Do more passionate drawings that is more personal to you. I have the same problem too :< *hugs*

*hugs back* Hmmm, I guess I could, just my interests seem to bore people, so I usually just draw those without submitting.

I'm in the same exact boat. been stuck at 600 on tumblr, 200 everywhere else. Only time I ever get over 40 notes is if one of my popular friends picks up the post. otherwise I'd be lucky to get 20

It is disheartening thinking that people get sick of your art. happens to me all the time.
the reason I havent given up is like you said, getting to see yourself progress. comparing a year or two ago to what you're doing now. learning. I know you're probably tired of hearing it, but draw for yourself, not for others. if you like your coloring, then color. if you're worried about people not liking the coloring and only want the sketch, post both of em. that's what I do.

I've almost given up on line art entirely. those are the posts that seem to get more notes, but you know what, I end up hating them all the time. I stopped doing it and I just sketch now. If I feel like improving my line art I'll do a few. Do what you love, not what others want to see. Or do a mix, if you can stand it.

The problem isnt your art. the problem is these sites are so convoluted. personally, I get about 40-50 submissions a day on here. I certainly dont look at all of them, or I'd be on here all day. Everyone else is doing the same thing. I maybe leave two or three comments in total on the submissions I look at. People don't hate your art. I would say with 150 followers, a 10% turnover for faves isnt that bad if you're considering everyone is constantly following more artists and filling up their inboxes. Tumblr is even worse, there's no notification if you post unless they set it. On tumblr, you'd probably be lucky to get 20% of people that even see your art on their dashes because of how much shit gets posted there daily. I could scroll for hours and not reach the same place on my dash I was yesterday. It's shitty, but it's the truth. that's why its hard to gain followers anywhere, and that's why you can't compare your follower base to your artistic ability.

hold on a sec, I'm gonna make this really clear
YOU CANNOT COMPARE YOUR FOLLOWER BASE TO YOUR ARTISTIC ABILITY

you aren't the only one. there's a bunch of people I follow on tumblr that have been doing this for years, they're REALLY good artists with really beautiful styles, yet most of their posts only get like 10 notes, and its a damn shame. I'll go find some for you
https://samareck.tumblr.com/
https://bassybird.tumblr.com/
https://burgundydusk.tumblr.com/
http://peestuck.tumblr.com/

see? lovely art, not a lot of notes. and its stupid. because there's only 3 ways to become well known in this fandom, and that's either be freakishly tacklebox-anhes-chewycuticle-chunie level talented (which, most artists that good take up those blogs as a side hobby, where their main job is art related and they've been doing it 20 years), work really hard for years and years and years and slowly gather a fanbase, or to have connections; friends that run big blogs or are already well known artists.
I find it's very rare that someone unknown pops up and hits it 'big', or even to the point that they're consistently getting over 100 notes. And if they do, its usually for a weird niche. To be honest, my gross, fetishy art on average tends to rack up more notes than my other vanilla ones, even if someone big dosent reblog it. I digress. What I'm trying to say is, don't work yourself up over not having enough followers, unless you intend to make art your primary source of income, which in that case, you should be working on building connections with other people, up-and-comers and people in high places (just like in real life. or so I'm told. I work in retail, I donno man lol)

Point being, there's nothing wrong with your art. Keep drawing. Keep improving. If you dont like something about your art, change it. If you like to colour, then colour. Fuck everyone else. They'll come. Its a slow process. Especially while we're grinding down here in our tens of notes. but the more people we pick up, the faster it snowballs. Dont give up <3

sorry abt the comma splices and spelling errors an shit but I needed to share what I thought. Maybe it helps, maybe it dosent. I hope it does. Drawing sucks and the shit aint easy, but you've come this far, aint got nowhere to go but up right? your art skill aint gonna go backwards and neither is your follower count. Unless you pull some trump-like bullshit ;P
anyway, gnight~

I... guess I do see your point. Yea.
I read it all and I do get it. I suppose I'm just more of a man with numbers if I have no one voicing opinions.

Numbers is the thing I fall back on. So I usually end up smiting my own confidence, what little of it I have.

I really appreciate you taking the time to reply though, thank you.

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Keep forgetting I have to press reply on the person I wanna give the message to baahhh

again, your art really is good. The way you talk makes me think you're trying to 'fix' something
your art isnt broken though. You're a fantastic artist, and you're far better than most people could dream of being.
I do know how you feel though, so I do sympathize.
We'll both get there one day, thousands of followers and whatnot. But you never will if you give up <3

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