Not feeling motivated anymore >zero likes.>zero money.>zero popularity.I'm not having fun anymore. What should I do?
>>8035145Get better, this is high /beg/ at best. You’ll get more likes and more money the better you get
Find a different pastime. Clearly you don't enjoy drawing for the sake of it.
>>8035157Pyw
>>8035166
>>8035145were you getting likes/money before? your work is good enough that i can see that being the case. start drawing your depraved fetishes into reality anon. you know you want to.
>>8035157>You’ll get more likes and more money the better you getThis is complete bullshit. Unless you are highly talented there is no guarantee for success in art. It's always also a matter of luck and Zeitgeist. The internet has a specific taste and if you don't match that taste you can be as good as you want.
If you're doing art to get attention and money, you're going to end up miserableDo it because you love it, there is no other reason
>>8035166lol
>>8035175Ok. It's a matter of luck then. It's hopeless for OP and he should just give up.Great contribution.
>>8035188Of course it's a matter of luck. Doesn't mean that it's impossible you fucking retard.If you are just in it for the money you should find a different hobby anyway. Art has never been a reliable way to make money.
>>8035159>>8035173>>8035182I've been drawing for a long time now. I clearly enjoy it if I've stuck around this long. I'm just frustrated. Prior to before I'd have to hustle and pull teeth from other popular artists for 80 likes. I used to draw a variety of fanart for games that I played. Sure, you'll attract a few followers that are primarily shitty artists. But they'll never boost you. I've switched over to game dev since then but haven't reached the casual market yet. I'm back at zero again. The dead internet theory feels real. It's all bots.
>>8035191>Art has never been a reliable way to make money.
>>8035196>Hey, what if Ash from Pokemon had aids>Hey, what if Woody from Toy Story was cucked >Hey, what if Goku from Dragon Ball was actually literally retardedFuck I hate Khyle. I don't mind the occasional parody, but if that's all you make, I have zero respect for you.He is the 'pop music that's played on the radio' equivalent of digital artists. Another reminder that what's popular is often not what's good.
>>8035201The way that you wrote that sounds funny. I'd follow you over Khyle
>>8035201be nice anon, khyle is probably korean or some other flavour of chinaman that isnt japanese. they suffer enough already from that affliction.
>>8035193>snowv is off xer meds againthis is what happens when you're a beglet without any connections. always eternally seething about not being popular and not making money.
>>8035196Learn to read you dumbfuck. Just because it's not a reliable way doesn't mean that there aren't people making good money with it. Get a brain.
>>8035207rude.I'm not posting there anymore, so get lost creep.
>>8035217>its rude and creepy to repeat what I said itt verbatim lol, lmao even
>>8035221
>>8035193xitter hides nsfw posts, and if you keep posting it your whole account gets shadowbanned and all your posts get age restricted dont matter if it is nsfw or not. so you are turbo fucked.
>>8035145If money and popularity is the reason you got into art then you picked the absolute worst medium for it.You have a better chance with song or writing than this shit hobby.>>8035196>picks the top 0.01% of artistKhyle's been drawing and marketing for a long fucking time. It also helps that the things he draws is actually interesting (yes, it's far more interesting than generic anime girl doing basic pose number 1 billion on white background you stupid faggots)
>>8035145>>8035193I'm sorry, it's a tough pill to swallow but someone needs to say it. You're still /beg/. Those two images aren't interesting. You need to actually get good if you want a chance at making some income on your art. Wake up and smell the coffee babe, because you're not only competing against extremely established pro artists who've spent the last two decades of the internet marketing their skills, but porn brained addled retards who consume and produce more AI slop in a day than there are atoms in the known universe. These beg doodles aren't going to cut it.Also:>>>Sure, you'll attract a few followers that are primarily shitty artists. But they'll never boost you.Negro in blood, in what fucking world is some literal who artist retweeting your doodles going to make an ounce of difference when they themselves have maybe 20 followers, half of which are bots???>I've switched over to game dev, a market that's far harder to produce with a guarantee of almost no return, and something so time consuming it depletes what little time I have left to actually drawingJesus Christ this fucking board man
Guys, OP left already... and he usually plays his cards close to his chest.
>>8035145id be happy to look through your account and tell you what's what but i already gave you some of the easiest advice in a past thread and you seemingly ignored it, so id rather not unless i know youre not going to ignore it. you seem to be the type who just wallows in their own pity while ignoring anyone trying to help you. have fun posting your gamedev shit into a void for the rest of time. feel free to prove me wrong, im always happy to give advice if someone's willing to follow it
>>8035201I’m sorry you don’t like to have fun, anon
>>8035408It's SnowBox9 on twitter. It's not the first time he's had this meltdown. His art has stagnated because he's not actually trying to improve, he wants an easy solution to getting likes on twitter but one doesn't exist.
>>8035417yep, first time i saw one of his melties i found the account and instantly saw the staggering 800 following vs 400 follower account so i told him off because that type of stuff deboosts you heavily. those numbers havent changed at all so he apparently ignored it. believe it or not i think his art is alright enough to gain a following (obviously he's still /beg/ but hopefully you get what i mean) if he puts in more effort so i don't view him as hopeless, which just makes it even more annoying to see him do this.
>>8035145>another @snowv thread
>>8035417>>8035430Where's this meltdown that you guys are talking about?
>>8035436How new?
You guys are making shit up.
Posting on the snowv humiliation ritual thread
I think at this point your only options are giving Musk his eight bucks or becoming friends with some big artist who'll retweet you, you can't grow an audience for shit on your art alone now.That's not even just me being a perma/beg/, when I search for stuff and sort the results by date I regularly see people who should have a few thousand followers have barely thirty despite drawing better and more often than I do.
>>8035417Who told you he isn't trying to improve?I am stagnating also, but that doesn't mean I am not trying.
>>8039256NTA but nobody told us that, moron. I took a look at his account and decided that for myself. Aside from the OP picture his last art post that wasn't him reposting the same artworks for the thousandth time was a shitty unfinished sketch from over a month ago. The last artwork of his that I would loosely consider 'finished' is from 7 months ago. This guy is not drawing at all, let alone trying to improve.If you ever find yourself stagnating, you are not trying to improve, or not studying correctly (So still not trying). Even more likely is that you aren't drawing at all, like this guy. Alternatively you might just have brain damage because the only instances where I've seen people put in genuine effort and still end up stagnating are people who have developed some neurological issue/brain damage without their knowledge.Do you have a brain injury, by any chance?
Snow unironically tried to use AI. He was never someone that wanted to improve.
>>8035145>I'm not having any fun because I'm a numbers-chasing faggot instead of creating art for the passion of the craftSounds like the answer is right in front of you.
if you were drawing for the purpose of yourself and refining your craft, the motivation would come from within and yourself, not outside factors. you draw for the wrong reasons
>>8039261What is the "correct" study?
>>8039261It's just snowv samefagging
>>8039264It's fine to dunk on people who don't draw or who make drama threads for attention (like what Gabe does), but blatantly lying about anyone using ai when they clearly don't and without backing up that claim makes you out as a massive fucking faggot.
>>8035182"do it because you love it" is a cop out, only drooling retards have standards low enough that pure creation is enough. Actual people also derive enjoyment from being able to create something they actually like the look of, the sense of pride at others sharing that joy, and the general ability to go "Look at the great thing I have made"
>>8035145>>zero likes.>>zero money.>>zero popularity.Post your business strategy.
>>8035365He doesn't post his more finished porn drawings for the game he will never finish and the artwork he refuses to let anyone see here.
>>8035145>I only use art to engage in attention-seeking behaviorHow do I keep from becoming this?
>>8035145Truth be told, if everyone draws the same way, the same things, with no change between them and nothing to differentiate between them, then what good are they? Deviate from what is mass produced to carve out your own niche and you'll find success if there is demand for what you bring to the table.>t. an enlightened super beg
>>8039788>the sense of pride at others sharing that joy, and the general ability to go "Look at the great thing I have madelike the herd animal you are, my little sheeple
>>8035430>saw the staggering 800 following vs 400 follower account so i told him off because that type of stuff deboosts you heavilySorry not OP but what does this mean? Why are those specific numbers bad?
>ENG/JAPد/She/Him/It/Hahahahahahahhaha>patreonAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA>permabeg artHAHAHAHAHA son... I can't even
Wait wait, the cherry on top>Joined 2014holy fuck hahahahahhaahhaha
>>8039909>>8039916Pyw fag
>>8039909>>8039916Pussy ass coward bitch.
>>8039916The 2014 is the really grim aspect of this entire situation.I really really fucking hope he wasn't drawing from 12 years ago.Like there's something terribly wrong if you've been drawing for that long and still haven't made it. Like nigga, what the fuck have you been doing for the last 12 years????
>>8039992Don't let me disturb you in clowning on OP and enjoying a healthy dose of schadenfreude, but you can't possibly be older than 20 lol (I hope)Artists truly have an handicap in handling with reality, be it general business awareness or just realistic expectations in general
>>8040017What do you think making it means? You're delusional if you think someone who put ANY amount of actual effort of drawing for twelve fucking years should still be at the level of OP pic.It's more of an attempt to bring to attention that OP should really think hard on why he hasn't improved, because so far it sounds like he simply doesn't draw, at least no where near enough beyond some goon slop doodle with a 3D modeled rifle rasterized in.
>>8040021>What do you think making it means?Become successful
>>8039691Snow admitted to it himself. But I'm not going to bother looking for the post in the archive with that faggy redditor attitude.
>>8040030Suuuuuuure you did, faggot.
>>8039264lol always knew snow was a jeet
Guys. it's me the real snowv. don't bother with this retarded thread. i just wanted some ideas onto how i can have some more fun while posting online.Maybe it was worded wrong.But some schizo started pissing himself in the thread.You can just tell by the thread that there's all these empty handed answers that contributes to nothing.I read some of this bullshit. but i'm honestly not obligated to listen to any of this crap unless these fags actually send me a DM. which they won't.
>>8040055cringe
>>8039838Twitter deboosts your account if you follow more people than your follower count. Iirc we know this because parts of twitters algorithm is open source. There is also a psychological factor, people only want to follow people who seem popular/famous. You're not gonna look popular if you have 5k followers but follow 10k people, but you will if you have 5k followers and follow less than 100 people.
>>8040138The follow/follower ratio deboosting only happens when you follow more than 500 people, iirc.
>>8035145>be me.>literally not been posting for almost a year if i dont start updating now. >making more commission than fucking ever, for real wtf.>i still not post and still getting new commissioners for drawings that i made just in the last frame of my activity. >40+ commission drawings that i will need to upload if i start to be active again. My main problem now is that i take took much time for my expectations, so i need to train speed asap to make bank for is hard if i have to do commissions every week. So it seems that i'm finally in the "mid-mid" tier of drawfags like before starting to get important money, i dont even have many followers like just below 4k, you just have to draw until you get a niche of clients.
>>8040138I guess, but a lot of prospect creators follow a lot of people to get follows back, at least in an inital phase. I guess the best he can do it's try to keep it 1:1 for now?
>>8040055Take your meds
>>8040211>>8040211>a lot of prospect creators follow a lot of people to get follows backAnon this is quite literally one of the worst things someone can do in attempt to grow their account. I have no idea why this strategy is so popular. You do not want 'dead' followers that ignore everything you post and may actually go as far as to manually mute your account because they only follow you for self serving reasons. Muting is confirmed to fuck you over, and I imagine having hundreds of followers who ignore you entirely also sends a bad message to the algorithm. Now that I think about it, I'd honestly suggest OP consider making a new account because you can only unfollow a certain number of accounts a day before getting shadowbanned, so it would take many days to cut that 800 following number down to acceptable levels. Plus OP posts porn so he's already shadowbanned, so he'd probably get an even worse shadowban if he unfollowed too many people in one day. Not to mention following and being followed by so many people outside of your target niche definitely confuses the algorithm. I can go on and on about how stupid this strategy is.
>>8039299No one knows?
>>8040230Didn't mean it quite like that, meant mostly people for genuine networking within your niche, not auto-following thousands - like a base at least. Or I guess Twitter algo does most of the heavy work when it comes to getting followers?But I'm mostly speaking out of my ass here (and personal curiosity), I don't have experience in this and I don't use Twitter because it's a rage-inducing landfill, I just opened a simple separate account for art on IG last month because I don't want it to be on my personal one, I have like 2 spam followers lol
>>8040253Ah, I getcha. The strategy I'm talking about is where artists do follow4follow by posting in a few specific hashtags and do this weird 'artmoots' thing that really kills accounts. You will see people do this repeatedly until they are following thousands of people, very often triggering the follow ratio deboosting in the process, and the only thing they get from it is dead followers that don't interreact with their posts. You really shouldn't underestimate the psychological aspect either. People just don't like following accounts that have really close follow/follower ratios or more following than follwers. Because at that point you don't look like a famous cool person and their lizard brains won't be tricked into following you. Plus the fact that your account will look like a consumer/fan account rather than a content producing account.Something funny that you will notice if you start a new Twitter account, is that whenever you get many followers at once, at least a few will be those artmoots people and will always unfollow you if you don't follow back in a few days. Funnily enough, all of that stops once you surpass 1k~ followers, ain't that something?
>>8040329Thanks for the insight. I think the psychological aspect is more obvious than the actual mechanisms behind why some accounts get tractions while others don't. Which I guess relates also to the reason as to way small creators engage in the follow4follow strategy: why not do it if they have zero clue anyway about why their content isn't getting views or engagement just by the act of posting it? I feel it reflects the situations most of these people are in
>>8039825You sound like an NPC with aphantasia, otherwise you could just visualize the art in your head perfectly since youre such a strong independent who doesnt like to shareNo point in putting it to physical form otherwise
>>8035145JUST DRAW!!!
>>8035145Stop posting.Draw more.Stop thinking that everything that comes out of your pencil is worthy of praise.
Just quit.It's okay. Don't waste any more time on this. It's not going to end well and this isn't reverse psychology. You're torturing yourself with this bullshit. You should not be forcing yourself to go to a lifedrawing class or practicing shit. It should not be a pain to paint for 30+ hours. If you were a pro, you wouldn't even be having these doubts in the first place. You're going to die soon. Don't waste your life on this pursuit trying to will yourself into being a successful creator. That's just misery.
>>8042069You sound like a pussy.
>>8042069Snowv response??
>>8042088Nobody gives a shit. @Lunatic_Soda
>>8035145just draw
>>8047446
>>8047587Snowv hereI'm here just to say you are doing this shit permabeg scribbles for 10 years alreadyThat's all, bye
>>8047638lunatic soda suck my pussy
>>8035145hahahaha, society died when people started doing things for the likes.
>>8048056I don't draw for likes. I only draw for Jesus and God almighty.
Someone is upset.
>>8035434Ok so I noticed you posted a Thanos gif but he didn't turn into an anime chick with big tits. I will be tracking your 4chan account to make sure that the next thing you post does have that transition. Oh and finish that plate of eggs behind you. Yeah maybe next time put tape on your webcam you fucking retard. Alright take it easy.
>>8048450This isn't even autismIt's just straight schizophrenia
>post>no (you)s, likes or whatever else on whatever social media>think I just suck>post drawings for crits>barely any replies, the few I do fish up tell me my stuff is great both in skill and appealI'd be lying if I said i didn't care about attention but what's bothering me is that stuff isn't adding up, if i'm getting absolutely NO attention then surely I should be bad right? Are anons just lying so I don't get upset?>pywfuck no i don't wanna be associated with this whiny post
>>8048496Not reading any of that unless you pyw.
He's losing it.
>>8048056For some.
>>8035145>What should I do?Do you also need hand holding for tying your shoes?
>>8051221For this retard, probably yes
>>8039791I do this too, why do faggots like me end up like OP
>>8035145remove that gun, do some shading and colors and it's going to be good... tits are big enough for most gooners on x.
Ignore the post above me and add a second gun in the other hand
>>8035193>>8035145being good isnt enough, you have to be interesting too.learning anatomy, perpsective, form, all that is just the tutorial. The drawing still has to be good and interesting if you want engagement and followers.
>>8052062Give us an example of something interesting...
>>8052073I can't. Its like trying to explain how to get a girlfriend. Its something innate that your instincts should be telling you. If you can't do it, then you never will.
>>8035145i feel like if you finish this and better then me which you can because im not really an artist it can be cool
>>8052169Without the gun yours just has no appeal. You're ignoring the artists original intention by removing the gun. Guns and violence are very prevalent. You have the wrong hair color too.
>>8052194t. snowbox9
Jesus likes my art, so I win
>>8039798 How do I get a cute otaku nerd GF like this? QRD?
>>8052194for you and that's the problem, if you want to sell you draw what other gooners want....
>>8052426You sound like some bitch he ain't called?
>>8052446you sound like some troon nobody asked ?
>>8035145I draw for myself. I have fun simply enjoying the act of drawing.
>>8052491For who?
>>8052391First you gotta have muscles. Then, you gotta have muscles, on your muscles! You gotta have muscles on your eyeballs.