Advice on getting a webtoon artist

[jonahbrett72]

So I have a current series that was being done. I paid my artist and they gave me some character sketches and then kinda dipped. So I was wondering what to do regarding artists. I don't really plan on paying another one unless the webtoon kicks off.

By the way my story is a fantasy, action, exploration type story

[nayrnixon]

Best of luck! I found my current artists on here and at my college.

[Kelheor]

Advice on getting a webtoon artist? Make a good, proper pitch. Publish your writing works so people could read them. Show the artists what you can do and what you can give them, because the situation could be your webtoon never kicks off and they will have zero motivation to work with you on your story.

[sushy00]

Pay the artist per asset, so per illustration or per page (or per panel if you have a long format webtoon).
I make comics for clients all the time (and I do character design and illustration too). You can view examples of my work here:

https://www.deviantart.com/sushy00/gallery/35187145/comics

[fsarbolaez]

Write up a contract and have you and your chosen artist sign it before giving any official assignments or payments. I was fortunate enough to get help to create a contract, from a friend of my mother's who had experience as a lawyer. (You will likely have to look up how much it will cost to get a lawyer to help you with yours.)
Since then, I make different tweaks here and there for different artists. I read it over and I have them read it over too, so that we make sure the final draft will include terms and agreements that will both benefit and protect ourselves fairly.
If I were you, I would use the art that was previously made as basic character models for the new artist to follow.
Wish you the best of luck with your project!

[DarkChibiShadow]

There's a lot of good advice in this thread already!
I will second the idea of, having a strong pitch, and paying your artist. Having a contract will help too, of course.

I think it's also important that you work hard on certain aspects so your artist doesn't have to: that is, interacting with readers, making advertisements, trying to get reviews, running the social media, etc etc. Art takes a HUGE amount of time, way more than writing does (I say this as someone who does both) so make sure it feels like you're a partner in this and that it's worth while to work on your story in particular-- especially if you can't pay your artist at industry standard.

Good luck!

[GesuGesu]

the higher your offered budget, the more likely the artist you get will be professional and responsible.

paying $5 might get you a random student offering to do work

paying $500+ might get you a working professional.

[RedLenai]

Well, as a webcomic artist myself this is what I personally think keeps an artist to stay for long projects and stay motivated.

1. Have a nice pitch telling what the story it's about, the genre, amount of panels per episode, how many updates per month do you plan to have.

2. Payment. Obviously, webcomics are expensive, so to spend at least between $40-$100 for 10-20 panels per episode. Not to mention, make sure to have realistic deadlines, you can pay an artist as much as you want but if they work at a certain speed it'll be just bad to overwork/stress them at the point of lowering the quality of the work.

3. Have a script, character references, and any additional information or lore available, I usually reject projects because either I'm not interested in their proposal (I won't offer my services to a project Im not interested) or because it is always the classic "So I have this cool idea, but I didn't write it yet" // "Here is my novel, read it" <- Artists need scripts, detailing clear ideas about what is going to be drawn in each panel, we don't want to spend extra time "translating" a novel to a comic script format.

4. Pay your artist or hope for someone to collaborate with you, most don't risk time on the "We'll split revenue once we became popular", so either you'll have to have a decent work and budget to keep an artist or have to find someone who shares your ideas. If you want to become popular, don't leave all the promotion work to the artist: Share the story, make posts and participate whenever you update, pay them if you want promotional art, be active with the readers.

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