/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Everytime I check craigslist, indeed, glassdoor- all those job posting sites, the vast majority of the "art" related jobs are all fucking graphic designer. Every single one advertising related graphic designer. And more often than not, even the entry-level jobs want these poor applicants to have the skills and workload of an entire fucking marketing team.

I guess I shouldn't expect to find a job easily when my main strengths as an artist are just character design and illustration. But god damn do I wish I lived near an animation studio or comic studios(do comic book artist even get studios from their companies? I couldn't find anything like that when I did some research a week ago). I just like drawing girls and manga/comic characters, I haven't been studying and practicing art for years just to switch to learning how to design labels or logos cause that's the only art job here man. At least there's a few Apparel Designer openings that pop up occasionally, but it's not exactly my field and the most I've done related to that anyway is slap my art on graphic tees and sell em through Redbubble or some shit.