SWEET MOTHER OF SATAN MAKING YOUR OWN COMIC IS EXPENSIVE.
I can draw backgrounds but my figure art is shit, so I hired an illustrator. It's 50 a page. Then 20 for color. And I need a new laptop to work with, Adobe isn't cheap. Neither is a used laptop or a drawing pad. I'm dropping over 200 bucks and I haven't even finished writer page fifteen of issue one.
HOW THE HELL DO PEOPLE DO THIS SHIT AND NOT LIVE ON THE STREETS
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They kind of do bruv. Art generally functions as a sidegig/hobby while people slave away at their service jobs.
You could always make your own comic yourself and learn to draw, OP
user you absolute fucknut, you gotta Frank Miller that shit. You gotta make like Fletcher Hanks, sans horrible spouse and child abuse. Do it all yourself, then sell yourself on your ability to do it all. Writer, Penciller, Inker, Colorist, Letterer, White Slaver. Just do ALL of it, and you pass the savings onto yourself!
>fire the illustrator
>learn to draw figures
>get temporary job
>get money
>buy the hardware shit you need
>get a cracked version of software
>make comic
>profit
>color
First off, ditch that, it's an unnecessary expense.
Secondly, talk to your local copy shop to see about bulk discounts, so you can get your several hundred copies printed at a lower price.
>what are free alternatives
Dude, that's not even money.
What are you talking about?
>there are "people" in this world that think $200 is "a lot of money"
Send the cleansing fire please
>color
>background
learn from the pros, dude
>also 50 pages for your first comics instead of 10
200$ for what he asks means he hired a teenager with a DA page that thinks its pro.
>>buy the hardware shit you need
>>get a cracked version of software
>>make comic
fun fact : this poster actually believe this
>Learn to do figure.
>Buy PC
>Buy any variant software that is not retardedly expensive.
Also, people draw out of loving what they do, not exactly to make big margins of profit.
A comic creator went into details on the process in this recent thread: >I wrote it, put the team together, and self-funded it.
>Neither. I wrote this early last year and then got busy with life stuff. My goal was to shop it around at the larger conventions around where I live as part of a pitch packet with other stories I wrote and had concepts/samples/etc. drawn up.
>As far as how much money I put into the project, the whole thing cost about two thousand dollars. Overall it took several months, most of which were spent planning and finding the right people and then it took just over a month to put all of the individual pieces together.
That's for the first 24 page issue.
>uses expensive methods to make comics
>"WTF WHY IS MAKING COMICS SO EXPENSIVE?"
DIY or GTFO
Non-corporate artists usually do cmics as a assion project.
Alos, this might be useful, jimzub.com
fucking use pens and paper, look at megg and mogg or that one with the possum girl
good webcomics dont need to be digital
also dont expect to ever make money off it or it to be your career
do it because YOU want to and it will make YOU happy
if its not making you happy dont do it.
>>Buy any variant software that is not retardedly expensive.
See
>70$ for a colored page
your artist is very generousw, most freelance artists for hire will ask about twice that.
unless you provide all paneling and structure already done, no artist should demand less than 300-400$ a page unless they live with their mother.
You don't need Adobe. Medibang Studio is free and can take care of most of what you need.
Oh c'mon, what are you doing? Webcomics for free? You are just poor and can't draw?
There is Indiegogo and Indiecron. I also once read about a woman drawing perverted fetish stuff for people that payed her well (she got messed up by it). Don't remember where she found her customers, though. Maybe on an imageboard full of perverts or that other site (name forgotten, time to sleep)?
How the fuck does anybody in the year 2019 not already know by know there is no money in the art field?
There is no money in comics.
There is no money in film making (independent, obviously).
There is no money in video games.
There's no money here.
>there is no money in entertainment media
>make comic
>profit
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