Is it worth the effort to try and become a rich and famous artist...

Is it worth the effort to try and become a rich and famous artist? I think that if I really dedicated myself to my art I could be really successful.

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Do you have anything else going for you?

As long as you keep a day job to pay for rent, absolutely
You will only know for sure if it's your calling if you can come home from an 8 hours shift and still have the passion for your art

If your goal with art is to just be rich and famous, you're already going wrong.

>Do you have anything else going for you?

I'm reasonably intelligent.

>As long as you keep a day job to pay for rent, absolutely

I live with my parents and can do so indefinitely (I'm 31)

I should also specify my art is 3d animation.

I'd agree with this. If you want to be rich and famous, art is NOT the way to do this.

>If your goal with art is to just be rich and famous, you're already going wrong.

I enjoy doing 3d animation by itself, my question is whether or not it would be worth it to really dedicate myself to it beyond what I currently do.

If you currently do nothing then go for it, guy

Show us some art or GTFO.

>Show us some art or GTFO.

I kind of want to remain anonymous.

>want to be famous
>doesn't show art
lmao, just post some throwaway stuff

I don't know about rich and famous but well known is really easy these days if you know how to market.

I don't care so much about the famous part as much as the rich part, it's just that from my understanding it is difficult to become rich as an artist without being well known.

>my art is 3d animation

Just create a patreon and make porn bro.

>my art is 3d animation.
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Though really you could do vidya asset creation as your day job, and do more artistic shit for personal projects. The day job honestly is important so you keep your skills honed when you're having a "down" period in your actual work. I'm a lawyer and did solo work for a year, had a real down period of a few months and my skills went to SHIT.

Not so. Make your art and produce it very well. Make it look professional.

Find your niche market and target them with ads for your art.

If your work isn't very good, I'll tell you... You could easily find one million people in the world who will like it, that's an extremely extremely small percent of the population. That would be mega shit work.

And yet if you narrow their niche, have a social media group and a website, you can reach them for very small amounts of money with online advertising, and they will buy.

>3d animation.

Ok forget what I said.

Go on Fiverr this instant, see how the site works, see what people are charging, make a profile, be competitive in pricing but profitable, post your service.

Do it this instant.

Then go on WordPress and make yourself a website where you can place a portfolio and make sure people on Fiverr have access to it.

Use social media advertising, target producers film makers, storywriters and gsme developers aged 20+, male and female, and link the ad to your website.

Follow these steps and youll have a commission by tomorrow if you're already pretty good.

If I really wanted or needed a job I would just work on my demo reel for animation, maybe finish my degree, and start applying everywhere.

My question is though whether or not it would be worth it to try and become something more than just an employed artist. I think there is a good chance that if I sat down and dedicated myself to creating personal art, that I could become not just employed that way but very successful.

Freelance would make you very successful. People pay huge money for freelancers. If you know the value of your product you can charge what works out to very ridiculous hourly wages, and you'd work your own schedule.

Absolutely if you worked hard at your art you can be successful. The internet has made it extremely easy for people to sell their skills at a premium with no representation except themselves and their work.

Rich and famous artists didn't set out to be rich and famous. This goes for most people and professions. The conviction is lacking otherwise. Any single one of their biographies can tell you this.

They did what they lived for, not making a living, the very essence of their existence. That's not a position, I'm pretty sure in some sense, not the knowledge kind, they KNEW their art needed to manifest. It was embodied.

Odds are you'll need a more common job to sustain your art addiction regardless until that picks up. Can still be art related of course. Good luck, user.

Do it. Or don't. I'm not your fucking magic 8 ball. Flip a coin. When it's in the air you might know if you want it heads or tails.