/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.3822977]

Why is twitter used so much by artists? It's awful compared to instagram

[Anonymous No.3822982]

>>3822977
other than pixiv i see a lot of japs and korean artists there

[Anonymous No.3822998]

>>3822977
instagram is half reposted art. whats the point of posting there if someone else already did it for you

[Anonymous No.3822999]

>>3822977

I got my account suspended minutes upon registering for "unusual activity". I was given the option to give my phone number for confirmation which I don't even mind, but I never received a code on text. I tried the same with another email adress a couple of days later. Same thing. Instant closed account. Customer support has not replied and it's been weeks. Any idea how I should proceed?

[Anonymous No.3823009]

>>3822977
It's where the people are? I mean it's not like Instagram is good, either (images are always super tiny for example).

[Anonymous No.3823011]

>>3822977
How the fuck do I post a full picture on instagram? It always fucking crops it.

[Anonymous No.3823012]

>>3822999
What country are you from? Might consider a VPN

[Anonymous No.3823019]

>>3822977
Easy to post images, easy to post links to full sets and patreon and shit, easy to get in contact with other artists etc.
And just post about random shit alongside it.

[Anonymous No.3823026]

>>3822977
>Why is twitter used so much by artists?
Porn slips through, especially after dumblr fall

[Anonymous No.3823053]

Instagram is fucking awful. I don't even know how to fucking post there, it's such utter garbage. You can only post from your phone, and how the fuck am I supposed to get images to my phone? Do you people realise how retardedly garbage android is??? I can't even mass copy files from my dropbox into my offline folder so I can post comfortably on instagram, I have to fucking do a 20 step process for every single fucking picture.

Suck my fat cock instagram you are such utter garbage I hope your developers get aids.

[Anonymous No.3823074]

>>3822977
is Instagram better compared to Twitter?
I can write in japanese and most of my followers on twitter is japanese.
Iirc, I can't post easily onto Insta from my laptop, need to go thru my phone. Which is also the biggest reason why i stopped using it.

[Anonymous No.3823082]

>>3822977
Instagram is owned by facebook, does not allow porn, has a shitty culture, filled with "artsy" people who take photos of their art with their pencils in the frame, etc...

[Anonymous No.3823106]

>twitter
>awful compared to instagram
you're delusional shit eater

[Anonymous No.3823122]

>>3822977
Why is either used by artists instead of Newgrounds

[Anonymous No.3823137]

why do you fucks complain about social media so much? if you can’t accept the minor drawbacks in exchange for gaining a following you’re ngmi. could you imagine being an artist even 20 years ago and actually having to physically go outside and network in order to be discovered? we have more tools at our disposal now than anyone before us. quit being whiny brats and appreciate the game for what it is now, artists before would have killed to have the same streamlined access to potential audiences that we have now.

[Anonymous No.3823157]

>>3823074
can i see your page to see your art?

[Anonymous No.3823172]

>>3823137
I don't think that people who were part of artist colonies would've been ecstatic to find out that to become popular you have to make constant posts on retarded faggot social media

[Anonymous No.3823174]

>>3823011
I think the max aspect ratio you can get is 4:3. In the past it was only square. You’ll need a third party app to put space on the edges. It’s ugly and one of the reasons it’s not an ideal platform for finished art. The other reason is it has a max resolution of 2048p.

[Anonymous No.3823175]

>>3823172
tell me then, what did you have to do pre-internet to become popular?

[Anonymous No.3823182]

>>3823175
Make a lot of stuff that people like

The means hasn't changed, just the platform, and the platform sucks. There used to be actual communities

[Anonymous No.3823188]

>>3822977
The algorithm is shit now. Before you'd see things on your feed by the people you followed in order of time posted by them. Now there are adds everywhere and it's based on what you "like" or "heart" AND comment AND time spent looking at a piece. I hate that.

[Anonymous No.3823211]

>>3823137
Social media is fucking shit, it's why artists now look all the fucking same and have no personal voice and only draw dumb fucking fanart instead of original content
the internet has turned people into a zombie hivemind worse than TV

[Anonymous No.3823223]

>>3823211
news papers are a fucking cancer, look at all the people that read it, no personal opinions just spouting shit they read off the paper. turning them into zombie hivemind worse than books.

[Anonymous No.3823227]

>>3823223
what a failure of a post

[Anonymous No.3823232]

>>3822977
>reach
>usable on pc without f12 fuckery
>upload video, different file formats text etc with ease, especially from pc where you could only upload jpgs to insta after doing circles in the air
>everyone's there

[Anonymous No.3823236]

>>3823182
see? you don’t know. do you actually think you would have been part of one of those “communities”? would half of you underage NEETs even care about art at all if anime didn’t exist yet?

[Anonymous No.3823238]

>>3822977
everytime i want to post to instagram i have to jump through fucking hoops to upload, on twitter i just drag over my png and post.

[Anonymous No.3823240]

>>3823238
on a computer it's like 3 clicks, unless you're talking about the filters and shit

[Anonymous No.3823252]

>>3823188
If only there was some box to uncheck to turn that feature off.

[Anonymous No.3823254]

>>3823188
>>3823252
I was talking about Instagram, but I'll check the settings to see if I can do the same thing.

[Anonymous No.3823258]

>>3823236
Now you're not even trying to claim that such communities are undesirable compared to retarded faggot social media, you're just baselessly assuming that the artists who have to put up with retarded faggot social media wouldn't be apart of it because durr anime durr NEET. Get fucked

[Anonymous No.3823259]

>>3823252
I swear this board is full of retards with the shit taste of underage weebs and the technological ineptitude of boomers.

[Anonymous No.3823264]

>>3823258
lol my point is you don’t leave the fucking house. how would you manage to be a part of an art scene in the 1890’s? be grateful for what you have retard.

[Anonymous No.3823273]

>>3823264
Maybe artists don't leave their house because the art scene is all social media now and real communities are gone, shit-for-brains

[Anonymous No.3823285]

>>3822977
>It's awful compared to Instagram
bait

[Anonymous No.3823290]

>>3823273
then you have no one to blame but yourself for not building the communities you want but instead bitching about how you can’t draw or how social media is running your life. bouguereau‘s buyers/commissioners would not give one shit about your porn comic, but maybe your 36 followers on twitter do. we have more tools at our disposal than any time in human history and all you brainlets want to do is make thread after thread about trends you don’t like or how you can’t figure out how to post on Instagram because you’re fucking stupid.

[Anonymous No.3823298]

>>3822977
It's actually the other way around. Instagram is used more by artists, but Instagram is awful compared to twitter. You have to jump through so many hoops just to post your work on instagram.
2019 and there's still no reasonable way to post images without a phone, I think it's time for you guys to admit that the devs only want a selfie platform and don't give a shit about artists.

[Anonymous No.3823300]

>>3823026
>slips through
It's not even against the rules.

>>3823009
>>3823011
>>3823174
>>3823298
Yeah I don't know what the fuck OP is talking about when he says insta is better when you can't even post a fucking image lol

[Anonymous No.3823304]

My main issue with Twitter is that if I wanted to look up an artist's work from the past, I need to:

>go to their page
>click media tab
>scroll down until I find the work I am looking for

A lot of the artists I follow all play that shitty Fate mobage so I usually have to sift through mountains of screencaps of whatever shit they rolled. If it's not mobage screencaps, then it's usually something else. Pet pictures, food, random photos from their daily lives, etc. I don't care about that shit. I just want their art.

There's no tag system and most of the time people don't label their artwork, so you can't search for it on a website like Twilog. Ideally, you would have multiple Twitters for tweeting and art posting, but Twitter makes it inconvenient as hell to accomplish that. There exists external programs and applications that make stuff like this seamless, but not everybody utilizes them.

If Twitter made profiles easier to navigate and to organize, then it would be better. Its current design focuses too much on the "here and now" aspect of social media. You can easily miss tweets when they're first posted and it's troublesome to dig up old tweets given the current methods.

[Anonymous No.3823314]

>>3823290
The difficulty of building a real world community where none exists needs to be justified by the acknowledgement of the inadequacy of social media in the first place which is exactly what I'm doing and what you are arguing against. The world is addicted to this garbage, so all it takes to keep the spell from breaking is you faggots latching onto retarded excuses for its domination of public life like "it lets you get some anonymous followers for your porn comic"

[Anonymous No.3823316]

>>3822977
twitter has the most normies

[Anonymous No.3823317]

>>3823314
holy fuck have you been outside before? There's way more shit for artists to do as a community now then ever. I guarantee every "normie" artist you follow on twitter has been to large community events in the past 3 months

[Anonymous No.3823319]

>>3823053

download the airmore app to your android, then you can drag and drop from your PC while it's connected.

[Anonymous No.3823325]

it reaches a lot of people and already has a huge artist base

the drawback is youd probably hate 80% of the people on there if you had to actually interact with them.

[Anonymous No.3823327]

>>3823053
>>3823319
>go to your instagram page on PC
>right click
>inspect
>click the little iphone and ipad icon on the top-left page that just opened
>refresh
you might need to switch the phone type at the top of the page but it's that simple. easy to upload from PC

[Anonymous No.3823336]

>>3823317
A festival is not a community. Art colonies are dead.

[Anonymous No.3823351]

>>3823298
I fucking hate that both Instagram and Twitter always crop the heads off my pictures and fucking butcher the composition.

[Anonymous No.3823359]

>>3823300
>It's not even against the rules.
yet

[Anonymous No.3823375]

>>3823011
>>3823053
>>3823238
>>3823300
>>3823351
fucking brainlets holy shit

[Anonymous No.3823386]

>>3823375
How do I prevent the cropping from happening
I have to make the images square

[Anonymous No.3823409]

>>3823386
you don’t, brainlet. your options with Instagram are as follows:
>make the image square and adjust the composition to fit
>use a photo editing app to put white spaces on the sides of a “longer” image to make it square
you can also do what actual successful artists with some of their artworks, which is post multiple images in one set that highlight details of your artwork. normies find that kind of thing very attractive.

[Anonymous No.3823603]

>>3822977
>>3823304

I LOVE waddling through a sea of food pics and videogame screenshots just to get to the actual artwork.
After all, I don't mind having to sort over 5000+ fucking images and delete over half a gigabyte of garbage. I totally have the time to do that, it's not like I have a job and half to keep me busy already, on top of trying to learn how to draw.

Fucking twitter.

[Anonymous No.3823609]

>>3822977
>instagram is mobile only, requires a phone and a phone number to signup.
>twitter is supported on every device and doesn't restrict you from making burner accounts.
>instagram bans nsfw content and has banned popular cosplayers and artists multiple times.
>twitter doesn't give a flying fuck about nsfw content and lets you post whatever you want.
>instagram has less artists on it already so other artists have less incentive to use it.
>twitter gained more artists due to the nsfw ban on tumblr

[Anonymous No.3823643]

>>3823603
>people are willing to do this to look at someone's art
>my twitter is only art and noone cares

[Anonymous No.3823673]

>>3823609
gee, how was I able to sign up using my Ipod touch and no phone number, also the NSFW ban applies to real life/live action content now, I literally can see and post dicks and pussies as long as they're not sextoys or real life.

[Anonymous No.3823707]

>>3823673
>>3823609
Exposure on twitter seems to be shit if you don't have followers and you're trying to show your art through tags.

[Anonymous No.3823738]

>>3823304
>>3823603
I raged for a week non-stop when they removed the thumbnail media grid on iPad! Why, who would want people to spend less time on their platform, because it's east for them to find what they're after! No, let's keep them scrolling infinitely so that we can show them more ads, while tracking their usage to target the same ads.

[Anonymous No.3823739]

>>3823304
>>3823603
I raged for a week non-stop when they removed the thumbnail media grid on iPad! Why, who would want people to spend less time on their platform, because it's easy for them to find what they're after! No, let's keep them scrolling infinitely so that we can show them more ads, while tracking their usage to target the same ads.

[Anonymous No.3824399]

>>3823304
>>3823603
>>3823643
>yfw you find an artist who posts/curates art on their public account and keeps their normie shit on their priv
>>3823386
>which is post multiple images in one set that highlight details of your artwork
just make a portfolio site at that point lmao
>>3823707
it's incredibly easy to network with fellow artists and make mutuals on twitter; hashtags don't matter nearly as much as likes and retweets since search parameters are accurate enough when not using them anyway

[Anonymous No.3824541]

>tfw you still use tumblr because you’re not a degenerate

[Anonymous No.3824700]

>>3824399
do you/does anyone else have tips for getting exposure on twitter? i'm a former tumblr main and i got decent attention there just from posting fanart every day or two and tagging and all... but it seems that on twitter likes are actually useful and interacting with artist friends is important as well? would it be better to have an account to post only art or do people like a personality behind the pictures? is bumping art good? when will you be seen as annoying for doing so?

[Anonymous No.3824756]

>>3824541
>tfw you use twitter, tumblr, AND instagram and get 100000x the exposure of most of /ic/ without resorting to degeneracy

[Anonymous No.3825401]

>>3824700
people like personality; there are countless artists with thousands of followers who've managed to curate their own "brand" on top of what little oc they actually post. the way twitter's algorithm works by default, your likes may show up on your followers' timelines. with that in mind, bumping (retweeting?) art isn't all that necessary but it certainly helps wrt personal curation and getting the attention of artists you like. quote-tweeting your support/solidarity is a more modest way of doing that.

timelines that are more retweets than oc are generally seen as pretty annoying, though. constantly redirecting followers to long-ass threads you made on any given topic tend to be even more obnoxious. some artists opt to pin a thread to their profile and post their art there which works if they spend more time shitposting than actually making art. checking the statistics for any given tweet you've made shows how few people actually visit twitter profiles in general tho so having all of your art confined to one thread sometimes helps.

[Anonymous No.3825409]

>>3824700
>>3825401
when it comes to exposure on twitter a lot of it is really passive; you can @ people in replies to your work all damn day, but you're doing that at the expense of potentially cluttering both yours and your followers' timelines. you need to find a healthy balance of "on" and "off-brand" content; art-only twitter accounts serve a similar function to aesthetic inspo blogs on tumblr; if your output is high enough and is appealing to a niche audience (or you already have an audience to begin with), then that may be the better option.

most artists (on /ic/ especially) don't have a ko-fi/patreon/fantia safety net though, so using twitter as a networking tool is pretty important; just don't act like a reply-guy. if your likes and retweets aren't reciprocated in any way then don't lash out in frustration! your user experience shouldn't revolve around that unless you're truly strapped for cash. retaining mutual follower relationships should be of the utmost importance; it's like having a group of art buddies that will support you in any way they can., but you gotta reach out first.

[Anonymous No.3825441]

>>3825401
When I try to talk with other artists they ignore me. People with 5k followers. Or they are massive sjws I don't wanna talk to. I gave up.

[Anonymous No.3825561]

>>3825441
>People with 5k followers.
shoot for lower? anyone with over a thousand followers are usually swamped with notifications (unless it's artificially inflated ofc; in that case you can usually tell). alternatively you may find yourself tweeting keywords about certain interests and seemingly get random attention by people you otherwise wouldn't expect. two of my favorite "big name" artists, Masahiro Ito and Makoto Kobayashi both have over 10k followers and frequently like/retweet and even reply to posts that are only vaguely related to their "brands" respectively. stuff like that doesn't usually happen however; like real life, most interactions you'll have are contextually-driven. keep trying!
>Or they are massive sjws I don't wanna talk to. I gave up.
you're digging yourself a hole at that point, anon. just because someone's open about their race, gender and/or sexuality doesn't mean they're not worth talking to. muting certain words or even bluechecks themselves does a lot to lessen #woketwitter run-off; but if you followed the right people in the first place then your chances of being exposed to that (at least in a direct manner) are pretty slim.

[Anonymous No.3825587]

>>3825561
>>3825441
Person with >1k followers here. I don't get a lot of notifs, but I post mostly art and infrequently. I can kind of see if users have a high interaction base with your followers it'd be harder to get noticed by them. Most artists fall on the other end, low interaction on blog posts despite high follower count. This might be a personal thing, but I like replying to posts talking about the qualities of my art rather than generic praises if it helps anyone.
Also, follower count still means shit at 1k vs 100 if the big names aren't RTing your stuff so I still get a bunch of work failing to pass 200 likes. Don't get too hung up about it.

[Anonymous No.3825589]

>>3825561
>Everyone with a thousand followers is usually swamped with notifications
Really? I thought up to 5-8k you were still in literally who land. Sometimes I compliment someone's art and I ask something technical e.g. did you use gradient maps to color this, things like that, never got a reply. Sometimes I have something meaningful to say in reply to someone's tweet, never got a reply. The whole networking thing seems like a waste of time, sometimes I post something funny about my day on Twitter but most of the time I just dump art nobody cares about and get back to drawing.

As for the sjws when I see some shit that annoys me I just unfollow. I'm not a /pol/ guy, I just don't want to see pictures of a tranny wedding with some caption about how you told your child that they're beautiful princesses.

[Anonymous No.3825593]

>>3825589
Well I'm not any of those artists so I can only guess what they're thinking but maybe they are shy? For me personally I just Twitter to post art and reply to some comments but for others they may shy away from interaction completely. Could check their replies tab to confirm. Or it could be a bit more sinister like not wanting to tell their secrets but are there really secrets in the digital information era of digital art?

[Anonymous No.3825636]

tumblr wasn't good
twitter isn't good
instagram isn't good

are you guys finally ready to go to newgrounds?

[Anonymous No.3825637]

It is worth making a Tumblr blog right now? I hear it's deader than dead, but I draw SFW?

[Anonymous No.3825643]

>>3825637
I draw sfw and I've had posts hit 1k, 3k, and 15k recently so I didn't really notice much of a difference since nsfw got banned other than people I follow leaving.

[Anonymous No.3825653]

>>3825587
most of the people I follow have a pretty high interaction base with with their followers; I have mutuals with less followers than me (talkin <600ish) whose tweets get more impressions in a day than mine do in a week. for people like you I normally have to turn on mobile notifications which isn't a big deal, it just feels like there's very little discourse to be had when all you do mostly *is* post your art. as much as we'd like to operate on meritocratic principle, that just ain't it.
>>3825589
you don't need 5-8k followers to curate a dedicated audience, let alone get paid for your work. people in my circles often joke the moment you surpass 1k is the moment the quality of your content actually goes down! the theory goes you become less open to criticism, and shy away from new people. then again with the way I've positioned myself, my artist "brand" intersects with a handful of really niche internet subcultures so a trans wedding caption actually sounds pretty normie to me.
>>3825593
there's also the possibility of there being a language barrier, too. plus if they do streams then there's always the frustration of repeating themselves in some manner; but chances are it's probably just the shyness and low self-esteem.
>>3825636
do members of their little art vanguard still have sticks up their asses? if yes then no

[Anonymous No.3825670]

>>3825643
>Make Tumblr blog
>Follow ONE sci-fi artist I know has a tumblr
>Dashboard is filled suggestions of faggots kissing anyway
>Can't opt out of this shit
>Start dumping art
>If I accidentally mistype a tag I can't delete it for some reason and I have to start the post over from scratch.
>Tumblr keeps freezing to show me tutorial popups telling me that I can edit the theme of my blog
Holy fucking shit this website is garbage.

[Anonymous No.3825678]

>>3823409
>use instagram brainlet
>i don't want to post square images
>you're a brainlet, holy shit
>okay, how do i post non-square images?
>make them square, brainlet

[Anonymous No.3825679]

>>3825653
How many years does it even take to get to 1k followers? I had like 100 at most and it took me years. Now I started over and I made like 20 followers in two months.

[Anonymous No.3825682]

LOOKING FOR A GOOD TIME https://discord.io/FearDaKez

[Anonymous No.3825685]

>>3825682
what is this
are there degenerates in it

[Anonymous No.3825692]

>>3825679
it doesn't matter how long it takes; people aren't going to follow you if your stream isn't steady. I've had my account since 2012 but I didn't actually start interacting with people until I rebranded less than two years ago. some of my mutuals made their accounts in that same time and have only just surpassed the 2k mark very recently. they all have a much more active social media presence than me on top of the work they post so it's unsurprising but still.

[Anonymous No.3825704]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BuQ-s9OlxfA/

should i keep doing shit like this on instagram?

[Anonymous No.3825720]

>>3825692
I made new social accs by the end of January and so far the only followers I got were from 4chan when they asked me for a link. I post original content almost every day, split between two accounts with different subject matter. I don't understand if the low exposure is because I just started out and it's just a matter of time or my art is really uninteresting, but I'm afraid it's something with my art, I tried posting on Reddit DA Tumblr, nothing at all. On Reddit I got some upvotes but nobody went through the links, and crude drawings have double or triple the upvotes I have anyway. I just don't understand how do the crude drawings do so much better. My art is pretty colorful although I don't like super saturated. I got 20 followers on twitter and none everywhere else. I have posts on twitter with 2000+ impressions but only a handful of clicks.
I'll be damned for thinking about this stuff. I should really stop caring but I keep asking myself what's wrong.

[Anonymous No.3825765]

>>3822977
>image hosting site
>can't make images bigger

beyond that, both kinda suck because you can only view content on the timeline instead of quickly parsing through images like you would on an actual gallery site, i really don't even see what's so special about the social features that isn't present on deviantart, outside of just the pure number of active users. picarto feels like the best place to actually interact with other artists at this point

[Anonymous No.3825766]

>>3823137
>imagine being an artist even 20 years ago and actually having to physically go outside

that sounds amazing

[Anonymous No.3825770]

>>3825720
When I get 10k impressions I get at most 100 likes.

[Anonymous No.3825799]

>>3822977
>It's awful
Yes.
>compared to instagram
NO.

[Anonymous No.3826066]

I use twitter for networking and for following artists in the industry, but I'm really sick of the extreme liberal politically correct posts everywhere.

Granted, I believe we should let people like what they want and be how they want. Just dont aggressively shove it down people's throats. You're gay? Fine, doesn't bother me, love is love. Transgender? You become what makes you happy. Nonbinary? Whatever, you do you.

But I'm tired of seeing shit like
>"MY BELOVED VIDEOGAME IS ANTI-TRANS, SO INTO THE TRASH IT GOES. IF YOU STILL LIKE THIS GAME THEN YOU'RE TRASH TOO"

[Anonymous No.3826081]

>>3822999
Has happened to me 3-4times over the years, I normally send a message to the support and it gets resolved in anywhere between a week and 2-3months. Its fucking garbage.

[Anonymous No.3826085]

>>3823285
Its 10x easier to get likes and followers on instagram than twitter.

[Anonymous No.3826090]

>>3825720
It could be your art, but a lot more has to do with the times you posted it and for waudiencehat . For the nth time, your art isn't going to get you followers on its own merits; twenty followers in three weeks ain't so bad anon. These things take time.
>>3826066
Avoiding hellthreads may as well count as a job skill; outrage culture permeates all sides of the political spectrum all for the benefit of increased ad revenue. Best mute and ignore.
>>3826085
The last time I used instagram my first thirty or so followers were all bots.

[Anonymous No.3826094]

>>3825678
understand the limitations of the platform that have been established for years now and quit bitching about it here. it’s literally the same as complaining about twitter’s character limit in 2019

[Anonymous No.3826096]

>>3826090
*for what audience

wow I need to go to bed

[Anonymous No.3826102]

>>3826090
>>3825770
Alright anons, I'll stop thinking about it. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.3826591]

>>3823603
>artist doesn't have a tumblr or deviantart account. posts most of his shit on twitter
>"eh, whatever. can't be that bad, right?"
>download artist's entire twitter gallery
>3000+ pics and vids
>fuckme.jpg
>took me 2 weeks to sort fucking everything
>out of 3000 pics only less than 150 were actual drawings. the rest where photos of food, buildings, anime, confectionery, soft drinks and steven universe screenshots.
>mfw I wasted 2 weeks of smoking/coffee breaks for a handful of pics
I hate twitter.

[Anonymous No.3826694]

Real artists have their own website and don't need to resort to using shitty gallery pages that never work right, rescale and ruin high-res work, and ban on a whim.

[Anonymous No.3826721]

>>3825670
>>Dashboard is filled suggestions of faggots kissing anyway
>>Can't opt out of this shit
>>If I accidentally mistype a tag I can't delete it for some reason and I have to start the post over from scratch.
>>Tumblr keeps freezing to show me tutorial popups telling me that I can edit the theme of my blog
Whew, lucky I never had any of these experiences before, maybe the last one is a newer feature. The dashboard suggestions is new too but I just get suggested random video game fanart. That tag issue confuses me though because I can edit my tags just fine.

[Anonymous No.3826733]

>>3826591
Just curious, are you against stuff like food photos or media unrelated to art in general or is it just excessive amounts of it that annoy you? Would you rather have a gallery with 100% art? Especially if I'm not posting any art that day I leave some rambling or a photo.

[Anonymous No.3827626]

>>3826733
>Just curious, are you against stuff like food photos or media unrelated to art in general or is it just excessive amounts of it that annoy you?
not really. it's perfectly ok when people post random shit like food pics or screenshots or whatever. after all, it's social media. you can do whatever the fuck you want with your account.
the problem lies when you use your twitter account as both your gallery and personal account and post a huge amount of unrelated pics. specially if you post exclusively on twitter.
it is way more efficient to just make a secondary account and make that one your gallery instead of muddling things up.

[Anonymous No.3827641]

>>3827626
>post a huge amount of unrelated pics.

Twitter has a function called "Moments" that essentially acts as a subcategory. You can create an unlimited number of them and each acts as a mini-timeline that can be displayed chronologically or reverse chronology, which makes it ideal for organizing galleries and comics.

The problem is getting people to use the darn things.

[Anonymous No.3827647]

>>3827641
>>3827626
I just just wish artists would tag their work as religiously as they do on sites like pixiv. Nothing worse than following an artist and having to see things like furry porn once in a while. A way to filter shit out like blog posts would be great too, some artists simply can not stop from posting many times on succession. it's a reason why I'm so apprehensive on following people.

[Anonymous No.3827696]

>>3827641
>Twitter has a function called "Moments"
Oh I'll use that!

[Anonymous No.3827702]

>>3822999
>not using fake phone numbers

[Anonymous No.3827786]

I really hate my art and always want to delete my blog out of shame after a few weeks. How do I get over it?

[Anonymous No.3827789]

>>3827786
Focus on your art and forget about other people. That's what I'm doing right now. I'm gonna focus on learning art for a year and then start sharing my art online.

[Anonymous No.3827798]

>>3827789
So just abandon it?

[Anonymous No.3827801]

>>3827798
For now. Having an online presence in the beginning isn't necessary. You can easily gain followers anyway when your work is good.

[Anonymous No.3827806]

>>3827801
The problem is, I'd miss out on commission money.
Also I suspect I'll feel the same about my art in the future eventually, as this isn't the first time it happened. I had 2 years without online presence in between where I just studied btw

[Anonymous No.3827815]

>>3827806
Okay. Try only sharing your best work then? I mean that's what most artists do already but still. The thing is the person that cares most about your work is always gonna be you, and if you're decent or better then most people aren't even gonna notice any mistakes because they're not artists so I wouldn't worry about it

[Anonymous No.3827866]

>>3825409
>retaining mutual follower relationships should be of the utmost importance; it's like having a group of art buddies that will support you in any way they can., but you gotta reach out first.
Before I quit to take a break, my experience trying to talk to mutuals on twitter was basically reaching out and retweeting their stuff and being utterly ignored

[Anonymous No.3827874]

I don't even know where to go now that Twitter is banning lolicon, since most Japanese artists left to Pawoo which has no English version.

The only reason I used Twitter was for retweeting Japanese artists now they're just ripping it away from me and claiming moral superiority.

Burgers are the fucking worst.

[Anonymous No.3827881]

>>3827874
Baraag.net is considered the Western equivalent of pawoo

[Anonymous No.3827883]

>>3827786
Pretend that nobody sees it. A blog is just a box for you to put things in. You can put the drawings in the box and forget about them.
Maybe after some time you'll grow to look back on your work fondly, and the blog will be comforting. In the meantime you can just dump more drawings in.
You might eventually like any attention it gets too

[Anonymous No.3827899]

>>3823643
What's the account name mate, I'll check you out

[Anonymous No.3827930]

>>3827883
>>3827815
Good advice. Thanks for the input, guys!!

[Anonymous No.3827970]

>>3827874
you could always try sliding into their DMs and start a conversation; get their attention by including them in a #FF. y'know, make friends
>>3827881
baraag and pawoo are literally just mastodon instances; you can host your own with your art buddies and federate accordingly

migrating to mastodon would definitely be ideal in the long run to be quite honest

[Anonymous No.3828002]

>>3824756
100000 times 0 is still 0 anon

[Anonymous No.3828011]

>>3824756
Then make yourself useful and critique my wips motherfucker

[Anonymous No.3828022]

>>3827970
Is mastodon still going strong? And what instance should I go for?

[Anonymous No.3828104]

>>3827806
>he gets commissions
>wants to delete his blog
maybe think about the people who'd really like to have any money at all next time you have this thought

[Anonymous No.3828108]

>>3827874
>I don't even know where to go now that Twitter is banning lolicon
into the trash, maybe?

[Anonymous No.3828122]

>>3828108
Why reply if you have nothing of worth to say?

[Anonymous No.3828133]

>>3827866
ive never made a real friend through twitter or tumblr alone. people often mistake mutuals for friends and they are NOT the same. here's why

convos on twitter:
>short/nonexisent
>superficial

convos on discord:
>potential to be engaging- be it through "real talk" or shitposting for hours
>more likely that people will talk to you for YOU, and not your social media persona

make actual friends. they'll be more likely to support you than a mutual will

[Anonymous No.3828458]

>>3827641
I though separating your art from your personal stuff was common sense for artists.
I wonder how many artists will realize that twitter deletes your old shit once it stars "overflowing" your timeline.

[Anonymous No.3828680]

>>3822977
all the anime artists will be jumping pawoo soon so twitter will have less artists

[Anonymous No.3830676]

>>3828022
it is; go with literally any
>>3828133
all of my mutuals have spent the past year and half meeting up with each other in real life
>>3828458
twitter api thresholds downloadable tweets at like what, 3k? all them should still be viewable in your client/browser of choice, tho
>>3828680
doubt; lolicon is super niche and twitter is still a good platform for reaching western audiences in particular