Is an artist like me capable of making money with crypto coins?

Hi everybody,
thank you for start reading this blog! I am very, very new in this whole crypto currency thing. That's the reason i've joined steemit. I hope to learn from you all and i hope i can give you back some of me being an artist. 

I have studied biology and earned also money with nature photography. I like to play the saxophone and i love stone sculpting, but in the end you won't get richt with that. Not that i have to become richt, but i would love to make sculptures i like and not what has to be sold to make a living.

Years ago i heard of bitcoins and people making money with it. But trading was far away from me. One week ago i heard about Ethereum in the news. People had bought it a year ago and had made a lot of profit. That was a trigger for me. If i jumped in right now, could i still be before the real mass of people would get into it?

So exactly one week ago i started with the crypto. I have read two days on the internet and was ready to jump in. (was i really ;) )

I bought Bitcoins for the value and changed them voor half Ethereum and half Dash using the Exodus Wallet. Well what a week it was. First it went up and i had a profit for more than 10% in two days. For my savings i get less then 1% in a year. Wow!

But it went down again and a flashcrash of Ethereum took place. Gosh what is happening over here? People buying Ethereum for only 0.10 USD. That is a real luck.

Now i'm overall 10% down. I'm not sad, i believe in going up again. I did some research in other coins. And i will see if i can get into some other interesting coins.

I end this first blog now and get back to you soon. If you have any advice for me for coins you really believe in, please give advice in your comments!

I feel like small ant in a big world!