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Fat Horse No. 20

It’s the year of the horse and I’ve always been a horse girl at heart, so I’m finally taking advantage of the excuse to fill the world with fat little horses! These felted friends are about the size (and shape!) of an apple, and if you happen to have any apples to share I’m sure they’d help you out! You know I had to make a pigeon once I decided to do a pegasus. The chest features Angelina sparkle fiber for that flash of iridescence!

+ Bonus!! Made by @grinds-mygears 💕💕 (He’s so cute omlll)

Хорошо ли я веду аккаунт? Нет

Могу ли я рисовать что то кроме Карла? Тоже нет

- he’s super into NFTs and Crypto

- because he’s doing so much fraud by fucking with the electronics using his power

- also does dropping shipping and Amazon returns fraud because “it’s funny”

- Will do literally any drug at least once

- lives in Idaho or Wyoming in an honest to god compound

- enjoys fucking with organized crime because they don’t scare him (potentially including the Connections)

- refuses to get a job that doesn’t involve ripping people off

- cheats at darts

I’d say two of the most important things are A) Advertising and B) Knowing your market. Obviously art skill/what you’re creating goes into it too, but believe it or not that isn’t as important as proper advertising and marketing. Ever seen people that aren’t all that great at art but have a huge following? I think we all have. It’s not that those people don’t deserve what they got, it’s that they are doing something you aren’t. 

I’m going to just cover the face value of earning attention, rather than the process of commissioning and such itself.Post frequency - pretty much everyone I see who gains a massive following posts non freaking stop. Usually these people have something people want, be it good art, good ideas, or good personality. Even I need to get better about post frequency. And obviously, this changes person to person. For instance, people who makes costumes or cosplay or fursuits for a living might not be able to post finished products often. Because of how long it takes to complete the projects. In this case, I’d say posting frequent WIP’s and updates suffices well. Also, offer tutorials, if you’re in the middle of making something, go ahead and film it or take pictures and put it up later that night as a step by step guide. This gives your followers content, makes people want to come back to you for something, all without even finishing the project you’re working on! Knowing your market - When is tumblr/furaffinity/deviantart/twitter most active? There are lots of website that can track traffic and let you know when these times are. My tip, is don’t post in the smack dab middle of these times. Post just before, or just after. You want to catch people just when they get home from work, or just when they’re getting offline. You’ll still reach a huge market, but your work won’t get BURIED under everyone else’s posting! The longer you can stay on the front page, or high up in the search results, the better. Since people who track these things know when to post, you want to stay ahead of the game. 

Knowing your market pt 2 - What’s popular right now? Hop on it. Stay on top of bandwagons. I remember when YCH’s blew up on FA. They’ve simmered down since then, but in the beginning they were hot shit and I pulled tons of money doing them. Fandoms help with this too, especially on tumblr. If you’re a fandom type person, stay in the know about your fandom and draw fanart for it if you wish to. This will get you a good following and attention because fanart gets reblogged to hell and back.Advertising (if applicable) - No seriously it works! I almost always kept an ad running on FurAffinity in the very beginning, if the site you post on offers paid advertising, do it. Even if it seems expensive. My month-long ads on FA would usually net me around 10,000 page views and, between 100-300 followers. That is amazing exposure for a website of its size. Advertising isn’t “cheating” or “selling out”, it’s a form of investment that pays off in the future.

Last but not least, offer a good product. All this work will be for nothing if you don’t have a good product to offer. Practice, study, and practice more. This goes for everything. Art, costumes, writing. In the end, you can pay for advertising and get those 10,000 hits, but if those 10,000 people aren’t interested when they browse for a few minutes, you aren’t going to earn them as a follower. If you’re doing costuming, make sure you have a good camera and set up and take appealing photos of your product. Don’t use bad lighting, ugly fonts on your advertisement/content, etc. Remember, all money you spend on your craft is an investment. Utilize it. Get the best tech, learn as much as you can. 

1. Do not wait until you’re “good enough”, because “good enough” will never come. As your skill improves, so too will your critical eye. You will ALWAYS find mistakes in your work because your mind’s skill will always be ~5 years ahead of your hand’s. You’re never going to be 100% satisfied and you will be constantly improving. It’s part of being an artist. So the sooner you jump in and get started, the sooner you can start building up. Being “ready” is a state of mind, not a skill level.

2. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT SHIT TALK YOUR OWN WORK. I don’t care if you think your art is hideous and you hate every piece you do. If you’re trying to be a professional artist, you should not, will not, CANNOT discredit your own work. Don’t say “this is terrible but” in the caption. Don’t point out flaws. Don’t put “hi I’m [name] and i draw shitty things” in your blog description. Don’t do it. Imagine you’re a customer and you walk into a store to buy something. You see one you’re potentially interested in, and a sales rep comes up to you…..and immediately tells you that it’s a bad product. Are you gonna buy it? No, you’re gonna put it down and walk out of the store. If you don’t think your art is worth the time or money you’re asking, why should anyone else?

That said, it is more or less about how you tag and, as Oliver said in the OP, when you post. It’s a matter of finding active tags that apply to the image. For my monster stuff I usually use tags like “teratophilia”, “xenophilia”, “monster boy”, etc etc. Those are the tags I know a lot of the big anthology blogs (the ones who don’t post their own content but reblog a lot of others and have thousands of watchers) use to find content. Also, I’m not sure if this is still the case, but it used to be that a post would only show up in the search for its first 5 tags, so get all your important tags out of the way and add tag commentary & such to the end. And yes, fanart helps a lot, but only if you actually want to do fanart.

For FA, it’s hard to say without being super familiar with your body of work. Obviously furries and adult work do best on FA, but it is possible to be successful without those things, just much harder. Even then, it’s still a matter of tagging correctly and posting at optimal times.

From the looks of it you also only do traditional, which explains why you have a lot of traffic on Insta but not elsewhere. Insta is kind of geared toward trad artists because you can literally just take a photo of your paper and post it, while you have to find a workaround to post anything digital. Tumblr and FA are largely populated by digital artists, so getting trad work noticed can be difficult. TLDR, it’s possible, but you’ve got a lot of things stacked against you. It will happen eventually, but it might take you a bit longer than other artists.

(Also a sidenote: you don’t need an art blog, but I would recommend coming up with an art tag on the blog you have. I checked you out to try to see some of your work and it’s a bit hard to filter between the reblogs and other people’s work. Tag all your art with the same tag and put a link to it on your theme so people can see all your art in one place)