How to Be a Successful Artist

I started painting shoes in high school. I painted for myself. The paint fell off. It was a wrong paint. So it went from like the art behind it to how to get better quality paint. Shout out to Ghost. Ghost was a customizer back in my hometown when he was 15. He showed me the way to get the right paint. Which was really cool because most people don't want to show you anything. You know as an artist and being the best paint customizer there was in the city. In NorCal at that time he said this is the painting you got to go here. Okay. What's kind of the next steps from there? I just kept making