/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6439202
Fanart of other artists' OCs
>t. make fanart weekly, get retweeted 99 percent of the time.

use AI

just draw (popular cartoons/animes/games/memes)

>>6439205
>>6439209
i want to post my one-shot mangas. Is there no hope for me?

Should i keep the stripper bots that follow me to bait for their porn sites?
I've been blocking them cuz i dont like that shit but is it a bad thing to block em?
do thoses extra followers add growth even if they're obviously bots?
since they dont engage with my posts i thought they're dead weight but am i wrong?
big twitter account bros plz help

>>6439202
>How do I grow on Twitter?
Internet fame is nine times out of ten completely accidental and the remaining tenth time comes from pumping money into the system for the algorithm to "promote" you. Just fucking draw and you'll find a following in time. If you wanna speed things up try drawing weird fetish art of FOTM characters.

>>6439297
yes, but do i need to use hashtags, comment on other people's posts, etc? I have 0 real followers (only bots) and no one will see my posts if i just post

>>6439311
I don't feel like hashtags make a big difference on Twitter in particular unless is some draw challenge that's popular at the time, commenting frequently on other people's tweets may get you a bit more know on certain circles, but I think it's more effective if the comment goes with even a small doodle (not that I know, I rarely comment lol) but as the other anons have said the most effective way to give you a initial boost is to draw fanart from a big artist OC and hope he notices and gives you a like or Rt, from there on is up to you to start growing up a following

>>6439202
Tbh Twitter seems to be the worst platform to start from scratch with. It’s good if you have some friends who will follow and retweet your stuff to get the ball rolling but no one will engage with your art if you just make a new 0 follower account and start posting. Instagram has been better for me, people are more likely to follow you on there even if you’re a new account. I also gathered a few followers on TikTok and pixiv just by posting my stuff and using hashtags. No luck on Twitter tho.

I suppose I'll hijack this thread to ask a question too

If I unfollow artists on Twitter do you think they hate me now? Does it cause beef? Do they think I hate them? How do you guys feel about that? Sometimes I follow an artist because they made a cool work but then I realise I don't like most of their stuff so unfollow. I ony have about 200-ish followers and if someone unfollows me I really don't care but some people have said it's very aggressive.
Bigger accounts I don't think care but if they have a couple 100 followers or so I assume they notice.

>>6439541
Only psychopaths have unfollow notifications anyway, it doesn't matter

>>6439544
I hope not, it's really not personal but some people take it personally and the last thing I need is a psycho artist mad at me online for nothing.

>>6439544
There are unfollow notifications?

>>6439552
yeah, i use them for if a moot unfollows so I can unfollow them back, fuck you for breaking our bond

>>6439555
>>6439552
>unfollow notifications
I know exactly what I'll be doing form now on I cannot believe people get so easily upset over something so insignificant and trivial kek

>>6439561
i'm not upset by it, it's more an instinct, if a moot unfollows then they break out contract of socialmedialets sticking together

Anyone know wtf happened to instagram? I went from a ton of traffic to quite literally zero. Its been a year now. Nothing gets out.

>>6439699
it's depressing... only my parents like my posts now

>>6439706
Something happened to a number of accounts about a year and a half ago. I used to get lots of traffic, reactions etc even known concept artists would drop by my account.

Now I'm literally an employed artist at the heighest level I've been at and NOTHING gets out. Twitter is equally useless. Artstation has also been subverted. Sorry to hijack this thread but it seems there is basically no where to go for artists at all anymore.

>>6439287
how many people do you think go
>hmmm today I want to read manga so I’m going to twitter to find some

>>6439710
Are you being funny or something? Literally half the fucking internet.

>>6439710
go read merryweather's twitter

>>6439733
Who?/QRD?

>>6439739
he posts comics!

>>6439728
lmao

my art got 80 likes but no following wtf

>>6439767
Now that is odd...

>>6439771
i see why now. a popular guy liked it

>>6439287
>pixiv
>hire japanese translator for 30 bucks an hour for 3 hours online
>copy and paste lines into your dialogue
>upload to pixiv

>>6439791
This happeed to me a few years ago. I am a nobody artist and have been for ages despite working professionally for a studio. I once posted a gorefield piece of art that got COMPLETELY ignored on Twitter. Someone else posted it a few years later and it went viral.

I was not credited.

>>6439821
it's cheaper to learn Japanese myself.

>>6439555
>>6439561
Is this like a chrome extension or some shit? I unfollowed someone cool because I realized I couldn't stomach the porn they drew plus my timeline started recommending hardcore porn and I hoped they thought I didn't find their account yet or something...

How do I avoid being followed by trannies on Twitter?

>>6441135
stop being one
>>6439295
porn bots impact your twitter audit score and you should be blocking them

>>6439202
its weird, you and guys like you sounds like someone who doesn't have friends, have no interest or hobbies, and even if you do, you never talks about them to anybody. Do you not know how to interact with anybody socially at all? Do you have no enthusiasm about anything that compels you to interject and share with someone?

>>6441189

No friends and on 4chan? Damn…that’s something wild to think about. I think you need to ring your neck, friend haver. I bet you like to steal friends from others too.

>>6441150
>twitter audit score
what does that do?

>>6441189
I have no friends, but it doesn't sound like you do either

>>6439863
Was it one of those art reposter accounts that remove the watermark? Even if you're not popular on social media I bet a lot of artists would like to have a stable studio job like you that comes with benefits

You can make a living without whoring yourself out on social media

>>6441150
I'm not blocking half my followers wtf you mean

>>6441280
>>6441198
I don't know why you are stuck on that point, I think you should share your passion to the world, post with a regular schedule and use appropriate descriptor to accompany your drawings, search out your people, others who are into the same things, or similar things you do, and interact with their content by liking, retweeting or making meaningful comments. It sound elementary and naive but its you can't always rely on viruality to increase your social media presence, but having meaningful interactions with other people can steadily build your following. I used to think people just pretend to be dense around here...

>>6441598
shut up, friend stealer. that’s enough out of you.

>>6439202
get better first

>>6441601
you can have more than one friends. >:o

>>6441608
Yes, but you shouldn’t steal friends from others.

>>6441598
I'm not interested in friends, I'm interested in followers. Teach me how to make it, goddammit!!

>>6441661
did you even read my post?

>>6441666
no, i didn't. can you repeat what you said?

>>6441677
Friends were stolen.

Am I right in thinking that 1000 twitter followers is where posting stuff starts getting enough visibility to grow consistently without extra effort? I'm at like 250 currently.

>>6441787
i wish i knew

>>6439287
101 of business, offer something that differs, and market it, make a little animation of your manga, color it, advertise it, after that advertise yourself, that means doing trends for people to pay attention to you, you could make some memes fan art, colabs etc

>>6439311
i feel like interacting with post will make people follow you specially if they get lots of like, at least you promoted your account

its just luck, hashtags are useless. I don't draw mecha but drew Armored Core fanart not long ago and its by far the most popular thing ever I published, for my standards at least, everything else doesn't come close, its not even funny.

Whats the best hour of the day to post on twitter??

>>6445078
it's like youtube channels commenting on other channels to promote their channel, i think

Has anybody here got Twitter blue? Did it help your art get seen by more people and improve engagement?

>>6445133
Honestly I feel like it doesnt matter. I have posted at different hours and when i didn't get a lot of rt/likes it was just because my art was mid. When I post a really good piece I'm proud of it mostly blows up whether it's 12pm or midnight.

>>6445708
>>6445133
Samefag but that only works if you already have a solid follower base i guess (let's say 800+)

>>6439202
Basically you need to get someone with a big following to retweet your shit

Depends if i like the person.
Some people I gatekeep success cause fuck em

>>6445825
how do i get people with big followings to even see my feed in the first place? Does Twitter randomly show people my art?

>>6445825
Exactly. What you have to do is draw Einstein begging to suck Elon Musk's intelligent cock and mention Elon when you post it. He won't resist mentioning you back and then you're a millionaire. I know at least five artists who made their break doing stuff like this.

>>6445966
hashtags, and draw in sine niche community
fanart, art for internet celebs ect

>>6445969
yeah its not that hard

>>6446019
why do you have to suck sick to get traction? I don’t believe that is the correct way. I think twitter is broken and you’d have much greater success on other platforms.I notice a lot of weeb artists have thousands of followers on instagram with stores of their own and yet their twitter account is desolate despite uploading the same work there. I get attention without trying on other platforms.

>>6439541
I usually interpret it as I am not making stuff consistently enough or at a high enough level. I have a small number of followers so each one is quite noticeable... but I take it as a push to be better.

>>6439202
Post on Pixiv and link your Twitter?

>>6446320
Don’t get what you’re trying to say here? Are you bragging or something, there isn’t “the correct way to get a following”

>>6446320
Twitter is garbage but you get a whole lot of different people and communities. Instagrams and art station those art website are just for artist looking at other artists, meaning you won’t get commission work or patreon from there.

Twitter = different peoples so easy money

Insta = everyone is an “artist” so no one is paying there

>>6445825
>>6446019
>>6446476

All me if you have questions to get followers ask me.
Ill get to it when i come back to this thread

Social media isn’t hard.

>>6446477
I think u laid it out pretty clearly. Gotta get someone bigger to retweet you... Easier said than done.

>>6446797
do fanart, if you got an ego you won't make it as an artist. knew a fag that refused to do fanart and all he does is bitch about how he doesn't get success. once you get your own following then you make your own shit. simple

>>6439202
Let's be honest OP, are you any good? This is usually the "aha" moment in these threads so PWY.