🗃26. Basic income

The bridge to illustration.

📝 Businesses have capital, becoming an illustrator full-time is becoming a business, and you have to manage your capital, there’s no monthly paycheck so you need to manage your capital. I tried to put together 6 months’ expenses as capital, It’s still a work in progress.¹

On Being a Pro

When you are an employee, you get paid, your pay is your basic income.

When you have a business, your business gets paid, and your business pays you a basic income.

If you are an illustrator, you are a business.

I think this is a bridge that every would be illustrator would need to cross, thinking of your illustration career as a business and not a job.

My illustration business can not yet pay me a basic income, so I have a part time job, (which is progress from a full time job).

The exciting thing is my illustration business might soon be able to pay me a basic income.

1. This note was added in 2023, As I went back to edit and organize my previous newsletters. I wanted the archive to have well some archival value. Together these notes tell a story of how I Became a Picturebook Illustrator.