Portfolio Odyssey Part IIIn this chapter, we'll analyze the market from an illustration perspective. What's the current demand? Digital or traditional? Are we worse off than comic book artists in general? Are comic book jobs better paid in Europe?
>>7900646I'm an artist that works traditionally with ink and sometimes watercolour on A3 paper. do i have a market
>>7900646>What's the current demand?Queer Black Transwomyn
>>7900657The medium isn't the art. What are you actually using ink and watercolour on A3 paper to make?
>>7901048melancholic cartoons
>>7901300Nta but majority of people who will be reading your stuff will be reading it on screen. I doubt they care whether you had drawn it traditionally or drawn it digitally adapting your traditional process.I'm not saying you should absolutely need to switch to digital. But you doing it traditional adds no value and hinders your process. There is no lucrative demand for your traditional work process.
>>7901300Has a neat look. What kind of audience are you aiming for? I can see multiple directions you could take this kind of thing.Text is a bit hard to read btw. I'd either put a lot more effort into the lettering (ie, use cleaner, more readable ink instead of graphite) or just do the lettering digitally and do it well.Speaking of readability, it could use some work even in the drawing. Even some of those mid-ground characters are starting to get hard to tell apart from each other, and the crowd in the shade of the table blends in too well with the tabletop itself.>>7901314That anon here, I actually disagree. Lots of people are appreciating trad work a lot more nowadays with all the AI shit going on. Working in trad is turning into a genuine selling point. But the work itself is still important.
>>7901314it gives it a certain look you can't get digitally, plus I just prefer drawing traditionally >>7901326Not exactly what kind of audience im looking, perhaps losers who likes cartoons and music who would like to get comfy to read a comic book. >Text is a bit hard to read btwyup, lettering is one of my weaker points, gonna have to look at how some of the professionals did it. The letters were done in ink not graphite btw g.> Even some of those mid-ground characters are starting to get hard to tell apart from each otheri can see that, I can't do this page again so I'll just make sure i do better on the next > the crowd in the shade of the table blends in too well with the tabletop itself.I don't think so, it doesn't blend in too much
>>7900646What the hell is happening in ops picrel?
>>7902180A beg asked for the 1000th time whether they really need to study the fundamentals to draw a flat kawaii uguu chibi head.
>>7901300>>7901314>Nta but majority of people who will be reading your stuff will be reading it on screen. I doubt they care whether you had drawn it traditionally or drawn it digitally adapting your traditional process.And the majority of comic readers are reading the comic as a reprinted form, usually digitally as well (these days) - and yet people spend hundreds to thousands (and even hundreds of thousands) for single comic pages and covers.Back in the day, people would double their pay by selling their comic pages after they were printed, and I don't see why a web-comic can't do something similar; have a link to a page where you're selling the artwork for the comic they were just viewing.So they may not care about digital/traditional as a reading experience, but if you're going to sell your art, it basically HAS to be traditional.
>>7901314>doing it traditional adds no value and hinders your processLook at this fool and laugh at him! Hahaha
