Good day fellow entrepreneurs!

(writing on mobile) Over the past year, I've become a financially successful artist (earning 7-10k a month), selling anime art commissions.

I am definitely far beyond being a big online persona or an outstanding skilled artist, with my roughly 500 Twitter followers, but somehow I managed "to make it" and at least for now not be dependent on a boring 9-6 job anymore (mine is 7 days a week, 12 hours a day, bet you can relate... ).

Now I want to keep it this way, I wanna continue being successful. I don't mean necessarily get 100k Twitter or FB followers, but maintain my income for the next 2, 5, 10 years. I am seeing my art as my job.

THIS pays the bills, my apartment rent, puts food on the table, allows me to gift my parents and my partner some nice gifts...

Now this is where I need your help. From what I see online, the majority of artists out there post and value their art as a "hobby". Like in "here is a quick doodle, had fun drawing XY, it's not about the money for me, taking commissions for 2USD - buy now, ahhh art is just my hobby!" - but not as in "Drawing is business for me and I primarily do it for the money" - and if you (as an artist) say that (even in a much milder form), you'll get frowned down upon and eventually "cancelled". This is bullshit.

Now what I'm interested in, there must be more artists like me out there who are interested in the BUSINESS aspect of being an artist. "How do I raise my prices? How do I study my competitors? How do I outsmart them? What is trendy rn and how can my business profit from it? How can I seduce with my charm and win more customers? What are some secret tips and tricks...? Can you critique and roast my website from the view of a customer?"

But unfortunately it's kind of impossible to find these kind of successful artists who are willing to make connections and talk about business, and ofc, I'm not gonna DM someone out of nowhere asking for "hey let's be business buddies". Is there a way/place I can find people and communities like this?

Can some of you people share their ideas and experiences with me? Even if it's not specifically art, I am very very grateful for any advice and help.

Have a wonderful day and thank you for reading.