Platforms to earn money with your creativity

Making your artistic or creative works generate the income necessary to live is one of the greatest aspirations an artist can have when deciding to pursue his creative passion as the main method of make a living.

Professional “success”, in economic terms, within the artistic creation sector is reserved for a privileged few who manage to create a certain recognition and obtain enough demand for their works to be able to survive thanks to it. The rest, many times, we must struggle to get clients that give us a minimum income in our economy.

While this continues to be the case and there is still this idea that an artist will not achieve a great economic stability in his life, the reality is that, everytime we see a wider range of new initiatives with which the creators of creative content can generate economic benefits that they replace or complement their traditional means of earning income.

As an artist, dedicating yourself to Instagram and other conventional social networks like Facebook nowadays offers very poor benefits and you need to take advantage and be quick to discover the new ideas that are emerging on the Internet.

These are some of the most innovative and profitable alternatives that currently exist:

Displate

Displate is a website that functions as a marketplace where they sell hand-crafted metal posters designed by talented artists.

As an artist you can publish your works so that users can buy them printed on posters. Displate takes a significant commission but they take care of the entire assembly and shipping process.

It has a large community of users and without a doubt, allows you to customize your designs to important commercial dates such as Valentine's Day to generate income thanks to your talent.

Displate website is very dynamic and they offer many discounts and offers to encourage shopping.

Creary

Creary.net is a decentralized platform or social network that works with blockchain technology. It has a rewards system in which the users' likes give you energy tokens. This energy, in the form of cryptocurrency, gives you online powers such as a percentage of rewards for curation, the possibility of buying works from third parties or even converting it into real money,

It also works as a marketplace where you can sell your work for download.

Another advantage of Creary is that it allows you to license your work for free.

It has a growing community and is very committed to the network.

According to their roadmap, they will soon incorporate a system of buying and selling artworks, turning them into unique tokens.

Creary is constantly motivating the community with new proposals such as contests or creative games. They also incorporate new functionalities and implementations very often.

Patreon

Patreon is a crowdfunding system, in which users can donate a monthly amount of money to their favorite creators to support them and allow them to continue doing their work. Thanks to this platform, bloggers, youtubers, writers, artists, interpreters and many other creatives can ask for contributions so that their project and their effort are sustainable.

Unlike Kickstarter, in Patreon fundings don’t stop after a single project or deadline but donors become ongoing supporters of their favorite artists.

Without a doubt, Patreon allows artists to gain freedom and stability with the support of their fans.

Patreon has a large audience and it perfectly fits many type of content creators who are looking to get funded by their creative activity.