>>32421687>Do you realize how many doujins are there at any given event?Yes, a single person buys them sometimes in the hundreds because of how cheap they are. Artists get recognition by promoting their work prior to the event and they always tell in which part of the convention their booth is going to be. The existence of hundreds of thousands if not millions of works involving original characters rather than fanart of established ones for extra popularity, is proof that artists do not need to pander that way, which makes sense since as I said the actual income from these events is very little due to the small number of copies and very long periods inbetween releases (most artists wait 3 months between summer and winter comiket for example). Half the time artists work into collabs, where someone organizes a bunch of people to draw a small doujin with a common theme like a certain fetish or simply about characters from a certain series (or both), then the organizer groups up the pages into a single book, also sold in just a convention booth at a limited number, meaning even smaller expectations for big profits per artist.
>no one wants to spend time making something that barely anyone will buy. Because what I said about things like comiket releases being more about passion projects than a serious source of income, artists find themselves drawing whatever they want most of the time without feeling much pressure in that regard. In fact, if you read the afterword, usually what artists usually fear is just getting the doujin done on time for the event, which can take months.
here's someone making a doujin of the grotesque big fairy from Breath of the wild instead of any of the other far more popular characters, now that's passion.
https://twitter.com/muronagachashu/status/857873009280811008 