That's a tough question. I'm sure there are many ways. What type of work do you do? Do you have a portfolio?
Building a solid portfolio and getting your name out there is probably a good first start.
What about the free illustration software like gimp or a free vector software like inkscape? Maybe to start out on but if you are serious about doing it professionally I probably wouldn't bother with the free stuff. I use Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop mostly. Keyshot and Rhino for occasional 3d s...
I have a sony rx100 for quick shots that works great, then when I need some decent photos and need a little control I break out my Canon T5I, sometimes tethered to my laptop, which I'm going to be experimenting more with. The thing I like about that, is say I want to match up an angle to a previous ...
I like it, this one is actually much closer than any of the other ones I've tried.
NIce work. Quarterly estimated taxes might be the only other thing I could think to add.
I don't use sketchup for it but I do use blender and download models from turbo squid, which can be a huge timesaver to figure out the correct view to draw in.