ART/VIDEO – Becoming a Professional Artist Part 05: Artistic Income

• What were your sources of income after first breaking into professional art? (crowd funding, sponsor, customers, job etc.)
• Were you able to provide for yourself from your income initially?
• Now that you’re full time, are you making, subjectively, a comfortable living?

What kind of income can you expect once you become a professional artist in a studio.  This is the type of questions I’ll be answer this week in this video.

Meanwhile, the visuals on the screen will be of me digitally inking a panel of my Black Terror Kid comic using Manga Studio:

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ART/VIDEO – Becoming a Pro Artist Part 04: Financial Resources

• What were your living conditions like?
• How was your time spent? (job? Working on portfolio/projects?)
• How did you survive (as in paying for living expenses)? Were you supported? Did you have a job?
• How did you establish your network at this stage/make yourself known?
• Did you have the equipment you wanted/needed? Could you afford it? How did you afford it? How did you work without it?
• What did you use in terms of equipment and software?

In this week’s video, I answer the questions above.  Basically, does it take money to be able to learn to draw?  The answer, as you will see is yes and no.

Visually you will also see me finish up a logo that was designed for me by Omar Jones (aka. Distrakt). If you’d like to hire him or work with him, the links to his websites are below the video:

Distrakt (a.k.a. Omar Jones) Links:

Website – http://www.distrakt.com/
Twitter – https://twitter.com/Distrakt
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/omar.jones.9619?fref=ts

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ART/VIDEOS – Becoming a Professional Artist Part 3: The importance of Networking

• How did you acquire your network of people to rely on? (School, work, other interesting circumstances?)
• What kind of people do they consist of? Are they all artists? Do you have people in other areas? Businessmen/women, people in marketing, IT for example?
• How did you make yourself known? What did it take to get your name out? (social media sites, art sights such as Deviant Art, other ways?)
• How has your network helped your artistic career? (Both people and promotional)

These are the questions I’ll be addressing this time around in this video.  The visuals you will see it of me adding in the blacks on page 8 of a Black Terror Kid comic.

If you’re new to these videos, an art student recently contacted me and asked me these questions about becoming a professional.  I recorded my answers on my iPhone and sent them to him.  Then I realized other people might benefit from listening to my responses.

I’ve decided to make videos from the recordings. I hope you find my answers helpful:

Christ Oatley Links

His Website: http://chrisoatley.com/

His Academy: http://oatleyacademy.com/

His Podcasts:

• Paper Wings – https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-paper-wings-podcast/id426136314?mt=2
• Art Cast – http://oatleyacademy.com/oatley-artcast/

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ART/VIDEOS –  Becoming a Professional Artist Part 2:  How Long it Takes to Become a Pro

• In regards to your first job/when you first started making money from your art, how long did it take to get to that point from deciding to become a professional artist? What was that first job/sale? How did it come about? What did it take to become a paid artist, what was it that resulted in the success? Was it your portfolio? How much time did you invest in your portfolio?
• How did you get your current job/what pathways did you take to become a full time artist?
• How long did it take to finally become a full time artist?
• Do you have any plans for the future of your artistic career? What steps have you taken towards them?

I answer these question in this video. The visuals is me trying to come up with a Patreon Banner.  I soon abandoned it and took a different approach.

If you’re just now coming into these videos, an art student recently contacted me and asked me these questions about becoming a professional.  I recorded my answers on my iPhone and sent them to him.  Then I realized other people might benefit from listening to my responses.

So here it is:

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