Gosh you are right! There isn't a lot I can say (look at that cash flow/hourly) ...

It seems the better your art, the less likely you will make an income from it, unless your art is.. selling a story or you already have a name (you are the story).

As this is in Leo finance community chat, I will try to link this back to the raw $ thing.. and modern challenges..

You are a smart bloke, and I know you know other ways to make money, its seems an unfortunate truth, you have to use that money to hire someone "marketing Department" to sell your art story, to make money you truly deserve representing the effort. Many artists can't make a dime, even in other ways, or can't be artists because too hard doing day jobs for just enough to get bye... or don't understand wealth creation process enough...hmmn maybe that's a topic for my next blog.