/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Update from the anon courting an eromanga publisher: had a meeting with the editor (we'll call him K-san). The short of it is: it apparently would take around a year to debut even if I lived in japan and could have face-to-face meetings, and as it is our meeting covered the same ground in 90 minutes as would normally take 20 minutes over the phone (his words) so that alone would slow things down a lot.
Obviously, that's bad news for me, who can't afford to wait what will likely be well over a year.
He also seemed to have concerns about how to actually pay me, and the tax situation. I'm about 80% sure they can just pay me through direct wire transfers and all the tax stuff is my problem rather than theirs, but he said he wanted to research further. If I had to guess his concerns stem from paying royalties to a non-resident of japan, which apparently might get tricky. I don't really know.

Now the good news: K-san does seem to like the work, praising the paneling and character designs. He says "I like you, you have much more passion and motivation than new Japanese artists. Your drawing skill, too." He might just be gassing me up, but I'm choosing to take this at face value... which might just be a cope, lol. He seems to believe my work would do well sold as doujinshi, and he spent quite a lot of the conversation going over the numbers and essentially trying to confirm (paraphrased) "you're sure you want to work with a commercial magazine even though going doujin might be the better choice for you?" so that does give me hope I don't need to rely purely on commissions for income while I continue to pursue this.
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