Does that actually matter? You see the same sort of embarrassingly low numbers in all artistic mediums. Writer, painter, musician, sculptor, interpretive dancer

Does that actually matter? You see the same sort of embarrassingly low numbers in all artistic mediums. Writer, painter, musician, sculptor, interpretive dancer, comedian, indy game dev - on average none of these pay enough to count as a career and you only hear about stuff on the successful end of the bell curve. Even if you improve your odds by making commercial art. In many cases even the artists considered successful still need a day job.