/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>yet a other larping thread

Go eat shit.

give me bitcoin, fag

Please please post your art, maybe a doodle drawn for the thread or at least some pointers to the kind of anime stuff you draw. Is it coomer art? Maybe yaoi? Or wholesome stuff?

>>4327562
prove it, show reciepts. should be easy.

>>4327591
someone made money with weeb toons, who cares

>>4327562
Is that before or after taxes.

draw me a girl with a dick, just a sketch

what do you do when you know you're bad but you've been working at it pretty hard for awhile now & despite consistent growth in your work the "goal line" is still so distant & you start to wonder if you'll ever make art the way you envision it in your head & begin to wonder if you're an iq-let or just ngmi?
even the 'just keep at it' gets tired when you know even in a years time it'll still be bad, but obviously better, but still bad to your own eyes
fuck

Anime money how? Porn, commissions, merch, webcomic, patreon?

>>4327562
omg im gon buy the ibed now

Hot shit this board is trash, sorry OP.

What's your revenue stream look like? Like pure commissions, or some combination of commissions/patreon/merch? And do you have an example of art similar is skill to yours and how much you're able to charge per piece?

>>4327562
>>didn’t go to art school

How did you compensate for the lack of formal training and connection? What were the main pitfalls you encountered when you began trying to make money off your art?

Let me guess, you make tutorials to scam beginners. It's entirely plausible you made this amount. I know guys who make $50k to $200k off tutorials but you have to haul ass.

>>4327889
>thinks it's not a larp
you're part of the reason the board is trash good job

>>4327562
1) why Ipad pro? I heard it's nice, but isn't it a bit restrictive when trying to do heavy work?
2) how long have you been on the grind before it became profitable?
I'm not heading down that path at all but mad props for making it.
p.s. don't answer if somebody asks whether you do commissions or patron cause somebody might be able to crunch the numbers.

>>4327562
I make 500 a month and I am an eastern european lawyer

>>4327562
do you porn?

>>4327562
How do I stop feeling like a hack whenever I work with clients? I know they like my work but I feel like I'm ripping them off. I think I'm legit scared of disappointing people and it's the only thing that is stopping me from making it.

>>4327786
answer this faggot

Sorry for the late responses everyone, went to sleep shortly after making this thread.

>>4327584
It’s normal anime art, nothing coomerish at all.

>>4327591
All I can think is my tax return but I don’t file that until the 28th

>>4327599
Nope, I’d like to start my own series soon though.

>>4327604
Before. I also write off a lot of business stuff like computers and art references for tax deductions.

>>4327626
Start looking at the artists you really admire and take the techniques of them you really admire, and run with it and create your own.
If you’re not sure you can even draw start drawing with heavy references (copying others art exactly) and see if it looks good.
If it looks similar or as good as you want it, congrats it’s possible but you just need to find the techniques now to draw on your own.

>>4327786
Merchandise

>>4327889
Constant stream of money varies on the time of year, holiday months I make around 10-14k each month for oct nov. dec. but I also go to conventions that give me anywhere from 10k to 25k depending on the size. (AX gives me about 25k in four days)
Per piece I don’t do commissions since I don’t find them as profitable as fan-art, but I probably wouldn’t charge less than 300-500 USD for them.

>>4327890
Lack of training, I just study only anime since I’m only trying to draw anime. I have a shit ton of anime drawing books from Japan that get me by. As cocky as it sounds, I never really had many pitfalls, I didn’t start selling my artwork until I knew personally I would buy it. If I wouldn’t buy it myself, why waste everyone’s time?

>>4327893
No tutorials, but good idea.
I only use social media (twitter insta and Facebook) as my main platform, haven’t gotten into videos yet. (I’m assuming you mean a video tutorial)

>>4327925
iPad Pro is SUPER portable, meaning I can change my environment easily and I don’t have to worry about being cemented down anywhere. At any time I can go to a library or something and draw there for a fresh new environment.
2. As I mentioned before I’ve drawn basically all my life but wouldn’t think about selling it until I thought my artwork was good enough for myself to buy it. I’ve been collecting anime related things (manga, figures, plushies) well over a decade so I know what it means to have something quality someone would buy.

>>4327952
No porn, not really interested in it to be honest.

>>4327954
They want your artwork clearly, and you’re the only one who can provide them with that need. Remember how valuable your time is, but don’t do commissions if you don’t feel 100% comfortable. I’ve done a few commissions in the past and some where too vague with instructions and it was really stressful, also a reason I hate doing them/don’t do them.
Consider mass producing your artwork on a physical medium instead.

>>4328053
>Merchandise
can you be more specific?

>>4328065
Do you mostly draw guys or girls?

As an artist who draws guys mostly, it feels like there's 0 money in it. I don't draw porn or faggy shit either.

> it would be unprofessional if any of my fans found out how much I make

There are professionals making more than you whose incomes are public. It would have been more honest for you to just say ‘I won’t post my work because dunwanna.’

>I'm a professional animator AMA
>lol I make 130k AMA
>no, I can't post any proof, not even do a small doodle, just trust me bro

This board deserves death for having mongoloids believing this larpings

>>4328124
>>4328131
He probably just doesn't want to be associated with 4chan sperglords like yourselves.

>>4328137
Not even those two posters but it's clearly because he can't prove himself that he isn't just lying about it.

>>4327562
nice.

im from the third world and im at 3k followers but everytime i open commissions i get around 1-2k, i rebuild my house a couple of times and got a lot of things (pc, cintiq and that kind of shit)

>drop my last job a couple of months ago
>focused on art only
>stopped drawing porn, only """lewds""" now
>start to add softcore fetishes to my art
>1k followers in the first 2 months
>start doing commissions
>2k followers in a month
>do more commissions and get my first 1k in a month
>2020
>3k in a week
>2k in comms i do in 15 minutes because these are only sketches

>>4328071
Merchandise such as clothing, rubber keychains, acrylic keychains, mouse pads, standees, prints, stickers, buttons, figures, plushies, enamel pins. You can literally make anything with alibaba.

>>4328099
Mostly girls since they’re more fun to draw, I do notice most of my customers are men and are willing to spend more on their “waifus” than females are. I think it’s because men are more invested into anime since they don’t have as much freedom/an outlet as females do, just my theory.

>>4328124
Sure, but even I feel a sort of resentment knowing just how much they make. Say they make 300k a year, I’m like “why bother supporting them if they already make so much? My $10 isn’t going to do anything.”
Plus, a lot of my social media fans are the ages of 12-24 so maybe it’s my younger audience that makes me not want to talk publicly about it as much. Since I run multiple storefronts, my numbers aren’t public like Patreons are.

>>4328131
You don’t have to trust me, I don’t mind. I just wanted to answer some basic questions for those who ask.

>>4328153
Great to hear you’re doing successfully anon, keep up the good work!

>>4328259
A large amount of your work cheesecake art? (softcore porn but no nudity)

>>4328131
Right now on /ic/ we have one of Blizzard art director (yes there are several) not answering our questions, so why not believe in OP too?

>>4328259
As someone trying to learn anime art, do you have any guides/videos/specific books you've used to learn from? Mainly confused with digital coloring/painting since not a lot of westerners do that kind of art and I can't read japanese

>>4327562
Here's the real question:
>How long do you spend on /ic/ or 4chan in general per day?

>>4328259
Do you sell merchandise of drawings of existing characters or only original characters? I'm not sure if it's morally questionable to sell physical items of someones else creation. I mean sure it is your own artwork, but on the other hand also feels like you're banking off their creation.

Why do these bait threads get GUARANTEED (You)s?

>>4328259
>Merchandise such as clothing, rubber keychains, acrylic keychains, mouse pads, standees, prints, stickers, buttons, figures, plushies, enamel pins. You can literally make anything with alibaba.
So in other words, you make your money not from art or craftsmanship, but by exploiting poor people in foreign countires who produce items with your designs printed on them, filling up the world with more plastic crap. This is making it. Sounds legit.

>>4328053
>all I can think is my tax return.
You lying bitch.
You're telling me you made 130K but you don't have any of it documented before you file for taxes. What will you use to evidence your taxable income when you file then huh?
You don't have any invoices? any transactions? You don't have a statement from a bank? do you get paid in cash and keep it in your sock draw.
fucking larper.
don't pretend your advice is worth shit.

>>4327562
I made 6 million.

>>4330406
yah and i made 32million

>>4328053

What about last year's tax return or like receipts? You can easily blur out compromising info and just show the amounts. These would be all the things that you are going to use to file your taxes anyways.

>>4330406
>>4330464
lol fucking losers, come back to this thread when you're chilling on epstein's island making 15 billion a year

>>4330481
>tfw I've been making 20 sextillion a month
kek

>>4330406

there weren't even 6 million dollars in the area at that time

Is the Huion Kamvas suited for hard work? As in, doodling on it 12 hours a day

Thanks for the thread, OP. You had me interested at "not porn", but I still have one misgiving... are you female?

Not only am I a third world shitter with no interest or resources to go around meeting people, but as a dude I can't capitalize on the social aspect as much. I can handle it well, but I hate doing it.

I'm also interested on the question another anon made: is selling copyrighted IPs' fanart a-OK? Never thought about going that route, but I did some fanart that I'm rather proud of, if those could earn me some bucks that'd be nice.
Is 2480x3508 good enough for all use cases?

Good luck on your original project, it is very daunting, but very rewarding when you see your creations giving you money. I did it for a few years, but I plateaud due to poor enterpreneurship.

>>4330547
Based.

>>4330727
People like you are a problem for the market, because all you do is lower the price of the work by increasing the offer and by offering lower prices

>>4330737
>be first-worlder
>pay $40 to hold your own baby
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-37555048

Look, I'm sorry, but not everyone is on board with your strange ways of getting in debt and compulsory tipping.

Either lower your own local prices to be more like us or take revenge by traveling to these countries and being king of the hill with a single George Washington.
It's a doggedy dog world out there, buddy, and we've been exploited by the big countries for long enough. Each person has his problems to take care of, it's just now it's a global thing.

>>4330531
> earns money
stupid wageslave niggers
I don't even need money, they sell me everything 4 free

>>4330769
With that attitude, this is why you should get nuked