![]() ![]() When I first went out on my own I got another part-time job selling flowers at the markets because I was worried I wouldn’t be able to support myself solely through freelance work. ![]() Gemma O’Brien – Artist, Designer, Illustrator – I did have a day job at first. Mischelle Moy: How did you make the leap to becoming a full time artist? If you’d like to be part of our Slack Community and get involved in discussions like this you can learn more about membership here. Thanks to everyone who contributed their questions! We hope that by telling their stories, we can learn and grow from each other. From illustrators, graphic designers and muralists, each artist had their unique perspective on what worked for them. So we fielded questions from our Booooooom Slack Community to gather all of your burning questions about how to take the leap, what worked and what didn’t and how to approach your art from a business perspective. We wanted to take advantage of the wealth of knowledge from both within and beyond the Booooooom community to learn from artists who did it: quit their day jobs, found a way to supplement their income with art and live a lifestyle centered around their art practice. For most, it’s a clumsy journey of epic fails, advice from friends, compulsive Googling and small wins along the way. Almost every successful artist has gone through the terrifying (and exhilarating) experience of trying to figure out how to pursue their art full time. ![]()
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