My friend and I have what we believe to be a solid story. We are very passionate about where we are going with this and are currently looking for an artist that is able to draw up issue 1 for us with potential to continue to a further 2 issues so we are able to pitch to publishers.
The style we are looking for is warrior fantasy.
We are looking for an artist that is as motivated as we are. I understand some artists have prices on here. We currently have little - no money to add to this project. We are not getting paid either by writing this but its both a opportunity for all parties to show our work to leading publishers.
Thanks for your time and please feel free to email me toma2209@hotmail.co.uk
Tom [/b]
Writers seeking ARTIST!
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advice
It's great that you're going into comics! However there's a couple things you have to know that isn't something one thinks on when posting on a site like this.
Number 1- There are FAR more writers than artists. As such writers are not in demand, especially writers who haven't worked on a comic before. My advice, pitch your comic to us. You're doing a "warrior fantasy", cool I guess, but what are your intentions. What's the basic story? What's different and cool about your concept? I would highly recommend also posting a link to a script sample.
Number 2- What with not offering payment you're setting yourself up for almost failure. I say almost and failure because the most reliable artists you're going to get go by page rates. The others are not only lower in quality on average, but most importantly have a high drop out rate. As someone who has worked with multiple artists I know that not only does "drawing for pleasure" create a situation where the artist is likely going to take a lot of time to draw your comic and perhaps cut corners, but the artist is capable of losing interest or even discovering that his or her more important commitments take precedent and dropping out. This happened to me A LOT especially early on when I first started looking for artists as a writer.
So what do I recommend? You guys just want to do a comic pitch right? That means aprox 8 pages if not less, so although a few hundred dollars may mean a lot to you it is the ONLY way to remotely guarantee that you'll not only get the comic done, but that it'll be of a good quality. I recommend saving up for a decent 50$ or less artist and coming back later.
BUT if you aren't deterred there are methods for dealing with amateur artists. For one thing keep in contact. When you don't hear from them in a month, find someone else. Also, consider working on an artists own project or even consider doing a new property that would better suit the artists style. The first collaborative comic project I did was putting text to an artist's work, and for a while the best I could do was get artists who wanted their own stories written. That's honestly the best way to start out without any cash, plush it's good experience.
I wish you guys the best of luck. Don't be dissuaded by the cash necessity or the alternative unreliable artists. I LOVE comicing, it's a great creative thing to do. Just expect things to move a LOT faster (Took me a good three years to find good "free" artists) if you're willing to save up a little money to pay these talented gentlemen and ladies.
Sincerely,
Ruyei
Number 1- There are FAR more writers than artists. As such writers are not in demand, especially writers who haven't worked on a comic before. My advice, pitch your comic to us. You're doing a "warrior fantasy", cool I guess, but what are your intentions. What's the basic story? What's different and cool about your concept? I would highly recommend also posting a link to a script sample.
Number 2- What with not offering payment you're setting yourself up for almost failure. I say almost and failure because the most reliable artists you're going to get go by page rates. The others are not only lower in quality on average, but most importantly have a high drop out rate. As someone who has worked with multiple artists I know that not only does "drawing for pleasure" create a situation where the artist is likely going to take a lot of time to draw your comic and perhaps cut corners, but the artist is capable of losing interest or even discovering that his or her more important commitments take precedent and dropping out. This happened to me A LOT especially early on when I first started looking for artists as a writer.
So what do I recommend? You guys just want to do a comic pitch right? That means aprox 8 pages if not less, so although a few hundred dollars may mean a lot to you it is the ONLY way to remotely guarantee that you'll not only get the comic done, but that it'll be of a good quality. I recommend saving up for a decent 50$ or less artist and coming back later.
BUT if you aren't deterred there are methods for dealing with amateur artists. For one thing keep in contact. When you don't hear from them in a month, find someone else. Also, consider working on an artists own project or even consider doing a new property that would better suit the artists style. The first collaborative comic project I did was putting text to an artist's work, and for a while the best I could do was get artists who wanted their own stories written. That's honestly the best way to start out without any cash, plush it's good experience.
I wish you guys the best of luck. Don't be dissuaded by the cash necessity or the alternative unreliable artists. I LOVE comicing, it's a great creative thing to do. Just expect things to move a LOT faster (Took me a good three years to find good "free" artists) if you're willing to save up a little money to pay these talented gentlemen and ladies.
Sincerely,
Ruyei