Story Time ✿ I left my job to be a full-time artist ...and failed (webcomics & illustration)

✿ ʕ•́ᴥ•̀ʔっ Hi everyone! It's been a long time coming (and even longer since I last posted!), but I'm finally sharing the story of when I left my full-time 9-to-5 job to pursue an art career — more specifically, to create a webtoon and freelance illustrations — and ended up quitting to return to working another corporate 9-to-5 job. I'm only sharing this experience now, but this journey ended just over a year ago. Now that I'm starting to ramp up on a new (and very exciting!) webcomic/graphic novel project, I figured now would be as good a time as any to share this experience with anyone out there who feels like they want to take the leap (or perhaps have already done so) into pursuing a full-time career in illustration. So please grab a cup of tea, a snack, and something to doodle on, because it's gonna be a long one! Thank you for watching! ❤ Riniapple ˗ˏˋ ‿︵‿︵‿︵ Chapters ‿︵‿︵‿︵ ˎˊ˗ 0:00 Cozy intro 4:12 Why I'm sharing this story 8:34 My childhood: The *very* beginning 13:00 My parents didn't want me to go to art school 14:50 Deciding what to do after graduating 18:07 My very first webcomic 21:00 All on my own 25:40 A spark of inspiration 27:26 Taking the leap to full-time illustration 32:37 Diving into my second webcomic 34:57 Self-doubt starts setting in 36:34 Pivoting to pursue client work 43:22 Self-doubt sets in again 49:53 Anxiety takes over 54:46 Job hunting & regrets 57:05 Black & white thinking 58:01 Returning to work & abandoning my dreams 1:00:49 Complete and utter emptiness 1:03:44 Going to therapy & processing the experience 1:06:49 My spark reignited 1:09:35 ✿ My new webcomic project 1:14:17 Outro ˗ˏˋ ‿︵‿︵‿︵ Links ‿︵‿︵‿︵ ˎˊ˗ Video by @minniesmall : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRtVcfHuZOM SVS Learn: https://www.svslearn.com/ The Illustration Department: https://illustrationdept.com/ Webtoon | I'm Going to Mars: https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/im-going-to-mars/list?title_no=190841 Webtoon | Follow Your Art: https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/follow-your-art/list?title_no=773044 ˗ˏˋ ‿︵‿︵‿︵ Social Media ‿︵‿︵‿︵ ˎˊ˗ Webtoon Profile ♡︎ https://www.webtoons.com/en/creator/da8rw Instagram ♡︎ https://www.instagram.com/riniapple/ Tumblr ♡︎ https://www.tumblr.com/riniapple Pinterest ♡︎ https://www.pinterest.ca/riniapple/ Twitter ♡︎ https://x.com/riniapple ˗ˏˋ ‿︵‿︵‿︵ Music Credits ‿︵‿︵‿︵ ˎˊ˗ Song: Daystar - The smell of flowers | Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVR6EVsQGJ4