Can a 17 year old make money with his graphic designing skills?

Question

Skills in Photoshop and Illustrator

Whatever I will do will be posted in newspapers. One thing I have thought of is designing company logos. I have designed logos for around 5 companies so far, which is why I think I have the ability to make some money off it. The reason I think people would come to me is that the price would be cut in half compared to real designers.

Would you think this would work? What other things could I do?

Answer 1

You can expand your ability by doing web design. Design logo is too limited.

Answer 2

Okay, sweet.  Then market yourself if you want to do that.  Find developer websites that will allow you to bid on projects.

Answer 3

You can register at freelance websites like http://getafreelnacer.com/ , http://scriptlance.biz/ , http://eufrelance.com/ ,etc and start bidding for all graphic designing projects posted there .

Answer 4

If you are good, then why not? Just don't get into the habit of charging peanuts for something that other designers charge hundreds for.

btw, it's 'make money FROM it'.

Answer 5

I think you should start out as some sort of position in an organization-

I mean like a graphics designer for a school newspaper or yearbook.  Then you can have something you can use on your resume.

I was in your position a year ago, and thank god I joined the newspaper at school.  I won the NSPA national competition for graphics design, and I created and managed the website for the newspaper.

Point is, now because I had all that to show I landed a job as a web designer for my university.  And it was mainly because I had some solid backing on my Resume; you can have all the skill in the world but until you get some credit it is very hard to get a job.