Patreon shit

An actual talented artist http://www.patreon.com/nambroth

She is only making 231 a month

FUCKING 231 A MONTH

I like how they call themselves "artists".

There is no fucking justice in this world.

the average monthly income in my country is about 1,000 dollars. And minimal wage is around 450 dollars a month.
so this guy:

is making more money than a freaking judge does (do I need to even say how much education and dedication it takes to become a judge? And then compare it to this guy?). He could buy a pretty decent used car each month. Or a lower-end new car.
All of that for sitting on his ass and drawing a comic. Which isn't even good.

shit I need to start doing shitty webcomic strips, why am I bothering with college

Yeah man FUCK GOING TO COLLEGE FUCK GETTING A PHD FUCK STUDYING THE FUNDAMENTALS OF ANATOMY FORM AND PERSPECTIVE who gives a shit about studying the biochemical pathways of the human body that pertain to the development of tumors or developing ways to colonize space
no

I can make a shitty web comic about shit nobody cares about but for some reason people will care about it because ITS IRONIC HIPSTER ShIT

Seriously though, why is it that the people with the most uninteresting ideas and shittiest art are the ones to make webcomics?

Essentially, this person sucks so bad at drawing, they're using something like Poser or DAZ3D to make their comics, and got 58 dollars more than he should have. Ever.

I love how web comic artists (and believe me I'm using an incredibly loose definition of the term "artist" here) proudly say how many years they've been pumping out their shit. 10 years? 12 years? Christ that's a long time to be doodling their lives away. And to top it off, most of the doodles aren't even good.

some people have way more free time than is reasonable xD

Seriously the whole month since I learned of Jeph's extra income ( mind you he was earning ad revenue before and still is, so Patreon is like a bonus ) I've been pretty fucking depressed over it.

But Shitty Webcomics said it best-- they wouldn't trade places with Jeph because you'd be stuck making that shitty comic. I even brainstormed some ideas for some slice-of-life losers for a gag-a-day strip ( preferably my Generation... the worst of Gen X ) but even I wouldn't read it. And if I wouldn't read it what's left to convince me others would? Porn of course, but then there's Patreons " no porn " policy, so I give up only to revisit the idea 3 days later.

Honesty though, I don't blame Jeph for that amount of money-- I blame the people giving him that money. In fact that goes for all this shit that's getting far more than they deserve. Who the fuck are these people? They're the reason there's now 4 Transformer movies.

And here I sit worrying my stories suck, my jokes are lame, my art is bad, etc etc, and yet every day I see example after example of minimal to no effort being rewarded. IMHO we're long overdue for another Mass Extinction.

Because if they could draw and/or craft interesting stories, they wouldn't need to self-publish.

Are you sure? I've seen "erotic drawing" Patreons, not to mention all that furry stuff.

And hey, draw what you're passionate about. Get some experience out there and report back with some ideas. Read some books, watch some movies if you don't want to go outside.

Time to fucking detonate a EMP. I would rather live in a new Dark Age than have these fags make more money, then hard working people.

Saw this tard in the Front Page thread
http://www.patreon.com/jagodibuja

How about neither

Over 1k a month for that middle school DeviantART tier trash. Holy fuck.

That patreon just had it's article restored on the Bad Webcomic Wiki actually.

oh don't be so presumptuous

The talented ones found a better hobby/job.

I may be biased because I work with DAZ, but I think it CAN be used to make some pretty awesome stuff. The problem is that very few people actually do, let alone even TRY. There's a learning curve with it just like any other medium, and you still have to understand basic principles of layout, color, lighting, etc. like you would with anything else. You still have to study facial expressions and the way the human body moves and behaves. You still have to keep an eye out for tangents and know how to use negative space. I think the reason that the Poser crowd ends up turning out more shit-tier work per capita is that they believe that the mere fact that the figure (or outfit or set design or whatever) they are starting out with looks more realistic than a tablet scribble is good enough by itself. "It looks so lifelike, let me just slap a stock pose on him. I'm done!" Nevermind that everything shines like plastic because you couldn't bother to dick around with settings, or that their hair is moving in the wrong direction, etc.



In other news, Tom Preston is still too stupid to jump on this cash cow bandwagon and would rather sit on his ass writing journals about how money doesn't magically appear in his pocket.

there's a webcomic called dreamland chronicles in my backlog of comics i want to read

it uses 3d art(studio max though, not poser or daz) and i don't know what the actual comic's like but i looked at a page and it actually looks pretty nice!

so yeah i'd agree 3d art can definitely look not like this


as for tom, i don't think his audience would be able to pay him a per comic fee like that, unless their parents had lots and lots of spare cash to throw away xD

It does not look like shit. Pretty neat.