<p><strong>Pepper Raccoon, artist and merch designer, shares her tactics for creating a proper living out of being an artist. </strong></p><br><p>There’s a common belief that when you’re making career choices, you have to choose between doing what you love, or making money.</p><br><p>While that’s sometimes true, it’s doesn’t have to be true.</p><br><p>Even creatives, the ones most famous for becoming starving artists, can find systems to make a living without selling out to the man.</p><br><p>It does, however, take a strategy. After all, if it was easy, everyone would do it.</p><br><p>Well one such creative was nice enough to take time out of her day to walk me through exactly how she makes a good living as an artist.</p><br><p>Wellingtonian Pepper Raccoon has been going for seven years now, working as a fine artist who makes pins, t-shirts, and other merchandise.</p><br><p>It’s going so well that she’s even had to upgrade from being a sole trader, to a registered company, a big milestone.</p><br><p>Here’s how she makes it work.</p><br><p><strong>Links</strong></p><p>Follow Frances Cook on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FrancesCookNZ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/francescooknz/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram </a>and <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@francescooknz?lang=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TikTok</a>, or join the <a href="https://www.francescook.co.nz/subscribe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Money Memo newsletter</a> for a free weekly money tip in your inbox each week.</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
