| TL;DR: do it! But do it strategically. The good news is that you're young at merely 27. More good news: you have a someone financing you, your current job. Think about being an Artist as being an entrepreneur running your own startup, the beauty here is that you control every single aspect: - you control the product: you can change it and tweak it at any time. Discontinue a product line, or take it back - you control the pricing: free or $1,000,000, BOGO; it doesn't matter, you control it as you see fit - you control the branding: NFT or mass production, the choice is yours, and you can always change your mind - you control the positioning: for the elites or for the masses? Mass e-commerce distribution or atelier-style single sales? Just like a start-up you will need: - some type of business plan, where you address all the choices outlined above; a timeline, a capital budget, and timeline of activities - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product Continue to work full time as you start moonlighting at your new venture. With time you'll increase the moonlighting and possibly decrease the dayjob. At some point there will be an inflection point where you jump ship and pursue the new venture full time and either drop the dayjob or scale it down to part-time / free lance. Resources: * Jerry Saltz book: How to be an Artist * Follow jerry on IG/Twitter * Paul Graham book: Hackers and Painters |