So I wanna get into making cartoons somehow, but I have zero drawing skills. I'm learning, but at this rate, it's gonna take years before I get genuinely good and I don't have that autism where you find grinding fun. I've been a writer for just over a decade, it moved a few months ago from a pure hobby to professional work and I am making a bit of money out of it. I'd love to work with people who can draw, by coming up with new stories or creating scripts for their characters and the like, however from lurking some spaces, I get the feeling artists really don't like writers. Writers are basically seen as autistic idea guys who don't meaningfully contribute to projects, and the people who can actually draw can easily do their job.
Is this really the consensus? Are cartoon writers cringe and unnecessary?
What are you talking about, good writing (dialogue, jokes, plot) is super important. Just find an artist willing to work on an idea with you. But I do encourage you to start drawing, just the fundamentals and stuff
Have you ever tried thinking for yourself and forming your own opinions even once in your life?
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I have my own thoughts on the subject, I'm just wondering what actual artists think. My opinion doesn't matter if they believe something different, it just means I have to adapt.
/bale/'s been great
>So I wanna get into making cartoons somehow, but I have zero drawing skills. I'm learning, but at this rate, it's gonna take years before I get genuinely good and I don't have that autism where you find grinding fun.
Slow and steady wins the race. Throw in a fun project along with your grinding. Also, join a community of artists for a show you like, that's what started my own drawing journey this year on the, uh, horse show board.
>I'm learning, but at this rate, it's gonna take years before I get genuinely good and I don't have that autism where you find grinding fun.
Then you don't have what it takes. Keep at it as a hobby if you want, but shelve any aspirations you had for anything greater.
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There is a lot to good writing
Game of Thrones was never good
I wish I was just an idea guy so I can act normal and innocent and then just insert a fetish of mine into it randomly
I think that's more of a producer thing, since writing actually requires it's own skills.
I believe many can relate to "I wish I had someone to draw/animate my story for me", in the other hand I highly doubt there are many artists who think "I wish someone had a good story for me", since most of them will prefer to use their own ideas even if the writing is shit.
The truth is that writing is one of the least labor intensive ways to tell a story. You can make a novel very quickly as long as you learned how to write on school, but drawing and animating have much higher skill floors to make something minimally decent.
>I highly doubt there are many artists who think "I wish someone had a good story for me"
I'm one of those artists. I'm too much of a perfectionist to go with my own stories, I feel an element of security working on someone else's project as a name in the credits.
Do you have any friend who could write the story for you?
I wish, but they're not very motivated. I have "ideas" for pitches and treatments, but I hate writing dialogue. I obsess over making sure the dialogue actually "means" something, as opposed to it being filler leading to the next scene. I'm otherwise able to do everything technically.
If you have the talent, you should really try to find someone to write for you.
I wish I had the will to learn how to draw at this point
People who can't draw can only hope to be slave drivers in animation. Animation is defined by the drawings.
>People who can't draw can only hope to be slave drivers in animation
So what's your excuse?
>Are writers just idea guys?
No
The fact that you're willing to question your craft this thoroughly shows a keen critical eye and will help you write better. They can help put connective tissue and bones between the meat of the visuals. Artists who hate writers tend to be terrible writers themselves. Everyone has ideas, writers have stories.