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1. What to Expect: Hi, there and welcome
into this class. My name is Shivani and
I'm a gouache artist, surface pattern designer and creative entrepreneur based in the sunny City of Chennai
in the South of India. My journey with
creative businesses started when I graduated
from design school. Post that I started a sustainable lifestyle
accessories brand called Arture. And over the last three years, I've developed my
own art business. Over these three years, I've recognized the
value of having multiple different streams of
income in my art business. My art business is held
by two core foundations, one is my art itself, and the second is my content. These two form the basis of the different offers that I'm able to monetize
with my audience. I've realized that the term starving artist is just a myth, and nowadays, there
are hundreds of ways that we can
monetize as artists. So in this class, I'm going to take you through all of that. We're going to understand
the differences between active and passive
sources of income. We're then going to discuss how you can monetize
your art itself, your skills, and the content that you create in
your art business. And at the end of this class, you'll have a clear plan for
the different income streams that would be the perfect fit for you and your unique skills. Whether you're an
artist who's just starting to monetize
your work or you're somebody who's been doing
it for a while and you're looking to explore a few
new sources of income, then this class is
perfect for you. Let's jump into the next lesson where we're going to talk
about the class project.
2. Your Revenue Pie: In the description below, you're going to find the link to download the class workbook. You'll also find it in the resources section
of this class. Your task today is
going to be to fill out that workbook to the
best of your abilities. You don't need to worry because through the lessons
in this class, I'm going to teach you
everything that you need to know about income streams and
how you can monetize. All you need to
do is think about each lesson as you complete it and fill out your
ideas in the workbook. You can either print the
workbook and fill it with a pen or pencil or you
can fill it digitally. That's completely up to you. At the end of the workbook, there's a space for you
to create a revenue pie, and that's going to
be the final project. This revenue pie is going
to give you some direction as you start to work towards
your art business goals. It's going to tell
you what your targets are in terms of the different
income streams that you want to create and
what percentage of your revenue is going to come
from each of those streams. As you go through this class, there's one important thing that I want you to keep in mind. Your art business is very fluid. What I mean by that
is as time passes, and as you actually start
implementing your ideas, things are going to change. That's a very natural
part of the process. Just because you put something
down into your plan in the workbook today doesn't
mean that it's set in stone. You have the freedom
to continue to take decisions that are right for
you as and when you need to. As time passes, and as you continue to work
on your art business, it's completely natural for your revenue pie to
change as well. Maybe today you feel that teaching is going to
form 25% of your income. But as time passes, maybe you realize that you really enjoy teaching and
you'd like to do more of it. So maybe two years
down the line, teaching is going to form
75% of your revenue. That's totally fine.
You can always change your plan based on the changing
needs of your business. For now, I want you to
not overthink it and just fill out the workbook based on your ideas as they are today. In the next lesson, let's talk about the myth of
the starving artist.
3. The Myth of the Starving Artist: So let's talk about the myth
of the starving artist. While that might have been
the case many years ago, today, it really doesn't
have to be the case. You can absolutely make
money as an artist. You just need to understand what options exist for you and which of those options
could possibly be the right fit for
you and for your art. Each person's path
is very different. And what works for
somebody else or what somebody else's path is might not be the
perfect fit for you. So you need to try out multiple things and
see what sticks for you and what makes the
most sense for your style and your unique strengths. Even if you're only pursuing your art business
as a side hustle, it still helps to know what are the different ways that you
could potentially monetize. Being clear about which
income strains you would like to target also gives you a lot more focus
in your business. It helps you understand what activities are going to actually
move the needle for you, and it helps you prevent wasting time on things that aren't going to move
the needle for you. If you're interested in knowing more about how to structure your entire art
business and how to create a business plan and
a marketing plan for it, then I'd definitely
recommend checking out my other subject where I dive into a lot more
details on that topic. For now, all you
need to know is that whatever your target income
is with your art business, you can absolutely
make it happen. Once you go through all
the lessons in this class, you're going to have a lot
of ideas swimming around about the different paths that you could
potentially pursue. I'd recommend taking
notes throughout and always taking note of the ideas that seem to
be jumping out to you. Things that you feel
the most excited by. Usually, those end up being the things that we
are the best at, and that comes very
naturally to us. So pay attention
to those feelings. In the next lesson, let's talk about the
difference between active and passive sources of income specifically for artists.
4. Active Vs Passive Income: Most income streams tend to fall under one of
two categories. The first is active income, and the second is
passive income. Active income is income that's generated by things that
actively take up your time. That means you need to continuously be
putting in your time to generate that income. A simple example of this would be commissioned paintings
for collectors. You need to put in
the time to research for the painting and then
actually create the painting, and only once you
create that painting, can you sell it and
generate that income, which means it's completely dependent on your
time going into it. The second is passive income. Passive income streams
typically require a certain amount of upfront
work that goes into them. But once that upfront
work is done, then these largely
generate income by themselves without too much of active effort from your end. An example of that
could be having an Etsy store where you're
selling some digital products. You put in the work to create these digital
products and then you list them on Etsy's website. Once that's done, Etsy
themselves generate a lot of traffic that comes
and purchases your products. Maybe you need to
do a little bit of customer service,
but that's about it. So that's another thing
to actually keep in mind, which is that passive
income streams are never 100% passive. It's easy to have
that misconception, but keep in mind that that's
not going to be the case. There's always some
amount of work that goes into it even after you've
created the products. This could include
maintenance activities, customer service, or the marketing and
sales activities that go into promoting
these products. Many people go in with the expectation that once they
create a passive product, it's going to
completely run itself, but that's not the case. I'm not saying this to
discourage you in any way, but it's important to set the right expectations
so that you understand exactly how much of your time is required for every income
stream that you create. Based on how much time you have available to give to
your art business, you need to be realistic about where you're going
to spend your time. And while most income
streams can be classified as either
active or passive, I typically think
of a few of them as being a hybrid of
these two things. Let's take YouTube
as an example. Let's say you're a
content creator who is monetized with YouTube ad sense. While YouTube does generate
passive income for you month on month based on all the older content
that you've created, You also need to actively put in effort to
create new videos each week or each month
to make sure that your content is staying
updated and relevant. If you don't do that,
your income from the platform is going
to dwindle over time, and we don't want
that to happen. So over the next few lessons, as we discuss the different ways that you can monetize your art, your skills, and your content. I'm also going to
tell you which of these could be active
income sources, passive income sources,
or hybrid income sources. That way you can be
prepared and you can create a perfect mix that works, for your skill set and the
time you have available. So let's now talk about
the different ways in which you can monetize
your art itself.
5. Monetise Your Art: The first and most
obvious thing that you can monetize is
your art itself. But even that can
take many forms. The first is selling
your original art. This is, of course,
an active source of income because you need
to create the artwork, and then you need to put
in the work of selling it. This could be in the form of
one-off paintings that you create like Liz Clayton
Fuller does on her website, or it could be in the form of collections like I did
with my Rain Tree collection. If you're interested in
exploring that income stream, then my class on
creating and selling fine art collections might
be a great fit for you. The next thing that you could monetize is prints
of your artwork. Now, this could be active or passive depending on
how you go about it. You could either take the route of creating the prints yourself, stocking the inventory with you and shipping it
out to customers, or you could take the
print on demand route where you team up
with a company who's going to print the orders as you receive them and drop ship
them to your customers. In which case, it would
be a lot more passive. Then you could sell products or merchandise with your art. Towards the end of 2023, I created a 2024 desk calendar
with my artwork on it, which I sold through my website. You could also look at an
example like Gingiber where Stacie Bloomfield sells a lot of products with
her artwork on it. This could take the
form of notebooks, pins, t shirts, or even
stickers with your art on them. Again, this could be something that's more actively
done where you are stocking inventory yourself
by directly working with manufacturers or you could team up with a company who's
going to drop ship for you, in which case, it would
be a lot more passive. Also, keep in mind that all of these streams that I
previously mentioned could either be done through your own website or
they could be done through a platform like Etsy. If you work with a
platform like Etsy, they already have an
existing audience. So as long as you're creating products that
there is a demand for, you could sell pretty
well on these platforms. However, if you want to have a lot more control and you don't want to be giving away a
huge fee to a platform, then it's a better idea to
do it on your own website. The next option is a
print on demand website. This is different from what
I previously mentioned about partnering with a print on demand to manufacture
your own products, which you're selling
on your own website. I'm talking about platforms like Spoonflower where you could upload surface pattern designs, and Spoonflower
shows these products to their customer base, and they completely take care of creating the
products or the fabrics and shipping it to
customers and you get a small percentage of
every transaction. Similarly, there's
also Society 6 which offers a lot more product
options than Spoonflower does. Then you could create
commissioned paintings. Again, this would be similar to creating original art,
but in this case, you would be following a brief given to you by a
collector or a client. This artist called Athira based in India is a
great example of this. She makes really beautiful commissioned paintings
for her customers. Then you could
license your artwork. In the world of surface
design, this is very common. You could license either
full illustrations of your artwork or you could license surface pattern designs. Again, this is something
that can be more active or more passive depending on how you
make it for yourself. You could have an agent who handles all of the
work of finding brands for you to
partner with so that all you need to focus on is
building up your portfolio, or you could actively
be taking on the role of finding new
clients for yourself. Then you could have freelance projects where you work with either a client or
a brand based on their brief to create
illustrations for them. This could be in the form of wedding card designs or packaging designs or
whatever else they might need. This is definitely a more
active stream of income. And finally, there is
digital printable art. This is, of course, a very
passive source of income. I'm going to discuss that
with you more when we get into the lesson
on digital products. One final note before we
go into the next lesson. When you're deciding whether you want to stock your own
inventory and ship it out to customers
or you want to work with a print
on demand platform, there are a few things
that you need to consider. Think about the costs of
the two different options. Think about how much storage
space you have available and whether stocking
your own inventory is even going to be
possible for you. Manufacturing
products yourself is going to come with huge
minimum order quantities. Whereas with drop shipping, you can even manufacture a
single product at a time. And finally, think about
the branding process and how much control you want over the experience that
your customer receives. When you are holding
your own inventory and shipping it out, you, of course, have more control, and you can add in
branding elements. You may not be able to do it to the same extent with a
drop shipping partner. Now's the perfect time for
you to go ahead and download the class workbook from the link in the description and
start filling it out. There's a page about
monetizing your art where you can explore all the ideas that are coming up
for you right now, and there are a few prompts
that are going to help you think about what might be
the right options for you. In the next lesson,
let's talk about how you can monetize your skill
set as an artist.
6. Monetise Your Skillset: If you're an artist,
I'm willing to bet that you've got
some superpowers. I don't just mean your
art skills itself, but I mean your other skills that complement
your art business. Maybe you're somebody who's really good at creating content. Maybe you've been able to build a thriving community of
people who love what you do. Maybe you're somebody
who's really organized and really good at staying productive within a
creative industry. Maybe you're good at
surface pattern design. Maybe you have a good
understanding of color theory, or maybe you're good at a particular tool like
procreate or Adobe Photoshop. Any of these are skills
that could be monetized. There are so many
other artists who could benefit by
learning your skills, and you can monetize by
teaching it to them. If you feel like
you're too early in your journey to be
teaching anybody else, which is something
that we've all felt, then keep in mind that there's always somebody who's
just one step behind you, and students tend to relate to teachers
who are just a few steps ahead of them rather than somebody who's already
mastered everything. Teachers who are just a
few steps ahead of us tend to relate to the problems
of a beginner much better. They tend to explain things
in a way that's very understandable and provide
practical guidance for the stage at which
we are right now. Keeping that in mind, give yourself the confidence that if you're
good at something, there's somebody who can benefit
by learning it from you. I myself started teaching right in year one
of my art business. I started by teaching
gouache tutorials and color theory because those were the skills that I felt
really confident in. As I've grown my business, I've also started teaching
the business side of art because I thoroughly
enjoy these topics, and I'm just a few
steps ahead of you, and I feel like I can
provide that value. That being said, here are a few ways that you could
monetize your skills. The first is teaching
here on Skillshare. This is a kind of hybrid
income stream where you can create classes and they continue to passively
generate income for you. But at the same time,
you do need to actively put in some work to continuously
create new classes. You could have
online workshops or live sessions where you
teach a particular skill. Similarly, you could also
have offline workshops. Both of those would, of course, be active sources of income. Then you could have one
on one mentorships, where you personally connect
with students and you provide them with individualized
plans for their growth. You could have art
retreats where you have multiple different
students coming to a location and you
could teach them particular skills or you could all sketchbook and
create art together. You could also
independently create your own online courses and
sell them to your audience. This could be done through platforms like
teachable or Kajabi. So I hope that sparked
a few ideas for you. You could now pull
up the workbook page about monetizing your
skill set and think about what your superpowers
are and which of your skills you might
be excited to monetize. At this point, I'd also like to tell you that it's not necessary that every artist
has to monetize their art and their
skills and their content. I'm just presenting you with
all these different options, and it never hurts
to brainstorm. Maybe at the end of this, you feel that teaching is
not the right fit for you. That's totally fine. You don't have to pursue every single thing that you
write out in this workbook. These are just ideas so that you can see what
you're most drawn to. That being said,
let's proceed to the next lesson where we'll talk about monetizing your content.
7. Monetise Your Content: Content creation is
a huge industry, and if it's something
that you're good at, then there could be a lot of potential to earn
money in this space. So here are a few ways you
could monetize your content. The first one is
YouTube ad sense. Creators earn quite a lot of
money out of YouTube adsense. So if you enjoy creating
long form videos, this could be a great
opportunity for you. Artists like Kelsey Rodriguez are a great example of this. She's been creating
content for a while now, and her content has a lot
of value for her audience, which has allowed her to grow really well
on the platform, and it's allowed her to earn money through
YouTube ad sense. Now, a spin off from that
would be brand sponsorships. The thing about
brand sponsorships is that you don't necessarily have to have a
certain audience size to be eligible for it. At any size, if you have a loyal audience and
an engaged following, you can reach out to brands and ask them to
sponsor your content. This would give you
some steady income. The brand could
potentially work with you for a series of videos or posts, and if you're able
to demonstrate that your content gets
a lot of eyeballs, then this could be
lucrative for you. Then there's affiliate income, which is again something that creators of any
size can take on. You can sign up to
be an affiliate with a website like Amazon, or you can sign up with
brands that you enjoy using. For example, I use the
Canvas lamp in my studio. I have it right
here, if you see it. So I've been using
the Canvas lamp on my desk for the
last two years, so I signed up to be an
affiliate with the brand. This allows me to promote
Canvas to my audience, and if anybody decides to
purchase it using my link, I get a bit of a
kickback from it. With affiliate partnerships, it's important to
be transparent with your audience and inform them that when they
make a purchase, you might receive a small amount that helps support your art. Then you could have
subscriptions. For example, on a
platform like Patreon. You could have exclusive
content that you create for people who pay you a
monthly subscription fee. Artists like Jenna Rainey, Jess Karp and Shealeen Louise
are great examples here. Then you could have
paid newsletters. If you enjoy writing and if your e mail subscribers
enjoy what you have to say, you could have a paid
version of your newsletter. Austin Kleon does this, and so does the famous
artist James Gurney. He, of course, has a free
newsletter that he sends out, but he has a paid version
where you can get exclusive access to his thoughts about his painting
process and so much more. There's a lot of
value provided there, and so people do pay
for that subscription. So pull up your
workbook now and go through the section on
monetizing your content. Think about the ways to do this that might
make sense for you. In the next lesson, we're
going to talk about digital products, so
I'll see you there.
8. Digital Product Ideas: A lot of the options that
I'm going to discuss in this lesson might fall under the previous
categories we discussed. That is monetizing your art or your skill set
or your content. I created a separate lesson
for this because there are so many options and I wanted
to discuss all of them. Sometimes digital products
could be relatively easy to create and relatively passive when it comes to the
income generation. So it's always worth
knowing what options exist because these might
spark a few ideas for you. One option is to
sell printable art. I do this with some of my
older art pieces on Etsy. I have listed them
as printable art. Customers can just
purchase them, download them, and then
print them out themselves. There's absolutely
no work that goes in from my side in the
fulfilment part of this. There's just a bit
of customer service when questions come in or when I want to ask them to leave a
review for my store. But aside from that, it's largely a passive income source. Then you could create
Canva templates. These templates could be
for social media posts, or they could be for
lead magnet PDFs. If you're good at graphic
design and you can create some aesthetically pleasing
templates that fall into a particular theme or category that solves a
requirement for customers, this could be great. Then you could create notion templates. I mentioned the artist Kelsey Rodriguez when I spoke about monetizing
on YouTube. He uses notion a lot as
a part of her workflow. She's shown how she uses
notion in her YouTube videos, and she must have seen that her viewers were
resonating with that. So she started selling a few
notion templates to them. So that can be a great way to monetize if you use a tool like notion and you're good at it and you're good at coming
up with templates. Then you could sell
wedding invite templates on a platform like Etsy.
You could sell clipart. For example, if you create
watercolor florals, you could create a clip art pack that you could sell
on a platform like Creative Market that people can download and use in their
own creative projects. You could sell procreate
brushes like the artist Lisa Glanz does on Creative Market and
on her own website. You could sell ebooks or mini courses or guides to
teach a very specific skill. Again, taking the
example of Lisa Glanz. She sells something called
the pattern design tool kit, where she provides multiple
different templates that surface pattern
designers could use. Along with that, she also gives a video lesson that teaches
you how to use this tool. So you can get really
creative with how to use your skills in the format
of a digital product. Similar to selling
procreate brushes, you could also sell color
palettes for procreate. Many people have
trouble coming up with harmonious color
palettes for their work, and if that's something
that you're good at, then you could
definitely monetize it. Then you could sell
coloring pages. If you enjoy creating line art that would make a
great coloring page, then you could sell
that to your customers. You could sell
wallpapers for phones, and this could even be in the form of a subscription where people receive a monthly
set of wallpapers from you. You could even sell
art for Frame TVs. The artist Laurie Ann, who creates acrylic
paintings sells some really beautiful
art for Frame TVs. So again, pull up the workbook and fill out all of your ideas. I'll see you in the next
lesson where we'll talk a little bit about how
to price your offers.
9. Pricing Your Offers: Because there are so many different options
that we've gone over and each of them have
so many different variables. Going into the
pricing of each and every one of them is outside
the scope of this class. But I want to give you
a simple framework so that you can think about how to price your different offers. No matter what you're pricing, there are a few considerations that you need to keep in mind. One is, of course,
the time that went into creating
whatever you created. The next would be in the
case of physical products. What was the cost of all
the materials that went into creating it? Then think
about your audience, who are you trying to
attract and what is the perfect price point
for that audience. Try to hit a sweet spot here. You don't want to be
undervaluing yourself, but at the same time, for
whatever you're charging, you want to over deliver. You want your customer
to feel really thrilled and you want them to feel like they got a discount, even if they paid a
slightly premium price. The amount of value
you provide and the experience that
you provide is what is going to make
them feel that way. When you're pricing your offer, I would also recommend
just comparing it against the price points of similar
offers of other artists. You don't want to necessarily price it exactly the same as them or necessarily price it higher or lower
than somebody else. You just want to do this sort of comparative exercise
to understand what the market
is responding to. It'll give you some
sort of ballpark to understand what you
could potentially charge. And then you can think about how much value you are
through your offer, and you can price
it accordingly. If you're interested
in specifically understanding how to price
your fine art pieces, then my class on
creating and selling collections goes into a
lot more detail on that. So let's get into
the next lesson where you can start thinking about the right income streams that are a perfect fit for you.
10. Pick the Right Income Streams for YOU: While I am 100% an advocate for having multiple
different streams of income, I do think it's important to not try to do everything
all at once. I want to mention that
here before you start thinking about exactly what your income streams should be. It's important not to put
all your eggs in one basket, but at the same time, you don't want to be spreading
yourself too thin. It's important to
completely focus and pursue one stream of income and develop it before you move
on to the next thing. The reason we're working on
a plan is to know what are the things that are well suited for us and for our art style. This gives us a roadmap. It gives us some direction. It gives us a plan
to work towards, but this does not mean that we want to be doing all of
it at the same time. So focus on one thing
at a time and try to build up three core revenue
streams to start with. Kajabi, which is a leading
platform for selling digital content
created the state of creators report recently. In this through a
study that they did of multiple different
six figure creators, they understood that
most people have anywhere between 5-7
streams of income. That's definitely something
that we can work towards. But like I said, we
want to start with having just three core
streams of income. This doesn't mean, of course, that we have just those three. There are a few
smaller income streams that can be spin
offs from these. An example could be if you're already
monetizing your content, then you could set
up affiliate income as a spin off from that. Since you're anyway putting in the work to create content, you could also promote the
brands that you're working with and earn a little bit
of kickback from that. This is not something
that needs to be a core stream of income that you actively put
too much effort on, but it's something that can give you a little extra
income each month. Similarly, if you're
already creating surface pattern designs
for art licensing, which you're pitching to brands, then you can also upload those designs onto a
platform like Spoonflower, Maybe you're not going to earn a large income because you're
not actively working on it. But you might start earning
a small income every month, and that's also something that
can support your business. So in the workbook,
I've given you a page for your offers
and your pricing. You can use this page to
start answering the prompts, which are going to
help you think about what could be the
perfect fits for you. In the next lesson, let's
go over how you can create your revenue pie
for your art business.
11. Class Project : Create Your Revenue Pie: So now that we know all the different offers that
we would like to create and we know what we could potentially
price each of them at, it's time to create
our revenue pie. Like I mentioned, we're
going to focus on just three core revenue
streams for this. The revenue pie is very simple. It's just a pie chart
that's going to tell you what contribution is going to come from
each of your revenue streams to your
overall revenue goal. As an example, let's say my goal is to earn $5,000 per month. I'm just going to write
everything out on this little doodle pad that I like using for my brainstorming. So let's say my overall goal is to earn about $5,000 per month. Now, the three income
streams that I could potentially pursue is
going to be teaching. And again, each of these could have one core income stream. Like for me, it
could be Skillshare, and then you could
potentially have a few spin off income streams. Like for me, it could be having live sessions or one on one
consultations on skill share. I'm just going to count all of that under the teaching
bucket for now. Secondly, I could
potentially sell my art. Again, this could, for me, be a mix of selling originals
and prints of my artwork. And finally, maybe I want to monetize my content
through YouTube. I'm already creating content on YouTube and I would like to monetize it through
YouTube ad sense or through brand deals. So that's going to be the third income
stream that I pursue. I'm going to divide
my $5,000 into these three categories
based on how much time I think I can give
to each of these things, and how much I think I can potentially earn
from each of them. So for me personally, I feel that maybe I can earn $1,000 by selling my
art and my art prints, and I also don't want to put too much pressure on
that income stream because I want to
have the freedom to create my art more fearlessly. For me, personally, I feel if I put monetary pressure on it, I might not be able to
give everything to my art. Instead, I would
like my other income streams to support the
creation of my art. So again, with YouTube, I'm going to put $1,000
as my initial goal because I know that this is an income stream that can
fluctuate month to month, so I'm not going to put
too much pressure on that. I feel that teaching is something that's a lot
more in my control. So I'm going to put $3,000 here because I know that I can create a certain
number of courses, and I can also have
a certain number of one on one
consultations per month. So you can run the
calculations for each of these and use the workbook to help
you think about all of it. And finally come up
with your numbers. So at the end of it when
it comes to percentages, teaching is going to form 60% in this example
that I'm giving you, Art is going to form 20% and YouTube is
going to form 20%. So using those numbers, I'm just going to scribble
out a little revenue pie, and this is going to give me a certain goal or a target towards which
I'm going to work. Once you're done with
your own revenue pie, I would love if you could upload it to the project gallery. I would love to look at it, look at your ideas, and
provide my feedback. You can also upload your other workbook pages if
you're comfortable sharing. And even with the revenue pie, if you're not
comfortable sharing your exact numbers in terms
of the monetary value, you can share it with
just the percentages. So go ahead and complete this and I'll see you
in the next lesson.
12. Learn from me 1 on 1: I'm so happy to announce that I'm
now offering one on one consultation sessions
here on Skillshare. Through these sessions,
you can book a direct call with me where I'm going to give you personalized guidance. I offer two types of sessions. One is a gouache art
critiquing session where you can send me some of your portfolio pieces
and we'll make a personalized plan
for your improvement. The second is a
business consultation, and that's very relevant to the class that you
just went through. In this session, we can go over the plans that you have
for your art business. We can go over your big dreams, your vision, and your plan
for your income streams. I can help you take decisions on what might be the right
income streams for you, and we can also make
a personalized plan on how to get started towards
those big dreams of yours. Keep in mind that I have very limited slots
available per month. So if you'd like
to chat with me, make sure you book a call soon. I look forward to
connecting with you.
13. Summing Up: Congratulations on making it
to the end of this class. I hope this class gave
you a lot of clarity on the different income streams that exist for you as an artist. I hope it also helped you think about which of those
income streams could be a good fit for you, for your art style and for the
unique path that you're on. Just to recap everything that
we learned in this class, we learned about active and
passive sources of income. We learned about
the ways you can monetize your art itself, your content, and
your skill set. We also spoke about
the various options that exist for digital products. And then finally, you
learned how you can create a revenue pie
which outlines the income streams that you
would like to pursue and how much they are going to contribute to your
monthly income. I look forward to
seeing your ideas, so make sure you submit your projects to the
project gallery below. I'll be happy to look at it
and provide my feedback. If you'd like to stay connected
with me and my journey, be sure to follow
me on Instagram. You can also check out all of my free content
that's up on YouTube, and you can follow me
here on Skillshare to make sure you don't miss
any of my future classes. Now that you've gone
through this lesson, the perfect next step would
be to go through my lesson on creating a business
and marketing plan for your art business. If you've already
taken up that class, then I'd also
recommend my class on creating and marketing
fine art collections. I look forward to seeing you inside another one
of my classes. Thank you so much
for being here. I'll see you next time. Bye.
Shivani Patel, Gouache Artist | Creative Entrepreneur
