A Great Lesson Learned – Scott A. Story

After more than half a year posting art videos on YouTube weekly, I’m going to put this effort on the backburner. I’ll still be posting new art videos there, but I’ve also seen that this venture is unlikely to grow into a sustainable business model.

I’ve had marginal growth on my channel, but that mostly involved posting two or three times a week. If this was my dream, this would be fine, and I would pursue it wholeheartedly. It was always intended to be a side hustle to share my art for my art’s sake, and it can still be that. I just don’t foresee it growing into a money-making business in its own right.

I learned a lot about video editing and shooting. I came in as a complete noob, and I have developed my directorial skills up to a solid, beginner’s footing. I’ve used DaVinci Resolve and my phone to do all the work, and it’s given me a real appreciating for what goes into making more elaborate and expensive media. Props to all of you whom make great content.

I’ve also discovered quite a bit about my art and techniques. The painstaking editing process means I’ve had to live up close with every mark, and that’s helped me work out all sorts of kinks and time wasters in my process. It has also afforded me the distance to see what I like and what I don’t and has helped make my art more “me.”

So, my art videos will continue, just on a less, structured schedule. It’s time for me to get back to writing, I think.

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Scott Story

Scott Story is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist who lives in the Midwestern USA. He has been involved in the comic industry since 1992, and webcomics since 2004. He has drawn comics for dozens of publishers including Image, Amp, Arrow, Digital Webbing, Arcana, Spinner Rack Comics, and many others.

Scott is known for the rich detail, clever storytelling, and organic quality to his art. As a cartoonist, Scott is an all-purpose creator– he writes, pencils, inks, colors, letters and designs. Scott Story has also done advertising art; covers for books, CDs and tabletop games; movie, event and concert posters; interior art for tabletop games; logos and website graphics; and a wide range of other media. Scott was trained in traditional media, such as acrylics and water colors, but now he divides his time between the traditional and digital art worlds. He is in demand for his digital painting skills, used on covers, posters and prints.

As the creative director of Story Studios LLC., he has published two graphic novels, Johnny Saturn: Synns of the Father, and Johnny Saturn: Homeland Insecurity, with two more in the process of being completed. Story Studios has also published seventeen comics, a sketchbook, and a pinup book. He has written articles for Blueline Pro’s Sketch Magazine, and prose stories for print anthologies and the web. His webcomic, Johnny Saturn, is a past winner of the Webcomics Readers Choice Awards, and Scott was a speaker at the prestigious Graphic Engagement academic conference hosted by the Purdue University Comparative Literature Program.

Scott is a member of the Indy Webcomic Group, and he was the creator and a founding member of the highly successful Collective of Heroes, a juried collective of indie superhero webcomics.