to be honest i dont think its anything that your doing personally as i too have seen a decrease in faves and overall attention on artwork, and i do admits its disheartening when you put alot of time and effort into a piece. As far as your work goes, i dont feel that there's anything wrong as your art is good and i dont see any real areas that need to be changed.

I don't exactly where to point in regards to flaws in your art, but at least in the part of "Drops in ammount of favs", i just wanna say it's something you don't have to let it get to you. It's a pretty complicated thing, but hardly reflects on your skill, but a lot more outside factors, like the actual content presented being eye-catching or shareable, and some times about the time you actually post.
Using my own experience as an example, i post around 3 to 6 PM (CST), it's not a perfect time and has a lot of variables, but works for me. And i avoid posting more than one picture a day, holding some content to post the next day, and keeping a slight consistency

Looks fine to me, bet you still get way more favs and comments than I do x3

People I find of late are facing less and just saving. I also find the fact that people are criss posting to various other places make them second themselves facing because, I liked it already elsewhere.


Engagement in general seems lower of late too. Hard to hold conversations in comments about art or ideas as no one seems wanting to speak. Sonic don't think it is so much your talent or skill it subject as much as saturation and changing times.

I kinda agree with this. I like a lot of stuff on twitter but I don't do it as often elsewhere

Whoooo... Note to self, don't type comments on mobile the auto correct makes me sound like a raving person.
From the top.

People I find of late are faving less and just saving. I also find the fact that people are cross posting to various other places make them second guess themselves faving because, 'I liked it already elsewhere'.


Engagement in general seems lower of late too. Hard to hold conversations in comments about art or ideas as no one seems wanting to speak. So I don't think it is so much your talent or skill as much as saturation and changing times.

I dunno, I like it.

Your art is lovely as always, I assure you!

It's probably just related to the time of year and the pandemic. Don't take it to heart

Lot of artists don't have this issue. So I doubt that.

I've seen multiple artists speak up about a drop in interactions on FA and I've noticed it with my own uploads as well. But there is no way of really proving that without looking at the website's statistics.

But with the bigger prevalence of other places to share art, I do assume that FA dropped in site clicks.

Is there a pattern to the artworks that don't receive as many faves? Particular characters or fetishes that don't get as much attention? Glancing at your gallery, it seems like you were producing a lot of pregnant stuff there for a time. I don't know if that fetish is popular among your followers or not - I would think it is.

I can't speak for anyone other than myself but the only reason I personally haven't been is since I mainly follow for vore. Not saying you need to do more I just know I won't be the only one doing that. I still like your style but mostly I favourite vore pieces ^^'

I just recently started watching you, so I don't really have a good baseline to understand. But as  winter.fa mentioned there has been an overall decline from what I've seen on my side (less comments, less faves). It could be due to everyone starting to become more busy due to the season.

I can't really put my finger on it. I'm all for these pinups and solo-pics, but I guess sometimes it can get tiring. I remember one of my favorite pieces you made was the one with the Deer Boy getting sucked off by a flower. Maybe throwing in some more creative situations could help in some way.

They're probably mad that it's gay stuff lol. You draw a lot of pinups of girls so it's not really that out there to assume people are following you for that.

nothing wrong with your art im just on twitter to much

Nothing that I can think of. Personally haven't been favoriting every piece just because, with how active artists have been this year, my inbox has flooded to the point that I'm seeing at least ten new pieces of art every day, usually even more. This much art all at once has been very intimidating for me. I've got almost 2000 pictures and stories stuck in there that I've been dragging my feet on looking at and adding to my favorites, just because there are so many of them and it keeps getting bigger. So unfortunately a lot of your pieces got lost in the mix.

All I can say is I loved your recent artwork like Sally so keep up the great work

Not enough Toriel. She's a big reason why I started following you. Your pics of her were great.

There also have been more characters with generic builds uploaded to your gallery lately. I think you excel with giant-hipped, thick-bellied babes (like so), so your recent uploads, largely consisting of moderately-proportioned, skinnier bodies, haven't interested me much.

Just my personal view on the matter.

I don't think there's anything wrong with your art, I think it probably just boils down to people's prefence of subjects. Some characters or scenarios will just inherently appeal to a bit less people, but I don't think that's necessarily a problem with your art or approach.

I love your art for sure but the reason I followed you is for the few times you uploaded vore content. Of course that doesn't mean I dislike any of your other art, that was just a particular appeal I had when following you. You don't really upload that anymore, but being an artist myself, I like to follow artists whos style I like and learn from them. Though I enjoy your art, I fav art that appeals more specifically to me.

I guess to summarize, maybe people still like your stuff, but the appeal they followed for isn't around anymore. However, personally I don't believe an artist should make art that would only make a specific audience happy. I say if you have ideas you've wanted to try, but have been worried about offending your followers, do it anyways. Maybe leave a disclaimer on the type of content it is or make a new account if you want to focus more on that stuff. That's just my advise anyways from and outside artist x3 Your stuff is great! The lack of Favs has nothing to do with your talent~

Thanks! I do have several vore artworks I haven't posted put of fear people won't like it. But yeah, seems it's either my followers have to deal with what I like in the first place...

Yeah! Absolutely! If you post what u want then you will find people who like it like me! I'd personally love to see a vore gallery from you~

Your art is unique in it's own way. You shouldn't worry about favs as much since it's not as important as your fanbase you've worked hard to generate. You've especially haven't lost "touch" with your skills in art, so don't worry about what gives you traffic. Just be yourself and only yourself.

I REALLY wish I had a different username right now. Because I don't mean anything negative or to make you unhappy but when looking at your fave count on e6 and uploads here on fa. Some of the higher stuff involves larger/rounder women. You have good art. There is no problem with your art skills. But according to some stuff. Some individuals visited for the bigger girls.

I don't think there's anything exactly wrong with your art. I love your soft, painterly style. I think it's more of preference if anything.

For instance, I think I discovered you due to your character, Pear. I love her, she's a great OC. I always enjoy it when you post something new with her. That's not to say I don't like other stuff you post. I did enjoy the "mini-series" of Candy Kong you did a while back.

I enjoy most of what you post. Yours is a style I can easily see and be like "oh hey, Don posted something new!" At the end of the day, I think most people just look for certain things. Is that your fault? Hell no.

It probably has more to do with overall user activity. This has been an odd year overall, and that has a way of shifting what people spend their time thinking about or doing.

Also, many people have very specific likes and interests. It is possible some past works happened to stumble upon combinations of factors that appealed to a larger variety of viewers than usual, gaining inflated attention.

I know I personally have very particular likes and dislikes that apply to artwork I enjoy, and they often highly disagree with the popular majority, so what 'I' personally notice likely won't be of use to you.

Sadly, only those who are NOT watching ir commenting (or reading this journal) know why they may be disinterested ... which is not helpful either.

Generally, art of very distinct and recognizable characters helps, vs generic or unfamiliar OCs. Fan Art draws attention from fans actively looking for it. Never forget to tag properly with character and franchise names, or more general image themes and content, if you want people to find you. You could post the most epic art ever, but if it does not show up in searches, no one outside your active watcher base will even know it exists.

You personally do very well with that I see. GOOD JOB.

Maybe try creating a follow up to one or more of your previous MOST popular posts, including the same characters, in the same category with all the same tags, and then ask in the description (but NOT within the image itself, because you want people to come for the pure Art, and fave it) why those who like THAT image, maybe don't enjoy the rest of your gallery as much.

Sadly, the people who can answer your questions are not reading this journal.

Personally I see nothing wrong with it. Like everyone else said, there are several factors involved and it is not necessary because of a drop in quality or likability of your art. Only thing is I would like to see more of Pear.

I know this flies in the face of your previous journal, but I think it's due to people being into the fetish fuel aspect of things, which there hasn't been alot of lately.
Nothing is wrong with your art, I just think people are waiting on certain things before they hit the fav button.

A lot of your artwork has very niche appeal - that's not a criticism though; if you've been commissioned to draw art that caters to one person's personal characters and fetishes its not your fault that its not widely popular, and likewise your pregnancy fetish art may not have wide appeal but if youre passionate about it and it makes you happy you should do it and stop worrying about what others think.

Another possible explanation is that FurAffinity isnt the main hub for furry art it once was - these days there are other popular art sites, and Ive noticed that many popular artists post a lot to twitter - some even post exclusively to twitter, so perhaps thats where you should look at focussing your attention if you want your art to get more exposure *shrugs*

What are those new places?
I'm presented on Twitter and twitter is an awful platform for an artist. Shadow bans, algorithms that can omit your post from watcher's feeds, the way it crops art....

I'd honestly say the "new places" are moreso smaller focused communities, typically based off Discord (and various chan-like boards). Lotta folks post and save the art directly on there, without going to the original page (besides commissioners).

Realistically there's no way to increase interaction with these groups. Even if you can get into them (usually found randomly on FA or Twitter, or if our know someone) there's simply too many.

I've seen folks making their own Discord server and having success in bringing people there. It means you gotta moderate a place, but it seems like Twitter + Discord is a growing popular pair of options now.

honestly fuck discord and I'm not interested in it's communities with 1000+ posts to read every moning. Even more so moderating it. Absolutely horrible idea for people like me who can't fit in said communities.

I like your art, it's fun and hits a lot of marks for creativity and subject. IF I had to say anything about it, sometimes the over-voluptuous nature of some tits, ass, dong, ect does make me feel like proportions are off and almost entering semi-hyper category. It's not on every picture, and it's subjective to ones taste, but from a purely art point that would be my two cents. Social media is another can of worms, and what needs to be said about it has already been said. But having a Furaffinity and twitter account probably covers 80% of the exposure problem until either FA gets amazing or something truly new and innovative gets adopted.

I like some of the voluptuous stuff you've done in the past, and some of your more recent stuff has been interesting; though I don't comment as much as I used to as I'm less active than I was. Also I'm not really into the gay stuff, so those I tend not to click on as its not my thing.

I have the same problem. My older art used to get a LOT MORE attention than it does now. My art has gotten waaaaay better but interaction is much lower. Maybe it's a community thing? Furry art is much more common these days that only the obscure fetish stuff or art masters get the interaction we used to see.

Your art is very cute and all, but my tastes keep leaning more and more gross, fetishy, and ruanchy. I'm sorry.

It is now three months ago and somehow, still remembering. Others might think different.
This is less you but more a problem of FA. There is no like button as used in Patreon or a download counter as we have on Deviantart. The only counters we have are the favs, coments and views.
At one point, the favorite folder of long term users here gets so full, it's almost no longer useable. So maybe, they yust stop using it.