What are your end goal as an artist?

[darthmongoose]

I'd like to make a living off my own IP.

I earn money with my writing, drawing, design and editing/planning skills, and have done for a while now, but it's always been on other people's books, games and apps and the like, and my own content makes me some money on the side, but what I'd really love is for the majority, or even all of my income to come from work I was the main creator and I'm the copyright holder of, ie. my intellectual property.

[Caro]

I dunno if I would say I have an ~end~ goal anymore. When I first started I thought printing my books were endgame goals. After I did that I thought tabling at some cons was end game and after doing that it was being able to pay rent with my own comics.

Now I’m about half a year away from being able to buy a house with my partner who also works on their own comics full time. We’ve reached a lot of pretty big benchmarks together but I think if I had to think about our endgame it would be to continue on our upward trajectory and be able to raise a family on our careers. That’s the only end goal that doesn’t just feel like a benchmark to me. Everytime something feels like its the end it usually isn’t.

[ahogemon]

My goal at the end is to create a digital interactive comic of my own mobile app with amazing story, epic graphics, and leave an incredible piece of entertainment before I die. The interactive digital comic is a new way to tell a story through a mobile app with reader's interactions, the format is like a game but not a game, it has sound effects, bgm, and voice over.
Currently I'm working freelance to save money to upgrade my drawing tools including PC (my current tools and PC are getting old now), and for saving for my upcoming webcomic project because while working on it, I won't have any income for months so better have enough savings before starting the project, this may take a year and a half, and then I will stop my freelance work to begin working the project.
To reach my goal, first I need to successfully create my own webcomic and have revenue from it, it may take 3 years or more to maintain. After success with my webcomic, I will move to Singapore and start a Kickstarter for my goal to create an interactive digital comic app, with the funds I will hire digital artists, composers, coders, voice actors, and any jobs that are needed later. This project may take 2 years to finish before being published on app stores.
Hahaha... so much of a dream.

[TheLemmaLlama]

the format is like a game but not a game, it has sound effects, bgm, and voice over.

So ... a visual novel?

[Chaz]

To be regarded as one of the most influential illustrators of all time!

[danitasibert]

my overall goal with my art is to make it my living i just wanna be able to live off of my work and make comics
which is why i wanna keep working and do my best
much luck to everyone in the comments, your dreams will come true keep going and don't stop!

[ahogemon]

Far beyond that. It's an interactive comic. It's hard to describe it without an example (I'll make one later in the future). The experience is like watching an anime and reading a comic at the same time because it will have bgm, sfx, short animation, and voice-over, with user/reader's interaction or autoplay. If you've seen in some RPGs movie cutscenes with visual arts, something close like those.

Sorry, it's getting out of topic

[esquarecomics]

The closest thing I have to a end goal is to make art for a living but other than that I don't exactly have one. I just keep improving my art for the rest of my life.

[simplykit]

allow me to humbly express my mind

as an artist, my goal is to, one day...

become a drawing myself and live among my drawings (serious face)

oh? you think this is just fantasy? a pipe dream? it will never come true? you dont know that! nobody knows that!

but someday, through science or magic... my soul, my very being shall be transported into the art world and i will finally be... free

[kyupol]

To cope. To pass time.

[sable40k]

Strictly as an artist? I want to be skilled enough to be able to Do It All. I love pixel art, for instance, but don't really know how to create something I'd like to see in a video game. Environments, machines, people, whatever! I think artists like Kim Jung Gi, who can and do seemingly just draw whatever they want, whenever they want are really cool.

I guess that sounds a little childish. So my realistic goal is that I'd like to make enough to support myself and make sure my family is taken care of. It seems like there's so much in this world that you can't do without money... and that's really unfortunate.

Artists should be able to have some basic security... even if that's not how it works out in reality. That's my 2c!

[sable40k]

I've heard of audience-voted comics, but I didn't know there were open source webcomics! That's a pretty neat concept.

[TheLemmaLlama]

Haha by 'open source' I basically just meant I make my working files/'source files' (with all the layers and stuff) available for free Idk if 'open source' is the correct term for that, but I thought it fit XD

Plenty of artists do make their source files available to the general public as patreon awards and stuff, so it's nothing super new I just decided to make my stuff as accessible as possible because my first priority is to expand my influence :]

[ursachaotic]

A big goal I have right now is to obviously make a living from my art – if I'm able to make a living from it, I'll be able to tell the stories that I want to tell, which is really important to me haha.

But my main goal is to tell stories that impact others the way my favorite stories have impacted me. Gravity Falls was a huge inspiration on my work and pushed me to go into animation as well as to make my comic in the first place – I really want to create a story that has a similar impact on one of my readers. I do want to go outside of working in comics for this as well with the goal of working in animation in the future but right now, my focus is on making comics!

[sable40k]

Oh, that's really interesting! Is it for remixing or coloring? Or just to have them as a neat extra? I've seen a ton of brushes, tips, etc., but not source files.

Either way, it sounds like you're quite thoughtful about your potential impact

[TheLemmaLlama]

It's for whatever people want to do with it (remixing, recolouring, comic dubs, making their own merch, anything :D)

Now I just need to make more comic so people would actually want to do stuff with it

[Gato_antigo]

For me it's making something out of my own ideas and with my own hands, something i can be proud of and say: "I made it!"

[system]

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