Comic Drawing Journal #3, 1/29/23

I've now got 200 watchers on deviant art, and am now slightly searchable on google under "Krioton Comics Deviantart". So things are storting to happen. I might be getting more searchability than I previously estimated, if the search algorythm favors over a certain number of watchers. So I might grow my unsolicited watcher rate faster than previously predicted. I'll just have to wait and see. 

It's a lot of work on weekdays. I sort of feel like I need to recover on the weekends. But it's not to the point yet where I have to be like Jim Lee, and draw a whole comic in 3 weeks, then take a whole week off to recover. We'll just have to wait and see. I might be like Mark Bagely, and be able to keep it as a ordinary weekday job. 

It's very exciting that I'm slightly searchable and getting more views. Fame is new to me and is very exciting. I'm having fun thinking about distant future Krioton Studios animation business to compete with disney,l etc. And how I might actually be making enough money at some point to be able to go to college. That's the frequency anyway. Fun to think about. 

Comic Drawing War Journal #2, 1/21/23

I just finished my first full week of drawing 2 to 3 pages a day. I find it to be a good job if it ever pays money. It's not too stressful, it's not physically demanding, and I don't have much of the public to deal with other than fans. 

I've started 3 conversations so far out of 170 or so total watchers. It's above zero growth, and it was free. That's more than I can say for the $700 I spend on facebook ads which amounted to nothing. They're probably con artists giving fake numbers. Facebook eventually malfunctioned, and stopped letting me post anything. I messaged them to fix it, but they never did. So I don't use facebook anymore to advertise the comic. They'll never get another penny from me. They're idiots. 

One of my fans helped me notice a mistake I made on a pencilled page, which I then edited. So that was helpful. 

Having a respectable fledgling small business, has helped me feel better about myself, and now I find reading comics in my comic collection more fun. It's not a bad thing to have a habit of working a lot. I have a theory that the only way for everyone to have a livable income in America, is for the workaholics, 1 out of 10 of us, who have rich habits, to make businesses from scratch to then help out the rest of us with either a good paying job, or exposure to help people make their own business.  

-Art

The Epic Battle Begins

Comic Drawing War Journal 1/17/2023

The problem: 

Money is tight, the rich are sucking the money out of the poor currently. Even Doug is getting paid less and less at his job as inflation increases prices. I can't afford an apartment on my income, maybe a studio, but they don't exist. So I either need a second income, or I need to replace my social security with a more substantial income, like building my own business. 

Ebay doesn't grow exponentially, so it would take longer than 20 years to succeed at that, the numbers on ebay would work if I had a second income funding it. But you'd need 1,000 $200 listings to make an income, which is a huge risk. And I can't work a normal job to fund it because my back can't handle walking for more than 2 hours a day. 

The Solution(hopefully):

I did the math on growing a watcher base on Deviant Art, and if I grew exponentially to 200,000 watchers or more, I would have enough income from subscriptions, at about 0.5% customer rate, to have a second income at first, and then go to college to learn how to make a self running business, and then hopefully, if I made 2 subscription comic titles, could double a $1,300 income, to make about $3,000/mo and get off of social security. 

To get there, I would have to make 2 to 3 posts a day on deviant art, over the course of 8 years.

It's all mental. I'm looking at it as being a rich person habit, of doing tons of work every weekday, along side, dressing well, keeping clean and organized, educating self by reading more, exercising and dieting, being polite, and professional etc. Also there is only meaning in life if I succeed at this comic company endeavor. So it has that going for it. It's enough of a reason to practice freedom of will and just choose to work. 

So it's an epic endeavor. One worthy of history books if I can achieve it. 

So I decided to make a blog chronicalling the progress over years of work. Somewhat like "The Punisher: War Journal".

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So far, I just started posting 2 pages a day this week, just yesterday and today so far. So we will see if I can keep it up. 

I have 1 fan, commenting a lot so far, since I started posting more. He apparently is sticking around for the regular content, and finds it entertaining. 

Doug said I should just go to college now. I told him that I'd rather have an income where I could at least afford an apartment before going to college just in case I found a girlfriend. But that's 8 years away. 

I also would like to go to culinary school one day, once I've made it, and have an actual working kitchen in a house. I just would like to know tons of subjects well. I might make schooling a regular thing some day. 

-Arthur