Looking for an artist. Paid/Unpaid *Before you run away, Please read*

[Snickerdoodles]

service guarantees katizenship

[sushy00]

not interested if you don't guarantee payment.

[ninjashira]

I second @Cronaj, for most artists fully pencilling, inking, coloring, and lettering a 20-40 frame chapter every week is a full time job.

For reference, since you may not realize just how time-consuming comic art can be... A 20-40 panel chapter is the equivalent of about 4-8 comic book pages. Industry standard for comic book art is roughly pencilling one page per day, inking about two pages per day, and coloring and lettering about five pages a day, and that is as their full time job working eight hours a day. If you want one person to do all of that alone, it will take them between 7-14 days to do a single chapter, working eight hours a day, every single day. And that is for a professional or semi-professional artist who can work at that speed. Anyone willing to work for free will not be at "industry standard professional" levels of speed.

If you want an artist to work for you for free, you will need to honestly reevaluate your expectations.

[Marzipan_Stars]

I'm an artist interested in taking a look at your novel. However, like the other commenters are saying, with that turnaround I would feel more comfortable having other people to collaborate with on, say, the backgrounds and/or coloring.

Here's my portfolio site, and while there's not much in the way of anime/manga style artwork on there, style is something I can negotiate. I also have an LGBTQ+ Webtoon I'm working on about ballet.

[DukeOfOool]

I'm not an expert, but having to do about a month worth (estimated time of all revenue flows to open, if what your saying is true) of full time work, before money flows in is "suboptimal" for any artist. Unless their a company big shoot, they can't just go into such a defizit. You're the one who should take the risk. If you're sure your gonna make lots of money back, paying a fixed rate at first and then royalties wont hurt your purse.

And you're able to attrack way more good artists. Your helping especially those who strugge to make ends meet, so they can't risk getting no money for some weeks. (Even more so with corona time)

[C_o]

I'm pretty sure I threw up in my mouth a little bit when I read the word "Katizen".

[DukeOfOool]

If you don't have the savings to finance it yourself you can always still take a loan or if you want to diminish your own risks even more you could make a fundraiser for the first, let's say, 5 episodes. With your following you ought to gather enough money. Then you can find the most experienced and fitting team of artists your money can buy and let your project prosper.

[byelacey]

Have you considered starting a Patreon or something? If you have 3 MILLION readers, there must be some interest in supporting you reading early chapters or something. With the full time workload you're expecting (and then saying you want to double it if the series gets popular), I cannot imagine you finding success in an artist working for free. You get what you pay for, and we can't eat clout.

[SleepingPoppy]

If you're confident your audience is interested and lucrative @kitkatxk you should consider doing a kickstarter to fund the webcomic. You're current expectations for what can be done in a week are pretty unrealistic, especially if you want quality work, but it sounds like you're in a position to actually potentially form a good partnership if you work on it a little.

Use your audience to fund an artist, and you'll probably get a better response.

[bluebutnoclue]

Hello, I sent you a friend request on discord, but I guess I'll end up talking here.
I'm interested on the job, but I dont think I can manage drawing it alone. In a way or another, my portfolio is https://www.behance.net/kaimaxnuk .
Also, I think its a great idea if you start a patreon!

[unicornfield]

I agree with other posts that 20-40 pages per week plus all the required skills is an extremely unreasonable and uneralistic expectation for an unpaid job, especially if there's only one artist. The artist who's working for free would certainly not be able to work full time, either because they're in education or have another full time job. It seems like the only "payment" you can offer is potential income and visibility but it can't pay the bills right now.

There is nothing inherently wrong with looking for an artist who would work for free, because there may be artists out there who are invested in your story enough to want to do that, but you'd have to adjust your quality and quantity expectations drastically.

I second the others who suggested Kickstarter or Patreon since you already have a big following with the demand. You could even adjust the number of releases per month depending how much Patreon support you get.

Good luck!

[Snickerdoodles]

Where does it say that you have all these subscribers?

[kitkatxk]

Thanks I really appreciate your feedback. That is a great idea. I might just try that.

[kitkatxk]

The per week thing was an idea. I am really open to suggestions. there is no set law. Frankly I and my readers would be happy with once a month or every few months. I am a fellow artist as well and know art is time consuming. I just wasn't aware of how much goes into a page. Forgive me for that. I should have double checked my information. I also draw as well whenever I can. I know it takes up lots of time as I cannot do the art because of time constraints. And I suck at backgrounds. I am better at people.

[kitkatxk]

here is a tums for your tummy, goodness gracious I never mean to upset such a delicate tummy.

[kitkatxk]

There is no subscribe option on webnovel where I am most popular. There is readers reading the novel. I have many fans who jump from novel to novel and can see it in my artist stats which are private. They do not show up on the novel page. The site judges engagement off of clicks and how long a person stays on the pages.

[Snickerdoodles]

I'm curious about what the interface looks like from the author's end. Do you think you could use Windows Snipping Tool to take a snapshot of the numbers?

[kitkatxk]

Hi there I took a screenshot I don't know how to add images to the forum. Do I just copy paste?

[kitkatxk]

i dunno why my tag above didn't tag you.

[Snickerdoodles]

There should be an "upload" button on the bottom right-hand corner of your reply screen. If you're using the desktop version of the forums there should be an "add image" icon, seventh symbol from the left-hand side.