Art by Ziemael, (looking for other Aspie artists)

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For the last 4 years I have been selling prints of my work at conventions and comic cons. It is literally the only way in my life that I am able to ramble on about my favorite subjects and make money doing it. I don't do enough art to fully support my expenditures. So I end up working for others. As it is, I am on my 34th "employment" (40 if you count temp agencies) and I am getting the alienating terror again, that usually ends up with me leaving work in the middle of lunch, and never returning. I have only been fired twice, most times I just quit, even if I need the money, and it hits me hard financially. Anyway, I have been trying to develop a better ROI on my art sales so I can not need employment ever again. Mostly trying to co-op lower costs with other artists but I have trouble maintaining relationships with most the artists I meet. Any Aspies here ready to see if your work sells? Or if you are already on professional grade(you know how to sell your own art) as well do you want to share costs for events that normally to expensive? Here are some of my old pieces for posterity...

There are literally 0 real artists here huh?. All I see are bad links and non selling hobbiests. Any artists who have made at least 2 or 3 grand in a month, or at least 4 or 5 grand a year from art sales alone. I tire of trying yo work with NTs. They suck, are dishonest, and have little to no work ethic. They don't focus like we do. Guess I will keep going solo then.

Seriously. Not a single ASD artist who is professional or ready to break into the professional artist life? Wtf is wrong with us? I cant possibly be doing this kind of thing as the sole example of ASD artists planetwide? Are we limited to the argument of the beard? Where we are just either ultra rare art savants (like 1 for every billion people) or just gimps pushed into make you feel good (please don't kill yourself) ret*d art programs by NT therapists? Maybe I am posting on the wrong subject thread, wrong site... heh. Wrong Planet? Reply on this or pester a spectrum artist to reply. This is a bit disturbing otherwise.

Dude.
You're not just looking for other artists (how about a look in the 'post your art' thread) but you're also asking to collaborate on a vague something, and to share upfront costs.

So you are looking for paid artists on the spectrum who have a similar (or relatable) art style that you could collaborate with?

That’s asking a lot.

There are lots of talented artists on this site who haven’t sold any work (haven’t put any out there and maybe just wanted to be creative for their own personal enjoyment). The term “hobbiest” is kind of condescending and doesn’t reflect the talent in this community.

Maybe you should work on your difficulty with “maintaining relationships” before looking for someone to team up on a project with.

I really love your stuff, as it all deals with horror. As a writer (horror fiction, in fact), I paint my pictures with words.

All artists have costs. Saying they are upfront really has no bearing. Anyway it is not a lot, most arts only want $25 worth if prints and we typically split a $250 event between 3 people carpooling, Its a table at convention, and prints for pennies on the dollar. Rarely we stay long enough for a hotel. Even the worst artists I have worked with who sold terribly at least have a greast time cosplaying, and seeing other cool con stuff, and they always came home with trades, personal art portfolio samples to hand out, and gift to friends/family. Like a small holiday vacation or getaway that pays for itself. Fun stuff. Anyway, artists that do not have costs are just hobbyists, not interested in hobbyists. I have lead (if leading was like herding cats, begging them to have new work all ready and formatted for print run 3 months before season starts, while they wait for the last minute on EVERYTHING) 3 different groups of 3-6 artists, some facepainters, dragqueens, musicians, haunt actors, writers, comicbook/manga, traditional artistists, anywhere from just once to a 4 year set of stubborn cusses on and off since 2014, mostly NTs, and they all run short on sales compared to me. A handfull made over a grand a month, but most just made costs back and came back with cool souvenirs. And maybe that is all they wanted, being that they all had normal jobs or sugar daddies/mommas, I need more, because I don't network with galleries like they can, and normal employment is a s**t show in my case. Anywho I pretty much do mostly solo with an occasional partner depending on whim of the artist, in between the group stuff anyway, because I make more cash than the NTs and honestly feel bad for some of them sometimes. Figured I wasn't the only ASD artist doing this. But hey, maybe I am so used to learning things the hard way I forget how anxious and frozen the ASD crowd is. Oh well. If you DO conventions in the East coast USA (yes I moved from California ) and want to cut costs (keep more cash) as opposed to being an Internet dreamer, email me so if we are areally hittng the same events then pooling is waaay easy. Uhg... people are so fearful. I am terrorfied of bring poor and sitting on my arse, more than failure.