A lot of animation jobs are just temporary contracts, you can't always settle down with a long-term job at one company. Because of that, sometimes you end up with stretches of time in-between jobs. It would be really nice to keep up art commissions on the side for whenever I end up between jobs, you know? And the more I improve my art, the more I also improve my 3D work. Being familiar with anatomy and lighting and movement in a 2D image is immensely helpful when you go to work with a 3D medium.
So, you know... working with my art, I do feel a little less hopeless about where I'll end up in the future. I think it will work out eventually. Being a commission artist right now doesn't have to mean giving up on my dreams to work on animated movies somewhere down the road.
BUT. It's a slow climb up to the point where art commissions pay enough to give me that kind of support, so it's going to take a lot of time and a lot of work. Which doesn't mesh with the fact that I don't want to live here and my parents are always demanding results RIGHT NAO.