My litmus test: Am I doing this because I have to earn a living with it? No? Then there are no constraints in terms of anything. L'art pour l'art! That sounds transactional yes I agree. However the transexistential worth of the work is not decided by me or decided immediately. It might occur to you later on that you use a skill or an idea later on in for-pay work. Would be a shame not to have done or explored it...
My litmus test: Am I doing this because I have to earn a living with it? No? Then there are no constraints in terms of anything. L'art pour l'art! That sounds transactional yes I agree. However the transexistential worth of the work is not decided by me or decided immediately. It might occur to you later on that you use a skill or an idea later on in for-pay work. Would be a shame not to have done or explored it...