There are other career paths for artists than selling in a gallery. Video games. Comics. VFX in movies. Animated movies. Admittedly there are more people looki

There are other career paths for artists than selling in a gallery. Video games. Comics. VFX in movies. Animated movies. Admittedly there are more people looking for a lot of those jobs than there are gigs. But if you find a good gig and keep it going, you can have a pretty nice life. The connections you make in school can help you find some of these jobs, but so can a solid portfolio. Nobody cares where you went, just whether you can show up and do your part of whatever multi-person, multi-year job you're involved in. And these days there's also Patreon. There's a few people making multiple thousands a month drawing stuff on there. Mostly porn. And there's a lot more people making smaller amounts for various projects. Including me; when I'm in the groove of cranking out eight pages of my comics over a month, I cover most of my rent. Gallery art? Sure, that's one way to make money with your art. But it's far from the only one.