Yup... I think the virtual hair specialist I noted, from something on the CGSociety website, looked like they were aiming to bolster their income, between whatever paying game or film industry jobs they might be getting, by teaching classes...

...I certainly wasn't trying to suggest anyone was making a decent living from this specialism. Maybe they are... but I certainly don't know either way.

When I graduated art college, I quickly decided there was no hope of making a decent living from anything that I'd just studied... and without wealthy parents or a trust fund to rely on, I  chose an entirely unrelated career path, which, I'm thankful, has so far kept paying my bills.

Now, I am most definitely a hobbyist, when it comes to any form of creative arts... and personally I like it that way.

I know of only a handful of people I went to college with who have had success in a creative industry. But of those, a number have indeed now been very successful, in the Fine Art market and also in the Film industry (to the level of regularly working on major studio, blockbuster movies, in one case).

Cheers