Know your competition

Anyone who thinks of Patreon as their endgame career is an unequivocal retard. The amount of effort spent building up a Patreon could build a freelance career three-times over.

>>2602145
I can live off 500 bucks a month easily, and patreon is never your sole source of income

>>2602154
This
Why are artist s so bad with the business side

>>2602164
Obsession-induced social retardation, probably.

>>2602150
What are you talking about? Almost every single successful patreon artist IS a successful illustrator or webcomic artist and started their patreon well after they already made a living with art and built their fanbase.

>>2602145
>livable salary is $29,000 a year
if you have a spouse/kids i guess, but there's plenty of options for you including your spouse working. i can live off 11k a year easy as a single person. i don't starve and i still buy useless shit like collectors editions for games and stuff.

>>2602145
>>mfw picturing sakimi in her money bath
now i am too and i have a boner

>>2604497
But do you save a good portion of money every month?

>>2604507
Save for what exactly?

>>2607832

Your health. If you randomly get cancer or a major health problem you're fucked.

>>2607849
america lmao

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>>2607849
Not in this country mate

>>2607849
chances are if you get cancer you're fucked either way even with all the money in the world, case in point is steve jobs. also what could happen to an enclosed neet anyway ? it's a fucking disease by itself.

>>2607856

Steve Jobs didn't get the proper treatment because he was retarded and thought 'alternative medicine' would cure it

His cancer was one of the easier types to treat too.

>>2607849
Sorry, I live in the first world.

>>2602154
That being said the median salary is around 25$/month, so you still have to work hard to make a living.
And very often patrons don't actually pay what they promise to pay; my friend have 10 patrons and is "earning" 100$/month but in reality he only gets 10$.