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.
Have been doing this for a long time, have a few printed comics and want to get a booth at a con and send stuff to publishers. I'd say I'm a 3.
I'm between semi-pro and pro. I work in animation and do comic for fun but I'd really like to get published probably. It's still an undecided future ;9
I will always be a part 1, yo, I adore the process of learning so much and I would never want to finish learning. I've been published, I've done contract work and worked in studios but my heart is all in artistic process. It's such an amazing thing to study and learn and explore the act of creating. Interacting with other artists and writers along the way has only deeper rooted this love of the critical-thinking side in my process.
More number 1's, yo! Professionalism is great, be serious about what you're doing but never give up on that refreshing feeling of being new to your craft, it keeps you alive!!
2, it'd be cool if I could entirely depend on just updating my webcomic but I'm not really reaching to do that either way. I do want to eventually go into art, but primarily as a visdev or character design artist.
I really want comics to be my food an shelter..... But as of right now, I'm number one. I'm still in highschool.... but I wish I could publish some ideas on my head. but as of right now, my comic is just for fun and to see what I can do.
I'm around 1 to 2. Mostly 2. I'm still a student and i treat comics as more of a personal project to have fun with! 
I'm still learning the ins and outs of pacing myself but,in the end, I enjoy making them~♡
Honestly, I would like to be a professional creator, but I make next to nothing off of my comic so I guess I'm a hobbyist right now.
Between 1 and 2 living in my dark cave of darkness to create stories and roll in agony when I can't draw what I have in mind.
I am a
5-Hobbyist dreamer (has a different life and responsibilities and creates comics for fun, but also hoping to gain an audience and have expectations of the comic developing into something more)
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I'd say I'm somewhere between 1 and 2- I'm currently attending art school, but for communication design! That said, I do want to attempt a minor in comic art and also want to have things printed someday.
I'm definitely the first. I actually started making comic with the sole purpose of doing it to learn and improve my art. And the way I have it set up I have to practice every single day just to keep an uploading schedule going.
I think I've improved a lot because of it ^^
The first, but leaning towards #2 as I'm getting the hang of it now. Though I'd still say I'll be forever learning ^^;;
Hmm I guess I'm technically a 4, but still a 1 in some areas...especially promotion, lol.
I'm relatively new to comics (professionally at least) and before RetroBlade I hadn't seriously made any for years, but I've worked as an animator, concept artist, illustrator and storyboard artist in games, advertising and books. I've also done English lit and creative writing classes, and love to write fiction and articles.
So yeah, lots of related experience, but a newbie (sort of) to the webcomics scene. I think because I've always wanted to make comics, I was putting it off and doing absolutely everything else first? Haha. Scared to go for the full dream or something.
I'm not interested in being hired for other comics projects at this point. Maybe 10 years ago or so I'd have been interested, but now I'm hella burned out from working for company agendas. I want to bring my own vision to life. I've had too many bad experiences with client and boss changes, larger teams with management issues and 'too many cooks', and projects getting canned because of budget cuts or lay-offs. For someone who puts their all into their work, it's heart breaking when that happens. SO much better to self publish, that way all your passion and hard work is an investment!
AND you get full control and get to go with all your own ideas, hah XD
It's probably way more sensible to stick to comics as a hobby though, especially if you have a mortgage, kids, live in a country that has ludicrously expensive healthcare... or other financial commitments...