Did you ever delete your account because nobody gave a shit about your art?

[Anonymous No.6543513]

Recently just deleted my Newgrounds account because I was tired of being stuck at 16 followers after a year + I still very very far from being a competent enough artist to get a big following. Maybe I'll recreate it once I'm significantly more skilled, but still.

[Anonymous No.6543520]

>>6543513
What kind of stuff were you drawing?

[Anonymous No.6543523]

I want to make a Newgrounds for the socialization aspect. I really crave community. I want to talk to like minded people who get me

[Anonymous No.6543524]

>>6543520
Mostly trying to get good at character art, smut and soon mecha/vehicle design, but most of my art here was still uninteresting high-/beg/ and low-/int/ shit. Not going to post anywhere else other than Twitter and maybe drawthread in other boards until I'm competent enough by internet artists standards and capable of appeal.

[Anonymous No.6543531]

I spent a long time waiting to "get good" before posting my art online. I often nuked accounts after a while or abandoned them. It's honestly one of my biggest regrets.
I'm still not the best at drawing now, but i'm just happy to be sharing it with anyone willing to see it.

[Anonymous No.6543534]

>>6543531
Post your art because I'm curious

[Anonymous No.6543539]

>>6543513
pyw

[Anonymous No.6543550]

>>6543513
16 people wondering where you went.

>character art, smut and soon mecha/vehicle design
You just needed to combine though and draw slutty pilots fixing up their mechas. getting greasy 'n shit.

[Anonymous No.6543561]

>>6543539
Lineart only because my current coloring skills put down my art even more. Those aren't even that new since they're like a week old or slighty more, most recent things I drew were mostly life drawings and cubes/cylinders/organic forms since I'm trying to get rid of my ingrained bad sense of form and 3d space after years of drawing while studying very little, oh and an attempt at NSFW but it's furry so I can't post it. I can only draw for 2-3 hours max as of now since very soon I'll have my final exams for the driver's license in 2 weeks, so I'm trying to regulate what to do without never skipping a day (in my dark ages I used to take months long hiatuses often). Current first goal is getting a good grasp at organic form/intuitive perspective alongside gesture and basic anatomy (I already have few experiences with those, tho results ended wonky most of the time due to the bad way I've learned how to draw), basically being able to give organicness and dynamism to my figures/characters and being able to put them in most camera angles. I've done a few master studies as well of mangakas I like, but It's more of a very secondary thing for now since I'm working on my observational and intuitive perspective abilities.

>tl;dr I have bad habits and ingrained shit shape design due to time spent drawing with very little draftmanship practice. I want to get on an hardcore grind now that I'm more mature and disciplined enough to sustain it just for the pleasure of getting gud faster, but irl things currently won't let me do it, so I'm scheduling my time without never skipping a day.

[Anonymous No.6543562]

>>6543513
I deleted my accounts multiple times because i didn't want to be tied to /ic/. Plural because i tried to take part here, but you start seeing things and it's better if you stay as anonymous as possible.
Only a few anons here are cool, but the rest are a bunch of petty drama whores.

Also forget about ever having any following as a nobody. Social media works on nepotism.

[Anonymous No.6543563]

How do people even make an account?. I'd be embarrassed if I was putting subpar stuff out there.

[Anonymous No.6543564]

I've wiped accounts before. One time a fan raged at me for it and I got into a back and forth fucking with him. It was fun

[Anonymous No.6543568]

>>6543561
Unironically start posting on plebbit, Gabe. If you post in the right sub, it's easy to get a lot of internet points, even if you aren't very skilled. If we're being real here, your art is a lot better than most of the people on this board, you just get crabbed a lot because your sense of appeal and color needs to be improved.

[Anonymous No.6543574]

>>6543563
I put subpar stuff out there so my friends and family can see my progress

[Anonymous No.6543586]

>>6543568
>Plebbit
Eh, a lot of shit over there but some small art related subreddits do seem more helpful than /ic/ in the last 2 years. Another thing I could consider is the Patreon Discord server of someone skilled I'm a fan of since from what I've heard those are usually pretty helpful as well (unless the artist who owns it is a schizo but still). I'm aiming for pro level art and I plan to get a career (either online or with other things like an indie game or a comic) out of it, though I'm not sure it's better to aim for the italian internet scene since it's still small and underdeveloped, rather than the much wider and saturated anglo-speaking part of the internet. It could still get recognition worldwide if decently translated and marketed (look at Undertale/Deltarune and their massive popularity in Japan) but still.
I will never give up on my dreams.

[Anonymous No.6543596]

>>6543513
No, but I deleted my DeviantArt with around 200 followers after a year of inactivity because I was concentrating on getting good. No regrets, although sometimes people from back then find me nowadays and tell me they were sad I just disappeared. That was a while ago though, these days a lot of people seem to not connect anymore and see followers only as a number.

I don't think you should be concerned with numbers, but if you are, keep posting and grow your account. Deleting is resetting you social media progress. By the way, NG is actively scouting for art to put on their frontpage. By humans. Every day. If you produce high quality content you will get seen eventually, trust me.

>>6543561
Good enough to build an audience. Try twitter as well. Try pandering to fanbases. You should be able to get at least a few hundred over the course of the year that way. Trust me though, even ten thousand followers mean basically nothing. Drawing for social media is cringe.

[Anonymous No.6543603]

threads like this make me paranoid

[Anonymous No.6543607]

>>6543513
Nope. And I'm going to come back just to show the stark contrast between my old art and new one.

[Anonymous No.6543622]

Deleting your art because you don't have any followers is retarded.

You'll be back in six months with better art, get no followers again because that's not actually how this works, and delete the new account even faster.

I'm /beg/ as fuck but even I know guys with worse art who do over twenty times my numbers and some posting pro-level stuff or animations they spent a week on who barely get what I get. Being good helps but it's all marketing and community management.

[Anonymous No.6543635]

>it's gabe
>again
Please, please, shut the fuck up. All you do is whine about not being popular when you never actually make anything. Just shut the fuck up and make you comic. No more crying about it online. Make it and post it around. When you've finished this post I want you to disconnect your fucking wifi and open CSP or photoshop or whatever the fuck you draw in and start making your fucking comic right now. I'm sick of your wingeing.

[Anonymous No.6543636]

>>6543561
This only got you 16 followers????? I think you would do numbers on sites like twitter.

[Anonymous No.6543637]

>>6543622
Can an artist gradually accumulate followers over the years even if they start posting at /beg/ level? I’m trying to cheer myself up with the thought that my art will eventually get more notice the more I draw, but I don’t know if it’s true.

[Anonymous No.6543640]

>>6543636
I'm already decently "popular" (445 followers and growing) on Twitter, the thing is that I still need to push out a little more and fix both my social and marketing skills to truly succeed. My biggest problem is that I get jealous of other artist's goals (trivial shit like "Why is this popular artist following my friend and not me? Is there something in my art that doesn't appeal to most people?" when some of the bigger artists who ignore me don't even know me in the first place) and can't accept that I'm not on par with other people (tho be fair, those other people draw more regularly than I can now and have been at it for like 3+ years than me), but that comes from deeper self-esteem issues and the fear of talking to people I don't talk much to, especially if I feel I'm being annoying to them. I know, I'm kind of a piece of shit with a rocky past and I accept it at this point, but the only thing I have the will to do unless I grow more balls is just being respectful, not annoying other people and accept my flaws and and all the critique I get while moving foward.

[Anonymous No.6543641]

Skill is a factor but a lot is just dumb luck. I've seen one piece of my art wryyyyyyposted a number of times and reused in memes and shit, and in one instance a repost get near 200k likes in no time, but back when I posted it... it just kinda floundered there for years in my gallery. I thought it was good, but apparently normalfags fucking loved it. Same picture, different circumstances, wildly different responses. Once you reach intermediate it's just endless crapshoots until you get lucky and one of you postings catches the right eyes at the right time and it snowballs into more and more traction.
Just hope the luck is yours and not some reposting faggot

[Anonymous No.6543643]

>>6543640
>445 followers and growing
Fuck off

[Anonymous No.6543645]

>>6543641
It’s a common story, artists posting something and getting hardly any attention but when a popular account reposts it without credit everyone loves it. Truly a cruel world we live in.

[Anonymous No.6543646]

>>6543513
yes, and I never dared to ever come back to that site since they're using my works for their own profit

[Anonymous No.6543653]

>>6543645
Yup, who knows how much ad revenue and followers or whatever have been generated from those reposts, while I'm stuck quibbling over $50 commissions with shitheads. As has long been known, "exposure" by way of somebody else is a meme, because rarely does that exposure actually loop back to the artist.

[Anonymous No.6543654]

>>6543561
Whoa. This is good.
You can easily reach 10k if you spend enough time advertising yourself

How's your coloring skills, though?

Newgrounds is almost a dead site. I can't blame you for having just a dozen

[Anonymous No.6543663]

>>6543513
I'm not deleting my deviantart, but I decided to move accounts because I was bored of my old one, partially due to followers though I get favorites at least once a day. I don't get why this one piece gets so much attention though.

[Anonymous No.6543666]

>>6543663
Fuck deviantart.
They claim to own your stuff and are gladly selling your art to AI

[Anonymous No.6543676]

Sometimes I do think about scrubbing my account entirely, at least on Twitter. Each time I post a drawing, I lose 1-2 followers, and when I don't post for even a couple of days, I just bleed followers all of the time.

I haven't posted in a few weeks and I think I had lost 30 or so followers. I get that consistent posting can have a factor for steady growth, but the bleeding has been happening for years now and I do not know what to do.

[Anonymous No.6543692]

>>6543550
>16 people wondering where you went.

>implying they weren't bots

[Anonymous No.6543700]

>>6543666
Seriously? I was planning to post my own stuff on deviantart for more exposure, but if that’s the case...

[Anonymous No.6543726]

>>6543654
Different anon here,

Would you have any tips for advertising yourself? I post on Twitter, Newgrounds and a handful of reddit subs. Ive managed to get 1.5k followers in a year, which is nice but I draw porn for really large fanbases and would like to get more outreach.

[Anonymous No.6543730]

>>6543726
Post your work, ideally even your socials, and I may be able to help come up with a strategy

[Anonymous No.6543731]

>>6543635
no he's going to spam the board with a dozen more threads reiterating the same few things he always blogposts about like the mentally ill broken record he is
seriously gabe can you at least try keeping yourself to a single containment thread the way other schizos usually do

[Anonymous No.6543735]

>>6543640
Why do you care so much about numbers? You have an audience, your work gets seen. Beating yourself up with needless jealousy and focusing too much on traction isn't really helpful for your growth. If you really want a fast following do fanart or porn. And like others pointed out, deleting your social media is counter productive.

[Anonymous No.6543741]

>>6543561
high beg technical skill, absolute dog diarrhea taste
you hate to see it

[Anonymous No.6543748]

>>6543561
my two cents is your gestures don't seem to have any sense of weight, sorry I'm using a mouse right now, hope it illustrates what I'm talking about

[Anonymous No.6543754]

>>6543730
https://twitter.com/Emeralds182

[Anonymous No.6543756]

>>6543741
>absolute dog diarrhea taste
you hate to see it
Can you elaborate more on this?

[Anonymous No.6543757]

>>6543756
Your designs look like garish mid-2000s webcomic/deviantart stuff. I guess there's a market for it, but I don't think it's very appealing to normies, which is probably why you're struggling. What are your biggest influences/

[Anonymous No.6543761]

>>6543748
That's good advice! Love the third gesture, really showcases the weight and motion

[Anonymous No.6543762]

>>6543761
Thanks, it was impossible to find a stock image of a parent picking up a child like that so I looked up strongmen picking up atlas stones lol

[Anonymous No.6543764]

>>6543637
if you draw popular anime or genshin, otherwise forget it

[Anonymous No.6543769]

>>6543586
>>6543761
yeah, just think a lot about weight. With such a big head you have to be careful of drawing her "P shaped" like you did, it looks like she's about to tip over. Don't be afraid to let the limbs be closer to the body, get up from the chair and do the pose yourself to find what feels natural, and pay special attention to the weight-bearing leg.

[Anonymous No.6543770]

>>6543757
>Your designs look like garish mid-2000s webcomic/deviantart stuff
Really? Not sure if it's because my lack of technique is still present enough to not let me pull it out fully, I'm going for a slighty cartoony art style based on shapes and forms but with a good understanding of gesture, figures and detailing behind. My main influences are:
>Hiroyuki Takei
>Kotha Hirano
>Kazuki Takahashi
>Kazushi Hagiwara
>Aru Urara
>Metal Slug (not an artist but was very formative to me)
>Philippe Druillet (mainly for backgrounds and vehicle/environmental design)
>Jean Claude Mezieres (ditto)
>Moebius (ditto)
>Kunio Okawara (ditto but for mecha design)
>Old Frank Miller (his inking style and some character design ideas)
That's it for now, I know it may feel like I'm out of touch with modernity despite my age but I don't care much if something is old or not if I like it. Despite really being into anthro art and drawing mostly furries, Aru Urara i'd say is the one that inspires me the most (Watatanza is seconf place, I also dig Isatorus/Smekbo and some old bittenhardly stuff regarding smaller internet artists). If you want to suggest other artists (recent or not) I could take influence from for what I'm aiming to draw you're free to give suggestions.

[Anonymous No.6543772]

>>6543769
Thank you again for your example! I guess a natural understanding of how to distribute natural weight to the body comes from doing a lot of practice with gesture and a better understanding for how the center of gravity works like.
Also that character is a boy lol, but you still did a good job giving it dynamism while standing.

[Anonymous No.6543774]

>>6543772
No problem! Uhh we'll call it Rule 63 fanart lol

[Anonymous No.6543778]

>>6543770
>>6543772
It might be time to take a composition course, there's a lot of frills and embellishments to your characters that make them extremely "busy" to look at. Looking at one of your influences, I found this. There's a lot going on here, but notice the eye path in green leading the viewer to the face, and see how there's an alternating pattern between "busier" and "cleaner" parts of the drawing. I think the accoutrements that you're putting on your characters is getting in the way of a clear silhouette, gesture, and intention. It's not that you have to strip them away, but try to be more conscious of where you're placing them and where you want the viewer's attention to be. It's a tough thing to do, but I think getting a handle on your weight, gesture, and composition will go a long way toward making your drawings more appealing. Remember that people are probably going to see your drawings for 0.3 seconds as they scroll by, you want clarity clarity clarity.

[Anonymous No.6543789]

>>6543754
Sorry for the late response. I took a look and my conclusion is - you're doing everything right. Good tweet retweet ratio, good art, accessible kinks, popular fanbases, clean media tab. Breaking the first K is always the hardest. Keep doing what you do, occassionally branch out to see if some other stuff sticks - FOTM and super popular franchizes like Pkmn are good to make buck, but you are also likely to drown in a sea of other creators catering to the same thing, so experiment a bit (but don't force yourself to draw for stuff you're not interested in, stick true to your way). Try to make friends with other NSFW artists. There are small discords and circles, etc where we medium to big artists like to chill. Make some connections. The first step is always a bit akward, as it requires you to reach out to others via DM. Stick to artists you personally like and those adjacent to what you do, also stick to roughly your size. I think writing up to 10ks is okay as well, just don't come off as leeching.

My prognosis if you just keep doing what you do is that you'll reach 10k in a year or two. If you network it will be MUCH faster. For me as a SFW artist it took around 2 years of semi-frequent posting and some fanart to reach around 10k. Hope this insight was helpful. While you have influence over your social media growth luck still plays a role. But if you have a nice looking main page people are more likely to stick around when you hit a bingo and a post gets viral. (And I think you got that going for you)

[Anonymous No.6543793]

>>6543637
i did just that
113 followers on twatter
71 watcher or deviant

but to be fair i get more "traction" when i comment on random posts on these websites than from actually posting my shit. so basically you need to focus more on marketing than on art itself to get anywhere.

[Anonymous No.6543796]

Why do all of you even care lol

Do you actually get money from your accs

[Anonymous No.6543813]

I have been following this anime artist/youtuber for a year now and he's a really good artist but doesn't really break numbers (100 - 500 likes on average). This week he finally got a post that broke 50k likes and he was shocked. You just have to keep at it.

[Anonymous No.6543819]

>>6543789
Thanks for taking the time and helping me out anon, I appreciate it. You're right, I need to find more artist friends and network a bit. Time to hit up discord again

[Anonymous No.6543836]

>>6543770
You only list aruurara because you want his name to be associated with yours in this god-forsaken hellhole of an art forum
If you TRULY were inspired by aru you'd spend the time grinding figure drawing as much if not more than he does, and your work would at LEAST have a hint of his in it. But as it stands there is absolutely nothing that says "aru" in your drawings. You want to have the aru scent around you but you can't be assed to put the effort in to actually spray it onto you

Like always, you suffer because you pursuit vanity gabe, if you truly loved drawing you'd be an amazing artist by now but your ultimate goal is to be popular, NOT to be an amazing artist

[Anonymous No.6543945]

>>6543726
draw in drawthreads and if you're good, people will recognize your art/ask for your twitter

[Anonymous No.6544086]

>>6543796
Asking the real questions here. Money>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>followers.

[Anonymous No.6544097]

>>6543524
bro i been posting for like 11 years and I have like 80 followers. im still posting no I haven't deleted anything.

[Anonymous No.6544344]

>>6543513

Been thinking of deleting my shit too honestly. I have 1.4k on NG and like 200 followers on twitter. Doesnt feel worth it to paint anymore coom.

Kind of want to paint my own retarded shit and see where it takes me.

[Anonymous No.6544350]

>>6543523

The newgrounds forums is ran by tranny mods that ban me every time I question shit or say something that isnt pro liberal.

Thankfully it has nothing to do with the art side of things.

The community is basically kids and tiktok memes trying to be funny on the forums. Just constant " im so random guys" type posts. Newgrounds was the most based edgy site back in the day.

[Anonymous No.6544359]

>>6543730

hey anon can i get a strategy too? my work is shit but maybe you can help if possible. Fuckin desperate to grow.

https://twitter.com/CERB4D

[Anonymous No.6544364]

>>6543574
my family would probably disown me if they saw it

[Anonymous No.6544366]

>>6543513
No, people surprisingly liked my art but I ienjoy trolling troons too much and then I feel bad for my viewers seeing unrelated feed, and delete everything lol
I am very attentionwhory and love banter

I want to try again while keeping things more professional

[Anonymous No.6544423]

>>6544359
>3Dslop
>AIslop
your skin is so fucking brown just kys at this point

[Anonymous No.6544436]

>>6543637
Yeah I started posting 6 months ago when I was really bad. I have 200 some followers now and I'm not so trash, it makes me really embarassed when people like the old stuff though lol, but I dont delete it cause I like to show my progress.

>>6543730
Do you have a discord or something. I kind of want to get blunt opinions on my art but I'm embarassed to post it publicly.

[Anonymous No.6544439]

>>6543764
I draw fanart for a pretty big fandom, although the subjects of my drawings are not very popular.

[Anonymous No.6544447]

no, i'm already as demoralized as i can get. for some reason i keep drawing anyway

[Anonymous No.6544456]

>>6544423

unironically brown but on the lighter side. I dont use AI, users voted against it

[Anonymous No.6544472]

>>6544359
I dont really like coomer and I am a straight woman so I am not the audience for this but I genuinely hate it. I think if you added some artistic flare and made everything less dark you could get a really nice audience too. I think if you focused less on just pushing out coom and more on the skill behind it too

[Anonymous No.6544498]

>>6544472

Can you elaborate on the more artistic flare and dark bit? Maybe show me examples of what you mean or DM me?

I enjoyed painting the non-coom pieces around 2022 before I took a break from 2D stuff and tried 3D.

https://cerbskies.newgrounds.com/art/

Does that shit invoke the same hatred from you?

[Anonymous No.6544544]

>>6543586
>>6543772
also if you're going to give your characters fuckoff big ears, might as well use them in your expressions (sorry about the faces I don't do furry art so idk how to do them but hopefully you see what I mean)

[Anonymous No.6544551]

>>6544498
Not that anon, but focus more on the cel shaded work a bit. As a coomthousiast, the murky, highly rendered look doesn't really jive well with porn art. Also I'd suggest separating the bizarre pieces to another account. Mixing it in gives your gallery more of a "haha drawn porn, funny crazy shit huh" vibe, which isn't what most drawn porn fans are looking for. From a quick glance, things like the gif of Black Widow getting pounded was probably the most promising start for gaining a porn art fan following.

[Anonymous No.6544553]

>>6543513
ye so I deleted twitter once (they give you a 30 day think about it faggot period)
and yes someone actually gave enough of a fuck to make a thread about it

so ye I just reinstated it

still art as an endeavour is kind of pointless I feel like
but yes I do draw daily

not improving much at all though

[Anonymous No.6544554]

>>6543561
Don't delete your account Gabe, we love you
Well, actually Newgrounds is gay so I don't care if you delete that but you should not delete your twitter

[Anonymous No.6544557]

>>6543635
he draws regularly

>disconnect internet
what if he needs to look for references?
to be fair I doubt Gabe looks at references a lot on the internet while drawing

[Anonymous No.6544561]

>>6543643
embrace it brother
growth eternal.

[Anonymous No.6544568]

>>6544551

Thanks for the feedback anon. Gonna take your advice cause my way aint working and you make a fuckload of sense with all that. The black widow piece do you mean thanks pounding captain marvel? Dont think I did black widow getting pounded.

[Anonymous No.6544574]

>>6544551
*thanos

[Anonymous No.6544579]

Being an irrelevant nobody is how I can confidently post shit without worrying about what people will think, because no one gives a shit so there's not any pressure.

[Anonymous No.6544735]

>>6543586
>I will never give up on my dreams.
Good! Never give up!

[Anonymous No.6544761]

>>6544568
Yeah, my bad, that's the one.

[Anonymous No.6544765]

One thing I'll say is to post as much of your work as possible, even if you don't think it's up to par. I idly look at some artists who have a fair amount of followers, and can see some inconsistent quality of their work, complete with lolwut-tier mistakes - but these shittier pieces don't seem to do "worse" than their better pieces, and still generate engagement. Sure, your artist friends and enemies might see your mistakes and be able to tell when something isn't up to par, but there's a very good chance that the average fan won't be able to tell the difference.

[Anonymous No.6544892]

>>6543561
have you tried moving to another website like tiwtter or instagram?

[Anonymous No.6546874]

>>6543513
several times, actually but my oldest account having garnered atleast 40 followest(half of which are bots) I just abandoned.

[Anonymous No.6546889]

>NewGrounds
Spotted your problem. Got 2k in DA and Pixiv and 600 in Twitter. NG less than 100. You need to use more active sites.

[Anonymous No.6547230]

I keep uploading work but it's only getting a couple dozen views. It feels like shouting out at the void.

I really shouldn't have deleted my accounts whenever I get really fucking depressed.

[Anonymous No.6547249]

>>6543748
Btw here's an attempt following Villpu's manual. Liking it much more than every figure drawing resources I've used thus far but the shapes need more work.
https://youtu.be/Su2dfxDKsAk

[Anonymous No.6547270]

>>6547249
Furthermore, one of my very first "master study" to delevop my art style more. Again, I didn't get the shapes and proportions fully right but it's a start at least. If it helps sometimes I also draw objects from my house as a warm up, and I noticed the bigger the canvas is the more accurate the results are.

[Anonymous No.6547305]

>>6547270
That's really your first time ever copying a drawing?

[Anonymous No.6547313]

>>6547305
Probably yes....

[Anonymous No.6547867]

>>6546889
Is DA still active? I’m thinking of making a DA account

[Anonymous No.6547905]

>>6547313
Well, the good news is that master studies turbocharge your gains. Keep it up. If you spend 30 minutes a day doing gestures as warm up and then a master study (alternate between doing copies and re-drawing the ones from yesterday from memory, make sure to note and fix your mistakes) you'll improve in no time.

[Anonymous No.6547906]

>>6547867
DA is 90% AI art now. People don't care over there, they love that shit.

[Anonymous No.6547934]

>>6543513
If you delete a Newgrounds account, does it also delete your forum posts?

[Anonymous No.6547996]

>>6543513
ive deleted my accounts a few times in the past, though not because i had too low a follower count, but because it was getting too high (relatively, i havent had a 4 digit follower count profile on anything yet). the constant bombardment of numbers was overall just demoralizing and seeing things i was proud of do poorly while work i had to dispassionately push through ended up defining my presence online.

nowadays i just draw for my friends and myself, sometimes they pull me in to work on some studio shit when they are short staffed but otherwise i stay out of promoting myself online. i no longer care to participate in the rat race, yall can have it.

[Anonymous No.6548010]

>>6547270
What would you say you learned from this copy? Anything of note that stuck out to you?

[Anonymous No.6548353]

>>6547934

yea all your posts and everything are stricken from the record

[Anonymous No.6551539]

>>6547906
Fuck, seriously? Human-made art is completely being ignored?

[Anonymous No.6551557]

i didn't delete my account, but pixiv will do it for me , was i bad idea uploading 100+ works uncensored i think

[Anonymous No.6551561]

>>6551557
Should have stick with twitter, pixiv is garbage despite lot of the retards here would praise it. You won’t get problems like that on there

[Anonymous No.6551572]

>>6543513
no mines still there
just dead
forgotten

[Anonymous No.6552110]

>>6548353
Any forum threads that proves this?

[Anonymous No.6553577]

I got to drawing last year and I already went through three different accounts since I didn't know what to use for a name. I'm still indecisive, but this time I won't bother to delete the current one. I don't feel like doing all the social management until I'm comfortable with the name

[Anonymous No.6554020]

>>6543676
Hey, I'm this anon, again. The last time I posted was in the middle of February and since then I lost at least a bit over 40 followers. I understand that I haven't been active for almost an entire month, but losing over 40 in that time seems incredibly unheard of to me. I've never seen anything like it when I'd use other platforms. Never seen it on dA, Pixiv, etc. Because of this problem I've never been able to go above 1k followers.

This whole bleeding out has been happening for years on Twitter. What is going on exactly?

[Anonymous No.6554064]

>>6543561
>We're getting to the point where Gabe actually mogs most of /ic/
It's all coming together

[Anonymous No.6554069]

>>6554064
This shithole is fucked beyond saving.

[Anonymous No.6554078]

>>6554064
Fucking kek

[Anonymous No.6554087]

>>6554064
Tracing AI doesn't count

[Anonymous No.6554089]

>>6543561
Gabe why is the furry on the right’s head so big compared to ever other character

[Anonymous No.6554403]

>>6543513
I've never deleted accounts from lack of attention, only because they were degenerate secret alts that I got a bit conscious of. Drawing cunny is fun, just sometimes that niggling fear of being ousted is in the back of my head.

[Anonymous No.6554492]

I do this every few years and start fresh.

[Anonymous No.6555004]

>>6554020
I'm losing 50 followers on there every month. Since the start of the year around 150 people left. Reasons? Who cares, but probably in between the following
- people leaving twitter due to new policies
- ppl disappointed you don't post content relevant to them
- ppl were only hoping for you to follow back
- bot purge

Just stop caring, these people are not your audience

[Anonymous No.6555130]

>>6543513
I've been drawing for some 8 years and never broke 100 followers. Made a softcore porn account and got 80 followers in like 3 days.
I'm not good at screeching and I don't like "vibing" with other artists, also I'm not a woman, I just posted drawings. I don't like coomers and I'm not a prostitute so I eventually dropped off the internet. It hurts because I really wanted to make art but you can't compete for attention unless you're absolutely ruthless about it.

[Anonymous No.6555131]

And I mean I still draw often for myself and when I have a tabletop group but I really wanted to make comics and have a little audience. By the time I got good enough to make something good looking the whole webtoon thing came out and I felt like I had zero chances of competing. I'm really bad at getting attention from people and when I try I hate myself, I'm wooden and insincere and I hate the jargon used and the whole chasing conversations thing and struggling to stay relevant and on top of the wave. I just want to make shit and post it but if you do this it's hopeless. Unless you make porn I guess but I don't wanna jerk people off for attention and money.

[Anonymous No.6555168]

>>6543513

Draw the community fetishes if you want followers. And communicate with people! People fail to understand NewGrounds has a pretty robust community to be in. You just have to socialize in the forums and get yourself out there.
People there collab and shit so you know they aren't just random nobodies. Communicate! Ask for critiques, give critiques, participate in activities, draw other people's OCs, be interested and talk about their OCs, and make conversations; be an honest human being!
Don't delude yourself into thinking you only need skill to get out there, if you want to be somebody, you have to stop acting like a nobody. The way you are going about it, you'll come back after you think you're skilled enough and then do the whole deleting phase again.

[Anonymous No.6555179]

>>6543513
I deleted all of mine because all the people from art communities would go through it to judge.

I want to delete my own server desu

[Anonymous No.6555716]

>>6543513
I've deactivated my twitter a few times. But I always reactivate it because my account is in its infancy and its stupid to worry about how much engagement I'm getting yet.

[Anonymous No.6555723]

>>6543513
Yeah, i did 3 Twitter accounts before finally setting in, all the time was because of depression and little to no engagement (mostly due to me posting once every 2 or 3 months due to said depression) , ive been pulled through it tho, and finally manage to enjoy the process of drawing instead of feeling like my brain was about to kill itself from trying to come up with something and be more consistent; i made some frens along the way as well as money now that i stopped to worry and enjoy the ride.

[Anonymous No.6557322]

KILL
YOURSELF
GABE
HOLY SHIT
SAGE