/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6891429
>the only ways to make moneys in art is globohomo or furry porn
It's not the ONLY way, but it's the EASIEST way.
If your art were already at a point where it's profitable, then you could draw whatever you want and make a living, but clearly you haven't been getting paid for art much.

If you want to work with tasteful art, then you have a few other routes, but they involve a lot of self-promotion.
- Start streaming (Twitch, Kick if you're daring) and use your personality as a hook. Or your nephew as a guilt-tripping factor to get donations; it takes a good while to build an audience. Create youtube videos as well with tips, tutorials, timelapses etc to play the algorithm game, one website feeds the other.
- Start selling commissions for random people. That depends on what you can draw and you will have to find communities where you can advertise yourself. Discords, Reddits, fucking Fiverr if you're desperate. There are some "middleman" websites for commissions that can also provide you some exposure, but expect to work for peanuts. If you are a nobody, you will need to spend 90% of your time self-advertising and 10% drawing, until you build momentum and returning clients;
- Go /trad/. Start painting physical works and find a way to get your shit sold. You don't need to be in touch with galleries and patrons, that's even lower than being a globohomo artist, but you have to sell your stuff. Find old people who want some flower or landscape decorations. Dog moms who want a painting of their petsons. Nerdy RPG players who'd be rich enough to commission an oil-painting of their tiefling. Proud couple looking for a portrait of their newborn. Local communities are the best, small towns have fair markets, bigger ones might involve having a "hub" place where you can get exposed and commissioned. Might need to do some freebies to shops to get in good terms. LOTS of networking required. Selling online is a slow grind, but possible.

tl;dr; PYW, let's see your range.

>SAI is... LE BASED, OK???
I like SAI, can't abandon it for other shit programs, but stop being retarded and pirate everything, niggers.
CSP was le based until a few months ago, because it was sooo much better than Adobe at listening to customers and keeping things with a fair price.

Look where all your dicksucking has led you, chicken of golden eggs is now KFC.

If you want to buy SAI, do it without being an angry whore trying to make your ex-boyfriend jealous.
Or kill yourself and blame CSP for it, if you want to make an impact and generate some lulz.