i am an artist!!!!BUT.............?

Question

but i just can't pursue!!!!
i want to be a cartoonist/animator.........
but i think it is impractical(it is hard to find a job)............
what should i do?????

Answer 1

First off, it IS a "real" job. People do pay you if you're good - just like in any other business. It may be harder, the market may be smaller, the hours may be longer and a lot of it still counts on luck - but it ISN'T "impractical", and it certainly isn't impossible to find a job. Persevere - that's the key to the whole field of cartooning or animation. Scout out how good the competition is, build up your portfolio so it's better in every way, and pimp it in a dozen places on the net - animation forums, your own web page, whatever. You say you want to draw? Then do it. Follow your heart. Don't pick another job just because someone tells you it pays better, or that it's easier. If you're truly passionate about this, then scrimping a little won't put you off, because you know that the reward of having your dreams fulfilled will be far greater than anything monetary. And even then, the art skills you'd have picked up along the way should earn you some dough - it's just how you put them to use. Do not give up so easily, and think about what sort of future you REALLY want.

And for pete's sake, don't ask the whole, biased world to resolve a life-changing decision! Find someone who's been where you are now; find someone who might actually care and UNDERSTAND what you're going through and get advice from HIM/HER. Christ, it's like asking some guy off the street if you should jump off a building or something.

Answer 2

Get a law degree, or become a teacher, or a doctor, and get a "real" job that pays you enough you can live comfortably and pursue your passion on the side. Or if you don't mind being hungry once in a while, go for your dream. It's far better to be poor & happy than to be rich & miserable!

Of course it's better yet to be rich & happy! But that takes an enormous amount of good luck.

Answer 3

I was reading this book in a book shop about internships. If you were to get an internship at a place that does caroons or animation, it will get you some experience and will make it easier to find a job in cartoons/animations, while your doing the internship you could get a partime job at like an icecream palor, a resteraunt, or a store so you will have some money.

Answer 4

Sounds like you've given up already. You're like the guy on the ledge asking people to give you reasons not to jump off.

If you don't like it enough to even give it a chance, then don't. The industry doesn't need another flash-in-the-pan. Make room for someone with the commitment to improve and develop over time into a true artist.

Is that what you want to hear?

Answer 5

I reccomend going to the Joe Kubert school of art, they teach not only animation, comic art, and editorial cartooning, but they teach you how to persue a job and sell your art to a company!!!

Answer 6

follow your heart my dear life is too precious to settle for a job that isnt in your heart / the jobs will come if your determined to do what you love i guarantee it!!

Answer 7

I'm afraid, my dear, there are two choices.

1. Get a real job...or

2. Starve.

Good luck

Answer 8

nothing is impractical unless you work on it. :)

Answer 9

if you have a cartoon strip, then create it online... then make it popular on myspace or something, then get sponsors/advertisers... then you don't have to do anything but your cartoon(s)...

Answer 10

how old are you so I can see what I can do.