Whelp, I started the year promising myself that I'd find financial stability to go with my art making, but I'm afraid I've swung too far into the money making direction now. I make a good living, but my art has suffered, and making art is really what makes me happy. I just don't have the time that I used to since I work 6 days a week in a physically demanding job. :/ I'll probably dip once I make a nice little nest egg of $$$ to live on, but it's not the long term solution I was hoping for.

There's always the possibility of trying to make enough money on my art alone, but I don't know if I'm necessarily down with the commission hustling business as a sole source of income. It seems too volatile to really make a living and not have to be worrying all the time about when and where my next paycheck will come from. Ideally, I'd love to have a stable job that doesn't suck the soul from my bones while leaving enough time to make art.

My goal is to get back to making long form comics again, but I can't do that just yet.