Anyone else aiming for more graphic design-y illustration? Seems like less effort and skill required to break in since your clients and employers go beyond internet commissions for anime girls and game studios. Even if your're dead set on concept art, it'd be a decent day day job learning the software, networking, doing art stuff rather than flipping burgers or at the call centre coming home to push out those 10 hours. Even if you don't 'make it,' you could transfer skills to doing publication work, editorials, motion graphics, etc. Seems like most people here are on the "e-fame/concept art/high fidelity illustration or nothing" train.