Yeah, sadly people don't do a lot of commenting anymore. The move from twitter to bluesky is where i really felt it as i had to start over with followers.

For a while now, BlueSky has made me feel like crap. Cause I don't understand why everybody else's numbers exploded. I'm starting to really hate these social media websites.

I would have thought Bluesky would be cool, honestly idk tho. But Social Media websites can be very troublesome.

I feel ya on the comments stuff I miss that interaction as well bear hugs.
Social media is where folks do most of the comments but I still don't get many comments on stuff on bsky and I feel you on the pain of this.

I've been feeling the same way for a while. I look back on my super old, objectively worse art, and I see comments from artists I admired and many comments from friends supporting me. But now I hardly ever get any comments anymore and that kinda kills motivation. It does seem to be something that's happening overall and not something specific to you or me, though. I notice artists amazing artists posting stuff that gets hundreds of likes but there will often only be a couple or even no comments on it. I do think Social Media has unfortunately conditioned people to just do drive by favs and not really interact directly with stuff. I know on social media in particular, I'm much more reluctant to comment on art I like just because doing so broadcasts my comment to my entire watch base and that can sometimes be embarrassing. I still try to pay it forward and comment on stuff i really like, or comment on things that I have a mutual interest in, with hopes that I can maybe make a connection, but I do tend to get discouraged after a while when I see the artist never replies to comments. I mean there's nothing wrong with that and I know a lot of artists are shy or reserved or busy and they silently appreciate comments. Sometimes people just don't know what to say as well. Like occasionally I'll get a comment on my artwork but there's not really much I can respond with other than "thanks!", or I'll see a character drawing I really like but I don't know how to comment on it without sounding like I'm crushing on the character or something and not everyone appreciates that kind of attention.

Something I try to do with my art to boost engagement is I'll often try to write out a little story describing what the idea behind the picture is or a blurb telling more about the character I'm drawing. Just something to give people a little more context and information to work with and comment on. Not sure it's really working but hey, I still enjoy doing it.

That is an interesting idea, but I keep mostly posting character designs, without much thought of a story.
Like a lot of my characters I make end up being part of the World of Hijoke the Dragon.
I just don't know how I would attach a story to it, cause the characters most of the time aren't really doing anything in the picture, cause it's just showing the character design.
But doing pictures with a story in it, is something I would really like to do more of.

I kind of have that same issue as well. I tend to draw a lot of "here's this character" type drawings, where it's just a picture introducing a new character, or an updated reference of said character. But when introducing a new character, you can include things like their origin story, what inspired you to create them, the character's personality, any kind of special abilities they might have, what they do/what their role is and things like that!

what is your favorite cartoons when you are small?

This isn't exactly a Q&A journal but, shows I liked from Fox Kids were Digimon, and Beast Wars. And from Fox Box it was TMNT, and Kirby: Right back at ya.

I know this

*hug*

Just know that you're not the only one out there that feels the way you do, and I've run across a couple others on Blue sky that have the exact same issues where they miss their old followers or old friends. And they're very lonely right now and one of them I ran across was suicidal.... I helped guide them a little bit in the right direction and now they're not suicidal anymore and hopefully they're doing a lot better now. I hope you don't end up in that same situation and I hope no one else here ends up in that situation either. Please stay safe out there and keep each other safe

Been there buddy but I got this point I can’t allow myself to be consumed by peoples comments good or bad just do what I can to create and it’s all a migratory issue going on

*nudges*, I hope you can address this stress as well. I won’t go too deeply into what my experience has been. I will say keep creating what you enjoy.

I am deeply sorry for you to go through this. I sometimes miss some people I known of the past, so your not alone 🫂♥️

You're not doing anything wrong - It's just that a lot of people don't tend to comment as much as they used to back in the day. I blame things like Twitter and Bluesky, where conversation tends to happen a bit more often.

It's not just you.

Yeah, I definitely feel like it's the fault of social media.
I've also really not been that happy trying to use it either.
A lot of times social media doesn't really make me feel that good.

I feel you Lil' Bro. I've noticed a significant drop in comments here on FA. I also would like to know how others feel about my art but like everyone said, the world isn't exactly allowing us to live life like we used to, and things have changed. I'm thankful for the likes I DO get, it shows me that there are people who like what I post.

You are not the only one who is feeling this way. I try to leave feedback on any artwork that I like on both FA and Bluesky. Sometimes I really don’t know what else to say besides saying the artwork looks cute. Even if other users don’t leave a comment on your artwork, that doesn’t mean that people don’t care about your work. There are lots of people here on FA that are going through a similar experience.

That is actually nice to know, cause everywhere I was looking, it felt like it was just me having this problem.

I feel ya. I went by HelixGamer or CarbonGunn in the past on DeviantArt. I remember when ppl started leaving there to go to here and Twitter. I was really sad. Now I just started using Bluesky and I'm thinking of posting here. Still weighing the options. There aren't many art sites like here and DA anymore. :/