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ok im back here now that twitter is once again dying, like the third time this damn year!!!
but yeah ive been getting back into art after a p long ish hiatus (been like 2 weeks since ive worked on anything art related cuz I had a rlly huge amount of anxiety related to it) and honestly twitter imploding is kinda a good thing for me weirdly enough, like yeah its a p good place to grow for artists but at the same time depending on an algorithm to know if the hours of work uve put on to smth will be recognized by everyone else and lead to growth is really anxiety inducing and kinda removed a lot of the fun i had when it came to making art. I would be really stressed whenever I would post something there and would get really big bursts of panic and I would just keep checking constantly to see if people were interacting with the stuff i would post and it really fucked me up.
maybe it has to do more with the amount of pressure I put on myself to succeed making art (which at this point i wanna think more about what success means for me cuz just having a whole lotta likes and retweets aint it) and also my attention seeking behaviors that ive had since I was a kid and still am tryna work on to this day but yeah its stunk. I wanna get back to working on stuff that I actually wanna do and not stress over social media shit. Imma still post but I wanna try and find ways of not caring if a post does well or not IG, easier said than done but IK i can do it and that itll be better for my mental health in the long run.
but idk maybe thats just part of the course whenever youre an artist?? I was talking to a friend of mine abt this when I was feeling rlly shitty about where I was at and he told me that he had another artist friend and that she struggled with the same thing, and that yeah u DO have to be ready for stuff that you work on for a long time to not receive the love and attention that u think it deserves. Like yeah the art journey is tough and it aint gon be ez, if it was then youd have every1 being succesful at it, but yeah imma take this time to fall in love with drawing and stuff, getting back in to the swing of things has been really fun and I think i have the motivation to improve a lot and have some fun with it so lets make july a W :D
anyways heres a doodle of my OC krystul wearing a 100 gecs hoodie, thank you random spacehey user 4 reading my ramblings xd
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angel
i hope you enjoy drawing more from now on! you have a lovely style :) i think using social media that’s based on algorithms for art is just anxiety inducing since it’s really out of your control if anybody sees it, i only briefly and very casually used twitter for art but it was such a weird experience and it felt uncomfortable so i can imagine it’d be a lot worse if you actively used it... i think avoiding places with algorithms helps a lot in keeping posting art stress free
yeee exactly thats how i feel too!! but its kinda like a neccesary evil sorta thing if u wanna use it to grow ur audience as an artist ig, it can be a great place to get ur name out there and interact with peeps but it can also fuck u up quite a bit mentally if the work u put into ur isnt noticed ig
i talked to another friend of mine abt it and he said that the most important part is to feel happy with the stuff that u make regardless of how it does on social media, which is easier said than done but its smth that im gonna try and work on
also thank you!! means alot :) ur style is rlly sick too the way u draw n color eyes is so rad
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your friend’s right, i’m confident you can get in that mindset! and thank you! :D
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