The Fastest Way to Make Money as a Cartoonist
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- Опубліковано 28 лис 2021
- This is hands down the fastest way to make money cartooning.
My personal mission is to get as many cartoonists paid as possible.
Need help working on Likeness drawing? Check out these videos:
Art of Caricature playlist on PROKO, great place to study: • Art of Caricature | Proko
Get to a likeness QUICKLY: • How to Get a Likeness ...
Watch Mads Ines show you how she captures a likeness in about 10 minutes: • Video
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UGH! I work as a “Cartoon Yourself” artist at my local park. People pick the cartoon they like and I draw them as that. It’s been my main income for two years which is GREAT but now I feel like I’m stuck haha.
Have you tried some digital caricatures? I can understand being burnt out on it for sure! It’s not my favorite thing to do. 😂
Oh teach me how to do this at the patk. Please 🙏🏼
I totally face-palmed-Not only is this good advice, but I have experience with it working! I will have to remember this for the future! Totally looking forward to more videos!
Definitely give it a go and let us know how it went for you! Thanks for watching.
DJ, you got me hooked. I CANNOT wait for the next installment.
I love your attitude. You're so positive. Thanks for the suggestions.
Dude, you’re preaching to the choir! I have told young artists this for years! I was a professional, caricatures entertainer, called myself subway surfer, because I started drawing when it rains initially but that’s another story. I found that caricature was the fastest. Most lucrative way to make money immediately as an artist and although I was very good at doing lightness is doing cartoony style doing highly exaggerated doing semi portrait style. I found out though that you don’t have to be a virtuoso to make money on your Worst drawing day. You are better than your potential customers on their best drawing day! They look at us like we are magicians
I think the first time that I met you, you told me the wedding caricature story. Great story and really inspiring!
Hey Ian! Thanks for watching this, and I hope you're doing well!!!
Excellent video DJ! Terrific advice and I love the production and super charming presentation!
THanks Steve! That means a lot coming from you! 💜
Honest and brilliant artist you are! No BS, but good advice.
This such a breath of fresh air in the UA-cam art world! A genuine cartoonist who wants to help other people out! Also, I love your style! I definitely needed this today! Thank you!
Thank you Nick!
This is so inspiring and motivating!!
Thanks Ninja!
I'll do it. Zeno, ready for portraits!
Funny cause my first ever commissioned artwork was for Caricature Art posters for an event. I hand drew them then Vectorized them for various reasons you probably know print wise and biccity bam uncles sam i nailed it $$$ booyah!
Now the road is filled with fantastically green grass and rainbows and butterflies 😂 nah still gotta hustle but I am loving that I took that step for myself and am now obtaining clients left, right and centre since then which was 2017. Newer to the You Tube scene but grateful for all these awesome clients and experience to get me to this point! I am glad the algorithm sent me your way because I always love following and supporting other artists! Love your video and will continue to view more! Have a great 🐰🐣 Easter! 🙏🏼🙌🏼❤️👌🏼
Man This is awesome I wasn't aware of the you tube but I'm suscribed and ready to learn!
Awesome! Thanks so much. Definitely post links to your work when you have time.
Great advice. I’ve been looking for ways to make extra cash through cartooning. Create a “likeness”
Lots of love from kanpur nagar, uttar Pradesh, India.
Great tips! Had to sub!
Awesome! Thank you!
Thanks for the advice!
youre a really genuine dude, subbed!
Thanks Kosmicant!
Good ideas, man!
Such good info in this video thank you 🙏
Thanks Maker Wulf!
I love your personal mission
Thanks Kristin! Are you making money with your art? If so, what are you currently doing?
Wow. I will need to do this, especially with Christmas coming up! Thank you!!
YES! Try it and let everyone know how it goes. ✏️🤘🏻
YES! Try it and let everyone know how it goes. ✏️🤘🏻
YES! Try it and let everyone know how it goes. ✏️
Likenesses aren’t my favorite thing but I can do them. I’ve been afraid of putting samples up because it would suck the time out of things I’d like to do.
Solid Advice!
Art friend! #tiktok
Wonderful 🤩
Love this.
yea I've always known this to be true... drawing other people has always been my least favorite thing to do but I am going to keep this in my back pocket
Hey, Dan Wikline! Thats a buddy of mine, Ive done art for him as well over the years.
You flew me in from tik-tok you sneaky devil : P good !
Woohoo, mission accomplished! Thanks for watching Art-Friend!
Thanks for this genuine advice 👌
My pleasure 😊
I like your strategy for raising quick money by drawing to profile caricatures. Can you really solicit people randomly like this? I’ve tried advertising, prints And have gotten shut down. What am I doing wrong?.
Thank you bro🙏
Thanks alot!
I am a kid and I’m watching this because it helps me to also draw etc
Thank you
Please sir enable subtitles on You Tube.
I don't understand everything, but I'm learning English. Thank you very much for your understanding!
Thanks for sharing this helpful advice!
As an artist, drawing people is hard to get it right. Drawing cartoons and animals are more fun to draw. But I still try to draw them to get out of my comfort zone.
What's stopping me from trying is how can I get these drawings done in a timely manner? Will I be quick enough to do it? Will I be able to draw what the customer wants? How much should I charge? How many days should it take me to draw it? Should I charge per hour? Or charge how many hours it takes me to complete a drawing?
Good questions! I do have some other videos that tackle how to set your rates. As far as speed, it comes with practice, which is why I encourage all artists to draw something every day’! Likenesses can be tricky at first but once you learn how to “see” and capture a likeness it becomes easier and easier. Stay tuned for future videos that can answer these specifically!
@@DJCoffman
Thank you so much for your response!
I'll definitely check out your other videos as well! :)
This is how I've been making a living for the past couple years, though my prices are very because I do fully rendered cartoons.
That’s fantastic!
Dude, you are not kidding about everything that you’ve said because of my ability to draw witnesses. I was actually contacted by MTV to do a commercial spot which led to another spot on BET all this from knowing how to draw cartoons of people!
Thanks
I love this idea and don't know why I haven't taken advantage of online platforms to sell my cartoon caricatures! One question though, if I book some caricatures, do I ask for payment upfront, half up front, or all when I deliver? What do you recommend?
Yes! Try it! For bulk orders do half down. For single order caricatures, just put up a BUY now button and charge ahead of doing the drawing. offer a satisfaction guarantee maybe.
Sorry I’m commenting so much. I’m just so excited to find a like-minded cartoonist and you bring up tons of memories. I hope I’m encouraging other orders along with you. If you would live in New York City and control, likenesses hook yourself up with a local synagogue in New York City someone is always turning 13 BARNBAT mitzvah‘s are big in New York City. Because of the Jewish population. You do one party good and your name will get passed around more than a pack of smokes in prison! You’ll be busy for years to come.
How do i send my charicature porfofio to you i want to start a online charicature service please help me your the pro
Didn't Want to Subscribe...but the VIDEO WAS SO GOOD!
Thanks for the sub!
great advice but whenever I attempt to sign up on a site to sell services there are 500 others do the same thing for whatever style I choose. It's a little discouraging. How do you get around that? Thanks.
I’m not sure I would signup on any sites that sold the same thing. You may be surprised if you follow through and put listings up what comes through. You’d be better to build your own channels. As the video suggests you should start with your own network and grow from there.
Hello how do ya start an online caricature business
My son wants to do this
Nice!!!
Great tips, but do you think with the advancement of Ai art, does that change any of these strategies as valuable revenue sources for artist?
Not trying to be a stickler or anything, I’m genuinely curious and want to know
Can you be hired for a fee and a percentage?
Wedding caricatures in Puerto Rico - Leonardo Caricatures.
I am just watching a year late. And though AI art was a thing a year ago, now most of these services u talk about offering people can do on their own now with an app and make themselves look like any animation style. Do you think it is still a valid strategy?
Absolutely! In fact, AI art makes HUMAN art even MORE SPECIAL. AI cannot replace "style". Also think of it this way, something that is HAND drawn, on paper, or having the "process" video of a digital file, it's just more special and human than anything "artificial" - If people are giving a gift, will they want to give something special, or something artificial? Would you give someone plastic flowers, or fresh cut and awesome smelling flowers? Cheers!
Can you recommend the right brushes one can use to draw comic characters?
For digital brushes, you might try mine at gumroad.com/comics - but traditional brushes you'll want to just do trial and error and test. The most expensive are not always the best for you.
@@DJCoffman thank you very much…
How does your method translate to non digital portrait artists?
It can work fine, perhaps if you want to have them cover shipping. Also you can easily do it on zoom calls if you draw love. I have seen caricature artists offer physical drawings through the mail. Up to you on your prices or turnaround time
When setting a time limit will a month per client be ok cause ill be honest my weakness would be hours to weeks and im not that fast.
It can work! I've done some jobs where I just negotiated the timeframes, even if I was a bit slower in a process. Having clear deadlines and schedules set from the outset really helps to set expectations. BUT... you should work on getting faster if you feel you're too slow.
@@DJCoffman Thanks for the advice bro really usefull to be honest, the only genre I'm working in being fast is character design in manga comic, I'm already fast on classical comic book character design, do you think there are some people who actually buy comic book characters from character designers?
Which video is that is about a $60 dollar drawing that lead to a thousand?
I AM GONNA PUT MONEY IN MY POKET TODAY!
Please help me
Is there something specific you need help
With? Have your tried the ideas or methods in this video?
Hey I’m ready to blow the internet up with my arts
DO IT!
People listen to this man! When he said stick figures, it’s not just hyperbole on his part. They are the caricatures artist out there, who literally makes big money drawing peoples backsides That’s right this artist literally draws peoples butts and they pay him for doing so
I wish I had five money for every time that somebody wanted me to draw a cringy cartoon portrait. I already know they're going to be annoyed at the outcome, so no thank you. I'm not in the mood for the crestfallen look on their face.
It's not for everyone, but definitely it is the fastest way to make money as an artist. If you think your likenesses are off, then work on that! 🤘🏻
@@DJCoffman I'm going back to painting portraits. Thanks for the encouragement.🙂🤘
I mean you might make 10 or even 100 bucks doing this but thats it. Not gonna be a way to pay the bills sorry
That my be your experience but I know many artists doing online caricatures and in person and making 6-8k a month. Easy.
Does anyone have any suggestions for me? I have a four panel comic strip that's so far 366 pages, I have 16 parts completed and two colored. The dialogue is smart and quirky and the characters are like Garfield meets the Simpsons. I really think this could be made into an animated series possibly but I know nothing about animation. I just draw and add dialogue. Also, I'm not a digital person. The cartoon is drawn in black ink outline with colored pencil inside.
If I were you I would learn how to use Amazon KDP and self publish volumes there. Choose the 8x10 book option. You will need to do some formatting but then your work will be on a mass marketplace and more easily discoverable. A good start ua-cam.com/video/wkzkpnQ_s7s/v-deo.htmlsi=0aPAbL4wQRfqKnkg