Trying To Make It As An Artist----Not Easy

Trying To Make It As An Artist----Not Easy

Ever since I was a lil' gremlin I wanted to be an artist. I would doodle in my books and random papers I had laying around and I would stand in awe of other kids that had a superior drawing ability. My days in art class during Junior High days were the best, the teachers were always kind to me and gave me very good feedback that would translate very well into my art. It was in High School that I had to make a choice on what I was going to pursue for a career. It's a tough decision to make at that age, all I spent doing was playing game and just being carefree. I thought about going into art as a career, but luckily I was talked out of it by a career counselor. I say luckily because she mentioned tuition was very high and art is a thing that is very hard to make it. I completely had to rethink my life after that day. Years later that same school I though about going had gone, The Art Institute, had gained a reputation in the art community of giving out essentially worthless degrees, some employers though it as a crap school. Flash forward to today and it is up to know that i'm giving it my all in order to follow my dream. After High School I began to work with my father in this pallet factory, the hours were long and the temperatures extreme, ranging from killer hot to freezing cold, that's Utah weather in a nutshell. My father did not want me to waste my life there so after a year  he told me if I was to continue my studies, I told him,"Yes". I left for my mother country of Mexico since the education is far cheaper over there and my skills were very valuable. I got into the university and so far it's been a great experience, I got into English teaching and its a great career, but It's not my passion. That's why recently I started to create art and making my blogs to get my name out there and the people really seem to like my art. The phase that i'm at right now is trying to make some profit so that I can take care of myself. It's very complicated and stressful. That's why this site is very interesting and alluring, since there is the possibility of somebody out there that might like  what they see, enough to actually give me a