Making a living as an artist (which to many of us is the definition of "making it") is 100% reliant on your follower count and is irrelevant to your skill level. I have seen pure shit artists charge $500 for a portrait and have all their commission slots fully booked for the month. If you have even just 40,000 followers, you're bound to have enough richfags to sustain you. you don't even have to coom. just get lucky or be a good social media strategist.

beg anatomy, blatantly impossible lighting, photobashed backgrounds, shit that looks like a sakimichan trace, doesn't matter.