I was one of those kids who had the fortune of graduating and chilling at home for a year and a half. It was brutal. Not that I'd take any of it back because it let me get a job in the end and now I'm freelancing fairly well thus far. Derek's schedule looks very brutal to me but if you don't have a social life or don't…
You should be able to accumulate up to 60 hours to work on personal art per week on top of a full-time job. 6 hours on weekdays after work, and two 15 hour days on the weekend. This was my schedule for a while when I was freelancing on top of a full-time non-industry job.
Wow it is awesome that you could handle 6 hours after your daily job. I wake up veery early and get back home by 8. So I guess I could stretch to 3 hours and a bit. But you were already freelancing at the time right? I have the feeling that having to break that first barrier, taking those first steps to actually have some…
I saw Fausto De Martini give a presentation once where he mentioned he was working on his portfolio work for something like ~6 hours after working a full time job every day before getting his job at Blizzard. Most pros have similar stories. My thoughts... most people have way more time that they waste than they realize.…