Passive Income or Alternative Revenue Streams

I would say that only 1, 2, and 5 are passive.

You could get started selling prints without any coding knowledge. See this tutorial.

It's true, they are not all passive income options, but they all lead to passive income in the future.

Besides, the title of this thread told me that Ally was looking for "Passive Income or Alternative Revenue Streams", so I would hope that they should all still be helpful to her.

1. I totally plan on making templates in the future.
2. I could make a video service, I find that very appealing. It would probably be with digital art. I don't know if it would be a slight conflict of interest with my school since I went to an online school that had video tutorials. I don't want to re-hash their content, I would have to come up with my own, the only problem is that they gave me so much knowledge, it's almost exclusively from them, and they have already done it.
3. Same thing as number 2.
4. I plan on doing this in the future, I would love to have made one for my current employer, but they already have a top notch site.
5. I can't do promotional stuff like that on my own social media. I already have a web presence for my illustration career, I would have to make a completely new persona for doing things like that.
6. I have been looking at Craigslist occasionally, it's pretty depressing. People always want something for free that happens to be very time consuming. For example, comics, there are a lot of people looking for people to draw their comic ideas, but it takes an incredible amount of time to do, people don't realize how long it really takes.
7. I have an elance profile, elance is a joke. How can you compete with someone in India? I can't. Sure, I have a much better product, but people want the cheapest of the cheap, and to be honest, they get what they pay for. But the few months I tried to get jobs on there, it was just a waste of time.
8. This is similar to stock photography. I'm really reluctant to do this.
9. I can't make a lot of online portfolios for each medium. My work is multi media in itself. It took me over a year to make my current portfolio, what you are seeing is the best of the best, you don't see my failures or images that just didn't make the cut.

If anything, number 2 is where I see the most promise. Online education is where it's at and it's why we are all here. I just need to find a way to make the information that I can sell my own and not re-hash what has been taught to me.

Thank you for your input!! :)

You don't have to create a service for the tutorial idea. There are a ton out there already that let you put your stuff on their platform and decide on a price. Skillshare, Udemy, etc.

I heard a talk recently that touched on this. The title of the talk was "Build Stuff You'd Use". The guy giving the talk mentioned that he built a (software) product (didn't mention what) that brings him about $2k a month. Originally what he built was just for him. He needed something that he couldn't find so he created it. Then he decided other people may be able to get some use out of it so he released it. Now he's getting $2k a month from it in addition to his job as a developer. Cha Ching.

Honestly, I don't drive much to anywhere but work. I bike to the studio where I make art and drive to work which is less than 10 minutes away. At least I save on gas! :)

As for making art when inspiration strikes, no, I always make art and do the business part of making art whether inspiration is there or not. Waiting for inspiration is like waiting for a person who is always late for a business meeting. :)