just asking
A friend of a friend draws furry art and got paid well for it. She used to attend small local cons about once a month and would set up a booth for her art. She was getting around $500-$2000 a month for it. Not bad for a side hustle.
Nerds will pay for anything.
Having worked the convention circuit for the past couple years, I’m not surprised. All it takes is one or two people with money to burn to make another person successful.
An artist I’ve seen at other shows prices his canvas pieces in the high hundreds-low thousands, and people will pay for it.
Hell, my brother makes costumes (for cosplay and production) and he sells his stuff for thousands. There is a lot of time and effort that goes into it of course.
I follow many artists on Instagram. One such account that used to regularly make art basically quit and outright came out to state to their followers that doing furry art comissions was so worth it that that’s what they will be dedicating their time to going forward.
Creative and traditional media is a tough sell. The primary issue is freedom of information. The gatekeepers are consolidated. Reaching any audience is a heavily taxed and, at the very least neigh impossible, feat. It does not matter what kind of business you attempt to start, search engines are not deterministic. Searching for you by name is irrelevant on nearly any and certainly all large platforms. Like I could do a ton on somewhere like eBay, but their margin is untenable. Amazon is a joke for fools. Their entire seller system only exists to mask their price fixing scam. PayPal and other payment processors online use a loophole to charge an order of magnitude more for payment processing compared to brick and mortar traditional retail. Social platforms that sell stuff take out what would be the entire profit margin of most products. Selling stuff online is a massive scam. I did it and have sold nearly $150k on eBay in 2 years of doing it professionally. It was not viable when I ran the real numbers. Total overhead was half a tick below 40%. Even at 50% ideal keystone retail (basis of traditional MSRP), 10% is not even minimum wage. The platforms will do nothing to promote you; only enough to barely string you along. It is by design. They are a means of exploiting the poor for as much as possible while masking their scams from regulations.
Depend on how good of an artist you are and what you’re willing to do. One of the dudes that pays the most on furry art is the one that has an obsession with Macro Falco. If you’re willing to make a Macro Falco, then you’re good.
The whole profession of artist isn’t going to be profitable in the next 10 years. With things like AI if you have a particular fetish it’s better not to awkwardly ask some guy on the internet who you will eventually have to give all your personal information to rather than just use an AI so as no one will ever have to know.
Why furries are suspiciously wealthy I do not know. Anyone have a theory?
A lot of them work in IT.
