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May 2019

Community wide, there is a slight majority of artists, I think. This is a lingering effect of Tapas being a site for webcomics for years before novels were introduced. The audience for comics still outnumbers novels by about ten to one (rough guestimation).

I consider myself an editor. After that, I am more of a writer. I've knocked out a couple of short books. I'm currently refining my roleplaying game and card game based on my series, and I count game design as writing. My visual art works have been limited to a couple of memes, novel cover art, and a minor hand in a group-created crossover comic.

Im about 60/40 on the Writing/Art. I have so many graphic novel story ideas that I never get to because I don't have the commitment for drawing it lol. I think that comes across in my work too because the comics I do make are more like illustrated novels.
I also do coding, so maybe making a visual novel might be the next thing Im up for.

I'm 90% writing and 10% art. I've always wanted to be a novelist, so this is what I've trained myself to be (self-taught, but I still studied it a lot) and I don't usually draw unless I need a cover for one of my books. I have considered making comics, and I have a few pages of thumbnails and character designs in the notebook where I keep my story ideas for future novels, but I've never actually started work on a comic.

I'm a 100% artist. Writing for me seems impossible, mainly because of my lingual limitations. I can understand English very well but am no good speaking/writing it. However, I like focusing on art, so it's all fine. Most of the time, I'm lurking on Wattpad looking for stories I can may turn into a comic with the author's permission but one day I'd like to hop on the collab wagon and work with a writer partner (I'm just not ready yet).

I'm an artist, but then the right song comes on and I can't stop writing. Honestly, I feel more like a film director with 0 budget and no interest in working with anyone else. I love to tell a story, even if it's with one picture. I can't write without doing it visually.

Wow, things are way more evenly spread than I expected! That's really cool! And what's this about Tapas now doing both comics and novels, I didn't hear about that?

Anyway, for those who are much more artists and are looking for someone to write stuff for them, do pm me! My current project (Embassy of Time, I know creative with the names) is about writing stuff that people can use for free in their creative work. I am creating an expansive universe and currently writing what is set to be the world's longest (real) novel, with the idea that others can pretty freely publish their own work based on it, like doing comics versions, or an illustrated version, or audio version, etc. of one ormore chapters or whatever. The first 5 chapters (looong chapters, about 200-250K words in total!) are at the website, embassyoftime.com (still totally WIP).

I am not a fan of Wattpad's forum structure, so learning how active the writing community is here makes me really want to engage with that aspect of Tapas. I'm gonna prowl the forums now for anything I overlooked, but if writers want to discuss writing, let me know, okay??

As for the worry about tone, I've had a bad run this last... decade... and I'm a bit uneasy about... everything. Thanks for the nice words!

I feel like I'm more a writer than an artist, and I forced myself to learn to draw because I initially couldn't find collaborators. I'm also a control freak, and the few times I worked with other artists, I had to force myself to let them free hand (with generally great results). But I'm very jealous of my creations, so I often find myself shying away from pursuing collaborations.

I am much like you. A limited artist with tons of writing skills. Try show us some of your art work. You don't have to be ashamed about it.

I started out doing everything because didn't know how to go looking for someone to collab with, so I'm a 50/50 artist/writer. (though I'd say I'm a better artist than writer, so maybe 70/30?)

I'd say
50% Art
30% Writing
20% Collaboration

I have a close friend whom I'm writing my current comic with and we're both on the same page. but we have entirely different Ideas on every scenario. and that just helps so much! some story elements I was stuck on for an entire week can be solved in 10 minutes if another person looks at it with a fresh pair of eyes.

And something we do a lot is just throw crazy idea's out there for fun. and debate how stupid the story would become with those elements. which often results in major breakthroughs to get a Good Solution!seriously I wouldn't know what to do with my story if I didn't have those interactions.

Pretty sure I'm 40/60, writer/artist. I've been drawing longer than I've writing but that's not saying much. I'm working on a short story write now and plan to put it up on Tapas. I don't think I'm bad at either, just need more practice.

I am like 40% artist and 60% writer. I mean, I need to write my stories and sometimes I get too lazy to draw. TBH I prefer to doodle.

Both. I love turning my stories into a comic...I just havent had the desire to wanna do art for anyone else's comic right now or have someone to do art to my [so-called] scripts.