Creative careers like “artist” are incredibly depreciated because supply vastly outstrips demand. There’s not a lot of art you need; people don’t get their walls painted with frescoes any more, they don’t get portraits. All art is highly reproducible in one way or another (e.g. art for games, art for book covers, etc). Meanwhile it looks fun or at least somewhat fulfilling, definitely more stimulating than doing some boring drudgery, so ton of people try. As a result anyone who wants art, especially at a low-ish level, has an embarrassment of wannabe artists to search for the lowest price (which sometimes can be “zero”—the infamous “exposure” or even negative!).
Creative careers like “artist” are incredibly depreciated because supply vastly outstrips demand. There’s not a lot of art you need; people don’t get their walls painted with frescoes any more, they don’t get portraits. All art is highly reproducible in one way or another (e.g. art for games, art for book covers, etc). Meanwhile it looks fun or at least somewhat fulfilling, definitely more stimulating than doing some boring drudgery, so ton of people try. As a result anyone who wants art, especially at a low-ish level, has an embarrassment of wannabe artists to search for the lowest price (which sometimes can be “zero”—the infamous “exposure” or even negative!).