Thank you for sharing your experience. I'm definitely going to continue doing some 3D, as I use it a lot to start my concepts. My dilemma was more about just continuing to do my messy, concept art type of 3D vs learning to do proper production 3D, which is another beast altogether. Maybe I'll try to do more handpainted…
I'm kind of in the same boat: I started off thinking I wanted to be a 2D artist (an illustrator, in my case, not necessarily a concept artist), but then waffled between wanting to do that vs. going into 3D for videogames, on and off for years, never really getting anywhere with either. Recently I've doubled down on…