Have you ever rebranded yourself? If so, how and why?
I used to do art for bands in my country, but they’re insufferable clients, and moved onto just doing dark art for myself to sell. I do a lot better
>>7825879Doing art for bands sounds interesting
All the time. Every couple years I'll come up with some new internet identity and fuck off from like the 3 people I talk to. A new set of hobbies, a new handle, a whole new me. I even rearrange the furniture and change the decorations in my room. It's still me though. Every time.
>>7825890It sucks. Genuinely. It’s easy to find clients by just sending messages to local or touring members, but they’re terrible people in general.
>>7825896Anon is a ghost
I switched to a pen name after years of posting under my real name so I could draw whatever I wanted. I told everyone irl that I had stopped drawing.
Yeah.I used to draw a lot of tacticool video game art, but gun people are dumb as fuck and vidya people are dumb as fuck, and YuGiOh polymerizing those two together makes some of the dumbest motherfuckers that have ever touched earth. As much as I like both of these things, being associated at all with these 'people' is more than enough to get me to want to draw literally anything else, money and followers be damned. Please ban all the guns and fill the vidya with as many self-righteous they/thems as possible, I want these people to cry.
>>7825932Based
>>7825896You sound like the worst kind of person to deal with.
>>7825818I branded myself and it hurt like fuck so no, I wont rebrand myself.
>>7825818yeah. I now only draw scat vore porn
>>7826080Gallery? Please.
>>7825818No but I have an alt account where I draw in a totally different styleIt has no pressure from people expecting a certain level of work from me and isnt tied to my main account in any way Pretending to be a nameless beginner again is really freeing
>>7826122I don't post my work on /ic/. or links
>>7825818yeah, deleted all my awful fan art on accounts I had abandoned for years after improving a lotnone will care unless you have a huge presence online
>>7825818Strictly speaking i never really had a brand. But I used to primarily draw pokemon stuff, but after becoming really disenfranchised with shitty videogame companies i kinda dipped and did other stuff for like 7 yearsthen i started drawing it again once i stopped being so assmad, and people still recognise my workim not sure if that means i should be glad i have a recognisable style or if it means I've stagnated harder than i thought. My current work feels indistinguishable from my old work to me, but apparently people can still tell. And that scares me.
>>7825907>but they’re terrible people in general.are they just stupid and scummy like most normalfags would be? being difficult to work with and such, especially depending on the genre. arent metalfags kinda like very nice people for example despite their edgecore music taste?
>>7825818Wtf is rebranding
>>7826267Use google, nigger
>>78258184 times already. I might be retarded, but I do it every time after I hit 10k+ followers on twitter.And each time getting new followers from scratch is more difficult. Nowadays it's almost impossible to break through.
>>7825923How the fuck does that work unless you force yourself to work in another style constantly? Either someone would recognize you, or no one was looking at your art anyway and you're paranoid.
>>7826432>How the fuck does that work unless you force yourself to work in another style constantly?That's not uncommon.
>>7826433That can't be good for the nerves.
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>>7826432>Anon, we need to talk. We came across an artist named FutaLover69 on HentaiFoundry and their drawings look exactly like the ones you used to make on our Christmas cards. Is that you?
>>7826796>what the fuck is a hentoifoundery and what are you doing in my house
Only one time, since I started to draw I wanted to do some picture/comic book work on par to those battle shonens, mainly inspired by fighting video game genre, time was passing and my interests started to shift to something more akin to those romances/love story akin to amateur teen girl writing, by that time my "brand" already was of an action adventure artist, so my content was mainly like this, and after years, losing interest on that kind of stuff and starting to have more interest on fetishistic stuff (mainly woman + big belly), I've decide to silenty quit the original "persona" and start a new one with my new set of interests, nowadays I feel more satisfied with my content and the community tends to be more welcoming, my artstyle still shifting after the change, I went from doing something akin to 1980s manga (Hokuto no Ken, JoJo's, Berserk and some others) to something akin to Ayami Kojima, Axel Rosered and mainly Olympic-Dames, anyone that knows me from the past calls me an waste because of it.
>>7825818I used to draw fanart for fairly big streamers, in the range of 1-2k likes per posts, some of my art was even featured on several of their sub alerts plus I was fairly active in their discordsThen suddenly 2 realizations struck me, first that I'm a permabeg who draw pure unadultareted liquid shit for attention and second, the engagement that I was getting was from the absolute bottom of the barrel narcicistic philistines possible Needless to say I just up and left each of those communities, deleted my twitter and started anew and I will probably never be as grateful to myself for making another decision as I am with this oneStreamers and their communities are legit subhuman
>>7825896Damn. How'd it get to be like that?
>>7825818Yes. I left because I hated the fandom I was in. At times I felt like I was one of the few well adjusted people there (in hindsight, I have realized that most fandoms consist of heavily autistic and unstable people).I have tried rebranding. It's not difficult for me to build followers but these days the issue is like this;>I gain traction, then think about it for a while. What's the end goal here?>Even if I gain a lot of followers, what is the purpose of doing that?>Most artists are fake and looking to use you to gain clout. Difficult to make real connections.>Open commissions? Sure. Is that even worth it in this day and age? I have a real job and it's too little pay for the work involved, I'm basically wasting my free time on pocket money.>Be hired by a company? Sure, but you don't need social media to do that.>Get validation? I don't need random people on the internet to do that for me, I enjoy making things for myself.At the end I realize I just enjoy making things on my own and I've really outgrown the idea of chasing numbers so I lose interest in the account. It brings no fulfillment trying to maintain that path. Even if you get followers, it means nothing. Accounts die and follower count won't do much for you. Look at how much engagemen mikeinel gets these days after almost 2 decades of online activity and a high follower account. That's the end result of every content creator online.Instead I'm pivoting to working on my own IPs/ideas and on projects in small communities. I guess like how art communities used to be like back in the day. It's so much more engaging than chasing numbers and I actually feel happy with my path for the future.
>>7825818i've never "rebranded" myself in any intentional way, but i have stopped using some names and accounts over the course of the past 15 years or so, but i think that's natural when you make new website accounts when moving between platforms or just forgetting the password of your childhood deviantart account. i hope that the cringe shit doesn't follow me around, but if it does i don't really care.
>>7825818Yes. The FGC simply trooned out and I wasn't going to stick around playing nice to trannies, especially in a community that's already ripe with child molesters. Kept the connections that mattered and tossed the rest.
>>7825818I used a cringey ass name that sounded cooler when I was 13.
>>7825907I'm curious to read your stories, anon.
>>7825932>>7825950You sound like a retarded faggot.
