>>7621867
It's really a question of what kind of audience you cultivate and how you get them.

Getting -an- audience is just the first step to being a successful artist, and you have to consider who is paying attention to you.

>Largest audience
Will require you to have your finger on the pulse of what is and isn't popular. Will probably require you to keep up with meme culture and constantly base art around it. Shitpost artists are actually pretty great at this without necessarily being masters at their craft, they just understand how to farm engagement by hitting a hot-button topic in a way that makes people laugh or otherwise titilates.

>Audience that actually spends money
Will usually require touching on extreme niche topics or being into normie things but extremely good at your craft. You will have to work yourself to the bone to keep their attention, and will have to outdo yourself to get engagement. Like other anon said, these people usually support themselves through commissions. High-profile furry and degen artists used to fill this niche and largely still do.

>Graduating into the professional market
This will require the hardest work and the best mastery of your craft. The Kim Jung Gi's etc of the art world go this way. You'll end up working a lot of projects you probably don't care about to pay the bills and will effectively relegate the hobby part of drawing to livestreams where you draw literally anything you want amazingly live for what is comparatively pocket change to your actual professional life.

>Webcomic/Doujin Audience
You will have to regularly release comics that showcase either your drawing skills, storytelling ability, sense of humor, or a mix of these to be successful. You'll have to build a consistent release schedule and extensive body of work.

These factors are sort of lost on the average 4channer, who is usually broke, deeply arrogant on the subject of taste, uncultured most of the time, and uncharismatic.

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Is it really that fucking grim out there? How do you even make…