where do you get the courage to upload art about your ocs? I have been thinking about uploading but I am too scared that nobody will see my shitty art so why should I bother? do you have any advice? I am asking cause this blog and your art are incredable!
first of all, thank you for liking my blog and art!!but i'm afraid i'm not the right person to ask for this one because i am to this day tense whenever i upload oc art. there's also a lot of oc art i never uploaded because i am still insecure!i've mentioned it sometime before but only drawing fanart always was seriously starting to burn me out, especially with being pressured to upload regularly on social media. i'm often thinking about my time on deviantart, when i was like 11, where i shared my pokemon ocs and fursonas and shit. the same 2 or 3 people would always comment on my „original“ characters whenver i posted. i was looking forward to those 3 commenters so much, at tmes i felt like i was drawing for them, trying to get better to see their reaction, or coming up with a particularly cool-looking picture to surprise them. we even gifted each other art of our oc's hanging out, it was honestly a great time. i thought back to those times and then to the stories i've been building in my head since, and how my characters got established more and more over time. i've always knew, i wanted to tell a story someday, once i was satisfied with my own art skills (well, as satified as you can be). i've been giving these characters designs and backstories, but always on the side, so i could focus on art i could present online, fanart. it just felt so... draining after a while, only drawing other people's creations, not having your own „brand“. so, one day, when i was having an art block again, third time this week, i thought „fuck it“ and started to post a random drawing of my ocs (i'm almost sure it was of Liz and Robin). Guess what, it got me exactly 5 notes and 2 unfollows. This didn't surprise me, but i was still upset nonetheless. „why won't they like something i worked hard on?“ Because they don't know that, and they don't know your characters. And the only way for people to know your characters is for you to draw them and then post that drawing. What got me the most feedback weren't endless ref and info sheets but drawings that just made my characters look interesting; draw them in cool scenes where they say edgy one-liners or something. Don't even explain what's going on, just make it look like something you'd like to know more of.People might find it and they might be curious. Or they won't find it. Many factors come into play, biggest of them is luck, so don't be discouraged if you only earn radio silence (and trust me, in the beginning, this will be exactly what happens). Hell, my stuff isn't even well known, my most popular oc art gets around 100 notes, and that's lucky.But that's why i post oc art; 100 notes on original art is more satisfying to me than 1000 notes on fanart.
also, there's this guy
tl;dr the fear of rejection and myobsession with numbers were beaten by the pure joy and motivation ifelt while drawing something i created myself and seeing people'sreaction to it!













