I'd say I'm definitely somewhere between two and 3. Full time comics would be an interesting place to be, but I'd settle for anything that would allow me to quit my day job and just draw for a living. I'd say I'd be something like an aspiring pro.
5 - Comic Champion. I've transended mere digital files and printed paper into the next level where my comic stories give me life force, and my influence goes beyond a human audience.
(Lol jk. Probably would be #3. I want my stories to reach as far as it can.)
I am probably a 2.5
I started drawing my comic(s) just because I enjoy it but I have put serious thought into taking it more seriously.
I'm teetering on the sides of both 2 and 3. While I do this as a hobby, I do hope to one day develop it in to something so much more. It doesn't have to be in the immediate future but something that happens over time! I would absolutely love to get serious about my comic and reach its untapped potential one day :3!
4, Im an industrial designer by trade, and play around with illustrations and i love mixing the two. i am trying to gain an audience, but i don't care if i get paid, when it comes to comics I just want people enjoy, and i did do webcomics because its the easy to move back and forth from print. Freelance however..yeah pay me. comics nah just enjoy what comes out of my head. lol
Currently I am at 2. Slowly I am moving towards 3.
I am not sure if I will make it to 4, but if that eventually happens, it would be great!
Working hard to achieve that goal!
I'm 4, I'd say. I work full-time as a freelance illustrator and comic artist (emphasis more on the illustration right now - hi please hire me), and I've done a bunch of anthology comics, flats for other artists, cover illustrations, etc., etc. - and Grassblades is my big ongoing personal project, and it's going to be ongoing for a whole bunch of years.
I'm not really set on working in comics specifically (I will always be making them! I just don't know if it will be my main career focus) - I'm trying to learn a bit of everything so I can find work in all kinds of art-related fields. I've done a bunch of textbook illustration and such, and looking into learning more about crafting games.
I'm a hobbyist for sure, but I'm not against a large, ongoing cash injection from a suga momma to up my game. Or a suga daddy, I don't discriminate.
A hobbyist for sure. I love making my stories dearly but if there's anything my few forays into pro work have taught me is that I do not want to do it. The pay is peanuts, the market is oversaturated and I just plain hate networking so much I would rather chew my foot off. So, yep, I draw for me and my readers to have fun.
I would say I'm a hobbyist, be nice to self-publish and move into semi-pro, but not any time soon.
It's good to works on comics at my own pace at the moment, and I enjoy drawing a lot and try my best to improve.
Rght now, definately hobbyiest. I would love to get my comic printed in the future but I don't see myself creating comics as a job.
I think right now my team hovers between semi-pro (3) and professional (4). We're really serious about turning our comic1 into a great professional product, and making a profit from it.
My whole team still has to get our living wages from other jobs, but we're working to get away from that. It feels like it's taking forever, especially considering we've been doing this so long (and that's really relative because we've only been working on our comic for like almost 2 years running - what can I say I'm impatient).
You kind of feel like you're stuck in limbo, between them. While you're getting a lot of job offers, you either don't have the time to work on what people are asking (like, look we don't have the time to do our comic AND your 500 page comic in less than a month), or you get people want to pay you for work, but they just don't have the money. But we're getting there, one step at a time. One...tiny...step at a time.
Sitting on a complicated 4 at the moment.
Full time work I have no life really. It's also not only my time and health I invest in this work, it's my money and living space as well. I picked web comics as my format because my health and medication prevents me from having very stable schedules or deadlines, and my health constantly messes with my art consistency and general capabilities.
I'm also tired of fighting with editors and publishers over acceptable content or shitty story / art improvements that are really not actually improvements because they don't know what they are talking about. (ex. "You know I think this story would be better if you gave the main character a rival and made the dog talk, also try and incorporate some Japanese stuff in there because that's popular right now")
Though I work towards making money, and I DO make money (not a whole lot, yet still enough to put a few small dents in bills and living expenses). I don't have any unrealistic or very high expectations for my work like 'This eventually gonna be animated/movie/mainstream' I'm just working toward paying my bills. Because I don't see a large enough return to live off on comics I also have to get my money from other jobs, commissions and sources.
Also... because I am on disability I can't make over a certain amount of money... (which contributes to me having low expectations of my work) else I will screw myself over and lose my benefits.... which they don't give me enough to actually live off of so I still gotta pick up other small jobs.
I'm number 1. I'm just doing this for fun.
I'm actually trying to work on game design and get into that field.
I would Have to say Im number 2. I work and have a home to take care of comics for me is my catharsis a way to make sure I draw something a little different everyday.
I think I'm in between 3 and 4. I'm planning to get The Angel with Black Wings Volume 1 in print and sell it to cons this year. I do freelancing commissions but I don't like to get involved in big projects because that means I'll have less time to draw my own comics.
