I do not wish for internet fame, I simply wish to slip my art under the door every once in a while and some people go “ooo that’s cool”

An artist that is so overlooked by alot of people is Oscar Martin. He drew Tom and Jerry since 1986, drew stories for The Lion King and Woody Woodpecker too and is still drawing his own comic series SOLO today. You think with the portfolio he has under his belt he would be famous on social media... No he has only around 2000 followers and an avg of 100 likes

My art has “Value” in the sense that you’d find it in the “Great Value Bargain Bin”

I do not wish for internet fame, just a few hundred consistent people liking and a few commenting.

Unfortunately, if you want growth you need to play the game of economics as these two things are very much intertwined. You need:
1. something to offer to the people
2. a lot of knowledge of the "market" you want to participate in
3. a ton of luck
Many people underestimate the latter in particular. Even those who have success don't always acknowledge it having had such a huge impact (i.e. survivorship bias). For all these great artists with a ton of skill and a lot of followers there are so many equally skilled artists who never managed to get their fair share. Being at the right place at the right time really can make the difference; especially in a market that's as competitive as art.

After watching this, the conclusion I reached is... I am on the wrong planet.

Stuff like this makes me remember that pikat is a programmer, their brain desperately trying to explain the intrinsics of social media without mentioning luck

I always think of the Vegeta "I DON'T CARE ANYMORE" scene. when I stopped caring so much about social media growth and more about quality of art and having fun drawing, I started to grow lol.

fr. At this point im just drawing and posting whatever i want without really thinking to deep about the "growth"

I could totally see a twitter gimmick account that only posts the same stick figure everyday blowing up for no reason

I cannot believe how this is the first time i see someone talk about how the content is also important to growing a platform. I see so many artists complain about how meme arts get more traction than fully rendered art (understandable and hella relatable for sure) but also please be honest with yourselves, which one are you more likely to retweet- a photorealistic art of a frog, or a funny lil forg? Equating your art’s value with how many likes it gets is such a slippery slope and i hope especially newer artists dont fall for it

People forget how important interacting and networking is. You can’t just post and call it a day.

Post on multiple platforms that all link to each other, follow a lot of accounts, share things that inspire you, comment and interact with other creators (even if they don’t respond!!) share other creators to your story. Even if you don’t pop off instantly if you stick to improving yourself and posting it will eventually happen. Sometimes all it takes is 1 popular person to share you :)

I don’t understand how Instagram works anymore. It’s changed since 2014. I just find comfort in tumblr since people are nicer imo

tbh when i stopped caring abt engagement so much i just... stopped posting entirely lol. i don't do much fanart anymore and i jump around different mediums and subjects constantly to keep stimulated and learn, i just accepted that's not what works on social media and started focusing purely on myself and my studies in art school. and it's not like i didn't try all those tips a bunch of times before, it just made me stressed and burnt out x100 faster than usual lmao. plus if i just don't post my stuff there's no chance it ends up traced, stolen or in some shady dataset-

Just gonna say 3/4 years ago I used to get hundreds to thousands of likes on my art, now, while my skill has improved, I get like 15. Art has online has become unbelievably saturated and it seems the only way to get good engagement is to pick a niche and stick to it, and posting all the time. I see artists posting meh sketches get high engagement but they’re posting almost daily like a full time job. Imo, unless your goal is to monetize your work online, f*** the social media game and just focus on improving as an artist and doing it for yourself. Most very skilled professionals also have poor engagement unless they’re posting all the time too.

You can't imagine how much you motivate me to keep doing art and figuring out ways to make it fun and less serious, it's so overwhelming sometimes to hear big artists say you have to draw 6 hours a day every day and not pay attention to your "inspiration and wants", you just MUST draw a lot to to get good and somehow not get a crazy burnout the first month. I talked to artists who are in a constant state of burnout for years and push themselves to draw because they need money to survive, it's so sad to hear and so demoralizing as well, you don't want to get there, sounds like 0 fun and pure suffering. So thank you for voicing your thoughts on this topic, love all your videos honestly! <3 Voting Pikat for president of art community

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Correction : They DONT work.
Tryied everything of it, nothing. If you do all these things you still only ge t a 50% chance of algo-engagement.

I honestly never cared for numbers. I just like making friends and sharing each others work and supporting them. If people like my art, thats cool, but I get insecure because I feel like they expect me to be like this type of artist, consistent, but i'm not 💀 and I don't plan to either lol

I sincerely miss the era where you were able to gain audience when you can post one thing with your original content then you can post another one 2 months later. I completely gave up trying to reach new audience in this current generation of social media. I just cannot seem to create fanarts because I enjoy creating OCs more than anything.
This video did gave me some sense of closure. I sincerely thought there was something wrong with my art.

😔😔 I dont share my art online