artist here:

Unless you really find a niche and gain some kind of audience that really likes your work/your personality or both, you will be broke and "unemployed" forever: even then you will still be just slightly better off than broke and unemployed. It's very much like onlyfans where, for every 1 slut that rakes in a million dollars a year, there are about 1000-10000 cunts that are lucky to make a couple hundred bucks a month.

There is a shitload of saturation in the digital art filed, because any moron can produce something of meddling quality, and get a few views, but what really separates a person from the crown is actual talent (which takes years and years to develop) and a vast portfolio (which also takes years and years to develop. Even still, most potential customers, especially corporate ones wants to commission you because you are likely lazy and expensive, and AI can just do it for free, with honestly, comparable quality. The horrible thing is, because the entire Western world is being dumbed down and full of useless mid-wit grifters, ALL of the thoughtful artwork, and human touch is being replaced by walmart-level soulless slop.

I've been doing this shit for 20 years and while I'll never quit, I'm in the process of trying to find a career that is adjunct to art, without desperately falling into some wagecage shit out of necessity.