of skills you need to MASTER,not know about,MASTER to have a succesful run. Dont do this if you are a beginner. I am speaking from personal and other people's real objective experience.
Thank you for the comment. I thought of answering thoroughly and in long form, but I will probably just make a video about this very topic. Thanks again for the comment though.
@@okuha i am glad you like my comment,I will be awaiting a new video. Also good luck on the journey brother,its hard haha,appreciate you bringing more education for artists.
It can be hard, but I don't think the creator was marketing this video as an end all be all to income. While I understand the struggle, I think telling everyone to give up before even trying is not how to go about it. This video had some very solid transparency and if the creator gave up before getting to this point, he wouldn't have been able to make the video in the first place. Not trying to sound rude, I just think we should inform others of our difficulties but rather than tell them to give up, support them with the knowledge they can gain by our own experiences. Best luck to you.
@@slop599 It is your choice whether to give up,I never mentioned giving up in any of my comments. If you give up because you read the objective reality of trying to do 2 hard skills at the same time you are not cut out to do it.
This is definitely not something to rely on for a major source of income. Not to mention the fact most people want art for so cheap makes getting paid a fair wage not really worth doing a business.
It is more likely one will succeed as a content creator than an artist.
I know a few people who just do reaction vids and make 2k a month. This really made me just rethink my own goals. If not demoralize me a bit.
But I am planning to live out of the U.S. anyway as cost of living is just too high.