/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.3925998]

what's the secret to low effort but effective marketing your art?

[Anonymous No.3926000]

>>3925998
style

[Anonymous No.3926007]

Add /pol/ in your art

[Anonymous No.3926008]

I wish I stupid social engineering while I was still in college...

[Anonymous No.3926010]

>>3926008
studied* thanks google.

[Anonymous No.3926011]

>>3925998
luck or connections

[Anonymous No.3926041]

>>3925998
>Reply to company’s Twitter posts with your art.
>Make “relatable and comfy” scenarios.

[Anonymous No.3926050]

>>3925998
really clean lineart is #1 IMO
I draw in the opposite style, very rough and textural and my work looks unattractive as a thumbnail. I can't help it because I do detail heavy stuff and I use muted natural colors like ochres and browns etc.
If you use very clean even lines and fill them with flat bright colors with no shading your work will read a lot better as a thumbnail, then you just put a punchline in it or a meme or whatever. Fanart also works because it reads well as a thumbnail, you're going to recognize Hellboy immediately in a thumbnail because you already know the design.
I think it's all about getting people to click on the content, the issue I've seen with my art is that very few people will click on it but many people who click will like it afterwards.
Basically social media and smartphones are cancer.

[Anonymous No.3926077]

>>3925998
Keep a clean general image. Don't spam your feed with random shit.
Make interesting thumbnails that'll push people to click- tiny writings, details etc.
That's more vague but- try to connect with bigger artists.

[Anonymous No.3926132]

Make it relatable, like pic related
Exploded recently

[Anonymous No.3926134]

>>3926132
Where's the fucking joke

[Anonymous No.3926146]

>>3926132
didn't this guy get called out for being a conservative christian
not that I agree with the outrage but it's funny

[Anonymous No.3926150]

>>3926134
>Humans are weird aren't they? Imagine if we came across aliens that did what we did, we'd think they were weird.
For all of them.

[Anonymous No.3926156]

>>3926000
Kek

[Anonymous No.3926161]

>>3926132
What do people see in it? Unironically, tell me. It's not funny, it's not clever, it's not cute, it's barely relatable. I actually don't get it.

[Anonymous No.3926164]

>>3926150
I guess the idea is decent but the execution is terrible

[Anonymous No.3926202]

>>3926132
I hate this

[Anonymous No.3926204]

>>3926161
xkcd formula, "this sounds really smart so by liking it I signal how smart I am"

[Anonymous No.3926219]

>>3926161
I like them. Not enough to check his site for them or fucking pay for them, but I find them enjoyable when we cross paths. It's like the other anon said, a novel look at some shit we take for granted. The joke is basically "ain't societal norms weird?" and would probably wear thin if I had to see them every fucking day, but seeing one at a time every so often keeps it fresh and funny sometimes.

[Anonymous No.3926220]

>>3926219

[Anonymous No.3926223]

>>3926220
...okay? Did you just find a soi image and really want to use it or something?

[Anonymous No.3926228]

>>3926204
>>3926219
Gotcha, I thought there was something to learn about it, maybe that's it. I don't mean to crab, but this makes me just go "ah ok sure", but I guess it can be funny in that way.

[Anonymous No.3926261]

dont forget consistency. you might think this is easy but try posting a comic everyday for 2 years.


also semi related, im so sad that webcomicname is so popular because this guy has another webcomic that is actually clever but its neglected now. https://dorrismccomics.com/

[Anonymous No.3926263]

>>3926261
I hate this, this would be so much more clever without the explanations

[Anonymous No.3926276]

>>3925998
>low effort
>effective

Pick one.

Marketing is hustling. Either pay someone to do it for you (why ad agencies exist), or get to work.

[Anonymous No.3926287]

>>3926276
>Pick one.
#visiblewomen

[Anonymous No.3926297]

>>3926132
>>3926150
>>3926161
>>3926204
It's like being punk without having the balls to actually rebel/subvert/modify social norms.

[Anonymous No.3926326]

>>3926008
who

[Anonymous No.3926336]

>>3926132
the last one is funny to be honest

[Anonymous No.3926353]

>>3926132
I think it's pretty funny to be honest.

[Anonymous No.3926374]

>>3926132
That last one is funny. It may be even funnier with only the last two panels.

[Anonymous No.3926381]

>>3925998
draw popular characters in a cute way

[Anonymous No.3926412]

>>3926000
i will fucking skin her alive

[Anonymous No.3926602]

>>3926374
>>3926336
what does the last one mean? I don't even understand what is the stuff the alien is holding because it's drawn so bad

[Anonymous No.3926626]

>>3926146
What the fuck is there to ''call out'' about that, what the fuck is wrong with people these days

[Anonymous No.3926653]

>>3926204
Oh anon...

[Anonymous No.3926855]

>>3926412

[Anonymous No.3926871]

>>3926132
Wretches my heart. Guess when you're not clever/creative enough to play around with the medium I guess you gotta stoop to this.

I better get working on that le comfy relatable comic then

[Anonymous No.3926898]

>>3926161
>>3926871
I remember Nathan Pyle from our Threadless.com days back in the sites golden age (pic related is one of his from back them). Even back before he got big, I remember him being him always being a very wholesome dude when he was just getting started.

He got really popular because he worked really hard creating all sorts of "wholesome" relatable content far before the strange aliens comic strip, consistently making & posting it for years. He already had built up a huge following, he had published 2 quirky illustrated books about NYC etiquette which were both NYT bestsellers. His following already loved this type of stuff, and when he started the alien strip, he already had a dedicated following of over a million fans (800k FB, 600k IG, 150K Twitter). He consistently posted on a regular basis on several social media sites and created work that regular people found enjoyable and - more importantly - shareable. He sells merch with this stuff on it, he made a book out of the aliens (on Amazon), has a successful Patreon and continues to grow.

I'm honestly really happy for him. He deserves the success.

>>3926146
>>3926626
People got pissed because he voiced support for the March for Life. He's a very Christian dude and is against abortion. However, he is not conservative - he stated in an interview that he is liberal and votes Democrat. It's my best guess that he is anti-abortion but still pro-choice.
>What the fuck is there to ''call out'' about that,
Being pro-life is fundamentally stupid and deserves to be called out every time.

[Anonymous No.3926921]

>>3926898
>Being pro-life is fundamentally stupid

This is why I don't associate with "artist" types. Pro-death supporters should get a taste of what they are shilling

[Anonymous No.3926957]

>>3926921
>This is why I don't associate with "artist" types.
God forbid not everyone is in your groupthink. Can't have any dissenting opinions anymore, goy

[Anonymous No.3927148]

>>3926921
>Pro-death supporters
ppfffffttttt

[Anonymous No.3927152]

Marketing is inherently active. It’s never going to be low effort unless you have a stroke of random luck but I wouldn’t bank on that

[Anonymous No.3927159]

>>3926000

[Anonymous No.3927998]

>>3927152
>have a stroke of random luck but I wouldn’t bank on that
Relying on luck in any regard is a bad business move. It's nice to take advantage of it when it does strike, but you absolutely have to have a more sturdy, reliable & actionable plan to meet your goals.

[Anonymous No.3929586]

>>3926000
Abomination

[Anonymous No.3929589]

>>3925998
Stop trying to sell shit to men and focus on selling dumb cheap shit to women instead. They're more susceptible to marketing and they spend 80 percent of all money.

[Anonymous No.3929591]

>>3927159
Lol

[Anonymous No.3929593]

>tfw recently published
>tfw hang out with natsoc niggas online
>tfw nobody even knows

Thank god for imageboards

[Anonymous No.3929600]

>>3929593
Work?

[Anonymous No.3929601]

>>3926000
At least she's fuckable unlike everyone else on tumblr.

[Anonymous No.3929603]

>>3929600
Not today :^}