Help me start my freelance illustrator career!

Hello everyone!

My name is Evgenii, I'm a foreign language teacher (English and German) from Russia.

In my free time I'm an enthusiastic hobby artist.

The problem is, over here in Russia being a teacher is not enough to earn for a good living. A teacher over here earns around 250 USD/month.

So my dream is to make my hobby become my profession. I want to start earning enough to have a comfortable live, being able to help my family and every now and then make a small present to my wife.

Making money as a freelance illustrator would bring me around 800 USD. That's a good amount for the place where I live and would help me out of many financial problems.

The money would be used to buy an Ipad for work. (Right now I'm doing it veeery slowly with my mouse)

The cheapest model goes for 500 USD, but my dream is definitely the Ipad Pro. The cheapest pro model goes for 1000 USD.

I really hope you can understand me, maybe there are some artist out there who had a similar situation. Just know that every dollar will bring me closer to this lifegoal and give me the opportunity I need.