Creative Pursuits

Surviving in the art world is about commissions. Just do your own stuff in your free time. Most of the best animators on YouTube stopped uploading because they make no money from over 100 hours worth of work (Harry Partridge). You gotta do the grunt work first

One perceives through a picture or animation medium their own story. Your exact point would probably never get across because of that (if it makes you feel any better). You could just sell artwork or animation concepts to companies though. There are a million things attached to art careers. Like companies using your concept as costumes, props, game design ideas, movie scripts, or even a simple wall poster.

Next to that is advertising it.

Never say you want to wagecuck and settle for an apartment. That lifestyle is literally "working to live." Spending a large portion of your check just to pay living expenses. Learn a trade. Work for the industry. Buy the equipment you need. Take off work for a few months (cause that shit pays a lot). Then work on your own stuff.

>>34360687

In art school and got an internship this summer so going pretty well so far.

>>34360865

Literally this, learn to budget what you've made so you don't have to find work for a year or two. That way you can just work on your own stuff or commission if you want extra spending money

It's no where near as much work as animation, but I worldbuild and paint warhammer 40k miniatures

>>34360687
Animation doesn't really make sense outside of videogames because it's too much fucking work and it's impossible without a team
I draw but I suck at it, I'm going to college for coding because making videogames is pretty much the most I can spire to in the creative field

>>34360687
I want to but I'm not a very creative person so I just consume creative media.

>>34360687
>working a wagecuck job and working on my own shit in the meantime without a massive pile of debt)

Currently working on this myself, I was debating going to college for illustration and/or animation but I ended up getting a part time job and I'm currently applying for a second one, once my family finds a place to live I wanna get back to learning japanese and getting better at drawing so I could try looking into illustration and animation work a few years down the line.

It's gonna be a hell of a time but it feels nice to kinda start digging myself out of the depression and self-loathing filled hole I dug myself into the past 18 years.

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>>34360687
Yeah OP.
I'm very slowly trying to learn how to code.

But besides that I write stories and dabbled a little in animation. I even got commissioned to write porn desu. Also working on a novel.