The first thing that might stand out is that some of the most popular services aren't on the list. Why? There's too much competition in the fields of logo design, website design, and illustration! These are all things that you can tackle once you've gotten a few positive ratings under your belt, but as a brand new seller it's too much of a lottery.
Instead, these four gigs are within the capabilities of many graphic designers, while offering a less competitive selling environment. Emotes (animated and static) are sought after on multiple platforms, album art is an absolute must for every musician putting anything out to the public, menu design is vital for both offline and online food places, and poster design covers multiple creative and business verticals. There's lots of room to flourish and grow here!
Create these gigs in addition to the artistic gigs that you really want to be doing. There's no point in delaying the creation of other illustration gigs... you might get extremely lucky, after all. But they're far more likely to take off after you get a bunch of positive reviews on simpler gigs. So use the gig types listed above to jumpstart your career on Fiverr and learn how to make money while improving your reputation.
Here are the four easiest gigs for freelance artists on Fiverr:
Graphic artists on Fiverr have a minor advantage over their writing and coding counterparts: Watermarks. The client can get an almost complete version of the work to approve or disapprove of, and yet it isn't useful to the client until they finally agree to pay for it. That doesn't work when your main delivery is text based.
With this protection in place, graphic artists on Fiverr can get started using some really easy gigs, without fear of getting ripped off (though they should be aware of our scam tips, of course). This opens up quick avenues towards their first Level 1 Seller goals, and provides them with both a 'bread and butter' source of income as well as a way to boost their seller rating with tasks that shouldn't take too long to accomplish.
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You might think that emotes are just a Twitch thing. But there are dozens of platforms that allow users to create and upload custom emotes. So while Twitch emotes might be the most popular gigs, if you want less competition and more click throughs, you might want to focus on other apps. Discord is one of the most popular, but all of the streaming services and many of the chat programs are candidates for emote creation jobs. You can certainly mention Twitch, but keep your primary marketing more open.
The various tiers can offer volume discounts since people rarely order just one emote, or you can offer animated emotes for a significant upcharge. Make sure you're familiar with all of the rules, acceptable pixel counts, and file formats that the client's target service can accept. An awesome emote isn't all the useful if the client can't upload it to share with their users.
This gig can be spun off in many directions once you have enough positive reviews: Logos of course, sprites for games, icons for websites, you name it. But make sure that you have a few focused apps that you're confident with, and create a little portfolio to showcase your emote talents.
The new vinyl boom has resurrected the album art gig in surprising new ways. No longer do you just need to think about how something will look on a website or digital CD cover. Album art that looks good on printed mediums, and that has a 'front' and 'back' needs to be considered.
This is another gig where the competition is probably far less fierce than it should be. There's a lot more room for freelancers here than in the website design and logo fields, but the cash and reputational potential for album art gigs is huge. Of course it requires a specific kind of talent; you're capturing a far wider 'lens' than you are for emotes or menus. Don't bite off more than you can chew.
With that in mind, you can get some practice in by creating your own portfolio. It's critical here. You may even want to focus both your examples and your gig towards specific genres of music if you're more comfortable there. But at the end of the day it's up to you.
Much like album covers, poster design has been booming because of new release formats, streaming digital in this case. Collectors editions often have cool perks, and movie posters are also a popular giveaway for backers on crowd funded movie projects.
Your movie posters should have both digital and print fidelity, so that they can be downloaded by project backers and actually used as theatre posters as well. The source file is a real prize on this gig, often allowing you to double or even triple the base price of the image alone. Of course they won't be coming back to you for new versions if you're selling them the source, but you do get that extra money of front.
Of course this can branch out into event posters, such as concerts and plays. You might even consider packages that include album art and the concert tour poster. Similarly, you could combine a movie poster with the movie's soundtrack cover art in both digital and physical formats.
The next step is learning how to raise your prices on Fiverr to properly leverage the popularity of your gigs. If you've already done that, head over to my free course hub and select your next topic.
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