I did pavement drawings from around 1987 to 2002 then it just dropped off and I did a few now and then for commission work for magazines etc. Even had a spread in Forbes magazine, the American business mag. I once asked my doctor how long I would be able to keep these up since it would take the top layer of skin of my hands with rubbing the chalk into the surface, sometimes it was actual roads and not just kerbs, he told me as long as I could handle it I would do it. Also did a lot of painting ,drawings and murals.
Did a few personal exhibitions and displayed at World Con and 'Cream of illustrators Exhibition' in Illustrators Institution in London. The only company I ever worked as artist for full time for a while was Ogilvy Mather, but I hated being restricted to others ideas and being a socialist/philanthropist I despise big business. They paid up to 50 gbp per hour all the same so I stuck it as long as I could.
I moved onto doing large sculptures for processions,floats, set designs and installations for theater, museum exhibitions, lighting for bands...worked on some big shows for Iggy Pop,Faithless,Prodigy,Eurodance, Rezerection....you name it. Even did some fire eating for a while....lol.
I had my own huge studio which was the top floor of an old Victorian school with the whole roof glass domed, got this space for free from the community education department and could build/store my props and paint in there,so it didn't cost me anything.
I would teach as well working with all age groups from 5- 75, favourite group was the adult special needs who I always had a great laugh with and the school for kids with learning difficulties. It was nuts, when class was over I would walk out the room with all these kids hanging off me like monkeys, the head of that school gave me the most glowing reference ever seen. Don't really know why but the kids loved the class, I think I was a lot more tolerant back then than the grumpy old beggar I am now
There is a lot of other stuff I have probably forgotten now as well but I did write and record music and play in bands too as a hobby
Nowadays I do very little in traditional art but I reckon I am saving for my twighlight years when I cant get up off my butt and can only do lighter work, I reckon it is a sinful waste not to create and use any talent you might have, so yeah I will go back to painting someday.