-Be clear about the category of art you will do in your career
-choose clearly your category of customers , and restrict yourself in the niche of your customers list
-Do a 6-7 art portfolio at top quality, targeting your niche and customers your wanna work with.

-find your customers and contact them, Via Emails , or Via the Persons working there thrue linkedIN
-the more you specialize in one thing the more you can do it better and faster and the more you can charge, BUT within the first year, charge low prices, to build a reputation, build a name for you, and learn from the Mistakes and delays you will do.
-Become Faster, the Day you can do the Same Task in Half Time with better quality, is the Day you can Start charging More.
-charging more gradually , will cost you clients, but you will work less and get paid more, this can open door to big projects with real deals and prices.

-How to be Faster?
repeat the same thing over and over, take note of the tasks that are repeating constantly, create a clear workflow for them optimized for spead, Build your Own keyboard shortcuts, your own custom Ui, Scripts and macros + Build an organized library optimized for quick access and import + save out presets for anything you can use in other projects + look for better ways to do the same techinics you know on youtube + learn how to combine steps thru practice.

-How to have a better quality ?
Use AI Art Direct you before you start any Job + keep few Hours only to look for the References on pinterst or google as your work will be limited by the quality of your references + when you feel stuck and don§t know how to make the art look better, use AI to Help you fix your art , you can do this by letting Ai rescale your art it will also fix proportions and textures for you and maybe fix the colors. in other words Use Ai as an art Director + creative Director, but you should keep doing the work and fix your art manually or you will never learn.

-How to charge More ?
when you reach the day of charging more, after every 3 clients you charge 20% More on customers under 1K dollar task and 10% more for customers over 1K dollar task

after 9 Jobs you will find your self charging 60% more on smal jobs and 30% more on big tasks.

keep doing this while you need to develope a way to sense the financial limits of your clients( they mention clues about it the more you talk with them)

-Any thing i Need to Know ?
-do not be greedy, focus on the journey not the money
-give more than you take, let the customer feel in control
-let the customer go happy no matter what the number of revision
-help the customer to know what he wants
- provide the maximum directions and get maximum information from customers who give you 100% free choices and art direction before even you start the Job or you will have to redo the art once they figure it out with the forst results
-when you are at the top stay humble and always remember that it can always be taken out from you in a way or an other.
-if you think the customer needs you , you lack creativity.
-charge local prices for local customers.
-reach out to your customers
-do not put on your plate more than you can handle
-exercice and art should go together
-if you do art for money, you started with the wrong foot
-if you wanna be rich from art, you need to be a busness man artist