>>3609823never said it was only luck, just implying that you have to work hard AND be lucky, hence why i said my friends with 10k+ followers ALSO work their asses off. but y'know, reading comprehension and what not.
also oh my fucking god you don't need to read books or pay three thousand goddamn dollars to learn the basics of how to get attention on social media. the luck i'm talking about is more so that you already like to make art that is predisposed to be the kind of work that certain circles online like to share along with being able to present your personality as a brand. i could write you a pamphlet's worth of paragraphs on how to easily get attention but it all requires your work to look certain ways, be of certain contents, etc, along with the kinds of personalities that work well, but that's a buncha shit that some people just do naturally/don't mind putting on a face, while for others it kills them inside like a retail job. not to mention it takes a lot of time some people don't have. that's basically the luck i'm talking about.
>>3609835people also forget having the time to work on art or even improve itself comes down to an insane amount of luck. my boyfriend's one of the best artists i know but he works long shifts 4 days a week with a commute that's like 3-4 hours total each day. 3 days off but he spends most of that sleeping, spending time with family, other responsibilities, etc.
>>3609859it is a completely different set of skills that some people just luck into picking up on or doing naturally because of the combo of their personality and content they put out
>Otherwise the method I see a lot of average (especially trad) artists use is to follow thousands of people in the hopes they'll follow them back.don't do this, people hate spammers, this is a shitty instagram strat that doesn't work, only gets you follow 4 follow people who don't actually care about or interact with your art.
