Is drawing a good way to get rich? I am not thinking about photobashing or doing that kind of stuff, I mean pure, godlike skills. I know those are hard to achieve, it takes time etc. but I like to draw and I really want to get rich. I dont have anything else to make money from anyway.
>>2420566
>Is drawing a good way to get rich?
No.
>Is drawing a good way to get rich?
No, it's not.
You'll be very lucky to even barely make a living out of it, even if you're very good at it.
It is not a good way. You have to be extremely lucky, extremely connect, and at least somewhat talented to make excellent money.
There's a reason why "starving artist" is a thing. If becoming rich was easy, everyone would be doing it. Find something you're good at in an employable field and work your way up from there.
>>2420575
Fun and a sense of fulfillment. It's a labor of love, not wealth.
>>2420577
It's not fun when you starve after few years of full dedication.
>>2420587
That's why most of us are welfare bums in yurop
>>2420587
Then make it a hobby and choose a better paying job.
can you make money at all from your art?
>>2420665
I can. But I'm a video game artist which is like 5% actually drawing and 95% other skills
>>2420575
The point is getting paid to do something you find fun; Do something you genuinely enjoy doing and you'll never work a day in your life.
>>2420665
Yes.
Editorial illustration here mainly. I have an agent that feeds me work.
All the successful illustrators in most industries have agents.
>>2420825
How did you get one?
>>2420825
Is their a skill barrier to getting an agent or can i be a complete shit artist and hire an agent and suddenly be succesfull
>>2420575
Disregarding the personal fulfillment and appreciation of beauty in the world, I'll give you the vein reason:
The skill rewards itself. You can do something so few people can do. You have a power that, when displayed, normal people cannot even wrap their heads around what you've done. It seems like magic to them.
Fuck being rich. We all die and where did it get you?
Art is about being incredible. Rich people look at what you can do and think "I wish I could do that." How many people do you know in your town that are well off? How many do you know that can blow someone away with a skill like this?
At risk of sounding cliche, money is cheap. It's everywhere. These skills here, though? Most people on the planet will live and die without ever understanding how you could do such a thing. That is better than any money.
That being said, if you can have both, fuck yeah.
If you can actually make a beautiful picture that makes people cry then rich people whose money has failed to give them meaning in life will trade their capital with you for your skills
>>2420566
Yes, creating art can bring in money.
No, you will never make anything yourself. Faggots that try to make art into money will never create good enough art to sell. To create good art you need passion. Real passion. Not lust for money and greed.
>>2421069
Then keep drawing as a hobby until you're confident you can make a living of it. If you're a hobbyist artist with an actual career you can ideally supplement your existing income with occasional commission work.
It takes a real giant retard for someone to put all his eggs into the art basket with the intention of getting rich. It's one thing to go all in on art because you're passionate about it (and even that is ill advised but still at least understandable), getting into art because you think it'll make you rich is hilariously stupid.
If your plan is to get a steady job that makes you good money, do a STEM field.
>>2421069
if you're doing freelance, you can get a more than comfortable living in place that has a low living cost
>>2421042
this
>>2421377
also freelance gives you total freedom to constantly travel wherever you want while also keeping an income source. with the internet you can work from anywhere in the world that has in internet connection, providing you aren't bound to family or another job.
>>2421076
Then how can you explain cases like sakimichan?
>>2420566
The amount of bullshit in this thread is crazy. IC (aka, 14 year olds trolling the web after school.) is a terrible place to come and ask life advise about what to do with your future.
If you like art do it. Go balls to the wall and work your ass off at it. You have just as much a chance to become "rich" in art as anything else. The vast majority of people working aren't rich so I'm not quite sure what you're looking for.
Art is like anything else, if you work for companies you're like any other work a day schlub at any other job. Will you become rich? No. Can you make a living doing it? Yes, thousands of artists do every day. If you start a business venture selling a product with your art on it, like a clothing line for example, and really work hard to push the success of that brand and product could it make you shit loads of money? Yes it could.
But that's the same for anyone doing any business in any field. If you're going to be a lazy fuck, like 99% of IC, and just complain about how stuff is hard and just pretend to do the work then no you won't be rich. Generally speaking business owners don't make millions of dollars by just going through the motions, they take risks and work their asses off for it.
>>2422003
>like 99% of IC
DON'T USE MY MEMES WITHOUT MY PERMISSION
>>2422009
I'm very sorry Sir or Madam. Please forgive.
>>2422003
Well no shit you can make money if you become an entrepreneur. You might as well skip the learning to draw part and just make shedloads of money selling other people's art like my bosses basically do.
>>2422120
You must be retarded. The guy asked about getting "rich" as an artist so I gave a way to do that. What I didn't suggest is being a businessman who doesn't produce art but sells other people's art because that's not being an artist then, is it?
Few jobs people work, including freelance art, can get you "rich". The average income in america is 50k a year, even at 80k you still wouldn't be "rich". Owning a business that sells a product with a large fanbase is one way to make decent money and you get to be the guy who makes the art. Nothing in that is hard to understand.
Maybe you're just a little bitch and you don't like the answer because it involves doing this thing called......work.....but so does anything that will make you "rich". A term understood by most to mean uber fuck loads of cash, which you don't get by working 9 to 5 at someone else's business.
>>2420566
it's as much about what you do with your skill as how good you are at the skill itself.
Can you find a niche with your art? Medical illustrator? Graphic designer or creative professional for an advertising agency? You may be thinking making money in art is just painting important paintings that sell in galleries, but most artists make their money in other ways.
>>2422120
that is correct, theoretically. but there's one reason why people who set out to become entrepreneurs rarely succeed when you compare them to people who sat out to acquire a specific skillset, acquired it, worked in the trenches of that industry for say a decade, and then went out to become entrepreneurs.
you need technical expertise. you want to know your market, your product, how to evaluate your product and that of your competitors, you want to know your audience, and how to cater to needs it might not even be aware it has. you want to be able to evaluate employees beyond their degree (and avoid having to rely on some hr schmuck who has a fancy degree but knows jack shit about the industry). etc etc etc
the art grind and eventual freelance grind is incredibly educational in that sense. it will make you start a second and third business because you'll grow addicted to cash flow and you'll want second and third opportunities to apply knowledge you gained and avoid mistakes you made.
>>2421042
art is about communicating something to people
I dont want to pander to specific fetishes so how do i make money from porn?
>>2422235
You suggested starting a business venture and selling your art. I suggested cutting the corners and focusing on the salesmanship because that's what actually gets you the money instead of the art. You're the one being retarded here, lacking reading comprehension to the level of a disability.
>>2420566
Not just drawing. Make streams on Twitch, tutorials on Youtube and commisions on Deviantart, and you might just make some cash.
>>2422693
OP ask how to become rich being an artists, not working at a buisness being paperwork man.
On top of that you'd have far more control over your buisness and what you sell/make if you're the one making everything rather than doing licensing deals/commissioning artists and paying out all that money up front. No decent artists are going to create amazing art for you for "exposure" "or a "royalty" when you're a fucken nobody appraching them with a buisness deal. Unless you're already rich, or stupid like yourself, I don't see how you think that would be feasible for most people. It's not as simple as "start buisness selling other people art on stuff, profit"
If you're doing everything yourself it'd be much easier to run something through a kickstarter or patreon, build a fanbase over years with your art. Build a brand and find a product that people want. It doesn't have to be just one either you can sell tons of different shit over your career. So much easier if you're in control of everything. Whats not going to happen is you become rich within 2 - 3 years from now with art if that's what you think, same goes for anyone starting off in a career.
However you slice it getting rich doing anything isn't going to be just sitting back and letting everyone else do the work while you rake in the dosh.
>>2422696
What's the deal with streams? I don't get it. That someone is drawing live does nothing extra for me.
>>2422851
it allows artists to interact with their fans, answer questions, talk about their process, etc. And for normies watching somebody draw well is like magic.
>>2422851
Yeah why on earth would someone want to watch a good artist create art, you might accidentally learn something, that would be awful. Watching another artist create art clearly has no value.
>>2422851
It's just a bit of good socializing, anon
>>2422848
>OP ask how to become rich being an artists, not working at a buisness being paperwork man.
And then you go and tell him to do exactly that
>No decent artists are going to create amazing art for you for "exposure" "or a "royalty" when you're a fucken nobody appraching them with a buisness deal
Who said about just approaching artists cold turkey and giving them nothing ? What do you is start a company and hire people. Start making a product, get investments etc. Whatever usually goes to starting a company.
> It's not as simple as "start buisness selling other people art on stuff, profit"
It is. Although doing that is not exactly simple. But it's generally the best way to make money, if that's what you're interested in.
Very few successful CEO's do "everything yourself". They hire people with talent and pay them to work for them. Although running a company is hard work in itself, I'm not saying it's not. Quite on the contrary, burdening yourself with doing practical work like making art at the same time is likely going to burn you out.
