What is needed by my job aspiration

Hello. In this blog post I will list the requirements of being a freelance artist.

If I search the official requirements to be able to have this as a job, this is what i found:

You don't need a degree to be a freelance artist; what you need are good art skills, a good portfolio, confidence and persistence. Being socially competent is also useful. A degree could help you get all of these things, but you can also get them without a degree.

Which I think is true. No one needs a "fancy paper" telling them if they can be a freelancer.

Yet I think I can give better requirements that a good freelance artist would set for themselves when starting, which is what I'm trying to do as well. (I will also refer to the last question I asked myself in the previous post about the QA talk with Craig Smith).

The main parts of being a successful freelance artist in my vision are:

• Being passionate of what you are doing.

• Good art skills, and never stopping to try and improve, as there is always room for better.

• A very good and organised portfolio, for anyone interested to be able to understand and enjoy.

• Confidence, Seriousness and Persistance, anyone can achieve anything if they put their mind, body and work to it.

• A degree within this area helps usually yet it isn't mandatory to have.

• Communication and Transparency as much as possible with clients is crucial. If I think I won't be able to do a job for a client either because of my skills or because I won't have the time to etc. I must say this as soon as I realise it.

• Transparency would be also for the process the artist would go through. We are all different and I think everyone does work either at a different pace or in a different process. It would be useful to have an idea of how the work process is going, in case a client is interested to know.