Is there a way to use your 2D artistic skills to make lindens?

[Katelyn Auster]

Hello guys, 

in real life, I am all into art and over the years I have developped my skills up to some fairly good level (one can never be satisfied but take a loot at my deviantart: http://grenia.deviantart.com/ ). I have created covers for magazines, illustrated books or made all sorts of posters for concerts or movie nights and so on... and I have also took a class in product design, However, in 3d I can't do a single thing (yet!) and I would love to make just a couple of lindens right now with what I have- do you think I stand a chance?

I can see that there are so many possibilities - there are event posters and icons and product pictures all over second life, and what I would also love to do is creating things from scratch - sketching maps, products, do some fashion design on paper... the question is: what are the real chances to find this sort of job in second life? I ask you, wise and experienced SL citizens, what do you think about it? What the reality is like?

[Pamela Galli]

Probably the best way to make money as a 2d artist is to make textures.

[Conifer Dada]

As well as making textures you could sell copies of your pictures, which are very good, in SL.  

All you'd need to do is import an image of your artwork as a texture and apply it to a flat board, which is simple to make from a basic cube, using your 'build' menu on the SL viewer. 

Although your pictures are very good, as I said, there's a lot of very good art in Second Life so it's not guaranteed that you'll get many buyers.  But it's certainly worth a try, and you'll be making something for yourself and your friends to keep as well.

[LlazarusLlong]

I would recommend that you wait until Linden Lab releases SL Version 2, as anything that you produce for the current version will have a very brief viable lifetime.

[Parhelion Palou]

Or make some money in SL for at least the next few years, then also use SL 2 if/when it's released.

 

[Pussycat Catnap]

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Parhelion Palou wrote:

Or make some money in SL for at least the next few years, then also use SL 2 if/when it's released.

 

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Basically this.

If I could figure out some better photoshopping, I'd be all over making stuff - because the skills improved in doing that have very broad application and not just in SL.

 

But as for SL:

Not just textures, but also skins, and applier-based clothing. Flip the order on that list and you'll have the order in which I suspect they are profitable.