your art is good and everything, but there is ways arround conforming like you say. Everyone needs money, it's really a question on how much you can live on that<s the question. I work three days a week and am working on my art. Sure I don't have a super computer with 700$ to put down for Flash, but I am working on stories and such, so that when I have it, I can blast through that process with a better story than if I had it now.
Besides, no one can make you fully conform. I am known to be the one to draw at work. My bosses hate it but unless I screw up, they can't say anything.