I’ve watched a couple of videos recently on finding your passion and doing what you love. I remember as a child I used to love drawing buildings and designing the buildings in great detail. After 16 years of age, I stopped doing this.
I’m now 38 and I’ve never really known what I’ve wanted to do. I’ve decided to return loving what I did as a child - drawing beautiful buildings. I would like to create town centres with rows of beautiful buildings, showing different styles covering different eras.
I have a degree in Ancient History, but I know I can’t return to university full-time to complete a degree but I am prepared to spend all my spare time mastering this passion of mine and turn myself into a master.
My question is this - how can I monetise this? How can I draw beautiful town centres and make money from it? I would like to be able to influence how town centres are designed today - the post-modern garbage we see today depressed me; compared to the older buildings that had intricate detail and roots in classical architecture. People love to see these kinds of buildings that display beauty.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Lee.
citizen
Dec 22, 19 8:30 pm
Hire yourself out as a renderer?
Non Sequitur
Dec 22, 19 11:01 pm
Best way to counter this "modern garbage" as you call it is to buy land and hire yourself a team of architects to design your vision.
OneLostArchitect
Dec 22, 19 11:12 pm
fastest way is to become a developer. I’d start small and do a single family residence. Grow from there.
geezertect
Dec 23, 19 7:35 am
You're 38 years old and you want to "create town centres with rows of beautiful buildings" and become a master at it and make money too, all in your "spare time". Seriously, do you realize how childish and delusional you sound?
Non Sequitur
Dec 23, 19 7:53 am
Ah, come on... let us have our fun before slapping reality in the OP 's face.
Did you keep any of your greatly detailed building designs from when you were 16? I'd love to see them, especially the different styles and eras.
b3tadine[sutures]
Dec 23, 19 10:39 am
Well, there's a market for this garbage, now that he's been dead for 8 years.
Wilma Buttfit
Dec 23, 19 12:00 pm
I design buildings in my sleep then draw them when I wake up. I sell the designs on ebay. Very profitable.
x-jla
Dec 23, 19 1:03 pm
I’ll be nice. If your drawings are good you can sell them as art prints. you can make prints and sell online through esty or one of those art sites with very little investment. I’ve read about people making good money doing this with all genres of art.
monosierra
Dec 23, 19 1:40 pm
I would consider asking around new classical firms who would appreciate old school, hand-drawn "renders".
( o Y o )
Dec 23, 19 3:59 pm
passion can not be monetized
senjohnblutarsky
Dec 23, 19 4:09 pm
Tell that to porn stars...
Miles Jaffe
Dec 24, 19 12:48 pm
Prostitution is passion?
archinine
Dec 24, 19 11:59 am
LOL only viable option is those Thomas Kinkade puzzles like the one sutures posted. And you have to pump out hundreds of those things before anyone notices. There is no market for what you describe in the built/architectural world. Maybe .0001% of the market which Robert am stern operates in pretty much alone because few can realistically pay for those building materials these days. The biggest reason newer buildings look the way they do is labor and materials economics which are drastically different today than in the past.
midlander
Dec 28, 19 3:14 am
1. monetize passion
2. ....
most people get stuck on step 1. this is actually the challenge of life. congratulations on reaching maturity!
Volunteer
Dec 28, 19 8:01 am
Here is some of Kinkade's earlier work before he started drawing the cottages that all looked they had a raging inferno inside cooking all the inhabitants.
Hi people,
I’ve watched a couple of videos recently on finding your passion and doing what you love. I remember as a child I used to love drawing buildings and designing the buildings in great detail. After 16 years of age, I stopped doing this.
I’m now 38 and I’ve never really known what I’ve wanted to do. I’ve decided to return loving what I did as a child - drawing beautiful buildings. I would like to create town centres with rows of beautiful buildings, showing different styles covering different eras.
I have a degree in Ancient History, but I know I can’t return to university full-time to complete a degree but I am prepared to spend all my spare time mastering this passion of mine and turn myself into a master.
My question is this - how can I monetise this? How can I draw beautiful town centres and make money from it? I would like to be able to influence how town centres are designed today - the post-modern garbage we see today depressed me; compared to the older buildings that had intricate detail and roots in classical architecture. People love to see these kinds of buildings that display beauty.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Lee.
Hire yourself out as a renderer?
Best way to counter this "modern garbage" as you call it is to buy land and hire yourself a team of architects to design your vision.
fastest way is to become a developer. I’d start small and do a single family residence. Grow from there.
You're 38 years old and you want to "create town centres with rows of beautiful buildings" and become a master at it and make money too, all in your "spare time". Seriously, do you realize how childish and delusional you sound?
Ah, come on... let us have our fun before slapping reality in the OP 's face.
Career advice ...
Did you keep any of your greatly detailed building designs from when you were 16? I'd love to see them, especially the different styles and eras.
Well, there's a market for this garbage, now that he's been dead for 8 years.
I design buildings in my sleep then draw them when I wake up. I sell the designs on ebay. Very profitable.
I’ll be nice. If your drawings are good you can sell them as art prints. you can make prints and sell online through esty or one of those art sites with very little investment. I’ve read about people making good money doing this with all genres of art.
I would consider asking around new classical firms who would appreciate old school, hand-drawn "renders".
passion can not be monetized
Tell that to porn stars...
Prostitution is passion?
LOL only viable option is those Thomas Kinkade puzzles like the one sutures posted. And you have to pump out hundreds of those things before anyone notices. There is no market for what you describe in the built/architectural world. Maybe .0001% of the market which Robert am stern operates in pretty much alone because few can realistically pay for those building materials these days. The biggest reason newer buildings look the way they do is labor and materials economics which are drastically different today than in the past.
1. monetize passion
2. ....
most people get stuck on step 1. this is actually the challenge of life. congratulations on reaching maturity!
Here is some of Kinkade's earlier work before he started drawing the cottages that all looked they had a raging inferno inside cooking all the inhabitants.