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Art as a career (pawb.social)
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Hello! I'm very out of touch with the furry community but I do know that there's an ungodly amount of furry art that is created every day, and that number is continuing to increase. I've already got a career and my clumsy paws can barely draw a stick figure, so I've often wondered how artists can dedicate such time and skill to making such an immense amount of art. Many artists I see create a new piece of art every few days, and some have hundreds if not thousands of art pieces total.

  • Do most artists draw art without expecting any money?

  • Do most artists do it as a side hustle in addition to a regular job? Is that exhausting?

  • What sort of "salary" could one reasonably expect from being dedicated to full-time drawing [furry] art?

  • If it's meant to be your only source of income, how does your job security feel?

  • Is it required to "get lucky"/"get noticed" in order to make any real amount of money?

  • Is it fun, or does it become "work"?

  • Any other interesting topics that I don't know enough about to ask?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well i do notice a discrepancy there: 385 say they do art full time, but only 189 say that they do it for more than 30 hours a week.

But honestly, whether we compare it to 385 or 189, 33 is still a minuscule number regardless. And then you look at the prices of comissions under different parameters (auction, non-auction, how many characters, YCH).

I really hope that there's some kind of selection bias, for example maybe this survey reached smaller artists more, or the least productive artists had more time to answer a random survey, or something

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No benefits is also rough if they live in the US. Even if you did a $100 commission every day you'd come out with 36.5k minus taxes.