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Art in the Professions Hello everyone! My name is Francesca Urbinati, nime080 (https://www.deviantart.com/nime080) on DeviantArt. I'm a professional artist and a freelancer on comics, illustrations and visual design. Here are some tips from my experience about jumping from amateur to professional. 1. Make it happen Nothing will come your way if you don't set the ground for it. In other words "don't wait for success to knock your door, smash his own door and get in (cit.)". Don't waste time, keep on studying every single day and stay committed. The 8th book of my comic series Niki Batsprite. Just a few years ago, this project existed in my head only. Now it's real. 2. Focus

Time does a lot of things, it makes you older, it gets you to places, it never stops going forward. However you control when and how you use it! Everyone makes choices on a daily bases, most of them are actually done with your auto-pilot function out of habit. Most people usually sit in the same spot on the couch, chooses what to wear based on previously made combinations and so on, unless they consciously become aware of their action and might decide it's time for a change. It can be a small thing that makes people aware of their options You can count that pretty much every person out there works like this and YOU often depend on THEIR ch

There is no such thing as suddenly knowing when you are ready to turn your passion into your profession. But there is a way of measuring your chances on being able to get work and eventually sustain a living from it. Accepting commissions or freelance for low payment won't help you. You can think any penny counts, but it will lower the worth of your work and damage the market. :bulletblue: How to measure that you are ready? You probably have high goals, but they are usually not your first step. You must search out the clients who can be that first step. Often found in the card game industry, book cover illustrations and smaller game compan