How Can I Make My Art More Appealing?
4 years ago
I'm curious, those who still watch me, what is it about my art that disinterests commissioners? What can I do to make it more appealing to people?
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It is mostly chibi which, while has a broad range for appeal in many people, your main FA user is intrested is Dicks.
Being on FA for a little over 15 years, I can safely say there are certain things you have to do to get numbers up.
1. Have YOUR profile in mind when making art.
You need to have a signature that's not only your own, but distinct. While your chibi style is amazing, can you tell what makes yours different from any other?
2. It does wonders to have brand recognition.
The names that come to the top of my head are Zen, Fel, Blotch, Babystar, Lavanderpandy.
All have a uniquely them style.
3. Optionally, a lot of furs have a fursona that is uniquely thiers that they get out into the public eye. If you draw more of yours and commission other artists to draw it, you basically have a mascot for your art.
4. Find out what time most people who watch you favorite your art, and try and post 30 mins or more before that. This means you will get maximum amount of likes on one picture and get more exposure.
Please note, I'm not an artist my self and you can dismiss my comment.
I honestly love your work and do look forward to seeing more in the future.
I've been on FA almost just as long, since early 2007, and I've deleted over 1000 submissions from my gallery at one point. I've posted a lot, and a lot of different things, over the years, but I guess I've just never been able to really grab peoples attention I feel like. My gallery is mostly things I've been commissioned to do in more recent years at this point, but I don't get commissioned a whole lot, or for a lot of different things, so it's not an extensive gallery currently, which I'm sure hurts me here.
I think my style is recognizable as mine, I've been told by others it is as well, I'm not sure how else I could make it different or stand out without changing it away from my style. I don't just do chibis, but again I can see how they are blocking basically everything else at this moment. Though even then, I know some people do like cute things too but I can't seem to find them lol.
I just posted a non-chibi piece though that I am really proud of and I feel like it didn't really get any love, but if people skip over my submissions I don't know how to change that.
I've had a fursona before and used to post a lot of art of them, for years I did, I'm not sure how long you've been watching me so you might not have seen them at the time, and whenever I did commission sample pieces I did them of him, but seeing people steal him and stuff like that is always discouraging, and I didn't find having a fursona made a huge difference unfortunately. I do see how it makes me more recognizable though, in a way, to have a mascot of sorts, though I definitely couldn't afford to commission any pieces of any character I did use for this purpose anyway, so it would come back around to, if people don't look at my art, would it make a difference, you know?
I have literally no idea how to determine when people who watch me are most active to try and post around then.
I'm glad though that despite all of this, you say you enjoy my work, I appreciate that, thank you.