Turning From Employment Searching to Freelance Work – So many talented artists are tired of competing head to head with hundreds of other talented artists for the high quality art jobs out there. Artists, like specialists in other industries, are turning to freelance work to support themselves and calling it quits with the battle for employment.
Finding Freelance Artist Jobs - With the economy in the state that it’s in right now, artists of all kinds, whether they specialize in graphic design, drawing, sculpting, painting or any other type of art, are struggling to find jobs.
It’s Easier To Find Freelance Work - With the current economy, the difficult job market might be a blessing in disguise for some creative artists. Freelance work is on the rise and many people are finding it easier to find freelance work than to find long term employment somewhere. Some are even becoming so successful in their new freelance careers, that they can make more income with freelance jobs than with the job they had previously.
WalletPop.com recently ran an article about this same phenomenon with “Unemployments Down, But Somethings Up – Welcome To the Gig Economy“.
New Resources To Find Work – For artists, there are new resources popping up to help them find work like this “Get Paid To Draw” downloadable book.
Photographers – Post Photos Online – There are many ways for a photographer to use their skills to make money online. There are a lot of photo sharing and downloading sites that enable you to charge for the download of your photos. There are resources to learn more about making money this way, like those listed in this guide to making money with photos. A lot of the information you need to find places to sell your photos you can find by researching online and experimenting with different photo sharing sites.
Find Artist Work on Freelance Job Posting Sites – There are a lot of graphic art jobs and even some traditional drawing jobs that are commissioned through the highly used freelance job posting sites like GoFreelance and other similar sites.
Artists that are out of work and looking to transition into freelance work can benefit from doing the following:
- Get creative and think of ways that you can create a downloadable version of your art that people can purchase over and over.
- Don’t be afraid to try lots of different job posting sites. Setting up new accounts, profiles and searching through and posting bids on jobs can be very time consuming. But, most of that work is done at the beginning of a career, once a few jobs are underway, you will find yourself narrowing down your searches to those sites that are giving you the best results.
- Give yourself time. To start a new freelance career can take a month or two before you see regular payments coming in. It involves starting a whole new system of making money. But, many artists will find that they can make more with freelance art jobs than they will finding a traditional job.
We Will Be Here To Keep Providing Ideas – Freelance School will continue to provide tips and advice to help you turn your freelance jobs into a real money making career. Some of the companies mentioned in our articles are affiliated with Freelance School. Take advantage of the tools and resources that we suggest to help build your job network.
Places To Find Work For All Types of Freelancers
Elance – They have over 30,000 jobs posted. They also cover many different categories, almost any type of freelancer can find work here.
oDesk – With almost any set of skills you have, you should be able to find freelance work here. They have a wide variety of categories. This is a heavily posted website.
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