Hi, my name is Robert. I am 23 years old and still living at home because I don’t currently have a job. I am also a college drop out. For now, I am only doing an online course for computer repair. Well, because computers are my forte to be honest(as well as painting). I want to advance in that area.
The real reason I made this question is because I am scared for my life right now. The only real skills I have obtained in the past 5 years are in art. Specifically digital painting. With Photoshop elements and Gimp 2. Whenever I show my artwork to people online or in the real world I cannot get that person to take a comission for the sake of survival in this world. I know you might be saying “If you live at home you should be fine.” Even though that might be somewhat true, at the same time it’s not. My mother has a very limited income which I’m not sure of. We hardly talk anymore since her boyfriend moved in. Whom I hate by the way. He stays here all day doing nothing but online poker and chatting on his cellphone which my mom pays for. I’m not trying to say I’m better than him but hes taken my territory I call “home”. I VERY MUCH HATE HIM FOR THAT.
It would be great if for once in this life time, that I could just get a break and get paid for painting after all I’ve been through. I ran away from my dads house when I was 15. Tried to join the army when I was 17-18 and failed. After that I’ve been bearly surviving. I know you guys will say just go out and get a job. Believe me I have tried over and over. filling out 10 apps a day for 6 months every other week then just gave up on it. It’s been 3 months since the last time I tried for any job cause I already know I’m not going to get it because of no work experience except for Taco bell for 2 months out of my entire 23 years of exsistance…I know sad…
I cannot do this anymore though I need someone who will do a deal with me with art. The area I am truely skilled in. I’m sorry if I bore you with my story but I really just need a break from this broken home scene I’ve been in the last 5 or 6 years. Ive tried to get a pack of friends together to motivate me and build a website for my art and sell stuff at a flea market but the motivation dies after they forget about it. Cause they don’t take it serious enough. I need someone online to really help me be fruitfull at this stuff. Even if it’s just to get me noticed somewhere, I’ll take it. I need some help. I’m scared for my life! Please someone help me with my skills. Someone who knows where to put my paintings. I have some of my stuff on deviant art and youtube already. My user name is kasumisman on both sites.
examples of skill:
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/139/0/b/ferrai_f430_by_kasumisman-d3gqcz9.jpg
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/063/b/f/shinozaki_at_the_beach_by_kasumisman-d3awcw8.jpg
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs48/i/2009/233/e/6/Barack_Obama_2009_2012_by_kasumisman.jpg
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs51/i/2009/328/3/4/geek_by_kasumisman.jpg
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/314/9/1/chiri_arikawa_wallpaper_by_kasumisman-d32kczs.jpg
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/337/b/f/rui_kiriyama_by_kasumisman-d33fp79.jpg
