“Monetize Your AI Art: Beginners Guide” (10 Ways)

Kevin Whitsitt

Monetize Your AI Art: Beginners Guide (10 Ways) is your step-by-step roadmap to turning creative AI into real income.   In this video, I’ll walk you through 10 proven methods to earn money with AI-generated art—from selling prints and merch to licensing your work and building passive income streams.  Plus 3 insider tricks to create AI Art that is good enough to sell.  Whether you’re just getting started with AI tools like MidJourney, DALL·E, or Leonardo AI, or you’ve been experimenting and want to go pro, this beginners guide will show you the most effective ways to monetize your AI art in 2025.  Learn which platforms work best, and the secrets successful AI creators use to stand out in a competitive marketplace.   If you’ve been asking yourself “Can I really make money with AI art?”—the answer is yes, and this video gives you the blueprint.  To view the complete blog post on creating income with AI art click on the link below.. https://www.trustthelink.com/10-ways-to-make-money-with-ai-generated-art/  #AIArt #MakeMoneyOnline #SideHustle #PassiveIncome #DigitalArt

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00:00turning a simple text prompt into a stream of income. Sound too good to be true? I used to think

00:06the same way. I really did, but it is true. And in this video, I'm going to share with you 10

00:11different ways that you can actually make money from AI-generated art, as well as three insider

00:17tricks to really kind of generate AI art that's good enough to sell, and a lot more tips and

00:23tricks as well. So why do you get into AI art? Well, I got a confession to make. Recently, I began

00:29into Microstock, which is like photos and videos and listing them, and I've actually been kind of

00:35a little addicted to it. So I've actually made some money, too. So I'm like, wow, this is pretty cool.

00:40It's so much fun. And so here's the thing. Maybe the weather's bad. Maybe you can't get outdoors or

00:46your job. You're very busy. You can still make money with AI art from your home, and you can

00:55list it, and you can make some cash from it. So let's talk about that. The first step is you want

01:00to generate the art. And there's a lot of platforms, as you can see on the screen. I kind of break it

01:06down so it's simple. Some are free. Some are paid. Like ChatGPT, on the free plan, someone can generate

01:14three images a day, okay? There's mid-journey, and you can generate 25 images before you have to pay,

01:22and then it's like $8 to $10 a month, and you can create 200 images, okay? That's that platform.

01:29There's Leonardo.ai, and that's around 30 images a day for free, and there's also Google Gemini,

01:35where someone can create 30 images a day for free, okay? So the first place is Etsy, okay? And Etsy

01:42is like this handcrafted website. People sell stuff. The bad news is it costs money to open up an Etsy

01:49shop. It's like $15, $29, something like that. And every time you list an item, you do have to pay

01:55$0.20. But the cool news is it lasts for four months, okay? So unlike eBay, which is actually

02:01free to list, it costs money on Etsy. All right. Next up is Red Double. This is a cool... I love this

02:09photo. This Elmo is like taking a poop. Ooh, really? I love this. This is the best gift

02:16fee ever. Anyway, so Red Double is a place... It's like an online marketplace, which is like

02:21print-on-demand. It's kind of like when you design stuff, and it goes places, like socks

02:28with alien AI shirt, AI faces, or like hoodies or anything. But the cool thing is it costs no

02:35money to list the art there. They only charge a fee if it gets sold. So if you create art

02:41and nobody buys it, you're not out any money, and that's a really, really cool thing, okay?

02:45All right. There's Society6, kind of the same thing. It's also free to list your art and sell

02:50it. All right. I take that back. The free plan allows 10 images you can list, okay? And then

02:57it costs money. Next up is Social Media. So you can design your AI art around social media posts,

03:05and post them. And I know what you might be thinking. Well, how in the heck do you make

03:09money from that? Well, there's a lot of ways. All these platforms, they allow a clickable

03:15link in your profile, except for Snapchat. I don't know why. But Snapchat, you can have

03:19a web address, but it's not clickable. But you can still get traffic from there. And then

03:25when you post content, in that description, you can mention... Well, in your thing you post

03:31or in the description of whatever you post, you can mention your profile. If someone clicks

03:36on that link in your profile, you can make money. And there's a lot of ways you can make

03:40money. You can put an affiliate link in there, okay? Or if you click a link and somebody buys

03:46something or fills out a survey and you get paid. You can lead them to a landing page where

03:51you can collect emails and make money from that as well. So there's a lot of ways you can make

03:56money from that. All right. Next up is courses, okay? If you know how to create AI art, you

04:03can write an e-book, you can create a course, and you can share your knowledge and make money.

04:09I know what you're thinking. Well, nobody buys courses anymore thanks to AI. And there's a

04:14little bit of truth to that. I mean, obviously, the demand for courses has dropped because

04:18of AI. That's true. But it depends on the course as well as e-books as well. It really

04:23depends on a lot of things. But I got a lot of tricks up my sleeve about this. So one idea

04:29is you can create the e-book for free. Hear me out, okay? Hear me out. And you give it

04:36away for free. And it's valuable, right? E-book, you know, whatever. And in that e-book, there's

04:42a lot. You can put a bunch of affiliate links in there, right? And you can actually make money

04:45that way. You probably make more money if you're giving it out for free than charging for

04:49it. Next up is something called content lockers. These are really, really cool. Basically,

04:56it works like this. You lock up your course or e-book in a content locker. And in order

05:02for someone to access it, they have to complete a free offer. It takes a few seconds. It could

05:08be like fill out a form for more information on something or download an app or a whole bunch

05:14of different things. And when they do this, you get paid. And it could be anywhere from

05:18a dollar or 20 bucks to paying lots of things. And it's really, really easy and cool. And

05:23you could do that. So that's one way. All right. Next up is Gumroad. And if you don't know what

05:28Gumroad is, it's basically like this platform, which I think you could sell nearly almost anything.

05:33Not nearly everything, but a lot of things. Like, you know, all over the place. I do know they

05:39accept AIR too. So the cool thing is that Gumroad is completely free to use. And they just take a

05:45cut when you use the platform. And you could sell your AIR anywhere you want. All right. And you're

05:54probably wondering, well, how do you advertise it? So you can think of it like this. It's like

05:57almost like an e-commerce store that it takes no work to set up. And you could sell anything,

06:02almost anything. I'm not, I know they take AIR. Okay. And there's tons of ways you can

06:09advertise your Gumroad. Shabam. Okay. Okay. Next up is a Fiverr gig. So if you know how to

06:17create AIR, you can easily create a Fiverr gig about making custom art for other people

06:23as well. And if you've never heard of Fiverr, it's a place, it used to be like five bucks

06:29weird things. Now it's different. Where people would do weird, pretty much anything for five

06:35dollars. Like sing happy birthday to somebody on the phone or call up your ex and bark like

06:41a dog. Just go for weird stuff off the top of my head. Okay. But people, some people make

06:49really good income on Fiverr. Okay. And you can do it. And what's cool about Fiverr is that

06:56people come to you. So unlike Upwork, where somebody creates a gig and a bunch of people

07:00compete for that one gig, with Fiverr, you can create a gig, people come to you. Hope that

07:07makes sense. And when you sell AIR on Fiverr, you know, obviously you should do it with transparency,

07:13ethically. And it's probably a good idea to have some type of human element added to it.

07:19And the price is right, then you're providing value, then you definitely, it can't be done.

07:23And one thing about the AIR too, which I'll talk about later, is the, and I'm not a lawyer,

07:30okay, but this has to do with, what do you call it, copyright. So if you put your human,

07:37if you add your own touch to it, then you can copyright it. But if it's just AIR, you can't

07:42copyright it. And that means if you sell it, when that person gets it, they can turn around

07:47and sell it or do whatever they want to do with it. So it's a cool little tip there for

07:51you. All right. Next up is AIR with crypto. And yeah, there's a lot, there's a, you know,

07:57crypto is a big field. I have a, I hate interest to view on it because I've lost a lot of money

08:02with crypto. However, in the long term, I'm curious to see how things will go. And there

08:07are marketplaces like OpenSea, right, where they will create, there's ways you can create

08:12NFTs around art and sell them as well. So that's a growing field. Next up is digital

08:19downloads. So you can create your AIR with a digital product and sell them. And one idea

08:25on this to kind of get things going is Canva templates. So you can create a template for

08:31a variety of things out there, you know, like journals, wallpapers, clip arcs. Another great

08:37one is social media posts. And I've seen this too, where people create a ton of social media posts

08:42and then sell them. And it does work. And one great place is Etsy, but there's a lot of other

08:48places too, people sell their Canva templates. So what's cool about this strategy too, is you're

08:56combining a lot of different things. Okay. I hope that makes some sense. eBay. Yes, you can list

09:02digital art on eBay. And it's free to list. So that's a great place as well. Okay. I wrote a

09:08whole post about great tips on listing items on eBay and how to avoid scams on that platform.

09:15So those are a bunch of ideas. Obviously, there's a lot more. This is a growing field.

09:20But so how do you create AIR that's good enough to sell? And I'm going to give you just a couple

09:26ideas. Obviously, this is topics beyond this video. But most people can agree that higher resolution

09:35AIR does better. Okay. This goes for Microsoft platforms as well. So after you generate the art,

09:44you can use an upscaler like Leonardo Upscaler to enhance the quality and sharpness of the image.

09:50The free plan does do 2x the image, but the paid plan is 4k upscaling. So it's much more sharper.

09:59Photoshop does that as well. And a lot of other platforms. And a trick, in this place here,

10:04you can actually do upscaling for free. I'm pretty sure. Okay. You can enhance your AI art. Okay.

10:13And next up is the prompt. This is what you type into the AI machine to get the results. And sadly,

10:19you know, AI can't read our minds, which is scary. But so you have to be as specific as possible

10:24on what to create. So this isn't the art and science of creating AI art. It's a skill.

10:30So one form I could use is subject plus style plus mood plus details plus quality.

10:35And you want to be as descriptive as possible with a subject. You know, generic prompts lead to generic

10:42art. Be descriptive details as well can be very helpful. And there's ways you can remove AI flaws,

10:51you know. So creating AI art is obviously the more you do. And it's a skill, the better you can get at it.

11:01And finally, another great tip is, you know, find out what other AI art is selling. You know,

11:08it's really, really good. And let that be your teacher. And you can try to make something kind

11:13of similar to that, but create your own spin, your own flavor on it as well, your own angle.

11:18And like I mentioned, adding your own human element to the AI art is a really cool,

11:23great idea, because then you can copyright it. Okay. All right. So obviously, I just scratched

11:30the surface. There's a lot more to AI art, you know, but I hope I get the juices in your brain flowing.

11:37Give you some tips and some ideas. And I'm sure there's a lot more ways you can make money with

11:41AI art, like licensing and stuff. But another really cool idea too, which I definitely want to

11:48look into is you can blend it with illustrations and list them on microstock platforms. Because a

11:55lot of these platforms, like microstock, some of them don't take AI art, but they take illustrations.

12:02So you can kind of blend them both and make something really, really cool and sell it and

12:07list it. And, you know, it's fun to list. But the main thing, you should be having a lot of fun doing

12:13this, you know. That's the main thing. All right. And yeah, you can definitely make a little bit of

12:18extra cash for doing this. So I hope this video was at least a little bit helpful to you, gave you

12:22some ideas. And if you want to check out this blog post, I have a lot of links in here. You can kind

12:28of geek out if you want it. It's more in detail. I'll put the post, the link below this video. And

12:34you can click on, you can check it out and go into a lot more detail about creating the AI art and where

12:42to post it and how to sell it. And some more tips in here too, in this blog post. Okay. Anyways,

12:48thanks for watching me this and have a wonderful rest of your day. Okay. Bye.

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