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Quitting engineering to pursue art full-time

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181 points Tomte | 5 comments | 27 Apr 24 10:26 UTC | HN request time: 1.263s | source
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tayo42 ◴[30 Apr 24 21:05 UTC] No.40216334[source]▶
This is why I never really tried. I thought I could sell art but it's a grind and political. It seems like either you can work constantly to sell art to fund making art or half ass it at some corporate job, make a ton of money and make art?
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1. Gigachad ◴[30 Apr 24 21:42 UTC] No.40216712[source]▶
People seem to make a decent living doing furry art commissions. Looks like far less grind than other kinds of art and also not corporate.
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2. anal_reactor ◴[30 Apr 24 22:00 UTC] No.40216946[source]▶
I saw a graph somewhere that vast majority of income from OnlyFans is earned by a small number of top performers. I assume that something similar happens in the furry community.
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3. rgmerk ◴[30 Apr 24 22:07 UTC] No.40217018[source]▶
I dunno, the 500th commission of Bandit and Lucky’s Dad doing *censored* probably gets pretty tiresome as well.
4. Gigachad ◴[01 May 24 02:45 UTC] No.40218973[source]▶
Not really. Onlyfans creators are selling the same content to lots of people, while furry artists are selling their time slots for custom art. The top artists can charge more for their time, but there is still a limit to how many pieces of work they can put out each week so the money is pretty well spread down to the less popular artists who are more readily available to take on work.
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5. anal_reactor ◴[01 May 24 06:58 UTC] No.40220336{3}[source]▶
Yes, but there's also Patreon for people who are ready to financially support artists, while they don't want to buy commissions.

I wonder what the ratio between these two is