I feel you. I'd love to shift to full time art, but I can't feed the family on it.Idk I'm starting to feel some kind of bad about it every time I hear it. For some reason it makes me depressed, but I think it's because I'm trying to earn a living off my art and not just making art for art's sake. emphasis on the "trying"
I used to draw characters like these. I'll see if I can dig up an old art.