As someone who burned many bridges from 2019 to now and wasted lots of opportunities, are there any other alternatives to get an audience online with art outside of the "10k+ twitter/newgrounds artists" circle while still making a name for yourself? I don't want to do webtoons, I don't want to draw for youtubers, and I don't want to get into the wasteland that is professional western comic book industry (especially as someone who doesn't want to share their real name). All I wanted to do was making manga-styled comics for fun, but doing so alone and without connections or support from other artists or people who root for you is frustrating.
Just post your stuff wherever you can, and surely there will be some people who follow you. You have to draw because you enjoy drawing tho, not because you want people to kiss your ass.Even really good artists often barely get any replies on twitter, while some dumb fucktards get all the attention instead.
>>7963460>As someone who burned many bridges from 2019Why does that matter? Are you still using the same alias or something? Just move on, it's been 6 years.
You're asking on 4chan 7 years later so it's likely over for you
>>7963460Why should I help you, an online stranger?
>>7963460Why did you self sabotage
>>7963460Yeah. Go outside of "the circle." Circumvent it entirely and go direct to your audience. I did this by having a total meltdown online in a rather public way, but then coming back with a new account and foregoing all the traditional niceties of using hashtags and sucking up to other artists and doing all the follows and retweets that you're supposed to. Granted this only worked for me due to a variety of factors, one being luck and the other being that I paid to have my Twitter account verified, which pushes you to the top. I then drew a popular character that fans would often seek out for themselves via search or have recommended to them automatically by the algorithm because they were fans of the larger franchise to whom the character belonged. Turns out that's all you ever needed to do, you never had to suck up to or pretend to like the mentally ill wider community of westoid artists. >having a meltdown online >calling anyone else mentally ill>ishiggydiggy
>>7963582Pyw. And post said fanart that you drew of said popular character so we can see what caliber of LARP this is
>>7963586Post my hairy hairy butthole, you gay mentally ill person. Why so combative all of a sudden? Thank you for proving my point as to the necessity of circumventing your gay social hierarchy.
>>7963460You're not really asking if an artist like you can still succeed in 2026. You're asking for a guarantee before you expend the effort.There's only one guarantee I can give you: buy low and sell high, and you will make money in the stock market.
>>7963460Burnt bridges with whom?Burned bridges with other artists and their social circle or burned bridges with an audience?You may have a better chance rebuilding an audience over some social heirarchy of some dumb no name artist corner.
>>7963460Anyone who says "I was doing it for fun" but then get frustrated with no views are basically saying VIEWS = THE "FUN". Stop wasting your own time here and be honest with what you want to achieve from posting online. Your current question has 2 realistic answers:1. You won't get an audience.2. Luck.But asking "How do I promote my art online" will get you many many more answers. I don't know how or why you burned bridges, but if you don't like relying on reposts and shit, tough, learn to be humble and enjoy a smaller audience.
>>7963460Unless you cybermolested a kid, there's not really any such thing as burning bridges on the internet. There's hundreds of thousands of instances of retarded drama going on every second and no matter how badly you think you fucked up, nobody will care in a month.
>>7963460And you hope to find a viable way to build an audience here of all places? You must be desperate Anyway post your comics on twitter and then sell the complete edition on kindle
>>7963460Didn't read your post, but I hope you make Nadja fanart someday OP
>>7963460All this talk about what you don't want to do, how about starting with what you DO want to do?
>>7964632I don't want to do anything.
>>7963721Since when do child groomers get excommunicated online? Big or small they always seem to re-establish themselves if people enjoyed their content. Even fucking gooseworx sent nsfw to a teenager and look at them.
