How do painters make a living?

Let me tell you how the painters I know make a living:

The most ideal state: one's postgraduate entrance examination in university and staying in school. In other words, staying in the Academy of Fine Arts to teach is actually not tiring. On the one hand, I have a fixed professional income, on the other hand, I can do something in my spare time. When there is plenty of time such as holidays, you can open your own studio or teach students in small classes. And simply set up a personal studio to let students help.

Others, independent painting, unstable income, it is best to find some part-time jobs in institutions such as the University for the Aged and earn some money.

Until it became famous, it was rare, publishing books, selling paintings and commercial activities.