Hi and welcome!
Are you a writer looking for an artist to help your dreams come true? Can't wait to meet your special "someone" to help you fulfill this impossible task? Do you wonder how to make the "perfect" pitch helping you achieving it?
Then you came to the right place!
This thread was made to help you making your pitch as good as it can be and should also serve as reminder on what you should consider before you start your job offer.
Strap in and take your notes while I tell you all the tips we can offer.
1. Read the guidelines first.
The wonderful members of the Tapas staff made a handy guideline to help you start your pitch. Most newcomers forget to search for said guidelines at the beginning, so most users have to show them the link. I will post a link to the guidelines too so you don't have to do all the hard work for yourself.
2."I have a great idea but I can't go into details now."
That's great and all, but catching the interrest of potential clients, who want to work with you, can't succeed when you just go vaguely into details regarding your work. I mean, you don't go to a restaurant, asking for their speciality and they just say "It's something great but I can't tell you what it is". Don't be afraid to pitch your idea with a blurb that has the storys concept in it. Even if someone going to steal it, it's still your story and they can't 100% copy what you're going to show. (And I don't think that most people here want to do someone else story rather than their own.
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3. Don't forget, there are more writers here than artists.
Since the last few months (according to my knowledge), we had a huge increase of writers here on Tapas. And that also means a huge increase in "Writer looking for Artist" threads. So don't feel discouraged if you don't get any responses. You have to remember most artist here also want to work on their own series too. Maybe it's a call for you to take the pen in the hand? I mean, doing it yourself would be much faster than having to deal with this:
4."We will split the revenue..."
That's one point I can't stress enough... You see, dreaming big isn't a bad thing per se, but you have to see it realistic here. If, say, you got finally an artist working for you, and said artist needs this gig to pay the bills, you think a webcomic can cover all those costs? You have to think about rent, living expenses, taxes, savings, your profit... you need to at least make 500 bucks minimum in income and I don't think with the 0.13 cents in ad rev after maybe 3 years of posting weekly (top) can help you stay over the water. Doesn't matter if you split it equally or all for the artist. (Also I think you saw the diagram of the worst payed jobs.
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5."English isn't my first language..."
It's good that you try your hands on another language, but that shouldn't justify your bad grammer during your pitch. Half of the users (according to my knowledge) don't have english as their mother language either (including me). Take your time and read your pitch again for mistakes, correct them and then you can post your pitch. It would leave a better impression of you, as a writer, if you don't have mistakes in your request. (And it wouldn't look questionable about your writing skills.)
6. READ. THE. GUIDELINES!!
Jesus. I can't stress this enough. I mean, you can't just waltz in here after you made an account and then just drop your pitch and leave forever, just to come back again with the same request. (Calm down. Deep breath. I just drop the link again before I get a brain aneurysm from this.)
7"It worked for most famous writers. So it should work for me too!
That's another thing. Just because it worked for them doesn't necessarily mean it works for you too.
Like I said it before, most artists here want to work on their own stuff rather than for others.
Maybe once every blue moon you could have a chance to meet your future partner, but I wouldn't really count on it. Most famous writer had luck on their side finding their artist (or reverse?
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8. If you found your artist...
Hold them tight in your arms. Kiss their forehead. And whisper in their ear: "You're the best thing that happened to me. Please don't leave me." You should feel grateful having finally found someone who wants to work on your series and with you. Treat them nice and good things will happen to both of you.
And that's all the things I had to say. If some of the users like to add things here, feel free to do it.
If you want to correct me on some parts...nah. I appreciate the effort, but to be honest, I don't care about it at all. Yeah, I know I'm an a**. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I hope you could learn something from it and see you next time when I do maybe something like this again. Maybe I'll do the same thing in reverse? Or give a top 10 list on why bald heads improve your physical strenght by a mile?
Only time will tell and until then, see you again.
