Would it be beneficial to take business classes for artists who want to sell their own work? I'm thinking about taking classes

@revisionstudios Kasper Swain
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 16:07:12 +0000

@revisionstudios wrote:

You should absolutely invest in business classes if have the means and you're serious about making money off your art. Even if you only take a couple basic ones, just knowing how businesses run on a surface level will help you take things into consideration that you never would have before. I took a few and they were invaluable. It also makes you go out and network with other types of people who could eventually become clients or buyers (sometimes it's hard to break out of the art scene).

There's this weird stigma around creatives (both people inside and outside the field) that if you're not doing it only for yourself or the sake of passion, you're not a "real" artist or you're "selling out". That's a load of bull. Even people who solely do production work to sell and don't feel a huge attachment anymore are still artists, and can be happy doing it. It's not wrong to want to arm yourself with the knowledge on how best to support your creative endeavors. Everyone needs money to pay the bills, and no one should be shamed into being a starving or struggling artist.