How can I become a full-time artist?

Become an artist or architect?

• Man I'm stuck in the situation where I have to decide if I should become an artist or an architect and if I was an artist I don't kno if u could make it and it's not too secure plus I have family in Pakistan to support but if I became an architect I could have a secure job but my dream is to b an artist so should I follow my dream or go with the safer option Dream vs Reality Risk vs Security Oh and you can check my work out at Www.ubmoch.deviantart.com

• Answer:

  All artists who are not from wealthy families need a day gig. Doesn't matter if your a musician, a sculpter a poet or a painter. Very few people can make a living from art and usually that living is pretty meager. Even if you make the big time between taxes and expenses you don't usually do that well. Many world wide known artists, authors and musicians actually bring home middle class kind of income after taxes, agents, fees and expenses are deducted. Painters are lucky to get that much. So my suggestion is become an architect but keep doing your art. Perhaps 200 years from now your art will be appreciated. You are more likely to get attacked by a shark and struck by a meteor in the same day than to make a comfortable living off your art.