>be talentless GenX hack>draw the same characters for 23 years>these characters would all have to be in their 40's and 50's by now>can't accept that and freeze their ages>don't improve your art at all in TWENTY THREE YEARS>make over 20k a month on patreonWhat's the point of working on your art when this shit makes 240k a year? Just make a relatable webcomic about GenXers who are magically in their youth somehow
>>7972124>my art is betterno, your art is not better. His is worth 240k a year. yours is literally worse if it's not as valuable.
>>7972124Holy crap I forgot this thing existed, it’s gotta be at least a decade since I thought about it. It’s neat to see 00s webcomics still going though, makes me nostalgic.>240k a yearYou know that’s like winning the lottery, right anon?
>>7972130I was shocked, i didn't want to start a webcomic because my art was shit, someone showed me this was still going on, and the pateron, im not embarrassed about my art anymore
>>7972124>make over 20k a month on patreon>What's the point of working on your art when this shit makes 240k a year?Is that what's important to you? The money?Regardless, go ahead and make a shitty phoned in comic that people like and pay for, since it's apparently so easy.
>>7972124if you started on the 2000s internet you were on ultra easy mode.
>>7972133It’s so weird when people generalize from shit like Higurashi or the original One Punch Man and go “see? Quality doesn’t matter, you can make it with /beg/ art, in fact you can get rich off /beg/ art.”Those are the lottery winners. Those are the exceptions. The average person who tries to publish their /beg/ art can expect to make an average of exactly $0 in return. Quality actually DOES matter a lot, and a handful of extremely rare exceptions don’t change that fact. If you want to eke out any sort of success at all then you need professional level art because the market is extremely crowded and competitive. Good art is the minimum you need to get your foot in the door.tl;dr yes you should keep working on your art until it’s at a level that your happy with, don’t let one wild success story distract you.
>>7972141It’s kind of a cliche, but, it only looks that way because we remember the successes. There were MANY hundreds of obscure webcomics in the 00s that only ever got a handful of readers and were promptly forgotten.
Why does time fly so fast? I play a random adventure game from the 90s that's so good till I realize the people who developed those are already entering their 60s
>What's the point of doing X if I can do Y?Then do Y. Are you stupid?
Damn I read this comic in 9th grade. He made me a drawing at Comic-Con once
>>7972124it's almost like skills means fuck all to the vast majority of people. All they care about is being entertained and the few non-artist that do "care" about art, are the people that like those hyper realistic portraits of celebs.
>>7972124JUST
It's a comic strip. It's reliable comfort food targeted at a specific demographic, which is usually people who used to read it as a kid.
>>7972187Gotta post this gem.
>>7972216Bugs' line at the end would work on Elmur tooNice
>>7972141Idk where is toothpaste for dinner now? What about any of the like 100 sprite comic?
>>7972197>It's reliable comfort food targeted at a specific demographic, which is usually people who used to read it as a kid.that explains why anime is so popular.
>>7972144oh no, i don't expect to make any moneyhttps://tapas.io/series/Jaxtracton/infobut this is my level of art. im so beg that it improves from by the time i finish a single comic. I was literally too embarrassed to post anything.
>>7972144yeah sure blame luck why don't you blame talent and genetics too
>>7972124you make an interesting point. how 'chosen by god' is the author?
People seem to be drawn to mediocrity. I had a place in Second Life, a romance place where you could wander woods and cuddle with a lover or dance. New Age commercial free radio played, and wonders were all around you.Where did the locals hang out? Next door with a tiny place made in 5 minutes by a noob. And I found this incomprehensible. 4
>>7972722Luck, talent, hard work, being in the right place at the right time, all of it plays a role. Not sure why you think this is an epic gotcha.
>>7972141People will be saying this about people born right now. "If you started in 2020 you were living life on easy mode" and point to how AI was unregulated and used by people to make massive amounts of money through scamming and grifting then lament how they were born into a generation that only has a neutered and highly regulated version
>>7972808Hindu mentality
>>7972124>trannies>making it to 40kekhonestly I believe there's always some money recycling scheme going on with these guysno matter how fucking stupid the world is, there's no such thing as free money
>>7972815It’s not free money though. He made the right comic in the right place at the right time and it caught on and developed a dedicated fanbase. It’s obviously very rare, but it does happen.
>>7972801having appeal and an awareness of the zeitgeist not just luck and hard workmerc_wip tier thinking
>>7972824Why do you not have the reading comprehension to see that those factors were also obviously implicitly part of the list?Do I really have to list out every fucking factor that could possibly influence the course of someone’s life and work? Should I have talked about his mother’s tits too, for without their breastmilk he never could have grown to maturity?Why are you so fucking retarded? You have nothing to contribute to the conversation. Legitimately just stop posting. Holy shit.
>>7972818No man, being in the right place at the right time or even winning a fucking lottery happens but you still need to capitalize on it. It's not an endless well of money. I just refuse to believe it. You just don't get a constant stream of cash while doing fuck all.
>>7972828just work hard bro
If you can be original, if you can tie in the morals, culture, emotions, of the society you live in, if you can make something that people want to look at, that explains an undercurrent that people aren't aware of or have to ignore. Maybe you can accept that there IS a reason why shitty webcomics became popular besides luck, then you might understand art a little better.
>”X is important for success”>”BUT WHAT ABOUT Y AND Z I GUESS YOU HATE Y AND Z HUH????”literally nigger tier logic
>>7972808bro we're the last group of humans that will even be ALLOWED to draw.
>>7972808They'll probably say that we had access to so many resources and information for free, which is very true and some thing so ubiquitous we're blind to how privileged we are in that way. There's a very real chance that we'll enter a digital dark age in the near future where the flow of information is cut off and privatized so that only those with money can access it and everyone else is forced to use super expensive blackbox slop subscriptions or not have access to resources/education at all. They'll be born into a world where their opportunities for growth are literally nipped at the bud and their roles in society designated for them in some twisted variation of a caste system.
>>7972859Loomis and Richard Williams will still exist and be free. All the new resources suck, the YouTube and premium video explosion has mostly been a hill of beans.
