>get told by hippies that turning art into a job will suck the joy out of it
>I lmao at their lives
>two years of full time illustrator work later
>The joy has been sucked out from art.

How to reverse this while still working in art?

>>7622722 (OP)
you have to do personal work every once in a while and take time off too

>>7622722 (OP)
Make enough from your current set so that you don't have to make art for pay.
And yeah like the other guy says take breaks do personal works. Maybe every 3 commissions do 1 personal project.
Consider art careers like making your own comic where you are basically doing what you want while people pay for you to do that

>>7622747
>you have to do personal work every once in a while
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There's dozens of interviews with pro comic artists and animators talking about this, eventually your dream job become just a job and you need a creative outlet, be it art or not.
They generally do their own comic or animated short but some do something else like music.

>>7623062
>Consider art careers like making your own comic where you are basically doing what you want while people pay for you to do that
That's easier said than done, I know a few artists that do webtoons for a living, and trust me when I say that what they want and what the webtoons market want are not the same at all.
They're into weird shit like subgenres of sci-fi or horror but the webtoon market only care about romance slop aimed at wamen and gay shit also aimed at femoids.

>>7622722 (OP)
>How to reverse this
You can't really. You can still enjoy it as a job, like any job it is kinda fun to try and be good at it, but you fucked up getting an industry art job, you're going to need a long break before you fall back in love with art and start thinking about your own projects again.

That's always the key difference. Art for a living means you're not doing what you want, you're doing what someone else wants. Your work will never be to your liking, your standards or your interests. Intrinsically there's no satisfaction. I mean some people get to do what they want and get paid for it but that's like a lottery. I tapped out after 3 months fulltime art industry and just went back to electrical work.
Wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless they purely enjoy the act and don't really care what they're making or why.

>>7622722 (OP)
I can only make guesses because I've never been successful . In the meantime, dry your eyes on the dollar bills

>>7622722 (OP)
doz hands are very sus

>>7623126
what about what Rick and Morty did? They posted short animations on their site, submitted to an indie film festival and got seen - or Homestuck.

Basically I 100,000% believe creating your own IP is the way to go; financially and fulfillingly. There's always people willing to support you if you're passionate about your dreams.

>>7623254
I do agree with you, but it's not easy at all to make whatever you want and find an audience willing to pay for it.
That's also the case for Japanese manga artists too, like the creator of quintuplets and ranger reject, Negi Haruba.
Negi only did quintuplets because romcom harem slop sells but he only care about the far less popular go go loser ranger, it's his real passion manga.
He sold out and I don't blame him, the market wants what the market wants.
It's the same case for Endo (Spy x Family) and Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) they don't care, even hate their masterpieces but they print money so...
Good luck tho, I hope you find something that you and the market likes, it's hard but not impossible, just find your people.