6 Ways to Make Money as Graphic Designer

You are willing to make money through internet from your design skills. If you can love creating brochures, flyers, new fonts, Photoshop e...

You are willing to make money through internet from your design skills. If you can love creating brochures, flyers, new fonts, Photoshop effects, cool logos etc. then you can earn huge amount of money from internet. All you need is finding out the best platform and ways. Here, I am going to show 6 different methods how a creative graphic designer can earn money online. You can use one of or all of them at the same time.

 1. Sell your Design

You may have created lots of design to practice or something. If you are graphics designer there, I am sure, you must have lots of design leftover on the hard disk of your computer. Well, instead of letting those unused/leftover designs go to waste, you can earn lots of dollars by selling them now. Moreover, just spare your time, create some new, attractive, professional designs and start selling them into marketplaces like Graphic Leftovers, GraphicsRiver or Creative Market.

In my opinion, Graphicriver is the best place to sell your design. Graphic River is the marketplace powered by Envato Company where you can sell your design.  You just need to create your account and start selling.

2. Sell Your Skill

You have spent lots of hours designing stuffs, operating applications like Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, CorelDraw etc. Then, you can earn extra money by sharing your skills with others. You can teach them the skill you have. And to do that SkillsShare is best on my view.

At SkillsShare, Professionals teach students a skill. You can find all kinds of categories and among them illustration, DIY, graphics designs are suite for you. In order to start your course, you have to apply but keep in mind that not everyone is accepted.

Udemy is another platform where skilled professionals can make extra money. There's no application like SkillsShare. All you need is, make 30 minutes of work, 60 percent of which must be video. Udemy cost you nothing to set up your shop. You can make classes free or paid. Average cost of a class is $50.

3. Be Freelancer

Being a freelancer might be the good option for every Graphic Designer. But the most difficult things about freelancer is finding clients. There are lots of clients who wants to have their designing jobs done and at the same time lots of freelancer designer are willing to accomplish the job and get paid. If you complete your profiles, make strong portfolio and write attractive proposal then there are higher chance to get jobs.

Upwork might be the best platform to be get freelancing job. This is the large freelancing platform. Another is Fiverr. At Fiverr you can earn money starting from $5 by selling your skill. First you need to create your first Gig. Fiverr is notable for cheap, cheap prices. There’s a huge variety of products offered on Fiverr, and not much is priced above $5, meaning the payout for designers is small. 

Design99.com, PeoplePerHour.com, Freelancer.com are other sites to get freelancing jobs.

4. Start your Own Shop

This might be the little difficult to start and get positive result but when you give your shop a step ahead, I can guarantee, you can make living by your own digital shop. You can create digital files like textures, fonts, print-ready templates, stationery design, images, illustrations and sell them from your own website i.e. marketplace. Just buy a domain name, get hosting from WordPress, Install Easy Digital Download Theme and start selling your products. Earning depends upon how much can you sell per day.

5. Be a Blogger and YouTuber

You may think, I am a graphic designer, how can I make money from blogging or making videos on YouTube. But you can make $1000 per month by blogging or making YouTube videos. Just create your first channel on YouTube, make quality tutorials, upload them. When your channel gets first 10k lifetime views you can request for Google AdSense. Same happens to blogger too. Create your first blog on Blogger. Start writing about designing tips and tricks. When you write 15 to 30 articles you can monetize your blog. It's easy, just do it.

6. Earn $ Per Download from Stock Files

If you have lots of creations like illustration, video footage, photo effect, icons, templates etc you can sell them on stock sites. You will be paid certain amount like $0.25 when somebody download your item. sites like ShutterStock, iStock, FreePik, Flat Icons, Adobe Stock, Envato Elements are quite famous amongst designers. 

I hope you have found my articles helpful. If you have any question, suggestion, leave comment below. I will response you as fast as possible. Thank You!