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A piece of advice that irks me, that I& #39;ve heard over and over, regarding finding success in illustration or the arts, is that you should just keep doing what you& #39;re doing and that that will be valuable and enable you to have a career. While I agree with the general sentiment that
finding your own voice and creating work that is unique to yourself is important and valuable, in terms of career advice, it& #39;s so paper thin and means next to nothing. Just being told to keep on slogging through being poor and not getting work in the hopes that eventually you& #39;ll
get noticed by some big company just doesn& #39;t acknowledge the reality of trying to create personal work while making a living in an expensive city. You have to be lucky or privileged in order to slog through the beginnings of any arts career.
I& #39;ve heard professors say this advice and recently heard it in a an artist talk re: getting work as a storyboarder.
It& #39;s not that this advice isn& #39;t true, because I am sure it can be, but that this advice doesn& #39;t acknowledge the reality that there& #39;s no guarantee you& #39;ll ever get the work you want for any odd reason. It& #39;s all a gamble and it involves having the ability to do so.
I could only justify making A Gleaming Pt. 2 because I have no student debt, I worked my through school, had family help me with my first years of education, I worked a full-time job while freelancing, I am in a position where I can live cheaply and save any extra money I make,
AND I received two grants in order to complete it (1.5k and $500). In the reality where I didn& #39;t have external help, i would never of been able to quit my coffee job to devote the time to a personal project. I have the privilege to invest time and money into my work.
