By viralsnob.com 
Do you enjoy designing things, capturing photos and creating short clips and videos? Good news! A lot of businesses and Brands need your captured photos and videos and they really pay handsome amount for them. Now a days, you can turn your visual hobbies into real cash. Think! by creating visual content you can pay your bill? Well, it has become possible now and you can turn your artistic skills in to money making job.
Every small business and big company want attractive and creative visuals. If you really love to film short videos, snap photos and also like to draw on tablet, this is really a fantastic time for you to earn from your visual creations.
You must be probably thinking that you need some fancy equipment to get start for visual creations. Listen! find some simple steps that enhanace your visual skills and and you get paid.
1: Master your craft and Build a strong portfolio
Firstly, you have to choose your favourite visual medium like graphic design, videography, photography and animation. After selecting your favourite visual medium, you can learn the technical aspect of that mediu. Put some effort and invest time to master it. Focus on learning new editing software, understand composition. And also try to understand lighting effect and value of lighting.
Focus on specialization and choose one niche and it may be motion graphics, product videography, wedding photography or illustrations. Create a stellar Portfolio and seek new opportunities to grab clients. And you can use the professional platforms like Krop, Behance and ArtStation.
2: Freelance Services: work directly with clients
The most immediate and rewarding way to make money is directly make connections with your clients. You have to understand the need of your clients and deliver them the tailored solutions about visuals. Scope of freelancing is vast and you can learn such skills that caters to a lot of industries and many people demand that.
Types of services:
1: Photography services
Photography service is high in demand now a days. In photography niche, there are different kinds of photography category like commercial photography, Product Photography, real state photography, food photography, fashion photography and many more. You can capture the photography of documenting events like corporate gathering, private parties, wedding photography.
2: Videography service:
If you are interested in videography, you can produce different kinds of promotional videos for brands and companies. You can cover some events and also create a videos for music. Because a lot of musicians need videographers to create a video for their music. Create engaging video ads or design punchy clips to grab the attention.
3: Graphic design services
From the cornerstone of freelancing, graphic designing is a very essential part in branding and communication. You can create branding packages and craft logo design to turn your visual hobby into real money. You can also produce some professional material like business cards, poster, flyers, and brochures.
4: Illustration and animation services
This is a very creative niche and you can produce different kind of custom illustration for personal project, websites, articles and the books. One thing keep in mind that the scope of illustration is high because the photographers cannot create that kind of illustrations that an Illustrator or animater create. Create dynamic animated logos for a brand and earn more. Through your visual artistry, you can design different kind of characters for branding, gaming, animations and to describe someone’s personality.
Find clients to sell your visual content:
To build your network and to meet with professionals, you have to attend the creative meetups and join also business events. You can also use some online freelance platform to make connections and find clients. Fiverr, freelance.com, upwork are the best platform that help you to showcase your portfolio and find clients.
Social media can also help you to show your visual work and you can use different online platforms like LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok. You can also identify some specific individuals like youtubers and business to show your work directly and make connection with them to become their client.
3: Stock photography and videography: passive income streams
If you are an excellent visual content creator, you can directly upload your visual content like videos or photos on different platforms like Shutterstock, Getty images, pond 5, wirestock.
4: Social media content creation and influencing
For visual content creators ,social media platform are the best like on TikTok you can create short videos, Instagram reels and stories and YouTube long videos can help you to earn extra and passive income. You can earn as a visual creators through brand partnership, sponsored content and ad revenue. Earn through affiliate or sell prints of your designs, digital product and templates.
5: Sell digital product
Earn through selling digital product is really a passive income source.
You can sell different kind of digital products like template, illustrations, digital arts, eBooks, guide, presets and LUTs. To earn through digital product, you can use different online platform like WooCommerce, Etsy and shopify.
6: Print-on-demand and physical product
Print on demand is a real online business that is in high demand. Different platforms like a society6, redbubble, printful, printfy offer the customers to upload their design in picture form and whenever any customer will order from these sites, your design will be printed on their ordered product.
One big advantage of print on demand business is you earn passive income and there is no risk of loss.
Conclusion:
In this blog post, I have described how to become a visual content creator and how to earn the passive income. Learn continously and focus on marketing and branding. Demonstrate the qualities of professionalism and communicate effectively with your customer. Also understand the concept of legal consideration like liscencing, property release, model release and copyright. Put effort consistently and use strategic planning to become a successful visual creator.