The Fastest Way to Make Money as a Cartoonist 

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UGH! I work as a “Cartoon Yourself” artist at my local park. People pick the cartoon they like and I draw them as that. It’s been my main income for two years which is GREAT but now I feel like I’m stuck haha.

Dude, you’re preaching to the choir! I have told young artists this for years! I was a professional, caricatures entertainer, called myself subway surfer, because I started drawing when it rains initially but that’s another story. I found that caricature was the fastest. Most lucrative way to make money immediately as an artist and although I was very good at doing lightness is doing cartoony style doing highly exaggerated doing semi portrait style. I found out though that you don’t have to be a virtuoso to make money on your Worst drawing day. You are better than your potential customers on their best drawing day! They look at us like we are magicians

I totally face-palmed-Not only is this good advice, but I have experience with it working! I will have to remember this for the future! Totally looking forward to more videos!

yea I've always known this to be true... drawing other people has always been my least favorite thing to do but I am going to keep this in my back pocket

This such a breath of fresh air in the RU-vid art world! A genuine cartoonist who wants to help other people out! Also, I love your style! I definitely needed this today! Thank you!

I think the first time that I met you, you told me the wedding caricature story. Great story and really inspiring!

I'll do it. Zeno, ready for portraits!

DJ, you got me hooked. I CANNOT wait for the next installment.

I love your attitude. You're so positive. Thanks for the suggestions.

Excellent video DJ! Terrific advice and I love the production and super charming presentation!

Honest and brilliant artist you are! No BS, but good advice.

Hey, Dan Wikline! Thats a buddy of mine, Ive done art for him as well over the years.

Funny cause my first ever commissioned artwork was for Caricature Art posters for an event. I hand drew them then Vectorized them for various reasons you probably know print wise and biccity bam uncles sam i nailed it $$$ booyah! Now the road is filled with fantastically green grass and rainbows and butterflies 😂 nah still gotta hustle but I am loving that I took that step for myself and am now obtaining clients left, right and centre since then which was 2017. Newer to the You Tube scene but grateful for all these awesome clients and experience to get me to this point! I am glad the algorithm sent me your way because I always love following and supporting other artists! Love your video and will continue to view more! Have a great 🐰🐣 Easter! 🙏🏼🙌🏼❤️👌🏼

This is so inspiring and motivating!!

Lots of love from kanpur nagar, uttar Pradesh, India.

Man This is awesome I wasn't aware of the you tube but I'm suscribed and ready to learn!

Likenesses aren’t my favorite thing but I can do them. I’ve been afraid of putting samples up because it would suck the time out of things I’d like to do.

Great tips! Had to sub!

youre a really genuine dude, subbed!

This is how I've been making a living for the past couple years, though my prices are very because I do fully rendered cartoons.

Thanks for the advice!

Great advice. I’ve been looking for ways to make extra cash through cartooning. Create a “likeness”

Wow. I will need to do this, especially with Christmas coming up! Thank you!!

Dude, you are not kidding about everything that you’ve said because of my ability to draw witnesses. I was actually contacted by MTV to do a commercial spot which led to another spot on BET all this from knowing how to draw cartoons of people!

I am a kid and I’m watching this because it helps me to also draw etc

Good ideas, man!

Such good info in this video thank you 🙏

I love your personal mission

Solid Advice!

Thank you

Wonderful 🤩

Love this.

Thanks alot!

I love this idea and don't know why I haven't taken advantage of online platforms to sell my cartoon caricatures! One question though, if I book some caricatures, do I ask for payment upfront, half up front, or all when I deliver? What do you recommend?

Thanks for this genuine advice 👌

Thank you bro🙏

Thanks for sharing this helpful advice! As an artist, drawing people is hard to get it right. Drawing cartoons and animals are more fun to draw. But I still try to draw them to get out of my comfort zone. What's stopping me from trying is how can I get these drawings done in a timely manner? Will I be quick enough to do it? Will I be able to draw what the customer wants? How much should I charge? How many days should it take me to draw it? Should I charge per hour? Or charge how many hours it takes me to complete a drawing?

Thanks

Sorry I’m commenting so much. I’m just so excited to find a like-minded cartoonist and you bring up tons of memories. I hope I’m encouraging other orders along with you. If you would live in New York City and control, likenesses hook yourself up with a local synagogue in New York City someone is always turning 13 BARNBAT mitzvah‘s are big in New York City. Because of the Jewish population. You do one party good and your name will get passed around more than a pack of smokes in prison! You’ll be busy for years to come.

Please sir enable subtitles on You Tube. I don't understand everything, but I'm learning English. Thank you very much for your understanding!

Wedding caricatures in Puerto Rico - Leonardo Caricatures.

You flew me in from tik-tok you sneaky devil : P good !

My son wants to do this

Didn't Want to Subscribe...but the VIDEO WAS SO GOOD!

great advice but whenever I attempt to sign up on a site to sell services there are 500 others do the same thing for whatever style I choose. It's a little discouraging. How do you get around that? Thanks.

Great tips, but do you think with the advancement of Ai art, does that change any of these strategies as valuable revenue sources for artist?

I AM GONNA PUT MONEY IN MY POKET TODAY!

Can you recommend the right brushes one can use to draw comic characters?

I am just watching a year late. And though AI art was a thing a year ago, now most of these services u talk about offering people can do on their own now with an app and make themselves look like any animation style. Do you think it is still a valid strategy?

How do i send my charicature porfofio to you i want to start a online charicature service please help me your the pro

How does your method translate to non digital portrait artists?

Can you be hired for a fee and a percentage?

When setting a time limit will a month per client be ok cause ill be honest my weakness would be hours to weeks and im not that fast.

Which video is that is about a $60 dollar drawing that lead to a thousand?

Hey I’m ready to blow the internet up with my arts

Please help me

People listen to this man! When he said stick figures, it’s not just hyperbole on his part. They are the caricatures artist out there, who literally makes big money drawing peoples backsides That’s right this artist literally draws peoples butts and they pay him for doing so

I wish I had five money for every time that somebody wanted me to draw a cringy cartoon portrait. I already know they're going to be annoyed at the outcome, so no thank you. I'm not in the mood for the crestfallen look on their face.

I mean you might make 10 or even 100 bucks doing this but thats it. Not gonna be a way to pay the bills sorry

Does anyone have any suggestions for me? I have a four panel comic strip that's so far 366 pages, I have 16 parts completed and two colored. The dialogue is smart and quirky and the characters are like Garfield meets the Simpsons. I really think this could be made into an animated series possibly but I know nothing about animation. I just draw and add dialogue. Also, I'm not a digital person. The cartoon is drawn in black ink outline with colored pencil inside.