My Crazy 5 Figure Lockdown Income as a Teenager

I am a 16 y/o aspiring entrepreneur.

In the month of April when things were really out of control and virus was spreading quickly, I decided to make the best of situation.

I started learning painting or to be specific watercolour art. I and one of my friend started making portraits/landscapes/name board/social media art etc. for friends and local businesses.

One of the shops to which I sold the artwork to suddenly started to get a good crowd of people willing to buy portrait. The shopkeeper called me and told that people were bidding on my painting 🎨...(I was like wtf?) I made that specific painting in 4hours or so.

The bid ended at $160, but I sold my painting to the shopkeeper for 25$.....

The shopkeeper ordered 10 more pcs and started keeping it in his shop. I used to make 7 portraits or landscapes every week as it took a good amount of time. But the demand was steadily growing and I was earning about 800-900$ monthly...(I didn't make 7 drawings every week ...it was irregular like 4 or 5 or something)

By July I had made $5000+, but then my exams started and I was not able to continue.

Also, I thought that though I enjoyed painting it took a lot of time and supplies. So, I started learning Adobe Illustrator and bought a Wacom tab for drawing digital art and Simpsons styled portraits.

Soon, it was my friend's birthday and I made him a Simpsons styled portraits and got it framed 🖼️.

Once again, this Simpsons product blew up!!⚡⚡

He shared on his Instagram and Snapchat with tagging me, and trust me within 4hours I had 25 orders 😮... With each selling for $49 a pop.

(I couldn't add photo link how it turned out due to rules)

And then I started putting up my Simpson and other art on FB marketplace and Craigslist. Soon enough people started contacting me 🎊.

I sold over 50 pieces some at 100$ some at 49 depending on the number of people in the frame.

By end of September, I had made $12766

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There is more but I don't want to bore you guys so if you like this hustle of mine do lemme know and I'll share the October, Christmas ⛄🎄 and new year part. :)

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