Share the knowledge!
Zach, sharing what you do and how you did it, will eventually lead to find proposals and collaborators. When you find them, you may will be *friendly* forced to go deep dive about something, and then you and your partners may create something big, but please, share it.
I see you already be given this advice, but it’s true: Create a youtube channel and share the how-to of your projects; they may not give you money, but hell I am sure they keep you learning, and if those projects worked for you to learn something new, of course they’ll work for someone else to learn.
That’s what Mackenzie Child does, take a look at his Youtube channel.
I wish you the best of luck, and please share with me whatever you decide to do, I love creators!
