Heya guys! As of late, I found that I've been struggling a lot with making my art an actual career, and I'm struggling to figure out what the issue is, so I hope you don't mind if I try and search for some feedback and answers, really.


Firstly, I can understand that it's never easy to just switch and go fulltime as an artist- if you're not really a big name from the start it's hard to gain a sense of loyalty among your follower base. I went into this knowing it'd be a bit hard, just not this hard, y'know?

My biggest struggle is honestly just trying to gain consistent clients. I don't necessarily mean the same person commissioning me every time they can, but rather a follower base that is able to keep me afloat, if that makes sense. I mean, the main reason why I wanted to become a fulltime freelancer outside of my straight up passion for the art I do is to become less dependent on my parents.


Currently, I am in a position where my disease makes it impossible to find work that I can reach in the area I live in- I've searched everywhere, trust me. So, to get by, pay my apartment's rent, and all that jazz, my parents are my main source of income. They pay for the apartment and pay for me to eat every month. As some of you may already know, my father is still in his ongoing battle with cancer of almost 10 years now, and my mother suffers from Multiple Sclerosis. My father, being on disability and working very few hours, makes only enough really to barely support both me and my mother and grandmother back home... I constantly feel like a financial burden to them, you know? I wish I could get to a point where I could be making enough money to at least cover half of the rent and my food, at least that so they don't have to worry about food for themselves. I was aspiring to do this with my art, but it hasn't been too successful, really.

I've had the occasional client, but most often I just get the same sort of "I don't have any money" comments. Does this mean my work is too expensive? Am I not charging enough? Too Much? Here are my prices for reference; https://wolfyvart.weebly.com/commissions.html

Or is it rather me? Am I not a pleasant artist to work with? What are my weaknesses as an artist that I could work on improving? Am I too slow of an artist? Am I not communicative enough? Am I too communicative? Not using the right platform to talk to clients? Is it simply the process of commissioning me that's a hassle?

Don't get me wrong, this isn't a pity party of the sorts meant for you to feel bad for me and give me all your money, I genuinely just feel like I'm doing something wrong. I figured my art was good enough to become a fulltime artist due to the amount of praise it recieves when I show it off, but if there's something about me or my art that's off, I want to know. I really want to be able to support myself. There are months where I am hesitant to ask my parents for food money because I've not gotten any commissioners, and I can hear the dissapointment in my mother's voice over the phone as she agrees to find the money to send. I want to get better, and if anything, I'm looking for feedback.

So thank you, in advance, for reading this. I try not to be too "personal" about my life on here nowadays, to appear more professional, but I just wanted to provide some context as to why this is so important to me.