/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.3479891]

how can you become a comic artist? do you just send off a bunch of publisher submissions and hope for the best? or could anyone else please share some knowledge

[Anonymous No.3479912]

>>3479891
work on a web comic. If it get's decent and popular, people will start contacting you naturally. It's also good if you want to get in touch with a specific publisher, since you can just send them the link of your webcomic page, and they can have a quick look through multiple examples at once.

[Anonymous No.3479930]

>>3479891
First you learn how to draw a sequence of events in a compelling way, then you approach good writers whose ideas are compatible with yours. Then you plan a project together and approach a publisher.

[Anonymous No.3479931]

>>3479912
>people will start contacting you naturally
It's more likely to win the lottery... Bad advice

[Anonymous No.3479962]

>>3479891
this >>3479912
and enter contests hosted by big names

[Anonymous No.3479965]

>>3479931
>more likely to win the lottery
id this were true i’d be fucking loaded

[Anonymous No.3479975]

>>3479962
So how do you find these? Do you follow them all on Twitter?

[Anonymous No.3479980]

>>3479931
It's actually good advice, but ofc first you need to have good quality work, both in storytelling/directing, and in it's artistic execution. Don't blame others.

It's up to you to prove your worth as an author and comic artist, and to show that your work is interesting and marketable enough to generate a solid audience. Heck, such decent no-name comickers are lined up with interested publishers, ranging from small beg companies, to bigger ones who just need a quick new one for the next season. All in all, nowadays it's probably even more profitable to just stay solo and be self-published.

[Anonymous No.3480094]

>>3479965
>crab detected
His advise is how lots of artists get their first breaks. They make the art they want on their own and put it out there. People get name recognition and a following by getting decent and releasing a decent product people want to consume. Business see you have a following and people like what you do so they'll hire you to bring that talent to their product. Producing fan art and getting shit loads of retweets and reposts is a tried and true method of getting exposure and work and has been for a decade or more.


I don't see you offering any wisdom. Whats your enlightened pathway to getting regular work in the comics industry?

>>3479980
I'll agree for a lot of people self publishing and funding through kickstarter, pateron and website sales is vastly more lucrative than working for a established publisher, assuming you can make a decent product people want to buy.

[Anonymous No.3480098]

>>3479965
Sorry anon >>3480094 was meant for >>3479931. My bad, miss clicked.

[Anonymous No.3480109]

>>3479912
a webcomic might be a good portfolio for any graphic design job but this isn't 2005 anymore, publishers won't be calling you because your webcomic is pretty succesful
Also
I don't why people don't say that more often but it depends which country you're living in !
Some countries still have a comic culture that made it possible for comic artists to get decent contracts if they're talented, get lucky, go outside to meet real business people and have a clear target audience
From what I've been told, if you live in the US, good luck releasing something that's not self published..

[Anonymous No.3480190]

>>3480094
>Whats your enlightened pathway to getting regular work in the comics industry?
Get published. And if you do webcomics/ self publishing, don't wait to get notice. Go out there, attend cons, affiliate, get yourself noticed. And no, just being good enough won't suffice. The webcomic industry is 99% connections and marketing. The quality of your comic, sad as it sounds, is secondary.

[Anonymous No.3480198]

>>3480109

Exactly it's about the country you live in
Take France for example the second country in the world after Japan who consume/read manga the most and yet it's been what 10 years now that we can see French manga published in France.. The public was not really open to see something like that at the beginning but now it's more open, hell there's even a French manga called Radiant that will have its own Anime adaptation in Japan.

[Anonymous No.3480527]

>>3479891
Alot of bitter posting in here. Accept advice cautiously

[Anonymous No.3481267]

>submission guidelines ask for pencils or inkers
>have never made a non-digital comic
should i start pencils, or the other one?

[Anonymous No.3481277]

>>3479891
Web comics is the lazy way, you don't have as much chances than if you go find some publisher and try to get better with them