Being an artist has always been a financially unstable line of work, and it always will be. Art is not a necessity, and thus it relies on people having enough disposable income to spend on things like art. Anyone that thinks being an artist is financially sustainable is an idiot. Its feast or famine. When the product is good, the pay is good. When the product is bad, you probably don’t have a job anymore. But neither of those things matter if people aren’t buying art because they can barely afford groceries, including the artist.
Being an artist has always been a financially unstable line of work, and it always will be. Art is not a necessity, and thus it relies on people having enough disposable income to spend on things like art. Anyone that thinks being an artist is financially sustainable is an idiot. Its feast or famine. When the product is good, the pay is good. When the product is bad, you probably don’t have a job anymore. But neither of those things matter if people aren’t buying art because they can barely afford groceries, including the artist.