I think being an artist is a vocation, something you are meant to be doing in this lifetime. Sometimes parents and life circumstances conspire for you to not be able to do that full time, but you know as a child that that is who you are. While everyone was watching TV I drew their feet...and I observed intently everyone...something else a person who is meant to be an artist does. Making yourself into an artist is pointless. Everyone can be creative at their own thing whatever they came to this earth to do.
There are way to many pointless artists around, who think because they can draw a little that is who they are. being an artist is nothing but visual communication a deep seated need to express yourself that way...that is all...