A degree in Art will likely never make you a living wage. You will need to at minimum get a degree in education and become a teacher , then your Art background will become useful .

My daughter became an architect. She is doing quite well. It mixes art with architecture and heavily uses the application of light, sustainable materials, etc. She started at a community college and finished up at a university. You might check into this.

I love to draw too. You can see some of my stuff in my albums. Have you done any self portraits?
Have you tried charcoal or pastels yet?

Illustration and animation could be good, they don't have the "starving artists" idea