No.311776
>>311775tfw when you fail the entrance exam of vienna arts academy
No.311805
I'm a failed cartoonist and pretty used to being rejected by editors and publishers but today takes the cake. I got into contact with an editor a couple days ago and she refused to even look at my work. Usually they'll accept your pages and never contact you again or tell you it's not what they're looking for. It's the first time I was barred from even showing my stuff to someone. They probably looked my name up and upon realizing I have no social media presence whatsoever didn't even bother with the actual work. Not to toot my own horn but at least visually my stuff is better than 90% of the alternative comics they print. Feels pretty miserable to not even get the chance of having your material rejected.
No.311807
>>311805Sounds like job hunting only in this case the rejection is even more personal, which sucks.
Have you tried going independent and building a following that way?
Apparently a lot of cartoonist are turning to twitter and webtoons but I don't understand how they monitizes.
I know most older school cartoonist have their own websites too, but the way the web is now such sites probably get almost no traffic.
I don't really have any real advice, at least none from experience.
I just wish you luck and hope someone that matters sees value in your craft.
No.311809
>>311807Not that poster, but it's clear as crystal it can't be monetized that way. You can't have a twitter or social media following without being published first. It's a catch 22.
And if you don't get published by someone who already has lots of capital, your stuff decays and nobody sees it except you.
No.311810
>>311809>>311805Send your comic to every Ethernet mail direction in the world, print it and mail it to every direction in the world, send it to every publisher in the world, draw a single page on a bunch of paper sheets and let the wind blow it away, transmit it as a signal to be picked up by any receiver, send it as a message to every chat platform
No.311813
>>311810There is so much competition in the modern world that this would still likely yield zero results and a lot of listings on spam filters.
Hell, in a year or two they can prompt an AI to make a short cartoon on any subject with unique art styles in 5 seconds.
No.311815
>>311813>Hell, in a year or two they can prompt an AIYou say this about everything
No.311818
Somehow I'm starting to feel whole again.
Yeah, my cynicism still persists, but just the absence of pressured pretense is comforting. ^^
Especially knowing I'm not one of a kind in the best way possible. ^^
No.311837
>>311820The grand master wizard's dragon has 4 fingers on one claw and 3 on the other.
I always wondered why AI always does weird stuff to fingers.
I think it will be a few years before the finger artifacts go away.
No.311838
>>311805>no social media presence whatsoever That's probably the problem, they have no way of gauging the popularity of your comics or your fanbase. At least have a twatter account where you post your comics, you don't even need to engage with the comments, just post your work so it gets views. Even Japanese mangaka have social media these days in order to advertise their work.
No.311839
>>311820>The pro-AI art wizard doesn't have a wand or staff, rather just a normal stickExcellent self-critique from AI
No.311841
>>311838I did have a twitter for 3 years or so and in that time I amassed around 250 followers, about 30 of them obvious bots and who knows how many fake accounts. It's quite a task to churn out content to keep up with your social media shit and like I said I never saw any quantifiable return for it. It feels like chasing a ghost, it's a very elusive process. You get 1k likes in one picture and none in another. Producing content for social media is a scam if you ask me, it's just yet another way to work for free.
>>311819AI is completely irrelevant. Cartooning in this day and age is a personality cult. People purchasing lots of comics are buying it because they like the author (the person, not the work) or believe in whatever they think the author stands for. The quality of the artwork is also mostly irrelevant. Many cartoonists nowadays spend more time in podcasts and talking garbage at snippet interviews on instagram than actually producing content. I've also noticed they got considerably more attractive over the years. There's no way a clunker like Wally Wood would've made it today. In fact many of those older guys are now cancelled for being toxic or whatever.
No.311853
potted plants are really useful if you happen to be a hikki who can't come out of your room for a while because of people in the house. Like a piss jug but you don't need to empty it and it makes zero sound while pissing.
No.311858
私 の 仕事 と 楽し 和 とても 無透かし
でも 頑張って です
No.311877
I had really intense and vivid dreams last night. It was great. Probably had something to do with the easter candy I ate. My shit smelled foul today. I really wish I could dream like that every night.
No.311883
>>311880>he did it yet againSince no one else can be bothered to do it, I will.
Rule 8: stop it.
No.311885
>>311883Whoops, forgot about rule 11. Anyway, since it's the crawl thread on /lounge/, I won't report it this time. Mods can remove my posts if they wish.
No.311887
We won fellow volcels
No.311890
It pains me to delete my porn
No.311896
>>311895
>doesnt get you in trouble/harms you
Masturbating at all does physical damage to the brain. Adding stress responses to extreme fetish material is only going to increase the ill effects of cumming.
No.311903
>>311883>I did it againDo what? Be an optimist?
I'd love to be more negative but the depression crawl thread is textbook counterproductive.
As for the rules:
>8.Do not sign your posts with a name, avatar, signature, or any variations thereof.I didnt know I created Studio Trigger/art student owl, SWEET!
>11.If a post violates a rule, report it. Do not respond to the post or announce your objection.Well at least you're self aware, ya megalomaniac you :D
But hey, if I DO get banned, at least it'll be for something honest rather than because I was framed (I'm not gonna provide the image cause I'm more mature than that).
Cheers.
No.311945
My AG album should get here today.:D
No.311949
Power went out again. I try to post here like normal but I always forget I am banned because of some shitposter in my area who has the same mobile IP. Makes me realize how much I rely on this place for social interaction. Even just going a day or two without being able to post sucks. It will suck when this site inevitably goes down forever.
No.311950
>>311949My range is banned too. God dammit.
No.311951
Got ketchup on my keyboard.
Had to take the keys off to properly clean it. Such a pain.
I need to stop eating while sitting at the computer.
No.311952
>>311951next time you ever get any of your electronics wet, just wash it and let it dry
as long as it doesnt have any battery or capacitors storing power the water will just clean it
No.311961
I can only hope the USA is all right rn.
I don't live in it, nor an English speaking country.
And even then I could hear someone yelling "F*** U!" from four to five blocks away a few weeks ago.
Goodness.
No.311963
>>311952Mechanical keyboards don't react to being wet well.
No.311966
>>311963Mechanical keyboards are an over-engineered joke
No.311998
Interesting I realized the whole house was shaking a while back and I figured it must be a mild earthquake and it turns out that it was. We don't usually get those around here.
No.312024
>>311903Since you already went to the effort of signing your posts, why bother to pretend now? Your text wall speaks for itself.
No.312025
>>311966They really aren't.
No.312026
>>311966Speaking of over-engineered, has anyone here seen the new wave of CPU coolers that have embedded LCDs? You can even play videos on them. Just crazy. And of course, with RGB.
Although they can be functional in a display piece sort of way. But they're definitely not for me
No.312029
>>312026>has anyone here seen the new wave of CPU coolers that have embedded LCDs?No actually. Totally new to me.
Where would they even sell those?
Got pictures?
No.312039
>>312035The fuck is that bootleg scam site you tried sending me to.
I don't trust it.
No.312040
>>312039yet you trust youtube, that's ironic because you have it backwards
No.312041
I went outside once
No.312045
Time to test out some AIs!
No.312057
>>312039I don't know how many times I have to post this…but anyway:
https://github.com/iv-org/invidioushttps://instances.invidious.io/Don't tell me you're too afraid to even visit a Github link?