Fan artist earns over $760,000/yr

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Yoorah wrote on 2015-07-04 16:58

...drawing fan art, publishing via Patreon.

Here's her Patreon page: Sakimi Chan

I already knew that the Internet is an amazing force multiplier for those who are talented, but honestly, I was still a bit shocked at how much one could make as a fan artist, with fan art by definition traditionally being the hobbyist's domain (with people making the occasional cash selling commissions, prints at anime cons and whatnot.)

KR0NPR1NZ (ILYA KUVSHINOV) is another successful artist I've known about before. He makes around $178,000/yr and I thought he was an outlier before finding out about Sakimi Chan. He did promise to hire a writer and assistants after reaching the $2,000/wk milestone in order to produce a motion comic, however.

As a side note, I actually like KR0NPR1NZ's style a lot more. It feels a lot more professional, while the former looks more like the shiny fanart prints you see being sold at anime cons. His dA page: http://kr0npr1nz.deviantart.com/

Maybe this is common knowledge to everyone else, but I just thought I'd share.
Yai wrote on 2015-07-04 17:19

I almost had a heart attack reading this. That is higher than any normal salary job could ever hope to achieve! Absolutely CRAZY.

Have to say though, good that they worked hard to reach such a point, this could inspire other artists.
Campylobacter jejuni wrote on 2015-07-04 18:05

Both are clearly pros in their field. Their works could pass for the real deal. Congrats!
Brynn wrote on 2015-07-04 18:57

Patreon is super cool. It makes it so a bunch of people can donate whatever they want and clearly it adds up quickly haha.
ironwoman wrote on 2015-07-04 19:56

Well, to her credit, she is a ridiculously talented artist.

I also find it funny that she also creates NSFW contents, just figured it out while visiting her page. I found her out through Disney genderbends, thanks to Buzzfeed.
Splatulated wrote on 2015-07-05 00:28

sakami chans webpage crashed my graphics card x.x
Osayidan wrote on 2015-07-05 01:22

Makes me wonder why I left art behind me as a career, but then I see all my friends who graduated from art living like poor college students and don't regret it.
Zeo wrote on 2015-07-05 07:56

I was considering doing patron so I can make decent money but the process seemed really confusing to me though.
Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2015-07-05 08:57

I was considering doing patreon to make money but then I remembered I am the worst artist to ever exist on earth. (Perfect chance to use this) I am literally worse than Hitler.
Brynn wrote on 2015-07-05 09:00

Quote from Osayidan;1280904:
Makes me wonder why I left art behind me as a career, but then I see all my friends who graduated from art living like poor college students and don't regret it.

Yeah this is extremely difficult work. Takes years to reach this level of mastery.
Osayidan wrote on 2015-07-05 13:38

Quote from Brynn;1280952:
Yeah this is extremely difficult work. Takes years to reach this level of mastery.

If I hadn't quit I'd have been drawing almost daily for over 15 years now. Started in highschool then quit halfway through college to switch to IT.
Chiyuri wrote on 2015-07-05 14:35

To work as an artist, you need the magic ticket called Talent.
Either Art Talent, Business Talent or Hardwork Talent.