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My Patreon numbers, roughly: 51 patrons, $100 per page of comics I draw. On a productive month I can get eight pages drawn, which is currently about 2/3 of my
by egypturnash 9y ago
My Patreon numbers, roughly:
51 patrons, $100 per page of comics I draw.
On a productive month I can get eight pages drawn, which is currently about 2/3 of my rent. It would be all of my rent if I wasn't living alone in a two-bedroom Seattle apartment. (Yes there are other sources of income.)
When I'm regularly drawing comics and posting them for free (I haven't been lately due to the last KS taking forever + some Life events) I see a slow climb in the number of patrons; it's been pretty much steady for the year or so I haven't been getting much in the way of comics done.
I think it took maybe a year at most to rise to that level; I wasn't building my fanbase from scratch or learning my craft, so that helped a lot. I estimate that getting back in the groove of posting pages regularly would see my whole rent covered in six months to a year.