It's a pity my art career never took off

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why does obabo have a massive bruise?

Honestly as long as you enjoy it that's all that matters, I enjoy all the other skills I have when I'm in the mood for them and I always am up to something creative. If you want to get better at drawing there are sooo many tutorials and things around the Internet. For me personally I just observed other peoples work a lot and learned from them how they did it, those speed painting videos were a god send for me.

That was an error. I spilled paint.

Jo B1, I love your abstract paintings!

You should share one or two of your artworks on here!

I like the imagination put into your pictures. That airship/flying machine (I think that's what it is) looks magical.

I really think you should look into it in this case, the more skills you have the more you are an asset to a media company basically. I can do photography, modelling touch ups, graphic design, 3D modelling, 3D texturing, painting, drawing, even sewing randomly came in handy a couple of times.
The more skills you have to support something the more valuable you'd be to a company because they wouldn't have to pay ridiculous fees for some other company to come in and do it when one of their own could just do it for a pay bonus. Not only that but the more skills you have the more people want you for other bits of freelance work on the side. It's definitely come in handy a bunch of times but for me it didn't sustain the amount of money I actually need but I figure you need to want to do that and be into it anyway. You should go for it if you think you have the patience to learn new things and stick at it until you've gotten somewhere reasonable.

I actually started out as a dev on IMVU back when IMVU first started out and I learned through that and other people on that site. It was a hobby which turned into a bunch of really useful skills.



You need to keep in mind, most places only employ 1 apprentice out of like 200 people queuing for that same position and you don't even start tattooing for a long time as you have to go through a lot of training before they let you permanently mark someones skin.

You have to be good enough to earn that kind of money - I've got friends who are on £700 a day and have tattoo'd celebrities but they only got there through serious hard work and practice. It's bloody hard work and not for the feint of heart. You need to actually have the patience to stick with it when it comes to tattooing, I mean it's definitely doable but you have to be like amazing at drawing for anywhere to even give you a chance because you're so easily replaceable in that industry as it's so competitive and so many people want to do it.

I mean, I have friends who got totally fed up trying to get employed somewhere and ended up just working some sh***y subway job and lived at their parents for a few years until they opened their own tattoo parlour and rented chairs out to tattooists while they also trained him up eventhough he was the boss at the same time lol. It's always possible but you need to decide how much you actually want to do it.

But yeah if you have a people problem then tattooing won't be for you - you have to work with the general public, even sometimes chavs and old people.



Honestly as long as you enjoy it that's all that matters, I enjoy all the other skills I have when I'm in the mood for them and I always am up to something creative. If you want to get better at drawing there are sooo many tutorials and things around the Internet. For me personally I just observed other peoples work a lot and learned from them how they did it, those speed painting videos were a god send for me.



I agree, everything is competitive in this day and age. It's more so in creative industries though because everyone wants to be some cool artist or musician or whatever.

The way I see it is, if you want money - go and sell things or get a job that's more logical mathematical minded. If you just want to be creative and earn a bit of money then jump into the creative work force world. It won't make you rich (unless you're like incredibly amazingly mad talented at it after years of practice) but it'll make you happy - it'll make you rags to moderate rags and lots of art supplies you don't ever use because they're so nice to look at.

^ That's good that you can do life drawing cause it's what they look for but they'll just tell you to do more tattoo kind of art, like art that looks like a tattoo for a portfolio. You also are gonna have to focus on drawing a bunch of different stuff rather than just life drawing cause you'll get people asking for all kinds of things. Good luck with it if you are gonna go for tattooing though, just stick at it no matter how hard it gets.

When I've tried to paint what I think other people may like or for other reasons other than it being therapeutic/enjoyment, it's always gone wrong.

yeah. it's grating when you're the only artist in both sides your family and they ask you do "draw their kids" or something similar.

there's no interest or reason there, there has to be interest and purpose if you're going to make something decent. it's one of the reasons my oeuvre exploded in size and diversity the moment i graduated my high school art program.

that...and i can't draw from life very well.

they'd probably end up looking like tarsiers.

I've considered tattooing as the money is really good. Some local tattooists make £75-100 an hour. I'm not keen being around people so that's not going to happen. :0/

I've considered tattooing as the money is really good. Some local tattooists make £75-100 an hour. I'm not keen being around people so that's not going to happen. :0/

Jesus.

You cross a point where you can be making money doing what you do. Period. This work is WELL OVER that line. You could make serious money in several different silos.

That Darrell is breaking my brain... you did that for fun? Brilliant.