2012 Entries: Money

Back on the subject of money. If you're just starting off as an artist, or want to become a Master artist like myself, don't worry about money. Concern over getting paid will only take away from your art, distract you from your art and get you into trouble. Plus it will reduce the quality of your artwork. Many of the best drawings I did when I was thinking about enjoying drawing. Money had nothing to do with it.

Leave money worries to your producers, agents, publishers, studios, and editors. Let them assess things financially, and your agent as well. Don't strategize about money if you're just an artist trying to do good work. Money gets in the way of quality, far as art is concerned. Thinking about money will do nothing more than simply always and inevitably lead to you realizing you're never getting paid enough, or what your worth, or at all. Money concerns don't help people become  better artists.

As for the market! It's simpler than it looks. TV works like this: Whoever is actually on TV, whoever has the show that YOU'RE WATCHING on TV is doing pretty well for themselves. Is Spongebob constantly in your face yelling things at you through your TV that annoy you. Well, the Spongebob staff's doing pretty well for themselves if that's the case. Is Steven Colbert and Seth MacFarlane lecturing you again. Gee, wonder how they got so rich. In TV, in big media business: Getting airtime and viewer attention (but only on a contractual basis) = a bigger paycheck. Whoever's got your attention on TV is the one making the most money. It doesn't necessarily work that way most of the time online though. The pay structure on the internet is a little more shady legally, and  a little more harsh. Scratch that. A lot more harsh.