Consistency vs Trend Hopping

[Anonymous No.6222912]

One big advice I get to grow a following is to have consistency, to post daily and post more or less the same niche that made people follow you in the first place.
Another big advice to grow a following is to make art of what's trending, keep an eye on what's currently big.

How the fuck do I reconcile the two?

[Anonymous No.6222914]

Stop drawing trannime

[Anonymous No.6222918]

>>6222914
I don't want to draw furries, sorry.

[Anonymous No.6222923]

>>6222918
>it's either trannime or furries
End your life right now

[Anonymous No.6222924]

>>6222923
We're all dead, one day you'll realize.

[Anonymous No.6222931]

>>6222914
keep drawing trannime

[Anonymous No.6222937]

>>6222912
have the shit you enjoy as a base ad foundation to your body of work
then add a few trends here and there
thats a good midleground unless your personal tastes are very very very niche
i enjoy fighting games so i draw a lot of fanart of fighting games characters both male and female some oc, and even a few mockups
i got lucky that in past few years people been discovering fg characters and they have become amazing bait especially the girls, which offer a large variety in designs to not feel burnt out on same cutesy shit, and this been helping me just get my art out there and get a few comms
just find your own little niche that has some wider appeal or to the middlleground of mixing your tastes as a foundation with some trends here and there

[Anonymous No.6222940]

>>6222923
yes?
its either trannime or furry porn, everything else got replaced by ai already.

[Anonymous No.6222941]

>>6222940
Lmao just end it.

[Anonymous No.6222943]

>>6222940
This dude keeps seething because he got jealous of trannime anons being better than him.

[Anonymous No.6222948]

>>6222937
>have the shit you enjoy as a base ad foundation to your body of work
>then add a few trends here and there
Sounds like a plan, I'm more or less doing it already, but I very sparsely post and don't really interact with anyone. Also maybe my niche is just very broad (game/anime guys, no hetero, only homo stuff).

>i enjoy fighting games so i draw a lot of fanart of fighting games characters
Same, good taste.

Thanks for the actual advice, and congratulations on your success, wish I could look your stuff or follow.

>>6222941
This guy gets it.

[Anonymous No.6223974]

>>6222912
Artists that always just rush to draw the latest trending meme always seem like they are creatively bankrupt.

[Anonymous No.6223980]

>>6222912
>How the fuck do I reconcile the two?
are you this fucking dumb?
draw whatever the trend is in your style.

[Anonymous No.6224163]

>>6222912
why can’t there be a vs 3rd option which is having fun?

[Anonymous No.6224169]

>>6222948
>wish I could look your stuff or follow.
im not very successful just a few thousand follows but got lucky in pulling some commissioners attention
and id never post my shit on here to avoid the mentally ill shitposters id advise you to do the same and not promote your socials on /ic/

[Anonymous No.6224202]

>>6224163
people have fun in different ways
i enjoy autistically copying anatomy books and game/animation artbooks as much as doing original art but most find it boring
everyone's different

[Anonymous No.6224209]

>>6222912
Draw popular characters, but not ones that are FotM.
Evergreen characters:
Frankie Foster, or any cartoon redhead, really.
Cynthia and other poke waifus
Any Nintendo/Disney princess
Baiken, Chun-Li, Juri Han, and other popular fighting game waifus

[Anonymous No.6224396]

>>6224209
FotM?
What about Link from Zelda? I have a permanent boner for him.
Do you think hentai gets more followers?

[Anonymous No.6224407]

>>6222914
post your work

[Anonymous No.6224458]

>>6224396
It's Zelda so that works just fine. NSFW gets traction in different ways. Generally should be easier to get started with it, but harder to reach a higher ceiling than SFW.

[Anonymous No.6224468]

>>6224458
What do you think would eventually get me more money though, SFW or NSFW?

>inb4 you'll earn more flipping burgers

I prefer earning a little less while drawing, I'm not vain and am happy with a simpler lifestyle.

[Anonymous No.6224483]

>>6224468
That's mostly up to how you monetize and how hard you're willing to work for it rather than the nature of the work. Again, you could hit a broader audience with SFW, but you'd have an easier time appealing to more niche interests with NSFW.

[Anonymous No.6224719]

>>6224396
Flavor of the Month, but it can stretch multiple months, or even years.
Examples: Yor Forger, Bowsette, etc.
Then you have shorter ones like the Clown girl, Marin Kitagawa, Lady Dimitrescu, etc.

[Anonymous No.6224729]

>>6224719
As for the cooming Link thing, it'll appeal to some, sure, but Zelda herself appeals to more people.
Guess you could do both of them.
If you do hentai, you have to be dedicated to the hentai audience. Know that it will never appeal to normies. Then again, every genre of art only appeals to a select population, so it's not that different to go full hentai.

[Anonymous No.6224752]

>>6224729
>Then again, every genre of art only appeals to a select population, so it's not that different to go full hentai.
Do you think there's a "bi" population? I sometimes really want to make bi stuff, not really hentai or yaoi, do you think that would scare both kinds of people though?

[Anonymous No.6224798]

>>6224752
Yes there is.
But it's niche

[Anonymous No.6224813]

>>6222912
Draw whatever the fuck you want and stop obsessing over the number going up.

Also your followers aren't brain-dead numbers and will only interact with stuff they like. Mine are half art hoes and half weebs, and apart from a few of them the weebs ignore my master studies and the art hoes don't suddenly stop watching mood boards reading coffee shop AU fanfics to flock to drawings of Chika Fujiwara getting dicked stupid just because I'm behind them.

[Anonymous No.6224923]

>>6224798
Thank you. I'll stick to mostly yaoi but temper my content with bi stuff from the time to time then.

[Anonymous No.6225292]

>>6223974
You look at it as a trend that people hop on and do soley for retweets and follows
I look at it as an easy break from needing to think, something I can do in under an hour thats kind kind of fun

jack-o pose was just a simple 'your character here' thing
sailor moon in your style was just drawing a character over in your style

both simple tasks that let you take a break from being 100% at the wheel.
granted i'm sure there are people who ONLY draw trends and current popular things exclusively, thats kind of creatively bankrupt to use your words, but i also don't follow anyone that fucking vapid to being with.

[Anonymous No.6225300]

>>6222912
don't do realistic birds as the bulk of your work, then toss in a completely opposing style.

largely people don't like the opposing style and people won't like the birds you normally do, so you just net loss after that post.

but if you do illustration ranging from heavily cartoon to more realistic, tossing in a challange piece is just a toss up, people may like your normal work and people who like your work wont be too off put by the tossup.

but don't get a following that hates anime and then jump on an anime trend.

[Anonymous No.6225305]

I follow a few artists whose style vary in unpredictable ways, 80% of what they draw is not to my tastes, but I'm always happy when something exciting comes out, so I congratulate them or interact in some way.

If you're formulaic, I will follow you to see more, but I will never like/share your artwork because you are a product, not an artist to me.

So think twice before trend-hopping, kiddo, you might be losing the most tasteful fun you could ever dream of (me).

[Anonymous No.6225309]

>>6225305
tasteful fan*

[Anonymous No.6225336]

Its not really that complex.

Find a niche, and draw for it consistently, and turn the trends to what you're known for.
If you're the top tentacle rape artist, then draw tentacle rape but draw it with the latest FOTM girls.