The hard of being a part-time artist

It’s been a couple of months since I opened up this website to the public, officially starting my career as a visual artist, and now it’s time for me to sum up what I learned in this period.

And what I learned is that being a part-time artist is very tough and in some way frustrating. You deal with your projects and the costant lack of time to realize them. Often you lose the energy and enthusiasm you should need and this damages your creativity, turning off the inspiration that is at the heart of this activity.

I also noticed I grow tired early of the duties of updating the social profiles daily. Though I was well aware that doing it is very important to grow your audience and reputation. Having a strong IT formation I easily discovered the many ways to do it “automatically”, but still I didn’t find it reasonable at the moment. I am hardly dealing psychologically with the idea that this kind of scheduling in advance, this kind of systematic building of daily contents is really a valid artistic experience. Yet I feel anyway uncomfortable with the fact that I am an absent ghost for my followers.

So I decided to mantain a low presence online but making it more costant, opting for at least a one time monthly update. That is what I’m doing from now on.