Personally I wanna see more same size vore stuff from you, you don't seem to do that as much
Also, a significant portion of vore furs and furries in general left for sites like Twitter and Itaku, so some of this is out of your control

Yeah, really should do more same size. Always struggling with it to make it look right. Should practice it a bit more.

I feel the same about a lot of what you said.

I think people now really wanna see bigger projects or its just down to luck.
I always find doing a comic or sequence grabs more attention than a single solo image.

but sometimes really just feels like its down to luck or if you are in a clique or group of people that help expose you.

That's definitely right but I also see even if it's something bigger it usually doesn't change much. It's even that I feel a silly little sketch is just doing as good or even better than something like a comic that might take days to complete. I personally just don't like leaving something just as a sketch. In the end it's probably just the idea behind it

Yeah ideas usually too. Also drawing any new furbait that comes out in media usually gets attention.

For me anything with digestion AND weight gain featured does better. I think people especially like the weight gain part.

I always have an issue of trying to leave something as a sketch too. usually my "sketches" might as well be called linework because I get too focused in on the lil details.

Also post volume I think is another factor now. theres so much being uploaded, you gotta always upload regularly to make sure you got stuff in the stream. which is hard if you have other jobs, responsibilities, ect.

I always loved your F/F vore

But females shouldn't be prey! Hehe x3

ha, disagree nothing like a little girl and girl

To me personally you’re not doing anything wrong. You’ve improved a lot since I started watching/following you on here and X. I’ve loved seeing your art since I first saw it. I’m pretty sure that you’re the first one to get me interested in furry art to begin with over a decade ago.

Heh thankies :3 I sometimes hear that from people and it always makes me happy. It just always comes with "years ago" and while that's absolutely not a bad thing and I totally understand that Furry and even vore is more public now and there are many more options, it just feels like it's not possible to inspire new people anymore.

You’re very welcome. Just speaking honest truth. I’m very sure that you’ve helped inspire some newer people. I can absolutely say that if I were to have ever really started drawing again that you’d be one of my biggest inspirations for it. I’m sure that you’ve probably inspired a lot more people than you know, including some newer artists. Just keep drawing for the love of it. Even if this site is dying a bit on interactions you’ve definitely got a lot of quiet fans as well, including me.

Personally, I already love your art style plenty specifically because of the bright colors and thick lines, but from looking at your gallery I'd say people would appreciate more M/M, and internals

Yeah, overall I should do more male stuff. I still have several male characters I haven't drawn so far because I always have more fun drawing the female ones x3

Yeah, 80% of the fandom is guys that like guys, so that will bring a lot of people that don't like females your way

Also there is the classic way to get new people interested, raffles

you are not doing anything wrong. i think its just how things are personally. because i am guessing that most of your watchers are males so around the mid 20s, they just stop telling people how they feel about different things especially with something like vore.

Yeah, that is probably one of the problems.

I think it's more of an issue of update volume. There's a pattern in this fandom where someone in their late teens / early 20s posts nonstop - they're in college and have minimal responsibility with real life. They have time to draw and post and create. Then you can watch it happen over time- their art improves, they hit peak performance- a unique style emerges that's iconic to the particular artist. And as soon as they get good, they stop. Sometimes they delete their gallery. And that's just sort of where the story ends.

For you, in particular Swift, you've survived the great filter. The split with forceswerewolf, the new normal daily life, and the slowed upload pace - and yet here you stand creating art and posting journals. For all intents and purposes, you've beaten the odds.

Your style is fine - auto-graphical even, and I get excited when I see you post again. But this isn't 2009, and FA has a lot more users - viewers have a lot more options. If you don't exist on browse-by-category finder, then you see no new traffic.

If what's bothering you is the numbers game, then the tactic is sorta obvious: double-up. Prepare two pieces, be they single illustrations, sketches, full color in your style, whatever- one for you or your friends- the piece you actually *want* to draw - and one for the masses, fanart from sonic and pokemon tends to instantly get views. Then when you post, post both and carefully tag them.

What this should do, in theory, is rope in people who are into some fandom or another, who might not have heard of you, but then let them get to know your gallery in particular and like your characters.

Your art is fantastic, but life is happening and you likely don't have time to just sit around and blast out art like you did a decade ago. So try working in 2s. One piece for you (or your friends) and one for the masses. Your most glaring weak spot isn't really in any of the fundamentals of art- it's in the marketing.

Thankies for the nice words ❤️
Yeah I really struggle with my available time and can't draw as much as I want. I sadly also got much slower because for some reason I dislike just uploading sketches and always wanna finish a picture I started working on and somehow it takes me ages even the pictures look really simple. I hope to find a way to work faster and maybe that helps to at least increase the amount of uploads. Usually if I just have a idea or a theme I wanna draw I always use a popular character people (and myself) really like just to have it more appealing than using my own characters I did a poor job with developing and giving them more personality outside of my little foxy brain. Yeah I suck at marketing. Luckily I don't have to rely on it to make money.

Honestly, I’m iffy about the idea of latching on to a fandom. A fandom can easily consume an artist’s entire career, in my own past I was with the Sonic fandom for a while and none of those people actually cared for my original works, and when I stopped doing Sonic stuff they just stop giving a shit about me. This was back on pre-2016 DeviantArt when I had like 500 watchers (which was pretty good for the time). Absolutely zero of those people carried over and actually watch or interact with me now.

Depending on a fandom can make you feel more isolated or more like a slave than you already do and often the results are not worth it.

I think your shading and lighting has become a lot more harsh. The older are also have some hand-drawn charm (or rather, fewer prefect lines) which at least I feel added a bit more depth.

But the vibrant colours do have an impact. Softer colours with highlights and shading seemed to be something you did well at in the past.

Also I've follow you from a very long time ago, even as a non-vore person. :)

Yeah I still haven't found a shading I'm comfortable with. My old one just based on a lot of smearing and I just started disliking it. The new one I feel works better with the line style but I'm still not satisfied. I also agree that currently I put way to much effort in making everything cleaner and more structured looking instead of of the more careless and "messy" style back then. Maybe I should try finding something in between. Would also help me working faster I guess.

I think experimentation is good! And posting even partial pieces might garner some useful feedback.

If I may recommend, experiment with your art - try out new things and see what may stick! Getting stuck in the same old same old may stagnate the brain and even if all pieces arent winners, some may stand out due to their experimental nature! Also helps one develop artistically :D Try out mimicking different styles and absorb things you like about it to your own style? I completely understand the weight of pieces underperforming when you put your heart to it, but the internet environment nowadays favors quantity over quality in most cases, so like others have suggested, having a steady stream of content usually entices people more.

Very often a picture starts experimental or even has the purpose to try out something new but I sadly always fall back and try to finish it the usual way. My brain somehow is also bad at absorbing things x3 I might be able to copy something if I really want to but my brain just copies it and don't learn or understand how it's done. That's why I still struggle with anatomy or drawing hands. My brain refuses to learn. Will need to work on that somehow x3

Personally, your art is the main force to push me to join furry fandom, over decade ago. I absolutely love the old style and energy behind the arts. While my favorite is your old, thin line and more fluffy style, i still like your current style.

I did say keep up with the sharing your arts, maybe bring some old characters you made before. For me i want to see more Rena and Swift, would love to see more of the iconic duo doing some shenanigans together.

Thankies. It is something I somehow struggle with. I mean as long I made people happy with my art or even inspired them it doesn't really matter if it's my old or new stuff. It makes me happy anyway but I hear a lot that people prefer my old content and for me personally it's the opposite because I prefer my newer stuff. I just struggle with that I'm just not able to surpass my old self. Probably how it feels for certain TV shows. People usually like the first few seasons maybe even because of nostalgia but don't really liking the newer seasons as much. It might look improved but apparently there isn't the same soul behind it. Probably it's only natural x3

Well I love your art especially the rare swift pieces I would love to see more of the small animations or comic pieces you used to do but I don't see anything to improve on if you really want something why not mess around with drawing comics and doing backgrounds? Your backgrounds are lovely and simple most of the time the ones that you do detailed backgrounds on stand out amongst your art.

Comics and animations sadly taking a really long time and would increase the gap between uploads even more but I totally understand it's more appealing. Just a few days ago I finally understood how to do animations with my current art program. Maybe I still give it a try again.

I still love your style bud, it's one of the more unique ones. Especially in the vore community. Though for me, I've mostly fallen off oral vore myself. It's not as interesting to me as it used to be. Not to say I don't like it. But it's rare that I fav it nowadays. Usually only when it's in comic or animation format.

My interest mainly fall in with unbirth or cock vore now. To put it simple.

Yeah, preferences definitely changing as well. I mean when I got into vore I wanted everything as safe and clean as possible and by now my preferences are really messed up xD

Sadly with unbirth and cock vore I can't help much x3 it's not that I don't like it but I have to be in a very rare and specific mood for it and even then I would take UB over CV x3 It's just sadly something I don't enjoy drawing at all.

I get that for sure. More or less how I feel about drawing oral vore too.

Same with the safe and clean part lol. Still don't like perma fatal or hard. But gotta have digestion of some sort now.

Well, I would like to see you draw bigger bellies, make some preds chubbier. Show some ass more. Just a lot more girth in general all around.

Definitely trying to learn more different body types. I just need to convince my brain that learning new stuff is important x3

I've always been a sucker for Rena's maw, so any up-close shots of her maw and throat like these, or any other female character, are what I've always been drawn to personally:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/13652113/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/11060477/

Why it doesn't surprise me that you wanna see more Rena maw x3 but it does surprise me that the second example you used has no uvula x3

EEHEEE Well what can I say? A nice gullet is a nice gullet!

I feel you there. You started off with being just one of a handful of artists to draw a specific fetish and now there is so much talent flying around. I'd say realistically it's about even being seen in the first place. Take the time to always make tags, once they pass the initial upload it's the only way anyone new will see them. Think about when and how you upload. My personal interests are size difference, footpaw, oral vore. You have the advantage of being known so I know you will be able to succeed under the right mindset. Also hello, thanks for all the many years of art sorry I've never said much over all that time.

I'm absolutely guilty about not caring enough about tags. Something I definitely should change.
No worries I don't expect people to say anything at all just hoping you guys enjoy some of my silly art~ thankies

Miss you and Rena being cute, haven't seen Yuki in a while

No worries, there will be more x3

I can't speak for others, but I just don't comment as much as I used to. After so many years, it's gotten to a point where instead of actually viewing most of the artwork that shows up in my inbox, I instead just skim through the inbox to get the gist from the thumbnails, and then move on. Usually only actually clicking if something particularly stands out, or if I just happen to spot it when I'm in just the right mood. And I imagine there are other people who have been on the site for a very long time who are similar.

Oh I totally understand that. I'm the same and actually even guilty that I usually just save a picture I like on my pc or phone but forget to klick the like button. With that the artist don't even has this as feedback even it was something I liked...

I think part of it is just Algorithm hell. FA is particularly known for being impossible to grow on unless you're already big. Twitter is.... Twitter... And DA is honestly the only place where I get any traction. I think right now is just one of those times where artists are struggling to get anywhere right now. Do what makes you happy! ^^

That's true. I mean I still kinda like FA or Twitter the most but it's definitely not the same. DA for example I do see lots of favorites but nothing else (or a higher amount of hate comments compared to other sites ) I just don't like how DA is built anymore. I just keep up uploading there because it's where I originally started as an artist. It's also just full of AI...
Don't think there is a perfect place anymore x3 thankies

Yeah... It's rough being an artist right now. But we all will ride the waves

Honestly I find your art style REALLY appealing, in my opinion it’s one of the most recognizable and interesting on the platform, but it’s always good to branch out from time to time if you feel something should change, as long as you enjoy what you are doing. Just remember that quite a few newer artists were inspired by you!

Thankies ❤️ For me of course it's most important that I enjoy what I do. Just looking into ways people could enjoy it more. I assume currently it's just a mood because I'm a little more emotional than usual x3

The bolder and heavier lines makes tinier things have less detail, though that's not really an issue if the overall image is big enough. I enjoyed your short comics more than single shot images. Im a sucker for stories.

Heh yeah I have this problem a lot that my lines causing trouble on smaller things. Happened a few times I completely had to redraw the entire line work on higher resolution x3

Artists are their own best critic! If you’re asking these sorts of questions, you probably already feel like something could be improved about your art. I bet you could spend some time looking at your own work, old and new, find what pieces you’re most happy with and which you aren’t and determine what you should focus on moving forward! Anyone can give you their opinion on what you should do but it’s not going to be any good if you don’t feel right going in that direction. You need to determine what you like most about your own art and what you want to produce, and then focus on making that the best you can make it!

My biggest personal problem with my art is that I never took time learning actual basics. I still struggle so much with anatomy and perspective. Every picture I finish just feels like I got lucky instead I knew what I was doing x3 Always feel like because all of my stuff mostly looks very similar ( face direction and such) people maybe just got bored over time. Sadly my brain just refuses to learn from tutorials and such... X3

Well at a certain point, you have to decide what's important to you! Do you want to put in all the focus and effort to improve the quality of your work? You could do that if you put your mind to it! But maybe you'd rather just draw for fun and not stress yourself out trying to improve. That's okay too! It's fine to just draw what you want and not worry whether you're using the right techniques or doing anatomy and shading and all that correctly. It's okay to just draw because you like it. And if that's the case, you should stop worrying so much about what other people think of your art! Just do what you want!

A comic series is a great way of building an audience.

Oh I wish I would have the patience for that x.x

I think engagement is just not as common now as it used to be. Not sure exactly what the reason for that is, but I think it might just be because there's so much stuff that people don't really take the time to comment on individual pieces as much as they used to.
This isn't really something you can change to "fix" really. Your audience is still there; they still like your stuff. But they just don't engage directly as much for whatever reason.
That said, one thing other people said in the comments here is true: Longer, more involved works like comics or animation, tend to garner more engagement. You'll probably see that if you look at your stats here on FA and sort by favorites.

Yeah that's true. Whenever I find a new artist I'm always confused even the person is like 10 times better still not doing very great with views, likes and such. Times have changed. Should actually be happy I'm an artist for such a long time and now at least have people that care about my stuff and I can make happy. Maybe will try an animation now and then. Just wish I would be faster x3

Yeah, getting grandfathered in helped me support myself through art for quite some time. XD

It's important to note that there are a lot of people who just look at art and appreciate the artist but not necessarily press the fav button. I say that because I'm guilty of it. You certainly have a style and it is not bad by any means, but I guess compared to other artists, your art isn't "wowing" me. I know that sounds harsh, but I'm saying from a purely practical standpoint, it would help to try new things. For me anyway (I can't speak for everyone else), your art may be too stylized. You can think of it like food. People tend to associate a restaurant with a specific taste or smell the same way an art-admirer associates an artist with a style. Well, if that art-admirer happens to not be in the mood for that style, they look elsewhere, whereas if you branch out a bit more, an art-admirer who isn't in the mood for that style doesn't have to look to another artist to see something different. Take my words with a grain of salt ,but that's my take. I say this as someone who knows full and well how disheartening the numbers game can be.

That's totally fine. I don't expect everyone to like my style or everything I do. I also follow a lot of artists for something very specific I like about their art. If it's not what I'm looking for I just keep scrolling and even if I like something I usually just save it and keep going. I rarely comment or even forget to give a like most of the time... I actually shouldn't be bothered by something when I'm part of the "problem" ...

Honestly, I think a lot of it is the community has changed. Thinking back to 2008, Ekas Portal only had three or four pages of galleries. You probably were interacting with the same 100 people or so for a while.

Now vore artists are everywhere. Hell, I'm starting to earn that title. Now we've been moving towards an era of cliques where the people who get real engagement are the standouts. Basically, the worth of an individual artist is starting to diminish because the crowd is huge and art is numerous.

You've changed a lot over the years and through that noise, people who may have been huge fans don't even realize it anymore and there's not much that can fix that. I guess the answer I've found is to shut it all out and keep going as best you can.

That's true. Now there is an insane amount of great new artists but I also feel most art became more "extrem" in a way. I mean when I got into vore I liked everything as clean and safe as possible and by now I'm so much more messed up x3 still I always kept doing rather tame art. Maybe I'm just not naughty enough by todays standards x3

You are doing pretty good art btw ❤️

I can see that, needing to be more out there. I always worry it's more needing to have a really identifiable style in addition to being willing to do some more extreme stuff but that doesn't seem to be the only formula.

Also thanks, it means a lot.

If I were you I would change, temporary, my general concept.

I say this, because I, personally, always looking for the concept first, and then the quality. Maybe other people do this too?
Sometimes a nice concept, even it is drawn in black and white sketch, I like way better than a 90% photorealistic, stylized ARTWORK!

Forget get quality, forget the style. Try out some now concepts!
For example. You made many vore theme where the pred dominates the macro. Maybe, a smoothed concept of this could help?
For example, a vore theme with a concept where the characters are actually do this with equal mind, as their weekly fun routine or something.

Try it out, and you'll see how people like it or dislike it. Whether it works or not. If it didn't work, than you can trash this idea any time. :)

I agree. Some more variety of themes and concepts might help. I feel the same with some artists I like. They do good stuff but mostly the same concepts I personally don't like as much and because of that I of course don't really look at it as much as I should. It's just very difficult change things because obviously it's more fun drawing with own preferences in mind x3

You mentioned the key issue in your third sentence. Traffic on FA is way way down especially after all the drama last year. XTwitter has had a bomb dropped on it. Deviantart... personally I don't even touch it, I don't feel welcome there(if I was doing more fanart I might)

Eka's is Eka's, it's always been a bit sleepy.

After the initial upload wave here on FA, I feel like I only get a bump in my work/page when its shared by someone else who has a lot of traffic: meaning it would have to be fanart or someone very active online who commissions me and posts it around as well. People are so used to scrolling feeds anymore that I don't think they poke around in old galleries unless they are hungry for specific content or are curating their own page of art or favorites.

I know people post my works in Discord/Telegram channels, you might wanna share your stuff in those outlets if you haven't tried that and are wanting more exposure.

So yeah, I dont think theres anything wrong with your content or skill, it's just the nature of the net/fandom changing. I don't care for it, it makes it a lot more difficult on the management side of things. I don't like constantly shooting out bite sized bits of engagement, I want to have things centralized, and organizable. I don't want people having to wade through pages or memes and discourse just to see my art but it seems like the preferred/forced way to engage online anymore :/

Likewise I much prefer favoriting art than reblogging it, since I'm happy to reblog, but I have to scroll forever to see the art again. Yeah a reblog will bring more traffic but it just makes everyone's content that much more disposable, the way the rest of it is structured. It would be nice if there could be the best of both worlds in that way. Curate the things you love in addition to reblogging or whatever instead of burying it all in an endless feed. I hate the direction that things are going in that sense.

Yeah, things probably just changed a lot. Luckily at least at the moment I don't have to rely on it to make money. I'm horrible at advertising myself anyway x3 but in the end like I said it's not about being popular or something, just the fear to be completely irrelevant but looking at all the people who took their time to comment on this journal shows me there are still lots of people who care and as long people can enjoy my silly stuff I'm more than happy. Sometimes there is just such an emotional low on my side.

I personally have always loved your bright and bubbly art style. Your color work is very well done. And the way you draw characters has always brought me a smile. And it has really helped to inspire me to continue with my own silly little art adventures and experiments. Even before I worked up the courage to start posting my own artwork to this website.

I've always kinda looked up to you like the other artists that I look up to.

I love the anatomy that you create and experiment with. I adore all of the maws, the internal shots and the really cute expressions. And the slight chubbieness that you give to some of the gals, after they've had a meal is adorable.~🖤🩵

I'm sorry that you are struggling. I hope that you will be able to have better luck with things. And I wish you luck with all of the other ideas and adventures that your artwork will take you on.

Thank you so much ❤️ As long I can make people happy with my silly art or even maybe inspire I'm happy. Sometimes I'm just on a emotional low. Nothing to worry about. Keep up your cute work as well ❤️

I’ve always like your art, I’ve looked at furry art before but I never really wanted to draw it until I saw your art , back in 2016 I believe? I don’t remember the exact date I would browse it, but you did do more short comics, and even tiny animated pieces, I remember seeing those and wanting to make my own. I like that you don’t just draw only vore although it is a lot of your gallery. But in my experience fetish and pornographic content always gets more attention than Safe for work stuff.

Variety is what’s important to me, maybe you should try some things you don’t typically do, like more Same-ish size stuff, or macro art. Maybe experiment with different body types a bit more, I mainly draw skinny characters. Comics in my gallery always get plenty of attention, even though their much more work to do. If I had any recommendation, I would say spice up that you draw a bit, I find it much better for me to do that. Either way, I hope you get a clearer head soon Swift.

Your the whole reason I got into drawing and Id hate to see you give up posting any of your art.

I mean hey, ya gotta vent when ya gotta vent

As for ideas...hard to say what could be done, as like, my first thought isn't actual advice, its just what *I* personally like.

Posting more often would likely be a good, albeit perhaps not practical, option. It both keeps your stuff on first pages, in peoples' feeds, in peoples' heads, and can help keep it from getting lost or overlocked, especially if you post multiple things at once

And...a discord or server or such, *might* be helpful, to get more direct feedback and such, but...I would urge caution on that option, as server moderation can get pretty hectic and insane, and it might just make you feel worse

I've been watching you for a long time, but I'm not too into the slime stuff. You did some great same sized stuff, and I'd like to see more of it.

I wouldn't put much on yourself in this regard. The way people interact with others and media online has changed a lot in the past handful of years. It's only natural that engagement slows down because the common flow is to leave a like and move on these days.

Still, I would always recommend you experiment. You're a skilled and talented artist. Try new angles, new styles, new lining or colouring techniques. At the very least it'll help keep you out of a rut.

Otherwise, if you want people to stick around, content that expands on a character or scenario helps draw people in and keeps them there. A comic series is a good place to start. Doesn't need to be big, could just be three panel comics. Could theme it around how you feel about vore and expressed through your characters, could theme it about the lore and universe your characters exist in.

I think it would be cool seeing your style handling scenery and maybe some more nerdy themes like Star Wars or halo or something

I'd like to see some more diverse body builds/sizes from you, personally.

Personally I really like your thick lined style, and always get excited to see you post. Especially pokemon and certain recurring characters (Always love seeing Abyss show up around halloween).
You've always been a favourite of mine and were for sure the first I ever found.
Maybe engagement increases with more posts or more recognizable characters posted? But I think it's important to keep doing art that you want to do and as often as you want to do, whether that means experimenting or sticking to what you like.

Well the Fandom is growing and so is of course also the number of artists. I personally think you have a very unique style while a few just try to copy or trace other styles be it from series, movies or other artists.
I don't think that you are doing anything wrong and i always enjoy to see art from you, especially of Swift.
So don't let yourself down by those feelings, your art is great and i am sure there are still a lot of people who enjoy it the same as you do.

i'd personally wanna see more micro anal vore. i really loved https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55254085/

I really enjoy your art, I usually don't comment because idk, would love to see some paw art but all in all your content is good, and those thick Lines and vibrant colors as simply ur art style, no need to worry!

For me, you're perfect

Afraid I can't offer much advice here. You draw a pretty wide mix of things I don't like/care about and stuff I very much like/care about. But that's nothing on you, it's just down to my personal preference in what kind of content I enjoy. I'd tell you to keep doing macro stuff, because that's my preference, but you've got other people in this journal giving the exact opposite input in some cases lol.

I don't think you're doing a thing wrong, and I'll always love your art. I think you should draw what you feel motivated to. Draw what really makes you excited and eager to create. As long as you're passionate and excited, your audience will be too. Don't stress too much, art should be fun and enjoyable <3

You're good dude. Sadly, the Internet isn't the same place as it was 10 years ago. People are not likely to comment, interact, and watch these days as they did back in the late 00s/early 10s. People have had their attention spans fried by social media sites like Twitter these days and therefore are likely to just like, swipe, move on, and forget. Heartfelt masterpieces don't get nearly as much attention as 10 minute doodles. Volume is king, quality comes second.

Truth is it absolutely sucks to be an artist right now, especially since places like DeviantART and whatnot are mostly unpopulated ghost towns. And to get big/noticed these days you need to keep putting out enough volume and appealing to social/political trends to remain in the algorithm. Because of this the current scene slants very young, as people in their late teens/early 20s have all the time in the world to keep up with trends and putting out 10 minute doodles. This has also brought about a stigma that the art scene and furry fandom exists as nothing more than a youth subculture, which everyone who's been in the fandom for ages agrees is a notion that is completely absurd, but despite the absurdity and outright stupidity of that claim there is the unfortunate reality of ageism bias in the fandom these days where you are more likely to be passed over just by being older.

In fact despite being a furry since I was in my teens I only started doing art over the past couple years in my late 20s and it's honestly a miracle I've gained as many watches and repeated favers/commenters as I have, but I still don't match those college-aged juggernauts that pop off on Twitter. But what I can say is this: those Youthful Twitter juggernauts are basically fireworks: they get big, they blow up suddenly, everyone comes to watch them, but then they just become irrelevant just as quick as they came, either because of drama, they "move on" from "the scene", or some combination. But us long-time furs? We're in it for the long haul and we will gain loyal friends and followers over the course of our long lives.

The kids will come and go, but those who stick in the fandom for a long time or life are something special, just remember that. I came across you on DeviantART over a decade ago, and I will just say I'm with you until the end and I always love seeing you post.

Just don't be worried about numbers a lot of people are just lurkers likes me. Who watching the shadows and don't normally comment just make sure you have your main audience your niche. And that you're having fun. It's been about three or four years I've been watching so there's that

It's definitely much harder to get engagement these days with how many new and wonderful artists and characters there are these days. I'd recommend finding sonas/characters that you'd want to draw, let their owners repost the art and spread the word about you being the artist. The more people that spread your art online, the more attention you'll get! And for your art itself; stick with an art style that you enjoy, make it your own! People will eventually be able to tell that it's your work just from a quick glance! It's something to be proud of when it does happen because it means you're sticking out from the crowd of artists ^^

Bring back Destinas.

Commenting on this late to the party. I honestly think your artwork is pretty great and shows alot of technical competence. If you want to improve your art more one thing that might help is looking into a few online classes for techniques in drawing such as use of perspective. Sometimes a look into the fundamentals or advance techniques of art and more scholastic art study can help you make leaps and bounds in your artwork, especially if you have alot of practical experience. A friend of mine whose been drawing for years recently learned about forced perspective, and applying the technique gave their art a whole new feeling and vibe.

I'd like to see you surprise me.