Partnership. Looking for artist, samples wanted
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Partnership. Looking for artist, samples wanted
Looking for an artist willing to be a long time partner. But for now looking for someone who is going to be willing to do a decent portion of unpaid work. Starting with some samples to send to publishers. Long term offering a good sized percantage off of everything earned. Currently working on the script for first issue. Any help polishing it up is also greatly appreciated. Anyone interested please message me.
Advice
So you're starting out...
It's hard to do so, especially without money to offer. Because with any partnership, you're going to have to earn it, you're going to have to convince the artist that you have something to offer. Saying you just want an artist, need help even writing, and that you want someone long-term for mainly no pay is very unattractive.
Here's what you should do, write a script. Write a COMPLETE script, perhaps 8-12 pages of comic pages, and get feedback on it from friends, family, anyone you can get. Get the format down for one (http://www.blambot.com/articles_script.shtml) and once your script is as good as you can get it find an artist for it. DO NOT THINK BIG! A 8-12 page script, from an amateur (and you will get someone closer to your level) can take a year to produce depending on the artist. Focus on shorts at first or, if possible, find an artist looking for a writing partner and work on his story, property, and project. Focus on finding work wherever you can and get practice in. And as you get better, you'll get closer and closer to a career or to do your big project. And maybe, after going through tens of artists, you'll find one artist willing to go long term.
I'm not going to sugercoat it, it's hard, but if you like it you'll find all that difficulty is worth it. But if you have a little cash, makes things a LOT easier.
Best,
Robert Finch
It's hard to do so, especially without money to offer. Because with any partnership, you're going to have to earn it, you're going to have to convince the artist that you have something to offer. Saying you just want an artist, need help even writing, and that you want someone long-term for mainly no pay is very unattractive.
Here's what you should do, write a script. Write a COMPLETE script, perhaps 8-12 pages of comic pages, and get feedback on it from friends, family, anyone you can get. Get the format down for one (http://www.blambot.com/articles_script.shtml) and once your script is as good as you can get it find an artist for it. DO NOT THINK BIG! A 8-12 page script, from an amateur (and you will get someone closer to your level) can take a year to produce depending on the artist. Focus on shorts at first or, if possible, find an artist looking for a writing partner and work on his story, property, and project. Focus on finding work wherever you can and get practice in. And as you get better, you'll get closer and closer to a career or to do your big project. And maybe, after going through tens of artists, you'll find one artist willing to go long term.
I'm not going to sugercoat it, it's hard, but if you like it you'll find all that difficulty is worth it. But if you have a little cash, makes things a LOT easier.
Best,
Robert Finch
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There is nothing wrong asking for free collaboration, but you should add a quick synopsis of your book. Let artists know what you plan on doing with this book, are you planning on pitching this to publisher, self publish etc.
As an artist i would be more inclined to help out if the book is about things i like drawing, in my case a western. Anything you can add helps landing an artist.
Few things you should expect from free artists, they tend to drop out once they get a paying gig, so like Ruyei suggested, start small.
Good luck
As an artist i would be more inclined to help out if the book is about things i like drawing, in my case a western. Anything you can add helps landing an artist.
Few things you should expect from free artists, they tend to drop out once they get a paying gig, so like Ruyei suggested, start small.
Good luck
