You can certainly be a working artist. Get paid to create things for someone else while doing your own thing on the side. I thought this was pretty much the sta

You can certainly be a working artist. Get paid to create things for someone else while doing your own thing on the side. I thought this was pretty much the standard, you were either a working artist or a starving artist. The big stars that can make a good living from patronage is small compared to artists overall.