My Work (April-May)

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Painting+Animation

Since I left New York so suddenly, I didn’t get to say proper goodbye. During the past week quarantined at home in Taiwan, I thought back a lot on my life in New York and decided to make a bunch of art reflecting those time.

This is where I lived for 4 years in Brooklyn:

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Subway Animation

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Plan for WebToon



WebToon is like comic or manga, but its format is very specific to how we scroll images across screens (computers, phones, tablets).

The project is actually going to be a continuation of a previous project. I had the intention of publishing on WebToon a couple years ago but school work and other work got in the way so I had to put the project on hold. I had the characters, settings and plot completely planned out and had the pencil draft of at least one season done.  There are about 25 episodes and the entire season took up about three sketchbooks.

All I need to do now is refine those pencil drafts and turn them into fully colored digital drawings (lighting, shadows, special effects, speech bubbles. etc.) for publishing on WebToon. To publish one episode on a weekly basis, I’ll have to finish 3 episodes in advance before I publish the first one. To actually earn money on WebToon, I need to have 1000 subscribers before I can apply for an ad revenue sharing program (https://www.webtoons.com/en/creators101/makemoney (連結到外部網站。)) . I already have a small fan base on Instagram so I will start advertising about this upcoming WebToon on my Instagram while working on it.

This project shouldn’t cost me a lot of money because I don’t need to purchase any equipment or art supply. However, it will take up a lot of my time and energy, as I will be doing this in my spare time (outside of school and work). Estimating how much time it would take for me to finish one episode according to how fast I work, I  would say it may take about 2 to 3 days to finish 1 episode – that includes eating, sleeping, resting and slacking off every once in a while, which should be plenty of time if I am publishing on a weekly basis. Therefore, If I was doing this for someone else, I would say the project costs at least $500 for each episode.

Besides the drawing, since I have both Chinese-speaking and English-speaking readers, I will have to translate the comic by myself and publish the two versions separately. Again, if I was doing this for someone else, the translation and editing itself would cost another $100 per episode.

If I get to finish the first three episodes and publish the first episode before May, I can start working on the rest 22 episodes. And if I can publish one episode every week, the last episode of the season should be published before September.

Also, I ended the season with a cliffhanger that is satisfying enough as an ending but also keeps the reader look forward to a second season, so I can always go back to this WebToon series after I finish publishing the first season.