I receive many compliments on my art, and am decently familiar with drawing software. I have made a complete (albeit barebones) Unity game available for download. I know a bit of 3D modeling. Now. my following is quite small - <500 on twitter, <1k on each social platform. Despite the compliments I hear, I receive fewer commissions than many people with even smaller following.Do I have a chance to make art my source of income? I'll buy "Twitter Blue" if I have to. I'm sick of my job holy crap
Make a game. You'll have a better shot at making money. Bonus points if it's got shock value so some YouTuber can make a 90 minute video essay on it
>>7734900Damn that's rough, but probably correct.Guess people really have to draw NSFW art/ games to make the most money possible?
>>7734891If you're getting any commissions whatsoever at <500 followers, you're probably doing fine.
>>7734891pyw, or fuck off
>>7734908My commissions are from Instagram where I have a larger following. Still <1k but I can appreciate what I already have >>7734912picrel
>>7734914What’s your secret for Insta? I always have trouble growing there.
>>7734916I don't buy ads nor followers. I had a previous account several years ago and I started this one by following people I used to follow. My current account I've had since 2019. One thing you can do for guaranteed higher reach is draw fan art for a larger artist who will share your work. It does take time to gain followers, sorry if this isn't great advice.
>>7734903People want to get attached to something bigger then just pretty pictures, even before AI the time of getting by by just doing really good anime pics was already in a decline. Of course the easy way is to do just fan art of characters people are already attached to but you can be that fag who makes those characters people care about. Like even fucking dumbass Youtubers can get deals with merch based off of themselves cause people get attached to them, which is sad but hey you could use that horrifying reality to your advantage
>500-1k followersdamn thats better than 90% of us
>>7734914>>7734891You absolutely do, but you still need to improve some more before improvement (some through work ideally) before people start taking note on their own accord (it's a gradient, but there are very blurry thresholds to break through). In the meanwhile, try to survive till then.
>>7734891If you want to make art your career then get a job with it. Living off of twitter comms isn't really a career.
>>7734891Don't buy twitter blue. Success on twitter essentially relies on being friends with established artists, or having one see and take an interest in your art. Join the personal discord of artists you like that might have an audience overlap with your own work. Eventually you might find one that actually doesn't suck to post in with other artists that aren't retarded and begin to grow. You don't need huge follower numbers to get comms but you do need posts to have decent reach. Whenever a post of mine does well (1k-ish likes) I receive 2 or 3 commission requests. Good luck.
