A "professional" artist is someone who accumulates a profitable sum due to business, self-employed or otherwise, as a direct result of delivering quality products and/or artworks. A degree, gross income, and skill means nothing in terms of professionalism.
someone who doesn't look down on someone just because they do not have formal training or cause they are bad at something, who is willing to offer help in some form to improve another's artistic understanding.
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Voted for "makes a living through selling art."