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Anonymous · 2mo

will you ever make art into your job?

NO!!! NOPENOPENOPE i wanna keep art as a hobby, i feel like i can enjoy it better that way, uhh

also i'm not even majoring in art! i don't plan on doing art professionally, which only leaves freelancing (which is what i think you meant anyway, doing nsfw commissions and stuff like full-time) but that's a NOTORIOUSLY risky financial choice and like.. well uhhhh . another thing is that i am a pretty social person irl, i have a lot of friends, and my whole family practically works in the same industry so we know a lot of people, and they know us, so,, imagine i start doing art full-time. i'm gonna have so many people asking me what's my new job and i just.. won't be able to tell them?? telling them i do art is just ASKING for people to go "oh let me see!!" and then saying i draw porn (ESPECIALLY CONTENTIOUS FURRY PORN) is basically suicide, so realistically, i would either have to distance myself from them which is weird and suspicious and i don't wanna do that, or i'd have to lie to them, which i don't wanna do either!!

IN SUMMARY i think doing art full-time is a bad idea ! i already have a part-time job that's completely unrelated to art and might get a better position in the company i work at after i graduate uni so art might just be "the thing i do for fun in my free time" indefinitely

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