Should You Quit Art or Not? The Surest Way to Tell

​This may seem, I don’t know ~ stuck up, or, I don’t know. Like I’m full of it ~ and I suppose (like all artists? lol) I am. But there are times I feel like there doesn’t seem to be any, advice out there for artists like me.

I mean, not that I’m anything special, you know. (Although at the rate AI is going maybe artists like me will soon be extinct lol, in which case… lol not that anyone would care? Haha) Painters and sometime illustrators like me are a dime a dozen.

It’s just, I see a lot of advice out there for young artists, or artists who are just starting out (like maybe you picked it up or started to give more time to it after retirement).

This one guy on YouTube who I admire very much mentioned something like, an artist who’s been at it for, oh, 18 months and is on the verge of giving up ~ months? Try 18 years lol.

Although it’s comforting to know that there are lots of other artists out there who have to work a day job to make ends meet (and who aren’t shamed for it, I hope).

And it’s also comforting to see folks out there encouraging their fellow artists to just hang in there and keep at it ~ even if things aren’t working out the way they planned, or hoped, or have seen it work out for other ‘more successful’ artists.
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