The game used to revolve around real player interaction, the fact that GMs are promoting botting is so wild to me, this patch sucks. No wonder the low expense build is OP, the game economy is flooded with so much gold that is now worthless and is almost impossible for solo players or small clans to find an unclaimed spawn to farm.
Yeah, current patch sucks for the class. But being an artist was never really something meta, so I'm not too worried about it. I'll keep maining the artist class until it's pretty much impossible to play. I just find it that fun to play tbh.
@@low_username it was somewhat meta hundreds of years ago. royal and noble classes used to donate to and commission painters to do work for them. you did need to use a lot of skill points before those classes would recognize you, thougj
According to TierZoo, "S" tier builds are known for dominating the meta and having few counters. Paysite artists are actually extremely stable which easily makes them S tier, in my opinion! Especially since they ask for a small contribution from each user (quantity over quality) and the NSFW variant can never run out of work due to the "libido" passive skill most players have.
It's great until the people that run the paysite are caught fucking over the artists. Also, paysite stuff is super fucked mechanically. You have all these people making content for your site, but they're not considered employees in any way, so they aren't entitled to getting benefits and are taxed as indie contractors, which is an absolutely stupid tax nerf. There's also a bugged mechanic with NSFW where companies stop liking money for some bizarre reason and don't want to process payments for NSFW content. I suspect there's a stack overflow type situation with it, where the greed stat just loops back around to negative and activates the puritan mechanic instead.
Another thing to keep in mind is that not everyone can run the NSFW variant, you need to invest points in sanity and have the perversion passive skill, a clashing combo indeed but it does prevent your avatar from being eating away at smut material. You also need to stablish your limits with other fellow players who want to hire your services as slowly but surely if you start taking all the weird commissions of stuff simply doesn't get you going you might end up in a weird midgame situation, resulting in having to reset and go back to the character selection screen. Also depending on your spawn point, tipically on the west. Running this build might be detrimental if you want to run a NG+ and go for the industry questlines. Certain industry NPC leaders are coded to follow the puritan mode.
This is unironically THE best video explaining this concisely I've ever seen, ty pikat. As someone in F tier I will be forwarding this to my confused family members that still don't understand what I'm doing lol
as a person living in the 3rd world country the success of the special build depends on how tax works on the country ur in its a 50/50 chance which is pretty high but tis will require you to be damn good artist from the get go
The sideskill to get money while making art combos really nicely with the 3D art specialization, there is a strong market for technical artists, programmers with a good artistic eye, or 3D artists with technical knowledge
i know this is a fun, non-serious vid, but honestly this is pretty spot on for the current art scene! it’s crazy to have witnessed how things have changed over the years in comparison to how it started. side note, i love all the little drawings you did for each “class” ❤
Swinging into the Artist as a Multiclass. Spent the first 30 levels (well, 20. Levels 0-10 I was still figuring out how to play the game) as a Writer Main, subclassed in Fiction focused on the Fantasy and Sci-Fi sub-classes. Spent 10 levels grinding in the Film and Theatre archetypes, generalized both on stage/on camera and backstage/behind the camera. Unfortunately the Environmental Debuffs built up and Hard Locked game progress with my chosen classes. Figured Artist would be a good complimentary class to pick up for the next several levels, so very happy to see this video. Looks like I'll be spreading my skill points again across a few subclasses. Haven't been this excited to grind since I was level 20.
Entertaining video. I enjoyed it. Made me think of: The forbidden classes, the nft-mancer, the Ai maker, the pretender. Hopefully they'll get completely banned at some point.
@@Pfish1000 Yeah was about to say the secret 'forbidden class' is the NSFW artist, which then breaks down into which 'subclass' you spec into as to how much money you're going to earn. After all the more weird the fetish, the less likely there is for artists to cover it, the more likely you can charge a large premium for it. The Furry NSFW artist is, like, the surface level if you only do vanilla. Use to work with a guy who did Furry NSFW art as his 'thing' when he wasn't working and he ended up quitting his part-time job because he would make more money per hour on commissions than he would actually working. Dude ended up bringing in like £2500 a month, almost double my full time salary, because he was willing to do some of the slightly weirder fetish art pieces (though he drew the line at Cub or Guro art, that was his limit). Also AI art can't really do *those* fetishes as well, they can do you standard 'nude standing pose' pretty well in an anime art style but...yeah...also people are very particular about their characters, usually with 4-5 pages of character reference sheets. NSFW people have a LOT of money to throw around for their characters, Furries are just the easiest to access.
Resource maxing is not a bad build, it's more like a safe one. You cannot respec indeed, but it safes you from different potential minigames like being broke, starvation and parents pressure
"its like the devs dont even care about this game" real😭 starting on building my reach and portfolio while in college, commisions as well at some point. going for a programming course, hoping for my best ;-; living in SEA so the conversion rates will definitely help. it all comes down to how i manage my time i guess.
9:30 Those points and skills from previous classes are actually for making combos by yourself, even if they aren't DIRECTLY useful for art, they can help you in other areas. For example, if you were on the marketing area you're somewhat familiar with selling your art, you would only need to polish the build a bit
That’s a good point, actually. Say you spent a bunch of time building your software engineer skill points, you can potentially use those for an online storefront once you switch to artist class. Just because you can’t respec, doesn’t mean you can’t get creative!
@@ewoklord-726 Not all of it combos though. I specced some points into programming hoping to get into the game design artist only to find that the essential skills and knowledge are region locked. Got stuck doing backend code in a language with no transferability despite most of my points going to digital drawing and creative writing. No idea where to go from here as I still don't have points in marketing and CHA.
In my country (Chile) the build of "selling at conventions" is really nerfed by the meta imposed by the convention organizers, since they charge an initial fee of about $100-$150 to attend, but the sales expectation is about $50 -$90 and only serves for the perk "become known and meet other artists" 💔💔
I thinking about that last comment of "please buff the artist class" The main thing that seperates the artist class from other more generalized classes is that art isn't a necessity like other more common classes, it's a luxury for other players to treat themselves to whenever they feel like it Artist generally have ways to offer their services to a wide scope of people because if how many times this luxury makes things look a little nicer (a well designed logo, a stream layout, a full character sheet etc') The problem might be the lack of respect to artist which marks their work as much less of a luxury and more of a: "you should be thankful I'm even considering buying your trash art" So the main way the increase the demand for art could be to create a meme (like metal gear solid) that prepetuates the idea of purchasing art as a means to elevate ones status, form connections between the client and artist, and support the hard working artist so they could contunue to provide their services to other people And how do we do that? By aboloshing AI "art" and supporting good artists Maybe... I may just be talking out of my butt right now
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This was a very fun and sweet video. I"m a multi-classer for sure. lmao I went to school for game design (more art than tech). I was unable to go into industry due to medical reasons, so it was on me to do a LOT of freelance to stay afloat financially (barely made it lol). It tanked my skill points, however... and my art began to regress. After a lot of crazy obstacles and experiences, I ended up in a very fortunate circumstance to work on my own comic... and able to earn EXP quickly to regain my skill points! I don't really make money from it (i make $25/mo on patreon)... but I hope it makes more someday. It requires a LOT of work. And a kneecap for me is that I don't have a pre-established name, and I hate using social media (no to mention, all mainstream social media platforms scrape your work with ai, even if you opt out. The opt out button does nothing fyi.) As an artist, my goal is to finish the project whether it is financially successful or not. Recently, I started tabling at expos. REAL connections and meeting people amongst your community is so crucial and special... and WAY easier to do if you are able to! :D Above all else, my life's goal is to continue to progress in my art skill set. I highly recommend Schoolism for artists of any level. It's super motivational, and the courses are available at any time for you at whatever pace you need. They also have webinars you can attend live or get their recording later. It is $300/year... but it's for over 30 classes by professional master artists. Hundreds of hours and resources for ya! If you can get a group of your artist friends to pitch in for one account to share and make it more affordable--do it! :> It is unfortunate with some people's circumstances that none of these avenues for art as a career are viable, and some things may not work out for a very long time for some. But if you are determined and keep going--something WILL happen for you! Seriously. Keep it up, guys.
Your videos are always a blessing on this platform. Actually containing information in a fun and creative package condensed in a reasonable amount of time that doesn’t make me go „actually, what was this all about?“ -and that like a clockwork every week. So in case you are not hearing that enough, I really appreciate it :)
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pspsps, as a game dev myself, the best multiclass is: solo artist creates their own game. But beware: it's tricky. You'll burn out very quickly if you're not careful with it.
3:40 Secret OP Build, I can vouch that this indeed work. I've been doing commission for a bit and earned around 500$ and that is enough to pay food for a month or less. Since I'm a student, i don't really need to pay bills yet and this goes to my savings!
OH MY GOD, you are a genius for this format, AND its really informative. Specially because im on the road to starting the last build you discussed x.x!
I was expecting another "click-baity useless tips" kinda video and was SO happily surprised by this level of entertainment and reflection on the subject! 😄
There's another, secret option, if you're willing to go deeper. You can spec into TTRPG art. If there's a community out there that's starved for art, it's the roleplaying game community, especially the subsets with a lot of people that want to publish games (like the Old School Revival and Mork Borg). There's a lot of success to be found with simply a Reddit post if you want to try.
Comic + NSFW is super OP it basically skips the last boss and you directly go to the credits. I went with tentacle build instead of furry build, and man, oh MAN, those tentacles are automatic money farms. It's an SSS tier, game breaking class that very little artists currently exploit.
I am doing the resource maxing build, I'm studying architecture and want to be an environment/architecture artist so luckily the skills transfer directly. So I'll say it's not necessarily an F tier, not even software engineering because you could become an indie game developer. Very fun video!!
a moment i thought resourcemaxxing was going to be the most overlooked subclass; the potion seller. here you focus not on gaining xp through art, but through making resources for other artists to use.
Thank you for making this, with all of the subclasses it can get overwhelming and confusing to find which one fits you, but this was a great way to explain what each subclass does!:D
Love seeing the PoE atlas tree. The bane of many artists. You could spend 10,000 hours doing contract work or you could grind for that sweet mirror drop
You forgot one! Gallery Artist! Artists that create work that aims at currently popular trends and then attempts to sell that art to a gallery, who in turn tries to sell it at a markup. No shame for forgetting it since it's a really old-school build, which fell out of favor since it's so RNG dependent early game, but some people still run it thanks to its snowballing capabilities.
Loved it! 😂 I ended up an RM myself cause I just didn't have the free learning resources (nor enough pokedollars) we have now online when I was younger, nor do I live in a country where you could earn a living just from making traditional art if you weren't born in a rich family with social capital, etc. So hobby it was. I did end up doing something I don't hate that now gives me the resources to acquire the art equipment I need, so I count myself lucky! Social media has its downsides but I'm so glad more and more people nowadays have access to free software and materials to do what they love.
I personally main a 100% solo stealth build. I don’t participate in the main campaigns and mostly just roam the map, sight-seeing and watching other players from afar. I get lost doing side quests and have no rep or association with any parties, guilds or other individual players.
Never thought this all would make so much sense explained like this~! After reclassing a few times I've come to have a hybrid build between paysite and freelancer, with the additional difficulty nerfs from living in southamerica (although the somewhat less expensive life cost is balanced out with a lot of other cons like a higher% chance of criminal type random encounters)
I'm a multiclass freelance artist (furry spec) built on my original class of 3D game dev character artist. My guild had to remove a bunch of members due to funding issues though, so now I'm gonna try out combining those two classes in the VRChat server. Wish me luck!
I dunno, I feel like the resource maxing build could be kinda helpful. Like you said, it can help get you through the early game struggle, and besides, those skill points aren’t entirely wasted just because they’re not on the art skill tree. Say you spent a bunch of time on web development skills; you can potentially use those for an online storefront for the Con Artist subclass. Just because you can’t respec doesn’t mean you can’t get creative! Then again, you’ve played it yourself, and I still don’t really know how this game works, so I’ll take your word for it.
Con artist\etsy\wherever else makes a surprisingly amount of money. Some niche fandoms will pay loads for any sort of merch, so you don't always have to worry about only doing popular meta flavour of the month art. A friend of mine made 30k in just a few months just by doing this. Just make sure to post your stuff EVERYWHERE and try to learn how to maximize social media strats.
You guys heard about the Artist-Dictator hybrid class? One legendary player made a shot on that class but in the end he failed to dictate his territory. Very risky.
Me personally, I have a modified version of the resource maxing, I call it, talmaxing, you need to pick classes to reach as many stats in the early game, I went for game designer, comic artist, the programming from game designer, paired with the comic artist class gives me the subtrait, technical animator, from there you need to find which stat has an exp boost and capitalize on that stat, from there you just minmax that one ability
Starting from outside of art then moving into it isn't exactly a waste of 'stat' points, tbh. It's a matter of figuring out how to integrate that into your artwork or how your experiences there might influence how you deal with working in art. Eg. If you work with digital technology, especially programming, that can be used for things like website building that utilizes art designs. All sorts of things with programming and art. It's just a matter of figuring out where the things you learned are applicable Worst comes to worst when starting from outside of the Art 'class' is to go into writing and use the experience from before as part of the fodder for writing/drawing comics. But there's so many ways to utilize all sorts of different pieces of knowledge, so long as you aren't fixed to one set medium to create in. Eg. video content with chemistry that creates physical artistic pieces is an option
I feel like a Healer class is needed on this list to complete the Trinity! Maybe a Spiritual Artist!? Does Art to heal the heart, you know? Hit them right in the feels. ^^
You'd think software engineering would put offer really cool re-spec buffs when moving to the artist class 🤔 you could make plugins for yourself, make a cool website for your art, and (obviously) work on some indie games!! Although CSP only lets the JP users make plugins 😭😭 so it would probably be more useful for people that work with animation
I think freelance artist is a new meta also because, a lot of art schools in some countries don’t focus on digital art and the industry, and rather on traditional methods which aren’t a perfect build for everyone. So it’s also kinda rng based. Freelance artist build is meta because it looks into what is new and leaves u a lot of freedom and if you can manage your resources well you will be OP.
Been wanting to be a comic artist when i was young and loved playing Paladins in video games, so your drawing of the comic artist subclass was calling out to me 😅
im multiclassing, started multiclassing the op secret build and freelance build, spent like 6 levels on that when i decided to multiclass with the college build out of boredom of the initial class setup and now just added the con artist subclass because yet again it got boring and i wanted to mix things up jnmhnjmhg it was, a lot, but im still going!! the con artist class is pretty fun, much more than i was expecting! tho it takes a lot of planning to come up with merch and juggle all that with the college and freelance quests
Would love to see a video about your personal art progress tbh Like... maybe progress from start to now and some advice on studying and improving at different stages of skill
with u on the resource maxing build been investing and working to get my electrical engineering degree but really feel like my passion is art and since in just a few years ill be done with my degree ill just have to stick with it
The vtuber artist spec can crossover with a lot of others, fan facing or vtuber facing. If one learns how to rig in 2d, or 3d model and rig the possibilities are tremendous
Even though I don't plan on having my job be an artist (cause I like it as a hobby), it was fun learning the different ways or classes that you could earn money as one. Maybe we could get a DLC version of this video explaining the other classes.
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"dev, please, buff the artist class" 😭👌🏻 felt so real..
im a game dev
@@I_pvn good for you!
@@sertoonsstv ?
@@I_pvn BUFF US GOD DAMN IT
Nah, I’d nerf
As a brazilian, she is not that wrong about the secret op build
tell me more :3
as a brazilian, thank you.
as an argentinian, i agree *cries on 100-200 USD salary *
as an iranian I'm in the gold mine XD
sempre me lembro do meme quando vejo "as a brazilian" KKK
The game used to revolve around real player interaction, the fact that GMs are promoting botting is so wild to me, this patch sucks. No wonder the low expense build is OP, the game economy is flooded with so much gold that is now worthless and is almost impossible for solo players or small clans to find an unclaimed spawn to farm.
Yeah, current patch sucks for the class. But being an artist was never really something meta, so I'm not too worried about it. I'll keep maining the artist class until it's pretty much impossible to play. I just find it that fun to play tbh.
@@low_username it was somewhat meta hundreds of years ago. royal and noble classes used to donate to and commission painters to do work for them. you did need to use a lot of skill points before those classes would recognize you, thougj
crazy how this comment could literally be on an asmongold WoW video and nobody would notice
According to TierZoo, "S" tier builds are known for dominating the meta and having few counters. Paysite artists are actually extremely stable which easily makes them S tier, in my opinion! Especially since they ask for a small contribution from each user (quantity over quality) and the NSFW variant can never run out of work due to the "libido" passive skill most players have.
fellow tierzoo enjoyer 🗣️🗣️🙏🏽🙏🏽
It's great until the people that run the paysite are caught fucking over the artists. Also, paysite stuff is super fucked mechanically. You have all these people making content for your site, but they're not considered employees in any way, so they aren't entitled to getting benefits and are taxed as indie contractors, which is an absolutely stupid tax nerf. There's also a bugged mechanic with NSFW where companies stop liking money for some bizarre reason and don't want to process payments for NSFW content. I suspect there's a stack overflow type situation with it, where the greed stat just loops back around to negative and activates the puritan mechanic instead.
Another thing to keep in mind is that not everyone can run the NSFW variant, you need to invest points in sanity and have the perversion passive skill, a clashing combo indeed but it does prevent your avatar from being eating away at smut material. You also need to stablish your limits with other fellow players who want to hire your services as slowly but surely if you start taking all the weird commissions of stuff simply doesn't get you going you might end up in a weird midgame situation, resulting in having to reset and go back to the character selection screen.
Also depending on your spawn point, tipically on the west. Running this build might be detrimental if you want to run a NG+ and go for the industry questlines. Certain industry NPC leaders are coded to follow the puritan mode.
not to mention the “bottomless pockets” trait that anthro players often pick up accidentally
never thought id hear art career choices explained in the nerdiest way possible but thank you for adding that to my resources known as the brain
a great example of "dont nerf the good class, buff the bad ones"
This is unironically THE best video explaining this concisely I've ever seen, ty pikat. As someone in F tier I will be forwarding this to my confused family members that still don't understand what I'm doing lol
as a person living in the 3rd world country the success of the special build depends on how tax works on the country ur in its a 50/50 chance which is pretty high but tis will require you to be damn good artist from the get go
well i have the tax evasion skill so that won’t be a problem B)
The sideskill to get money while making art combos really nicely with the 3D art specialization, there is a strong market for technical artists, programmers with a good artistic eye, or 3D artists with technical knowledge
I wonder if it’ll consume too much of my time to learn, esp cause I enjoy 2d more 😭
i know this is a fun, non-serious vid, but honestly this is pretty spot on for the current art scene! it’s crazy to have witnessed how things have changed over the years in comparison to how it started. side note, i love all the little drawings you did for each “class” ❤
I think its just made to be more fun to watch, doesnt take away from the seriousness tho imo
Swinging into the Artist as a Multiclass. Spent the first 30 levels (well, 20. Levels 0-10 I was still figuring out how to play the game) as a Writer Main, subclassed in Fiction focused on the Fantasy and Sci-Fi sub-classes. Spent 10 levels grinding in the Film and Theatre archetypes, generalized both on stage/on camera and backstage/behind the camera. Unfortunately the Environmental Debuffs built up and Hard Locked game progress with my chosen classes. Figured Artist would be a good complimentary class to pick up for the next several levels, so very happy to see this video. Looks like I'll be spreading my skill points again across a few subclasses. Haven't been this excited to grind since I was level 20.
Explaining it like this is perfect for my autistic ah
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Bro I definitely understood this version of explaining than any other way.
yesyesyes this was great for me
Why is it the other way for me 😭
Dude was watching and thinking the exact same thing. Like explain careers in a way that makes sense to me please.
Entertaining video. I enjoyed it.
Made me think of:
The forbidden classes, the nft-mancer, the Ai maker, the pretender. Hopefully they'll get completely banned at some point.
The nft-mancer got so nerfed that now a days it’s completely useless- I feel the AI Maker is going the same way
AI Maker just uses Cheat Engine.
AI makers are just using noclip on the game developing no real skill
The real forbidden class is the NSFW furry artist.
Requires selling ones soul in exchange for significantly more money
@@Pfish1000 Yeah was about to say the secret 'forbidden class' is the NSFW artist, which then breaks down into which 'subclass' you spec into as to how much money you're going to earn. After all the more weird the fetish, the less likely there is for artists to cover it, the more likely you can charge a large premium for it. The Furry NSFW artist is, like, the surface level if you only do vanilla.
Use to work with a guy who did Furry NSFW art as his 'thing' when he wasn't working and he ended up quitting his part-time job because he would make more money per hour on commissions than he would actually working. Dude ended up bringing in like £2500 a month, almost double my full time salary, because he was willing to do some of the slightly weirder fetish art pieces (though he drew the line at Cub or Guro art, that was his limit). Also AI art can't really do *those* fetishes as well, they can do you standard 'nude standing pose' pretty well in an anime art style but...yeah...also people are very particular about their characters, usually with 4-5 pages of character reference sheets.
NSFW people have a LOT of money to throw around for their characters, Furries are just the easiest to access.
Resource maxing is not a bad build, it's more like a safe one. You cannot respec indeed, but it safes you from different potential minigames like being broke, starvation and parents pressure
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Mini Games 😅😢😂
"its like the devs dont even care about this game" real😭
starting on building my reach and portfolio while in college, commisions as well at some point. going for a programming course, hoping for my best ;-; living in SEA so the conversion rates will definitely help. it all comes down to how i manage my time i guess.
going the same route mate. Hope we thrive trough it o7
9:30 Those points and skills from previous classes are actually for making combos by yourself, even if they aren't DIRECTLY useful for art, they can help you in other areas. For example, if you were on the marketing area you're somewhat familiar with selling your art, you would only need to polish the build a bit
That’s a good point, actually. Say you spent a bunch of time building your software engineer skill points, you can potentially use those for an online storefront once you switch to artist class. Just because you can’t respec, doesn’t mean you can’t get creative!
@@ewoklord-726 Not all of it combos though. I specced some points into programming hoping to get into the game design artist only to find that the essential skills and knowledge are region locked. Got stuck doing backend code in a language with no transferability despite most of my points going to digital drawing and creative writing. No idea where to go from here as I still don't have points in marketing and CHA.
@@hexmech1893 Oh, that is rough. Best of luck with the rest of the game, man. Hope you get the class you’re looking for.
In my country (Chile) the build of "selling at conventions" is really nerfed by the meta imposed by the convention organizers, since they charge an initial fee of about $100-$150 to attend, but the sales expectation is about $50 -$90 and only serves for the perk "become known and meet other artists" 💔💔
"Puedes compartir mesa" 💀 btch aun asi son mas de 40 lucas
@@martinavasquez4289 duele ver a compañeros ilustradores que llevan vendido 20 lukas a las 4 de la tarde 💔
I thinking about that last comment of "please buff the artist class"
The main thing that seperates the artist class from other more generalized classes is that art isn't a necessity like other more common classes, it's a luxury for other players to treat themselves to whenever they feel like it
Artist generally have ways to offer their services to a wide scope of people because if how many times this luxury makes things look a little nicer (a well designed logo, a stream layout, a full character sheet etc')
The problem might be the lack of respect to artist which marks their work as much less of a luxury and more of a: "you should be thankful I'm even considering buying your trash art"
So the main way the increase the demand for art could be to create a meme (like metal gear solid) that prepetuates the idea of purchasing art as a means to elevate ones status, form connections between the client and artist, and support the hard working artist so they could contunue to provide their services to other people
And how do we do that?
By aboloshing AI "art" and supporting good artists
Maybe... I may just be talking out of my butt right now
this person gets it
@@bunniebie thank you I watch a lot of metal gear hideo essays
i think it’s best to get rid of ai art. say what you will, but i think it’s best
@@cheesekerper right thats why I said abolish AI "art"
@@krown_of_G yep, i agree
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This was a very fun and sweet video. I"m a multi-classer for sure. lmao
I went to school for game design (more art than tech). I was unable to go into industry due to medical reasons, so it was on me to do a LOT of freelance to stay afloat financially (barely made it lol). It tanked my skill points, however... and my art began to regress. After a lot of crazy obstacles and experiences, I ended up in a very fortunate circumstance to work on my own comic... and able to earn EXP quickly to regain my skill points!
I don't really make money from it (i make $25/mo on patreon)... but I hope it makes more someday. It requires a LOT of work. And a kneecap for me is that I don't have a pre-established name, and I hate using social media (no to mention, all mainstream social media platforms scrape your work with ai, even if you opt out. The opt out button does nothing fyi.) As an artist, my goal is to finish the project whether it is financially successful or not. Recently, I started tabling at expos. REAL connections and meeting people amongst your community is so crucial and special... and WAY easier to do if you are able to! :D
Above all else, my life's goal is to continue to progress in my art skill set. I highly recommend Schoolism for artists of any level. It's super motivational, and the courses are available at any time for you at whatever pace you need. They also have webinars you can attend live or get their recording later. It is $300/year... but it's for over 30 classes by professional master artists. Hundreds of hours and resources for ya! If you can get a group of your artist friends to pitch in for one account to share and make it more affordable--do it! :>
It is unfortunate with some people's circumstances that none of these avenues for art as a career are viable, and some things may not work out for a very long time for some. But if you are determined and keep going--something WILL happen for you! Seriously. Keep it up, guys.
My build is the game designer build as well as the manga inspired one as well. My game dev skills are getting better and better.
Your videos are always a blessing on this platform. Actually containing information in a fun and creative package condensed in a reasonable amount of time that doesn’t make me go „actually, what was this all about?“ -and that like a clockwork every week. So in case you are not hearing that enough, I really appreciate it :)
I've been feeling sad and down lately. But your videos is helping me so much. Your energy is so sincere and positive. It gives me a reasurrance. To have hope. For me to keep moving forward despite what life have been throwing. I know you might not see this message, but I just wanna say from my deepest heart. Thank you thank you so so much. ❤
loving the tierzoo vibes rn
im so glad you mentioned the words "artist skill tree" every time I bring this up irl with friends they just get googly eyes
Woohoo! Thanks for the awesome art builds! I'll have to test them when the next patch releases!
This was a really fun video, pikat. I like the descriptor of "tanky" for some builds. Super spot on.
I love the art RPG classes and the artstyle.
this was surprisingly fun to watch XD
pspsps, as a game dev myself, the best multiclass is: solo artist creates their own game. But beware: it's tricky. You'll burn out very quickly if you're not careful with it.
3:40 Secret OP Build, I can vouch that this indeed work. I've been doing commission for a bit and earned around 500$ and that is enough to pay food for a month or less. Since I'm a student, i don't really need to pay bills yet and this goes to my savings!
OH MY GOD, you are a genius for this format, AND its really informative.
Specially because im on the road to starting the last build you discussed x.x!
I was expecting another "click-baity useless tips" kinda video and was SO happily surprised by this level of entertainment and reflection on the subject! 😄
You explain this in the best and most digestible way possible!! Would love more of this!!!
There's another, secret option, if you're willing to go deeper. You can spec into TTRPG art.
If there's a community out there that's starved for art, it's the roleplaying game community, especially the subsets with a lot of people that want to publish games (like the Old School Revival and Mork Borg). There's a lot of success to be found with simply a Reddit post if you want to try.
Comic + NSFW is super OP it basically skips the last boss and you directly go to the credits. I went with tentacle build instead of furry build, and man, oh MAN, those tentacles are automatic money farms. It's an SSS tier, game breaking class that very little artists currently exploit.
I wanna get into this ngl!!
I am doing the resource maxing build, I'm studying architecture and want to be an environment/architecture artist so luckily the skills transfer directly. So I'll say it's not necessarily an F tier, not even software engineering because you could become an indie game developer. Very fun video!!
a moment i thought resourcemaxxing was going to be the most overlooked subclass; the potion seller.
here you focus not on gaining xp through art, but through making resources for other artists to use.
this might just be THE best art related video I've ever seen
The amount of amazing digital illustrators that would make a stupid comfy living if they just learned how to tattoo is mind blowing.
Thank you for making this, with all of the subclasses it can get overwhelming and confusing to find which one fits you, but this was a great way to explain what each subclass does!:D
Welp time to lvl up my NSFW Patreon build😂
This is such a great and creative video idea and all your drawings of artist fighters are so so cute !!! Great work
This is S tier content
I really love the way you use video game analogy's like "spawn locations"
Love seeing the PoE atlas tree. The bane of many artists. You could spend 10,000 hours doing contract work or you could grind for that sweet mirror drop
Love this! Thank you for continuing to teach us pikat! 💠
You forgot one! Gallery Artist! Artists that create work that aims at currently popular trends and then attempts to sell that art to a gallery, who in turn tries to sell it at a markup. No shame for forgetting it since it's a really old-school build, which fell out of favor since it's so RNG dependent early game, but some people still run it thanks to its snowballing capabilities.
Loved it! 😂 I ended up an RM myself cause I just didn't have the free learning resources (nor enough pokedollars) we have now online when I was younger, nor do I live in a country where you could earn a living just from making traditional art if you weren't born in a rich family with social capital, etc. So hobby it was.
I did end up doing something I don't hate that now gives me the resources to acquire the art equipment I need, so I count myself lucky!
Social media has its downsides but I'm so glad more and more people nowadays have access to free software and materials to do what they love.
this is the one the most creative ways to explain a tier list
This is actually.... Really... Inspiring. I'm speccing into being an Animator/multiclass with you in mind.
Love how you talk about this in gamer terms
I love this idea of classes of artist with skill trees, well played
I LOVED this video!! Mixing rpg with art was amazing
This was a very fun way to explain the paths for artist to take! I wish success to every artist putting in the work :)
I combine my passions of art and music together. I create album covers and concert posters. :)
I love the entire analogy of different carreer pathways in art. I'm probs gonna go freelancer/paysite build, thanks for sharing the tips!!!
I personally main a 100% solo stealth build.
I don’t participate in the main campaigns and mostly just roam the map, sight-seeing and watching other players from afar.
I get lost doing side quests and have no rep or association with any parties, guilds or other individual players.
Never thought this all would make so much sense explained like this~!
After reclassing a few times I've come to have a hybrid build between paysite and freelancer, with the additional difficulty nerfs from living in southamerica (although the somewhat less expensive life cost is balanced out with a lot of other cons like a higher% chance of criminal type random encounters)
Such an fun video! Your videos have been so good. Youre the best Pikat ❤
Just finding this now and it might be my favorite Pikat video ever 😂
oh that remix of song of storms, thats good feels
This was a shockingly fun video lol.
omg this was so much fun and the characters are such cuties thank you
I'm a multiclass freelance artist (furry spec) built on my original class of 3D game dev character artist. My guild had to remove a bunch of members due to funding issues though, so now I'm gonna try out combining those two classes in the VRChat server. Wish me luck!
I dunno, I feel like the resource maxing build could be kinda helpful. Like you said, it can help get you through the early game struggle, and besides, those skill points aren’t entirely wasted just because they’re not on the art skill tree. Say you spent a bunch of time on web development skills; you can potentially use those for an online storefront for the Con Artist subclass. Just because you can’t respec doesn’t mean you can’t get creative!
Then again, you’ve played it yourself, and I still don’t really know how this game works, so I’ll take your word for it.
Really fun video! Good job Pikat!!! 💛
Con artist\etsy\wherever else makes a surprisingly amount of money. Some niche fandoms will pay loads for any sort of merch, so you don't always have to worry about only doing popular meta flavour of the month art. A friend of mine made 30k in just a few months just by doing this. Just make sure to post your stuff EVERYWHERE and try to learn how to maximize social media strats.
9:04 I didn't think she was that high of level😮
This is amazing!! So much love going into the incredible character designs for each build
This is a genius way to explain it
"Completely unusable for art" bestie, what are you talking about? it's time to make an indie game.
i love that you made classes for each of them
You guys heard about the Artist-Dictator hybrid class? One legendary player made a shot on that class but in the end he failed to dictate his territory.
Very risky.
Me personally, I have a modified version of the resource maxing, I call it, talmaxing, you need to pick classes to reach as many stats in the early game, I went for game designer, comic artist, the programming from game designer, paired with the comic artist class gives me the subtrait, technical animator, from there you need to find which stat has an exp boost and capitalize on that stat, from there you just minmax that one ability
Starting from outside of art then moving into it isn't exactly a waste of 'stat' points, tbh. It's a matter of figuring out how to integrate that into your artwork or how your experiences there might influence how you deal with working in art. Eg. If you work with digital technology, especially programming, that can be used for things like website building that utilizes art designs. All sorts of things with programming and art. It's just a matter of figuring out where the things you learned are applicable
Worst comes to worst when starting from outside of the Art 'class' is to go into writing and use the experience from before as part of the fodder for writing/drawing comics. But there's so many ways to utilize all sorts of different pieces of knowledge, so long as you aren't fixed to one set medium to create in. Eg. video content with chemistry that creates physical artistic pieces is an option
This is such a fun idea!
Would be fun to see a part 2! :)
I feel like a Healer class is needed on this list to complete the Trinity!
Maybe a Spiritual Artist!? Does Art to heal the heart, you know? Hit them right in the feels. ^^
hobby artist class
I love the fact you have called them builds…video perfection 😂
Tried the convention build, was not prepared for it.😭😭😭
you just combined my 2 favorite things in one video: art and video games :D thank you, very entertaining!
You'd think software engineering would put offer really cool re-spec buffs when moving to the artist class 🤔 you could make plugins for yourself, make a cool website for your art, and (obviously) work on some indie games!! Although CSP only lets the JP users make plugins 😭😭 so it would probably be more useful for people that work with animation
I think freelance artist is a new meta also because, a lot of art schools in some countries don’t focus on digital art and the industry, and rather on traditional methods which aren’t a perfect build for everyone. So it’s also kinda rng based. Freelance artist build is meta because it looks into what is new and leaves u a lot of freedom and if you can manage your resources well you will be OP.
Your commitment knows no bounds! 💯 -- "The only stratagem guaranteed to fail in our fast--changing world is avoiding risk."
Man the devs nerfing the industry class after i spent 8 years in the art school quest is roughhhh. Gotta reclass ig
Been wanting to be a comic artist when i was young and loved playing Paladins in video games, so your drawing of the comic artist subclass was calling out to me 😅
oh my god that SEA spawn thing is so good i never thought of that I NEED TO DRAW NOW
Brazil spawn is super OP. Just by living here, if you get paid in USD, you get a 5.44 times multiplier to your income.
I keep finding myself watching your videos as the algorithm suggests them to me. So enjoyable. Subscribed!
this is certified ballin
im multiclassing, started multiclassing the op secret build and freelance build, spent like 6 levels on that when i decided to multiclass with the college build out of boredom of the initial class setup and now just added the con artist subclass because yet again it got boring and i wanted to mix things up jnmhnjmhg it was, a lot, but im still going!! the con artist class is pretty fun, much more than i was expecting! tho it takes a lot of planning to come up with merch and juggle all that with the college and freelance quests
I needed this video so much 😭
Would love to see a video about your personal art progress tbh
Like... maybe progress from start to now and some advice on studying and improving at different stages of skill
Pikat now been through every artist ytubers canon event ( getting sponsered by skillshare)
with u on the resource maxing build been investing and working to get my electrical engineering degree but really feel like my passion is art and since in just a few years ill be done with my degree ill just have to stick with it
The vtuber artist spec can crossover with a lot of others, fan facing or vtuber facing. If one learns how to rig in 2d, or 3d model and rig the possibilities are tremendous
1:17 OH MY GOD A BLOX FRUIT REFERENCE THAT CAUGHT ME OFF GAURD
Even though I don't plan on having my job be an artist (cause I like it as a hobby), it was fun learning the different ways or classes that you could earn money as one. Maybe we could get a DLC version of this video explaining the other classes.
This video is gonna go hard I can tell omg