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Being an Artist is painful....
3 years ago
Being an Artist is painful for many reasons.
Right now, I'm succumbing to the 'numbers' side of it all. The pain that it is to work so hard for hours and hours to make a image, with different effect and lighting and tweaks, to upload it, and a month later you see an artist more than triple the interactive of an image in a post made a few hours ago, with something that must have taken about 1 hour to make.
I don't mean any ill will to anyone out there that can be successful with their art, its a VERY harsh and at times competitive world out there, especially within the art community. But, am I doing something wrong? Have I already done something wrong I am not aware of? I just feel like in this sink or swim area of creative recognition, someone has tied bricks to my feet...
I want to do good. I want to do much better. But I have no instruction or influence on HOW to do better. Or even if its worth it. I see many others grow and thrive, and whilst its fantastic to see them do so, I kinda feel like I'm not doing the same, and I don't know or understand why...
Blurb over, noise made, critique on me to help me grow, if this is even read.
Thanks for putting up with me.
Right now, I'm succumbing to the 'numbers' side of it all. The pain that it is to work so hard for hours and hours to make a image, with different effect and lighting and tweaks, to upload it, and a month later you see an artist more than triple the interactive of an image in a post made a few hours ago, with something that must have taken about 1 hour to make.
I don't mean any ill will to anyone out there that can be successful with their art, its a VERY harsh and at times competitive world out there, especially within the art community. But, am I doing something wrong? Have I already done something wrong I am not aware of? I just feel like in this sink or swim area of creative recognition, someone has tied bricks to my feet...
I want to do good. I want to do much better. But I have no instruction or influence on HOW to do better. Or even if its worth it. I see many others grow and thrive, and whilst its fantastic to see them do so, I kinda feel like I'm not doing the same, and I don't know or understand why...
Blurb over, noise made, critique on me to help me grow, if this is even read.
Thanks for putting up with me.
I was made fun of by trolls a decade ago and no matter who helped me, they never helped.
Sorry about your problems.
I hope one day you look to pick up the creative buzz again, and know that you are in a welcoming community all in all.
There is a welcoming community but sadly if you don't agree with a certain person or their ideals, you are cancelled or blocked or banned. It's horrible too.
Be careful out there.
And I think you deserve a lot more attention than you are getting indeed.
Not to mention you are a kind and amazing dude to talk to and be around.
*Hugz close*
I am not an expert, but I feel like that more tags (especially the fetish ones) on pics tend to help.
Lastly, spreading out uploading your pictures (once every hour or so) instead off all at once might help. That way you get a small amount of main page traffic for every pic and thus, more traffic to your page. Instead of a little bit for all those pics at the same time.
I hope this helps, you skilled Fox! <3333
And I have been trying to get the right tags in, as years back I never did. I have been told to also work on folders for art cataloguing, so thats an option too.
And spreading uploads might be a good option, as I do tend to bulk upload when it comes about.
Thankies for the advice and kind words!
I started posting because I was trying to learn drawing and thought someone might enjoy what I drew. Now I'm looking after my kids so have no time to draw, I'm watching so many artists I don't have time to view all the art, and I've fallen into entering raffles instead of trying to draw for myself.
I love seeing good artists' sketches, to see how they move between stages of a drawing.
It's obviously different if you're trying to sell commissions for more than a hobby, but I think it's still numbers - post sketches, doodles - something may stick that you didn't expect!
And its totally understandable when life take the higher priority over the hobby, I guess the only thing to that is to not let the hobby fade away completely.
It is a mix of commission work and hobby work, and recently I started posting on Twitter progressive WIPs of a new image, from sketch to completion, and is that something that would want to be seen here on FA?
I'd certainly like to see WIPs - even if they're only hidden in scraps. I find Twitter to be the worst way of browsing art.