Is there a way to start commission painting with my current skill...

Is there a way to start commission painting with my current skill? I have a soul-crushing desk job and I want to paint for a living. Pic is a converted sorcerer work in progress

Start by learning how to paint.

depends how fast you can churn that shit out

Can we see any finished models? If you have a portfolio it's not hard to get started.

Sure! here's a Bjorn I've painted recently

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If you can produce something like that in a reasonable amount of time you could get people commisioning you. Hit up your local gamestores and see if they have display cases / let you leave business cards.

I know of someone who was a commission painter for mini armies a while back. He was laid up due to all kinds of medical issues but he had full use of his hands and could still see well so he painted armies. He didn't do very well financially but between that and his disability he was able to have an apartment and pay all his medical bills. So just be forewarned that it's not really a viable career so much as something you do for extra dosh that you enjoy. You may however be able to downgrade to a part-time gig if you get enough paining work.

I'll try that! I think I can reproduce a similar dread in 4-5 hours... I'm not the fastest. Still I'll try to visit the local stores. I'm affraid most players around here play 3 colors or base-coated armies..

Mmm.. Might have to keep at the soul-crushing prison. Appreciate your responses.

I like whatever this is, that's for sure!

Wanna be nurgle lord w/ palanquin I did with leftovers from different kits

Just be aware that your dream job involves a lot less creativity than you think. Right now you get to paint what you want, when you're getting paid you will be told what to paint.

Here's how I look at things:

Let's assume you're a person with a talent. Most people can live a life doing most things, so it's reasonable to assume you can live a life doing nothing but your talent. Then, the question is really about the quality of living relative to income.

Could you make mad dosh? Probably not as much as a real artist or body painter who hits it big, but more than a hobbyist. Could you make money consistently? Probably, but it depends how much time you put in, what they pay you, and how much you like it. Could you make a sustainable living relative to a good job? Maybe, but it's likely to be less work to maintain a real job.

Really, it boils down to how willing are you to work exclusively for other people to support yourself; that's the only reliable way to make money. When you do a passion piece you run the risk of creating something unliked. Ordinarily people will say it's fine because you'll take pride in it's objective quality pr personal meaningfulness, and move on without much problem. When it's your job, that shit is money, which means people better like it or you don't get compensated relative to effort. You can always hope to hit it big with a shot in the dark, but it's risky, and you need the internet for porn every month.

I chose to work on my passion in my spare time; it's a beautiful dream. You can choose to make your passion work, but a dream and a steady job makes better math.

You can start commission painting with basically zero skills. You just need to find some dumbass willing to pay you.

Find some wargaming youtuber in your local area and offer to paint a batch of models for them for free giving some examples in return for shilling your service on their channel. Set up a website or even facebook page and sooner or later some unlucky faggot will pay you to paint an entire space marines army for them.

Professional painter here - quite known worldwide.

The money is not bad, especially for the country I live in region (Poland). You can get around 2-3k USD per month, which brings you up to 3% of best paid people in the country... (this is pretty sad, but hey, wages in Poland are crap).

After a while you tend to have a lot of returning Customers, so you have some basic job security.

The thing is - spending 8 hours hunched down, painting miniatures is really depressing after a while. You can rent a studio with other people to have some interaction during the day, but aside of that it is pretty boring and after a while you will start to treat it as another job.

Honestly speaking try to keep the desk job and do painting in your free time. Gather some commissions and then decided if this is something you could do 8h per day.

> I have a soul crushing desk job.

So why would you want another one?

pics?

this. Hobbies are best enjoyed as hobbies. A happy compromise is just selling stuff youve done that you dont need to keep, or just painting for fun or practice and then selling tem off.

I've no idea why you would know this other than being a polish national but i'm going to ask anyway on the off chance.

Is there much work to be had in Poland for an English speaker with very limited polish vocabulary?

I'm from the UK and i really want to find a polish waifu. Trouble is i don't speak much. I have a relatively skilled job but its very much a people persons job which when you can't communicate in polish isnt going to work very well. I'm learning the language but its slow and hard as fuck.

I used to be a musician and I used to stream videogames. The fastest way to hate your hobby is to make it into a job. I've not picked up my guitar in years, closed my League account a year ago, and removed Counter Strike from my Steam account.

If you live in the uk you shouldn't have trouble finding a polish person down the road so idk why you'd need to go to poland m8

Best Woman stayed here : P

There is lots of work. But, be aware the wages are much lower.

Thank you! I'm off to try some volunteering work there in the summer to test the water.

It may be a case of the grass is always greener but i swear they are much more modest and generally speaking more wife material than any woman i've been with in the uk.

again, thanks user.

On the actual thread topic I can't help but feel the op is trolling, model looks like it just has the base colours applied and some air brushing and thats it. There's obvious colours not even in the lines. It seems like a thinly veiled, that company sells mini's for thousands with some poor airbrushing so i can too.