Have you given up on trying to earn from your artwork? I've tried but I couldn't sell anything at all, so i don't care. I'll just work on comics and maybe post here and some other website for comics. It was a waste of time to post art on reddit, insta, xitter, tiktok and commission websites
>>7959589i think ill just get a shitty minimum wage job than earn or improve on drawingit's all about talent to draw and the talent to market yourself both of which i dont have
>>7959589It's pointless now with AI. I could get an occasional gig for illustration or graphic design or motion graphics before AI but now I can't get shit. And now I'll never own a house and I don't know what to do, what kind of requalification can I do, I'm not young anymore, and I've been living off savings and I don't know where to go. My third world Eastern European shithole is so expensive now that properties cost 4-5x more than they did 4-5 years ago. I'm really fucked. I would accept any kind of a non-physical job anywhere if I could get it but I can't.
>>7959589It was never really my intention to earn anything off it anyway. I maybe had the idea that I could earn some pocket change from commissions but it was never an integral part of the plan.All I ever really wanted to do was work on my graphic novel and post it somewhere for free, that's it. I'm fine with taking a day job to do that.
>>7959589Im treating making money off it like fishing.Ill throw my line in and hope for a nibble, but im more content sitting in the boat relaxing.Im not going to lie to myself, yeah I want some moola, yeah I want that big ass bass, but ill adjust to reality.I recently found a new job that pays more. 3-12hr days. Ill see how it goes but I get 4 days off a week to work on my comic with no interruptions Its a game changer. I dont know why people dont do 4-10s or 3-12s. Save gas, get the job out of the way, then have more time off during the week.
>>7959681Well, how did you get it? What is it? I would love being able to work only a few days. I just want to live like a normal human being.
>>7959589Nah, not at all. I’ve made money but I want to earn more. Plus I don’t give up.
>>7959688Factory/machine shop.Getting a good one is a gamble tho.
>>7959589i have 45k followers and 5 years ago i was swimming in commissions to the point i can reject shit i dont like and still get commsnow I get 4 comms a month if I'm lucky plus I had to give massive discounts for my commsdont pursue money if youre doing art in 2026 and above
I am grinding animation to get to the level of a (junior) pro knowing full well the job doesn't exist really. I can't lie that it hurts so I don't think about the outcome.If you want to make money trace furry nsfw ai slop, I'm not even joking. Normies can't even tell and you can just play the victim card if another artist ever calls you out.
>>7959788furry porn is super oversaturated. Its not even worth trying to follow any trends or whatever
>>7959792gay furry porn seems fine (know quite a handful of people who charge $200 for uncolored sketches), and also people treat artists like collectables. .5-1k a month seems super doable.
>>7959766I swear God was timing A.I. cause the moment my art was at a quality to make porn, A.I started hitting the scene. Then the following years, payment processors started hammering down on porn artists. I cant have shit!
>>7959589i've been through the same for some time now
>>7959589I don't care. some sneaky chinese merchants stole my art and sold it on tshirts and handbags and even rugs and I just thought it was hilarious
>>7959766>>7959856>AI took these guys jerbsSkills issue.
>>7959589I have both accepted it but am still copingI honestly don't think my life has value if I can't become a paid artist
>>7959610physical jobs aren't bad though. can be kind of nice actually
>>7960278Would be if I could do them, I'm fucked medically (but in a shit country where I can't claim anything from it).
You guys sound like you are really bad at marketing your art. I make hundreds of bucks a month through comms and monthly supporters
>>7960398In which developing country you live where you can live off "hundreds of bucks"
>>7959589I use insta to post drawings so a friend or two can see them, but we all create stuff and one of them manages to sell hers, I draw regardless but try to keep them in okay condition, which has been hard to do since I've had to condense a lot of what I had when I had an additional job or two. when those fell through they all blamed the reasons for one thing or another and I no longer see a lot of my friends, but they're around. Funding my animation to kinda bring it all together gets pushed aside though, so I'm just working lightly until I can get a comfortable place to live again. I know there are people out there with interest in my work, but what they're actually tending to is something else.
I try to find local opportunities to display my work sometimes, but I'm not really interested in selling. My kids and I have a piece in a nearby museum gallery this month and they are determined not to sell it. They're just happy to be on display. Most stuff I (we) wind up giving to family members.
yeah, i've given up attempting to court comms. i have gotten some but it's been mostly friends and others taking pity on me. i just draw for myself which is for the better since comms make me anxious as hell like nothing else
>>7960166>skill issueNo, it’s really not actually.AI is already more than good enough to take out a massive chunk of the commissions market no matter how skilled you are. The average commission has always been something like “draw Zelda fucking Link with a futa cock”. The exact pose and camera angle don’t matter, the style doesn’t really matter, we’re not doing anything groundbreaking or original. As long as the customer gets an accurate visual representation of Zelda fucking Link with a futa cock, they’re happy. And AI can already handle these requests more efficiently and at lower cost than the best human artists in the world.Then you can say “well you should just be one of the greatest artists in the world doing groundbreaking original work and with enough social clout and a dedicated enough community of fans that they’ll always support you no matter what”. But 1) that’s a totally unreasonable demand to make of someone, and 2) that’s never been representative of the average artist; that’s only ever described a very small percentage of the art market, and the economic demand for that sector of the market isn’t going to increase just because AI is eating away at the rest of the market. If anything, that market will shrink along with everything else.tl;dr if you’re a soulless pajeet who’s happy that we’ve been able to manifest satan then just say so. But don’t stick your head in the sand and pretend that everything’s fine.
You just have to have ideas for projects that go beyond "generic anime pinup".There are obscure VNs and webcomics making thousands on patreon, do something like that.
>>7961282the VNs that are making thousands of dollars are porn games, anon, which are the equivalent of "generic anime pinup". no one is making thousands on patreon off a VN about alcohol addiction or some personal shit unless a girl with fat knockers is involved
>>7961283>porn gamesI mean, yes, and? Porn has always been where the money is, even pre-AI.
>>7959681>4 days off a week with no interruptionswhat about a girlfriend?
>>7961320Im always taking applications.
>>7961508Idk if a girl wants a guy who works in an Amazon warehouse.
>>7961515Is that what gets women going these days? Men with power?Im no discord mod, but you should see me use the vending machine. I put money in and snacks come out.Call me.
I get a kick out of artists complaining about not making money.How do you think the real world works? If people just bought art for the sake of it, it would mean supply and demand doesn't exist. Which contradicts the entire economy. This anon >>7961277 hit the nail on the head.You need to give customers a real reason to buy your art. Just drawing generic anime shit was always doomed to fail. AI or no AI.Just like making a peanut butter sandwich and trying to sell it for $100 would be a stupid idea because anyone can walk to the grocery store and get the same ingredients for less. You need to showcase more effort than "I own a pencil".
