>>2857251>From what I've seen art jobs are just super competetive. You need to have a style that people like and you need to be able to sell yourself really well.This. I'm around art "business" a bit, gf works in a gallery and I went to music school myself. I only do music as a freelance side job because of the time and effort it would take to reinvent my style into something more marketable, as well as all the networking etc. and I'd still have NO guarantees. Obviously there's people scraping by who just do their art stuff and aren't pushing it everywhere, but from what I've seen the truth is almost all of them have a day job on the side. For a lot of them it's just something easy they can do with flexible hours.
Eric Kim does a lot of workshops and he's insanely prolific with is blog, all the books he's written, youtube stuff, interviews and so on.
I know personally I'm happy I'll be graduating in a year with a degree in IT. I'd way rather do that than "sell out" and turn something I love into a boring job.
