The risk of going professional.

I always hear about artists going professional and losing their love for art, has anyone else experienced this?

Someone replied to my post with a similar story. I hear about it often, artists using their skills professionally and losing their spark for it as it became their business and thus their livelihood. That’s also been a fear of mine, going professional and losing my love for it due to the business side of it.

I love telling stories, creating characters and world-building for them. I’m not very good at writing, animation or 3D modeling - I figured art, the thing i’ve done all my life, would simply be my avenue for it. That’s my medium to tell my stories.

I can’t imagine NOT going professional, not one day, managing an animation studio or directing my own films or even video games, somehow publishing my work for others to enjoy, providing a world for other creatives to be apart of.

That being said, it is a bit terrifying, the idea that a dream job, at the end of the day, is STILL a job. That it might suck the light and fun and maybe even all the enjoyment out of the craft itself.