Has any artist ever shown interest in your novel?

[Silver7]

Has any artists shown interest in your work and I would even ask has any animators shown your work interest. You can answer if you have a comic and not a novel

[margodraws]

Well technically yes, since I'm an animator and I'm interested in my own project haha. But that's probably not the kind of answer you were after .

[officialgenesis]

That'll be a dream come true hehehe. But no, usually I am the one reaching out to artists.

[Kuma]

Yes an artist, but in her defense she is my girlfriend.

[bulgariansumo]

Yes, but mainly because I am an artist and writer, and my friends tend to be artists and writers as well, so it just kind of works out that we show interest in each others' art and writing projects. Technically, two of us animate sometimes.

[RiidDisBuk3]

Do you mean, "You can asnwer if you cave a novel and not a comic?

[ShidoDraws]

I've shown interests in novels before but the writers are usually very close friends or they're siblings of mine so... Eh.

[Hayka]

heheee...nope.
Novelists are usually the ones reaching out to artists. Now that I think about it, artists are the ones that show up and go "here's my art. I'm looking for a writer" and then writers do a whole battle royale to win the artist over (I was one of em). Although I think novelists should have more confidence when approaching artists. I've seen the tones of the novelists shift when they're replying to a collab post giving out their novel links, some of them sound too desperate. It's kinda sad but understandable. Artists are doing the hard work here, and their art is what makes a novel 10 times better and more popular, so it makes sense. I think I've done 4 collab thingies...one of them got rejected...the other one got accepted...and the other 3 are still pending (ahhh yes...math)
Us novelists usually have crap confidence and we let it show when we talk about our writy thingies, which is smth we should deal with, at least externally, if we want to work with an artist

[Hayka]

well, yeah. This one's meant for novelists, I assume, because being picked up by an artist is big deal on this side. Other artists DO show interest in other artists' works, but when one shows interest in a NOVELIST'S work? now that's the real shidd :3

[hakei]

Not an original novel but I have wanted to adapt someone's fanfiction into a fancomic before, since I thought it was wonderfully written.

But I didn't reach out to the author since it's been a while since that story was originally published and never meet your heroes, blah blah.

[candiedcotton]

I feel this, haha. I've had a few experiences where I really wanted to make a fancomic or something but never managed to reach out. I think for me it was mostly nerves and thinking I'd not be able to do the story justice.

[Katzalcoatl]

I haven't done my debut with my 2 novels. So no. No artist has actually shown real interest in my work. I think it is every novel authors dream to get a fan artists so dedicated that they want to adapt your story.

Actually I plan to adapt my story to a graphic webtoon one day but I will ask for the artist to show genuine interest in my story. Not to simply work on it for money (never take anyones work for free appreciate each artist for their worth). I will even give them the discretion of changing/adding some plots they see fit as long as the overall result/message of the story does not change.

Think of it like fan art. Artists get flatered with fan art but they wouldn't like it if the fan art completely changes the essence of the original character.

[hakei]

I'd have to change my name and go into hiding if I adapted a comic and the author hated it and/or wanted changes that they weren't satisfied with

[candiedcotton]

[candiedcotton]

Honestly, my big dream is to work with a writer as a proper partner, it's just... I have never had a good experience.

I want to work together, you know. I want to be a part of it, not some nameless employee drawing to specifications. I want to go over cool character concept ideas with the writer. I want to enjoy picking out a cool hairstyle or eye shade with them, and go over boards to put together mood themes for different scenes in the story. I don't want to rewrite the story or change it, but visually, I want to be able to part of the actual creation process. I don't want to be handed a palette of their eye/skin/hair color and photos of what actor they look exactly like. It's depressing and creatively, it's stifling.

I'd love to work with a writer, but I don't feel appreciated when the whole comic is being treated as a massive commission like someone's wife portrait or whatever. And that's always been my experience.

Especially when it's supposed to be a collaboration. If you want me to stick around and be interested then at least let me BE the artist. Let me BE a part of it.

[Katzalcoatl]

I feel we would work perfectly together if our interest in genre weren't so different .
I like talking about ideas back and forth for character design. But I do need passion in the project.

We have different like/dislikes. Hopefully one day we can work together in a mini side project.

I will ask you advice in my story regarding some characters I want to add. They won't be main characters but I feel like your input when the time comes will help me a lot. Especially, with your experience in the BL genre.

[candiedcotton]

Oh I'd be down to check it out. I'm always open to talk over things or at least give something a solid chance.

I agree though, I think both the artist and the author need to both have passion for the project. They need to genuinely care and be invested in it, it shouldn't just be a job. But that's what drives me as an artist, feeling like I'm really putting my own signature into it as well and having some artistic freedom, you know. Like, "hey, this is a cool fight scene, what do you think about this angle and these poses?" Stuff like that. And mutually hyping each other over the comic as it's being created, that's important as well. I've had authors who just paid for each page and responded with "cool dude, good job" and that's it. No feedback, didn't want to discuss anything, zero interest in seeing sketches or thumbnails... it was depressing.

BL is actually new to me, funny enough. I had never done romance and wanted to try something outside my comfort zone. My partner suggested giving it a shot and I figured I may as well. But I used to do more like detective/noir/action stuff. Some horror, things like that.

But yeah. I'm always happy to do what I can.

[Katzalcoatl]

Never would have guessed you are new to BL.

[Hayka]

there are a lot of novelists who'd do that. most of them won't let artists have freedom because they're afraid they might pick up an idea and then it'd turn out crap, so they just want to stick to the formula instead redoing the art, and most of them really want the novel completely adapted the way they want to.
I'm kinda against the idea tho. At least in my case, I want an artist to get what I'm doing with a line of the novel. Like when I say
"She was there but she wasn't, until she no longer was." I expect the artist to know how to handle the visual storytelling of a dead girl who used to be alive but invisible to others, because she was always hiding herself; that won't happen unless I tell the artist what the hell it means, and then have them share their thoughts with me on how to do a thing in a smart way with a change of color design and even simplistic character design instead of using words and simple "this thing happened" visual. I want the art to have more layers, and that happens when the artist knows what they're doing, and THAT happens when the author and the artist understand each other. That's why I'm a HUGE fan of Studio Shaft and also Yuuasa's works. They get super creative with that they do and what the author is trying to say.

that's a lot of trouble on the artist's side tho, so I usually get rejected. I did land one with a novel cover tho let's see where we go from here

[candiedcotton]

Well to be fair, I'm not in real life.