Hey y'all just a quick heads up the episode you're about to listen to is 8 to 10 years old

now these episodes were intended to be evergreen and I still believe there's a lot of good

information in these early episodes, but I do want to let you know that some of my ideas have evolved

over time. Times have changed since we made these episodes and ultimately I'd like to think I've grown

a lot as an artist and a human and that these don't necessarily represent my best work or the best of the podcast.

If you're new around here, I suggest starting with the most recent episode or at least go back to

around 300 and move forward from there.

Enjoy the episode. Yo, it's the Creative Pep talk podcast. This is me, your host, Andy J Miller. I'm a graphic illustrator and I make pictures for a living.

Okay, you can listen to this podcast at illustration age.

com slash creative pet talk.

Let's get started. Today we're going to talk about something that is on the

minds of most commercial artists every day of the week. Money. We're going to talk about money. That's the big issue. It's not always comfortable, but it's something that's one of the most important parts of your business. It's 50% of your business. Now me personally,

I don't really necessarily get super crazy, you know, passionate about art on its own. And same goes for business. I'm not crazy businessman, okay? But when they get together and they make the baby that is art

business or commercial art that Venn diagram, that middle section, that's the part that I love I love the mixture of these two things

and if you're like me then a career in art a commercial art career might be for you.

When I say commercial art I just mean all the ways that you can have a career

that are real career options as an artist, making creative work.

If that's for you, you might be listening

to the right podcast.

Today, we're gonna talk about the business side, the money side, a very, very important

side.

I know it's easy for us creative people to just want to think about the creative stuff

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