[lindseymysse]

I'm mostly joking, but painting is difficult mental labor. It requires an enormous amount of mental and physical control.

Most people when seeing my paintings are quite surprised to find out I rarely sell them. It's because as soon as I try to professionalize that part of my career I have to change what I'm doing to fit a market, and I hate everyone else's taste but my own.

P.S. some of my paintings can be found at https://lnsy.studio, but mostly I write software for organizations that work on dealing with the climate crisis.

[tonyedgecombe]

Money seems to remove the joy from most activities. This is at the root of most of the complaints in this thread.

[avian]

Reminds me of this:

https://twitter.com/buttpoems/status/1335423879238455299

I started drawing as a hobby when I burned out in my academic career some years ago. I don't think I'm any good at it, but every once in a while I get an offer to do paid artwork. So far I declined all of them because I felt that would make me lose the relaxing escape from my day job.

[thecupisblue]

Love your style, got a new subscriber!