/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6679818
What trend is this? I love drawing Twitter trends

>>6679818
I remember seeing this in /trash/ like a year ago. It's a Korean cartoon right? Of course, it's obvious where the attention its getting is about...

>>6679922
Yep, Korean kid’s character waifu.
>>6679897
Draw new waifu of the week and ez 5k+ likes. Kaya is her name

>>6679818
Because following trends are for hipster neckbeard faggots and their 68 pound ghoul lovers, mental dysphoric trannies and weeb niggers.
Fuck that.

>>6679818
It really sucks you have to draw trends to get any engagement if you’re an account with few followers

>>6680168
It doesn’t work for many reasons
1) you probably can’t draw fast enough. You have about 24 hours to catch the trend. Probably less time now that we have AI
2) your measly number if followers probably won’t retweet your content because they hate trends
3) you will be drowned out by 10000 other trend hoppers using the tag. Nobody will see your content
4) if you use more than 1 hashtag you will get deboosted by the twitter algo. But if you don’t use more than 1 hashtag nobody will know you are trying to do the trend because you didn’t tag it.

everything is trendhopping to me because I have no interests. There's nothing in this world I like so if I draw something, its purely for clout.

>>6680168
I draw for fun but it does burn part of me that I’ll never know what it feels like for my art to get over 2 retweets. Plus I’m pretty sure the twitter/insta algo thinks my account is a bot because I posted more than once in a day. Idk why socials have to be so unforgiving. Life is hard enough.

>>6680189
Draw something original.

Fan art is the way

>>6679818
I don't need to do fanart to be successful.

>>6679978
Trends really aren't that good for long-term engagement for the reasons >>6680175 outlined: you're basically pissing in a sea of piss. Only do trends if you find them actually fun to draw. If you go into them expecting to get a billion likes and followers overnight you will be sorely disappointed. It's a casino with the odds stacked a mile high against you.
If you want something that'll definitely help (not necessarily guarantee instant success, mind, but it's better than nothing), just find a niche and draw fanart of things you like. A lot of people here have the impression that fanart has to be this slog you have to do for the twitter algorithm and you have no passion for it yada yada yada when that really isn't the case. Unless you're a total media luddite there has to be /some/ game, show, movie or whatever that you enjoy, and drawing fanart for that is an easy win-win. It's definitely a bit more of an uphill battle if that franchise is really saturated (like nintendo stuff) but niche obscure anime/games generally have smaller, more attentive fanbases.
But yeah if you want followers, give people a reason to follow you- and drawing fanart of a series that you like is a pretty good reason

imagine literally jumping on bandwagons to use your art as a means of scraping attention instead of drawing what you love because you love drawing LOL

10 years later and /ic/ still has some delusion about trying to have an art career from doing nothing but posting porn on twitter hahahahahaha

>>6680315
You don’t draw

>>6680305
Which is why I said, I don't draw trends that attract neckbeard hipster faggots and their ghoulish lovers, mentally dysphoric trannies and weeb niggers. What part of that didn't you understand?
Fuck Inktober or whatever bullshit flavor of the month trend comes along, That's just made up bullshit for dumb fucks to feel important.

>>6680175
Point 1 is absolutely retarded but I agree with the rest. Ideally you want a base following that's much easier to achieve by drawing OCs, and then you can think about drawing popular-commercial characters.

>>6681446
I should clarify: I'm talking about OCs of popular artists, since you're basically at the mercy of their retweets.

>>6679818
How is this a trend? I've seen literally no one else draw this bitch

>>6682025
Because it just started yesterday

>>6679818
How do you even find these trends fast enough? I never see them until its too late

>>6680572
hahahahaha if only you knew

>>6680315
sounds like you are lacking skill

>>6682048
I follow artists who constantly retweet stuff like that even when they're not doing them because a friend of a friend is and they want to shill them.

You can also check draw threads on /v/, /aco/ and the like, usually there's always someone begging for his waifu to strike that popular pose, wear that popular outfit or whatever this week's is.

>>6679818
This is 4chan. We don't follow trends. We make them

>>6682042
I really hate the way people talk on Twitter

>>6679818
Yay, another no-design design.