Pixiv how is it?

[Anonymous No.5183574]

Hey can someone give me a run down on how this site is for posting, and is it viable for Westerners?

[Anonymous No.5183608]

>>5183574
It's easy for people to see and like your stuff and that's it.
Japs won't talk to your baka gaijin ass and will neither follow you on twitter nor subscribe to your patreon/fanbox.

[Anonymous No.5183610]

99% japs 1% filthy gaijin leeches

[Anonymous No.5183613]

>>5183608
Sounds kinda like DA, which would you say is better?

[Anonymous No.5183635]

>>5183574
its good for me but if you don't understand japanese i imagine it would be pretty annoying. twitter is gonna be better for most people. if you dont want to go to twitter for political reasons... give minds, gab, parlor etc. a chance. they are worthless now but they have potential to grow.

[Anonymous No.5183639]

>>5183574
Pixiv is like Nico Nico Douga. It is a Japanese site with Japanese structure and userbase..
If you understand the site the culture and care for the eyes that are already viewing it and are decent at your work then go ahead. Otherwise you will be just another idiot shitting up the search. There are enough weeaboos who think using the site will make them japanese and enough jackasses high on social media who think they can grow their patreon money by posting trashy fanart to the platform. You are likely gonna have to know some basic japanese to not have it just be a file dump or access any of the branch offs from the main site.
If you want a platform that keeps your images in the original quality, has a search the is optimized for finding new works, and a front page just use newgrounds.

If you are cool with all of that and think that is still what you want spend a month actually using the platform to figure out what it is about. It is not structured the way you'd think it does, they use tags completely differently, and the branchoffs integrate to the site in important ways.

[Anonymous No.5183645]

>>5183639
Alright thank you for the info

[Anonymous No.5183646]

>>5183613
If you draw anime girls, try pixiv. It has a bunch of features like streaming, commissions, selling digital manga, fanbox, it's an ecosystem for jap anime artists. Eventually the boorus/e-hentai will keep track of your stuff. But also make a twitter if you want commissions, or a newgrounds/hentai foundry if you don't like twitter. I have 17k followers and japs DM me TWICE vs a bunch of westerners.

[Anonymous No.5183670]

>>5183646
Now my Question is, what if you draw Anime inspired Art, and you only do SFW stuff, would you be okay doing that on there?

[Anonymous No.5183696]

>>5183670
it's like newgrounds. SFW and NSFW images are kept separated but easy to access.
People will see and like your anime girl in sweater dreaking tea, it's not like it's only has coomers there, it's very balanced actually.

[Anonymous No.5183701]

>>5183696
Sweet, I'm glad, don't wanna do NSFW then get blacklisted from the industry, thanks for the help

[ta-kun No.5183704]

>>5183670
Pixiv twitter in my eyes is the best combo. Pixiv for uncompressed works and all the things pixiv is good at, and twitter for a more casual experience. If you are smart you can steel clear of the drama and politics of twitter and just have a very comfy time there.
Newgrounds in my experience does not like anime very much, even western anime inspired works can sometimes not get as much love. The only exception is if you do retro anime stuff.
I didn't know hentai foundry was still functional, every time I accidentally stumble upon it it looks pretty dead.
>>5183670
I'm not sure how you got that sfw is a problem, if anything nsfw on pixiv is restricted.
>anime inspired art
depends on what you mean. You can try posting it here in this thread

[Anonymous No.5183721]

>>5183701
Cydesignation has an account there, you have nothing to worry about.

[Anonymous No.5183723]

>>5183704
Okay, that is my plan for Twitter, politics is a stink you can never truly get off yourself, and for the SFW stuff, I've been told nobody cares unless you are a master class Artist or you post NSFW Art

[Anonymous No.5183730]

>>5183721
Perfect, yeah I just don't want to go where people don't want me on, and just ruin the vibe

[Anonymous No.5183770]

>>5183608
>Japs won't talk to your baka gaijin ass
That's why watashi talks broke English to help talk true nippon gay

[ta-kun No.5183788]

>>5183723
>politics is a stink you can never truly get off yourself
no, just don't engage in them, unfollow political accounts, and mark don't show me this or that when you get politics. Bonus points change your trending to okinawa. I don't remember the last time I got politics on my feed.
Some people believe that its pin up or no follows, in my opinion that is a narrow view. If you don't think there is a crowd for what you want to draw try it or lurk around to try and find examples of this or that.

[Anonymous No.5183815]

>>5183788
Good advice, trying to get the larger crowd will just water an Artist's work, you are 100% right if your work is good people will find you, thank you for that, a smaller but more engaged crowd is better then a large unengaged crowd, Thank you

[Anonymous No.5183851]

>>5183608
wut???
plenty of japanese artists and people will subscribe to you...just gotta use some shit gaijin japanese.

[Anonymous No.5183856]

>>5183851
Could you give an example?

[Anonymous No.5183868]

>>5183856
I just copy the characters name from wiki or other jap artists and steal their discritptions. lol

[Anonymous No.5183901]

>>5183868
Lol or I guess Google translate could work too

[Anonymous No.5183907]

>>5183901
eh theres another translator that japs use for english that you can use. But honestly if your art is good and you use some japanese i doubt you will not have problems.

[Anonymous No.5183923]

>>5183907
Yeah I'll give it a try, this place and newgrounds have been the sites I keep getting recommended
Thank you all for your help

[boxman No.5184005]

You have to know who your audience, despite my best efforts my most popular submission remains pic related:

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/80394432

12,894 views and counting

Don't DM japs, you can make fanart of japs artwork or OC and DM them in broken google translate that "hey i liked your art so much i made a western version and most of the time theyre just polite"

i made friends and art for a schizo azn that regularly posted schizo art thats not on there anymore unfortunately , they wrote back to my broken google translatE:

heyaaaヾ(｡・ω・｡)`*:;,｡･

hello!デス!
thank you!
i am happy, you remember me,
and made special picture.
i am happy you are somewhere in this world,
and make great picture.

Honestly if you can find it, there's some good on that website you can't find elsewhere imo.

[Anonymous No.5184018]

>>5184005
Thank you, that's another thing I wanted to know what the culture of the site is like, when I get a llama badge or something like that, I just don't know what to do, so any other advice for the site I'd greatly appreciate

[Anonymous No.5184024]

>>5183574
Westerners please stay off Pixiv, why do you guys want to ruin everything? You only spread gay lgbt shit, and your porn is drawn poorly. Let Pixiv be a proper anime site and not western "anime" or muh style.

[Anonymous No.5184031]

>>5184024
Kys weeb chink nigger

[Anonymous No.5184043]

>>5184024
Well actuallay Thats what I was wondering, I don't wish to make NSFW or flavour of the month fanart, just want to make oc's and share Idea's for comics

[Anonymous No.5184054]

>>5183574
>>5183608
>>5183639
The most successful Western/non Japanese artists on Pixiv are the ones that you have no idea are gaijin. Short/nonexistent captions (done in Japanese if there are any) and actually good anime/manga style art (usually some East Asian genes come into play here but there are exceptions) combined will give you that. Some gaijin go even further and actually learn Japanese.

[Anonymous No.5184058]

>>5184043
Probably will be ignored, although it depends on your comic ideas. If they are textless you might get some attention if they are interesting

[Anonymous No.5184065]

>>5184058
So just don't write anything?, also do the pics have titles, and if so should I use Kanji for it?

[Anonymous No.5184081]

>>5184065
Keep the titles short if you don't know any Japanese, but they should be in Japanese in the first place. I've seen Korean/Chinese artists put up silent comics that get good attention on pixiv. But half of being a creator on pixiv is sharing your love of anime/manga so don't be afraid to make fanart, as it will help you gain a following as well. A bunch of mangaka start out making doujin (sfw) or fanart all the time before getting publishers. Some even get picked up because of their fanart.

[Anonymous No.5184085]

>>5184065
If your style actually looks like anime and not western anime then you can use Kanji, otherwise no
Usually they have titles, but if you go for textless comics having no title might make it "mysterious"

[Anonymous No.5184087]

>>5184081
Okay sweet, any suggestions for Sites that can translate English to Kanji fairly accurately?

[Anonymous No.5184101]

>>5184085
What would you say about this, it's a rough draft, I fixed up later, but is this enough?

[Anonymous No.5184115]

>>5184101
>link_wip

[Anonymous No.5184119]

>>5184115
Yeah I use Alpha, probably should call it WIP

[Anonymous No.5184141]

>>5184054
This. If you're good enough you can say literally nothing, just upload with the correct tags, and get hundreds and thousands of bookmarks. But if you want to make any good money on pixiv and like doing that FANBOX shit you need to learn the language.

[Anonymous No.5184149]

>>5184141
Fanbox is that the monetization part of the site?

[Anonymous No.5184156]

>>5184149
It's similar to Patreon in the Western world. I don't know the full details as I don't buy shit on it but I believe it allows people to subscribe to you and/or buy individual manga, among other things.

[Anonymous No.5184164]

>>5184156
Okay, also is this site good for posing comics? Or save that for another site?

[Anonymous No.5184174]

>>5184164
*Posting

[Anonymous No.5184206]

>>5183635
>gab
>potential
Yes, i love my drawings being side to side with banana nazis and conspiratards

[Anonymous No.5184208]

>>5184206
yeah that was something I forgot to touch on, alt-tech sites have that as a big issue, plus just wait tell they write an article about it being "a den of extremism" and you get lumped in with those people

[Anonymous No.5184214]

>>5183635
twitter, gab (twitter) and parlor (twitter) are all garbage sites

[Anonymous No.5184217]

>>5184119
I'm talking about the pose, it looks like merc_wip.
some ideas to save this drawing:
1. give link a bishonen face, try until you nail it
2. people only care about the master sword
3. this is a boring stiff pose for link, add a different theme to it, like some celtic stuff. Add textures on the computer if you don't have patience for detail yet.

[Anonymous No.5184218]

>>5184214
Kek
>>5184206
>>5184208
Kys shills

[Anonymous No.5184222]

>>5184214
What sites would you recommend then?

[Anonymous No.5184227]

>>5184222
use twitter, only rightoids have issues with it because they can't seethe at black people, women and homossexuals there.

[Anonymous No.5184231]

>>5184222
Baraag or Mastodon

[Anonymous No.5184232]

>>5184217
Sweet, thank you so much, I've tried to get advice on /beg/ and people seem too busy talking about some person being silly, so truly Thank you for the advice

[Anonymous No.5184241]

>>5184231
Okay but do they ban hate speak though?

[Anonymous No.5184244]

>>5184241
I dont know. I use it for art.

[Anonymous No.5184285]

>>5184005
Your art just not that good

[Anonymous No.5184288]

>>5184005
AAAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
Your AC icons are pretty good but
hhAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

[Anonymous No.5184292]

>>5184218
>talking shit about gab
>shill
????????

[Anonymous No.5184657]

>Grow a follower base on Twitter
>Hear rumors of Twitter might ban NSFW so make a Pixiv just in case, Pillowfort is shit and always down
>Post my work with Japanese tags
>Surpass my amount of 1 year Twitter followers in a single day on Pixiv
>My art actually gets to stay visible for a few days without intervention, instead of being visible on Twitter for an instant in time
WHAT KIND OF MAGIC IS THIS?

[Anonymous No.5184666]

>>5184657
It's like pixiv was designed for artists or something

[Anonymous No.5184677]

>>5183574
I use it exclusively as an archive. Requiring a subscription to search for content is a bit too much in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.5184682]

>>5184005
why does your art look so wildly inconsistent? every image looks like it's on a different level of ability.

[Anonymous No.5184683]

Can I upload censored works to pixiv if I'm uploading uncensored publicly elsewhere? I've heard they no likey when people do that. Not too worried about it, just curious.

[Anonymous No.5184694]

I only use it to jerk off

[Anonymous No.5185055]

What about Medibang artstreet? Looks like a pixiv but for english speakers. Anyone here got an acc over there?

[Anonymous No.5185064]

>>5185055
I do. I'd highly recommend it because they reach out to artists.

[Anonymous No.5185152]

>>5184101
Pixiv users won't like it. Maybe you'll get 2 bookmarks from random passerby, but the style won't take you anywhere. Reboot everything, you're half good so it won't be that hard. Good luck pal

[Anonymous No.5185158]

>>5185064
Thanks. Was hesitant about posting on pixiv as a gaijin. Good to know about artstreet, ill try that one. I hope its not full of angry offended westerners like twitter lol

[Anonymous No.5185172]

>>5183574
I'd say it's perfectly fine to use Pixiv as a gaijin. I don't even hide the fact that I'm not Japanese by using English on both of my titles and descriptions, and my works usually get to top 10 daily and weekly ranking. Also a lot of Japanese companies and individuals contact me for work.
Just keep in mind that anime style performs way better than Western style on Pixiv.

[Anonymous No.5185209]

>>5184217
More dynamic pose might help and you need work on your figure drawing.

[Anonymous No.5185708]

>>5185152
Yeah I was kinda feeling that way, all ways felt like it was missing something, any suggestions on what to study?