Board 8 > So Hypothetical, if I started selling Sprite/art prints

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ALSO I hit a milestone!

a Blue checked account followed me. its a streamer from finland and he has like 20k followers on twitter AND twitch

it would be weird for him to find me on one of those F2F threads, I don't think he would NEED that

but yea...that was unexpected

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advice topic from an artist with 140K followers

https://twitter.com/javi_draws/status/1225811276045193217?s=20
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I appreciate the links

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Are you thinking of integrating your Twitch and sprite stuff?

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I just figure its probably another way to get more followers and possibly vice versa

its all part of the same master plan lol

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good news productivity up a million percent lol

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That's amazing.

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Punnyz posted...

but what a way to go, huh? lol. My shitpost was blown up but not my content. That happened on tumblr too lol

This is humanity in our current moment

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So I think I'm ready to launch the commission thing

I'm thinkin etsy and patreon

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#NobodyArtistClub is trending as a way for small artists to get exposure. though they define "small" as "under 10k followers" so I'm not sure how useful it is for ACTUAL small artists, but it's worth a shot

e.g.:

https://twitter.com/YuukiMokuya/status/1282539525193871365?s=20

also most artists have a pinned "portfolio" tweet (well a mini-portfolio because you can only attach 4 pics) similar to the above, and you could also link your twitch and stuff
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I've seen that too, I was doubting it would help me lol

I'll give it a shot

also my instagram has 12 followers...and I haven't done anything on it lol

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I did it

I doubt anyone will love me tho

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So I copied and pasted the tags from another post and one had a typo in it.

And that's gonna bother the shit out of me

And there no goddamn edit button

And I may as well just wait til tomorrow to post it again

GRRRRR

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as it stands, I have to repost a sprite 3 times in a row

the initial one with a desription, the reply to the initial one with the hastags instead of a description (i'll have to post the image in the reply to make people look. I doubt if I say CLICK HERE FOR THE IMAGE they'll do it)

and then one for my pinned tweet

I wonder if this is annoying

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I suggest just making your descriptions shorter, I don't think people care too much about the descriptions anyway?

at least popular posts I see like "rain" *pixel art of a rainy cafe* *5k likes*
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alternately, original post with pic(s) + hashtags + short description, then any additional explanation in reply
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I might just do that

So I started following advice from that one thread you posted and @'d some fan accounts

The terra one has 1k followers

They noticed, RETWEETED AAAAND FOLLLWED

...but that's all that happened lol. None of the fans did anything with it

Dang lol. At least I got one

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https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f97a.svg

What does that emote imply ? It looks like distress

A person posted it with a thank you

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it's emotional but not necessarily bad?

if they posted it with a thank you, maybe they're teary with gratitude. or your art is making them emotional or something idk
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Yeah what Drake said.


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I still dont know what im looking at. Are those candy corns for eyes?

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It's anime-ish eyes looking upwards.

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I know how stupid I must be coming off but I saw that emote on my browser and it looks way different from my phone


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That's...lowkey horrifying.

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See why I was so confused now? lol

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so two spriters I admire, one of which I have already mentioned, are Abyss Wolf and Prime Op

I just found out Prime Op has prints

http://www.scrollboss.illmosis.net/shop_index.php

he charges SIX EACH

Like

Here I was thinking about charging 30 or so?

the only advantage I would have is he surprisingly doesn't have alot of sprite stuff available but still man.

I supposed I COULD still do my own thing, afterall, no one is gonna value you but yourself

but...yeesh, thats the market

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I have been thinking about spriting stuff for free to at least get my name out there

Theres a few streamers who have names where I'm like "I think I can do something cool with that"


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Punnyz posted...

I have been thinking about spriting stuff for free to at least get my name out there

I have heard around Twitter that you should never do that. The problem with it is that opens you up to be taken advantage of, and it sets a precedent that content creators can just go "make art for me for free for the exposure" which has already been plaguing artists.

Always get some compensation for work you do for others unless it's like a personal favor.


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I was just thinking a fan art kind of thing. I would NOT open myself up for free requests

just sprite a popular twitter youtube person and be like "Hey here ya go" and hopefully get retweeted or something

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