/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4938268
Pretend without pretending, plausible deniability. No point in outright lying or addressing it, as nobody's going to outright ask "r u grill show bobs n vagene." That said, when it comes up in any small capacity continue being vague while relying on truth. Worst to worst it's revealed and you go "...yeah, I'm a guy. You didn't know? What? EVERYONE thought I was a girl? Wow, lol." Instead of writing your apology (resignation) letter.

just transition bro. then you can keep your followers.

>>4938303
he'd probably have more followers that way on twitter or something

>>4938303
if thats what it takes to make it

>>4938268
It's worse when you're gay. Somehow I managed to get the BLM shit heads just because I tend to post yaoi and gay anime drawings in addition to my ngmi sketch.

>>4938303
It's a known fact that as soon as people figure out you're trans and not a real girl, your online value plummets. If you want the big patreon bux you have to maintain the illusion

>>4938303
Take the tranny pill anon. You want to be a star don't ya?

>>4938268
It is quite simple OP, if and when you get caught just claim that you are trans and watch the SJW's crawl out of the woodwork to whiteknight you and make sure you become an emotional basket that way anyone who is critical of you will quickly be shunned and essentially canceled. Don't hate the player, hate the game.

>>4938268

I've thought about doing this for years. I might just delete my Twitter and start over pretending to be a girl; I have almost no followers, so nobody would notice. Quick way to go from being invisible to having tons of lonely guys trying to orbit you, but I'd feel so guilty.

>>4938377
Neither of these fags, but I have a confession to make. Nearly a decade ago used to play an MMO as a girl and I have to admit it was the best experience I've ever had - so many friends and people who were extra nice to you and you legitimately felt wanted as if you belonged but as you've said the overwhelming guilt keeps creeping up on you after the dopamine rushes but eventually you will feel so guilty that you will inevitably disappear and people will go looking for you. I never exploited or took advantage by pretending to have a hole I legitimately enjoyed spending time and sharing moments with others until you actually believed you had friends but the guilt was too much.

Logged back in a couple years ago and people STILL remembered you and had you saved despite ghosting everyone for half a decade. Girls just do not know how good they have it and are either to dumb or self centered to realize that fact. I fucking miss them, not going to lie.

>>4938390
It really do be like that. Everyone is just so much nicer to girls. I can honestly see why transfolk want to be girls so badly.

>>4938390
I had a female avatar in an MMO for years and even straight up told people I was a dude if they asked, and they still treated that character so much better than my others when I logged in with it. It’s amazing how that works.

Free shit, people will carry your noob ass through high level dungeons and give you their drops, share gacha pulls with you m, and make sure you’re never left out. And the whole time I’m very honest that I’m a guy.

On the male character I couldn’t even make any friends hard as I tried.

Anyways hey Op if it works go for it. I see no problem. They should be following for your art so fake it til you make it.

>>4938390
I feel that, my brother used to play as a female in wow for this reason. You get invited to more and people are fenerally nicer to you. Sad rly.

>>4938390
What if you just pretended your whole life? Wouldn't that be fine? As long as you feel like you belong, that's enough right?

>>4938268
Did you straight out say you're a girl? Then you're a faggot
If you are just a feminine guy, you're still a fucking faggot but nobody will be able to say anything

>>4938445
Living a lie and justifying it because it "feels" good doesn't make it right, this is why F*males like you find themselves in precarious situations because you don't think instead you let emotions dictate whereas if it feels good do it but you don't stop and think about how others feel or the consequences behind your actions.

People say that W*men are more empathetic than men? Bullshit, you bitches are a bunch of psychopaths for all I care you would cheat and bear children from another Man and have a Simp believe it is his child and never tell him the truth because as long as you feel good that's enough, right? Fuck off.

>>4938396
If i could be a cute girl i definitely would be one, the only thing i would miss would be my penis. However i know for a fact i am a man and that's what i was meant to be. Trannies somehow delude themselves into thinking they can defy the laws of nature, and then they end up ruining their lives instead of improving them.

>3 years posting art on twitter
>Hoping this wagon
>This other fotm game
>This other trend
>350 art posted
>150 followers
>christmas is at the gates
>I'll be alone again, drinking myself out and browsing 4chan
I'm two steps away of ending myself

>>4938457
Incels are mentally fucked

just throw it back at them with a "what? you seriously didn't know I was a guy? lmao"

>>4938463
whats your blog ill follow you

post your big benis on twitter for everyone to see
problem solved

>>4938463
i want to see your art anon

B-But your paypal or any way of receiving payment needs to have a female name too right? How you gonna set up an account for that?

>>4938268
how the fuck do you get 100 followers through sketches

>>4938821
pretending to be a girl

>>4938826
I’m actually gonna try this, stay tuned

>>4938826
but i'm a girl, and i still get only at least 3-5 likes and no followers
where am i fucking up

>>4938268
you're not pretending to be a girl
people just happen to think you are one

and here i am pretending to be a guy doing freelance animation stuff

because men get paid more than wahmen
(based on my previous experience in the workplace)

>>4938856
Same. If you're into female-dominated fandoms, have a girly style or draw things that mostly appeal to girls, nobody gives a shit that you're a girl too.

As for the drawings being just sketches though, I see lots of artists who only post smaller sketches/quick drawings get fairly popular. How much time you put in a drawing doesn't matter if people find it appealing.

>>4938268
I was planning on pretending to be a male to avoid stalkers but gaining more followers sounds pretty nice. Do you stilk have to show your real name on paypal?

>>4939035
that makes sense, yeah. i'm into tomboyish and geeky shit, so girly stuff isn't really my thing. but i've been told by plenty of people my style is cute, so i was considering playing up my style more. i see a lot of art subjects that are popular to both genders, like shipping or a character dressed as something cute. most of my art lacks a subject and comes off as plain, but i should be doing more of it.

I'm a girl with what I'm told is a feminine username and drawing style drawing stuff that mainly has male fans but I never received any attention like OP. I have more followers than him but they just seem to watch me from a distance, maybe sometimes give a like or two. I prefer this over creepy stalkers but it'd be nice to actually get more interaction.

No one cares what gender you are. I go by the name and location one of my favourite fictional characters. There's no age and gender or anything listed anywhere in my profile and I still get plenty of attention off my art.

>>4939439
Stop being such a wallflower and talk to people then, preferrably in a cute manner with emotes. You probably come off as very standoff-ish and reserved

>>4939474
Talking to people won't get you as much attention as selling your soul and only drawing whatever popular flavour of the month zzzzz forgettable waifu or husbando. A lot of people don't actually care about artists as people and only as art machines.

>>4939498
why not both?

>>4939498
>A lot of people don't actually care about artists as people and only as art machines
That's very true for people who don't draw, but a lot of artists I follow (who somehow do well mostly drawing their OCs) engage a lot with other artists who draw similar things. They like and retweet each other's work, some of them play tabletops together that they then draw art for, and that helps everyone involved get more engagement and followers.
Obviously it's still difficult to get genuine interaction with other artists. I see small accounts desperately try to interact with big artists and it's so obviously fake (copy pasted comments, @ a ton of big accounts in one tweet) that they get no replies at all.

>>4939439
My followers simply compliment my style, and I guess I'm content with that. Would rather keep my account art only than make obnoxious jokes and memes like many other artists do.

>>4938268
just say you identify as a girl
No for real. Give them a sob story on how you had this period when you thought you were a grill and were so so fucked up in the head, yada yada, big cry face. Just take shit from the sob stories of reddit trannies or whatever, you can google those
But now you came to realize you rly are what you've always been, a guy, and that's fine because being a guy is also ok, more shittalk

This will pander to both kind of ppl. Those eating the inclusivity media shit will feel for you and pity you and maybe even wanna pay for your art to virtue signal. The nohomo ppl will be happy too, because look, a guy who got twisted for a second but we won him back for the lord's greatest glory. So they won't bash you for it. Might even buy your art lol
Everyone happy, you keep your followers, perhaps even gain sum

>>4938457
>women are more empathetic than men
that one's right up there with 'women earn less than men'
women constantly and repeatedly demonstrate the opposite, being the most self-centered creatures on the planet. sadly most everyone confuses emotional instability and histrionics with empathy.

its not really confusion though, its just nature. even if people KNOW you're a guy, simply having a female avatar like >>4938413 is enough to subconsciously trigger caring behavior.
we are evolutionarily programmed to be N.B.S. Natural Born Simps.
it is genetically innate, not learned. like male birds exhausting personal resources and energy for the contentment of their female half, but on a grander more insidious scale.

>>4938268
if you get found out, just say that you're in the middle of transitioning and that you're struggling with mental health

that will get you sympathy and even more followers

also add orange man bad and blm, that will seal the deal

>>4938268
>twitter has over 500 followers now, but everyone assumes I'm a girl
When did you start your account? 500 isn't much, even if I have less than that. People who draw worse than me and probably you with 500-1k followers or more seem to exist to infinity. And many of them joined like, within the past year. I don't know how they do it.

>>4938463
I get so depressed posting art and getting like five likes on stuff I work hard on but sounds like you have it a bit worse. Post your account.

>>4938463
Have you tried funnelling your art through reddit and discord first? It's quite easy to stay on the first page of reddit for long periods of time and you can get a lot of followers that way.

>>4938463
Breh if you're decent in art you should bandwagon the more popular games like ff7. I know an artist who had like 1k on twitter but blew up to 10k via Cloti spamming and generally being active on twitter.

>>4940377
Redditors get mad when you post links to your pages
Can you explain in more detail?

>>4940377
Tell us the reddit strategy, I don't use reddit so I'd like to know how to milk it for art attention

>>4938390
I do this, but I have no shame or guilt about it. Over the years I have become a large guild leader who is caring, but fair. It's like being a benevolent goddess.

>>4938337
Since when?

>>4938268
>Do I just pretend to be a girl forever?

You're doing that already. don't lie to me you little faggot. I have a girl name online too and only on rare ocassions have people thought I was a girl, because I don't fucking pretend to be one. Name and avatar has nothing to do with it. You pretend to be a little girl and you love it you little fag.

>>4939023
>Men get paid more then women
That's quite literally illegal.

>>4938268
I know you can't post your account name here because it would get leaked back, but man I wish I knew it. Not to ruin your fun, but to follow this story's developments

I guess no one in this god damn earth has integrity anymore. People just keep selling out to the lowest common denominator just to feel their 'worth'. Sad.

>>4939023
nope

>>4943191
integrity is useless, just play the game and use anything to win like everybody else is doing

>>4938390
Damn, are you me? Definitely the best experience, so much fun. You're right.
Eventually I had to leave the game cause a girl confessed her love to me.

>>4938268
I literally just made a twitter yesterday under a female pen name and changed it, should I change it back?

>>4943372
>a girl confessed her love to me
>you will never actually be that girl the qt tomboy thought you were
Hit too close to home there broski

>>4943396
Yes, not female but vague enough to be assumed female. Don’t change your name to chloe. Change it to, i don’t know, Charlie. Jordan. Sue if you want to be a funny cunt

>>4943400
Time to get discord

>>4943400
Feels bad. We used to have so much fun together in that game.
I just hope she has found someone who can love her back, wherever she is now.

>>4943191
cope

>>4943541
you were both just guys larping at being girls lol

I have cute anime girl as profile picture and only draw cute shit, but every now and then I'll tweet something that includes "I'm a X-thing type of dude, blablabla".

I don't think anyone hunts for these cues, and people would probably assume I'm a girl at first glance, yet I get no "extra attention". So I'll have to agree with >>4942698

Also, I used to have an intentionally ambiguous profile back then. Had a female OC, but never acted "extra cute" or anything, I just avoided gendered words that would give my penis away.
I also never got any extra attention from it. But after one of the friends I made told me one of our mutual friends had developed a crush on me, I noped the fuck out.
I didn't want to reveal I was a dude and ruin the whole idea of being neutral, but I also didn't want to pretend to be a girl, especially knowing his feelings. So I disappeared forever.

Curiously, the dude's MBTI type was the exact same as my ex-gf's and my last female stalker's. Ironically, it's a personality that works way better on males, wish I could've been his buddy and miss him more than the gf. But autistic personal rules comes first, and it's been too many years already.
Thanks for reading my TED Talk.

>>4943514
Based Cash-poster

>>4943587
Maybe, but that doesn't matter. It's about the friends we made on the way

>>4942698
this

People will always assume that the person posting is male, unless they are really acting feminine.

t. Been mistaken for a man on the internet since 2006

>>4938461
Lord, the “ruined life” thing is such a stupid meme. I’m an FtM, transitioned almost 20 years ago now, and have never regretted it. It made my life infinitely better. Maybe someone else could look at my life and call it “ruined” because they see chances I missed that maybe I wouldn’t have if I hadn’t transitioned. (I gave up acting, for example.) But they aren’t the ones living my life, I am. The sacrifices I did have to make were worth it.

The social thing is very true, though. After my high school friends dropped away (like they do for most people), I never really replaced them. I’m friendly with almost everyone, but it only progressed to “friends” with people I can count on one hand. I basically became invisible. I prefer to spend 99% of my time alone though, so it doesn’t bother me. I feel bad for extroverted guys, seems like a constant struggle if you actually want to be around people.

>>4938390
Hate to admit but this is true. I played as a female nelf in WoW a few years ago with a very feminine name. I was somewhat competent and one guy was hitting on me, invited me into high level dungeons and whatnot. He stopped inviting me when I told him I was a guy.