#theyre really cool though

[gray-warden]

I just realized I never posted photos of this really pretty harvestman i came across a while back. Note the green pedipalps and the dark and light spots on its back.

[buwheal]

YAYYYYYY Birthday cake for the birthday boooyyyyyy hooray 46!!!!!!!!!! Made him a cake cause he deserves it :^D

#1 Salesman 1997 !!!!

....look familiar perhaps..?

[hayaku14]

IDK WTF THIS CARD GAME IS ABOUT BUT I NEED IT IMMEDIATELY

[cemeterything]

tbh if i did have a fursona i think it'd be a griffin

[photofi]

Ive been rather bored lately, so I've decided to put out a little..tournament. So many sticks have already competed against eachother and its gotten quite..stale..So ive decided on something a little. Different.

@tulipsempai You have been chosen. Wh..huh? Wait, how did you get here?! Where did you take me?! Worry not dear Jester...Nothing will harm you..if you know how to dodge... Now then. LET THE CREATOR CLASH ROYALE! WAIT-

COMMENCE!!

Now THIS. Is going to be FUN.

[harvestmoth]

more rejuv things but its. its just this guy again, im sorry shes all i can draw

[copepods]

i love suns and pebbles canon dynamic in my head its kind of weird and fucked up and i wish more people depicted it as that (tag ramble incoming)

[malwarechips]

have some animals and creatures . messing with some multicolour brushes ive had for like a year minimum and never touched bcz they can be kinda awkward

[heph]

Hey, I remember you mentioning on your IG something about two types of popular artists and one being good at social media and the other being good at art or something like that (I can't really remember lol). But it got me thinking, any tips for how to be good at social media? Cuz I'm certainly not even after posting art for six years lol

Heya!

What I meant by that is that there are traits that allow you to grow on social media, and traits that determine what a highly skilled artist is, and those traits do not always necessarily overlap.

I've seen so many amazing artists that post artwork that blow my head off, and yet they don't have many likes. On the other hand, some artists at the same skill level who draw more popular things will get way more attention.

That is not to say that either is the correct way to create art, but there is definitely a formula to social media that is in play.

There are a lot of posts about how to grow a social media account, particularly on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram art spheres, and imo you really need to examine what you want from your art before jumping into social media mode

The stuff you create to pander to social media might not be art that you want to create at all - I'm lucky, because I am less artist more storyteller, and what I enjoy is telling jokes and silly stories to liven up people's moods :] this, of course, conveniently does well on social media. On a personal note, I have a history of being a recluse and not connecting well with people, and art is my way of trying to communicate my feelings, one way or another.

So of course, if you draw for any reason other than my own, my approach to art and it's relation to social media might be inappropriate for you.

All that being said, if u take a look at those "get big on social media" videos they always cite the same few points... And you can look into that, for sure, but this video sums up how I feel about all that.

I spent like 20 minutes drafting words after the above paragraph, but I really ended up regurgitating sentiments from the video... So really don't listen to me, listen to that video

EDIT:

I just realised I didnt actually answer the question with my anecdotal experience, so here's a list of things I did

1. Posted like 3 doodles a day on social media

I did this for 6 months on a side account on Twitter recently and got the account to 11k followers... And I did this for 3 months on Instagram a few years ago and I think got 3.5k followers. Of course, do not spam maliciously and make sure your art is still of good quality, but for those artworks I posted quickly, I did not colour, and mostly did clean sketches. This also trains you in the matter of line confidence haha. Again, this worked for me because of my set of circumstances (love for the media, want to tell stories, simple art style)

2. Focus on my favourite aspects of media

This helps with respect to burnout - kinda hard to burnout when you love what you're making! For me, it's character interactions and comics. I want to see my blorbos kiss and if I'm not the one drawing it who will?!

3. Interact with people

People eat up work that they can interact with. A choose your own story situation, one of those like/rt to strip a character 😭 those do numbers for a reason.

Additionally, if you post stuff people love, people will respond to it with comments, maybe their own headcanons, adding on to the work... I've gone into long looong Twitter thread conversations with people who added onto my ideas that I threw up onto the screen and I think it's also a nice thing to do to respond to positive comments haha... I'm not very good at this (read: bad at communication)

I think that's the key points... Hope this helps!

[shadow-is-here-and-queer]

LOOK AT ALL THIS AMAZING ART I GOT FROM @cokowiii {via commissions✨✨✨}

I LOVE. HOW THEY DRAW. ONE OF MY TOP FAVORITE ARTISTS INDEEEEEEEEEEEEEED

The character with the wings {and glasses in the bottom pic} is my oc Alexi.

She is shipped with Donnie, used to work for the purple dragons but then eventually leaves.

Basically their dynamic is uh. Strangers -> friends -> lovers -> enemies -> friends -> lovers

I could go on a whole damn tangent about her I love her she is. Wiehueufb

{also the reason she works for the purple dragons is cuz Kendra manipulates her}

OH. OH AND HER WINGS ARE ROBOTIC. THE PART THAT CONNECTS THEM TO HER BODY IS UNDER HER JACKET, BUT SHE ONLY WEARS EM WHEN. WHEN ON THE JOB AS "STRIKER"

[mechagender]

adopt sneep peep

[welcometoteyvat]

jing yuan and yanqing are giving zhongli and xiao if the latter’s canon relationship was Actually fanon’s made up father figure/adopted child dynamic

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

There are 4 2010s cartoon villains i know of with the horned animal skull aesthetic and 5 2010s cartoon villains i know of with the big horns and glowing eyes in general. I love that shit the design fucks so hard. Does anyone have more examples im starting a collection

[braincloggedwithcats]

World's most specific poll

[todayisafridaynight]

I’m fairly new to the fandom, but I do have a question if you can answer it! Why do people ship Daigo with Aoki / Masato? I tried looking to see if they’ve interacted before, but couldn’t find anything! Sorry for asking I’m just </3 dumb AND I LOVE YOUR ART OF THEM!!! Nerd looking ahhhhhh

hi ! welcome to the community i hope you're having a lovely time so far and ty for enjoyin my stuff :) no need for apologies it's a very fair question to have :]

i cant speak for everyone (all. ten people into masadai anyway) but Personally To Me i just think the idea of them together is very funny. thats quite literally it im afraid..

[leaf-in-a-flower-garden]

I love Daleth but think their design is a little... bland. So I gave him a tiny redesign, just to add a little character to them. (Click for better quality)

Also obligatory wip designs lol