Create online portfolio: Probably this is the most traditional way of making money online as a graphic designer. In this method you can make a lot of new clients like you do in real world and you can display your work on your online website and you can attract a lot of new clients and make money by showing your work to them.
Design logo for clients: Everyday so many new companies and businesses are coming in market and those new business or companies require log as well and you can design logos for those businesses and you can make a good amount of money by this work.
You can teach graphics designing to others: If you are good at your work and you know how to teach the same to other people than you can teach graphics designing to other people on blogs or on websites. For earning money you can either post ads on your training website and blog or you as for the money from your student and you can do the paid tuition to them.
Sell website templates: As a graphics designer you can create some good website templates and you can sell them online on your website or on some popular website templates. If you know some programming language you can develop theme for wordpress, joomla, or any other content management website.
Stock graphics sale: There are so many websites that sell stock graphics and you can also do the same to make money. The best thing about this type of stock graphics sale is that if you are good in your work you can easily make more money compared to other people because most of the website lacks good quality stock graphics. So with good quality stock graphics you can make good money as a graphics designer.
Work as freelance designer: There are so many websites that offer freelance work for graphics designer as well and you can get a lot of graphics work from these websites. If you provide good quality work to your clients you can get recurring work as well and you can make a lot of money by recurring work as well from new work.
Other than these tips you can create psd, graphics, and icon and similar other info-graphics and you can sell that all online using a variety of websites and you can make a good amount of money from your graphics designing work. In addition to this, you can ask for donation on your blogs or on your tutorials website and this can work as another source of income for you.
