How long have you been sharing your work for?

[ThunderChicken]

I used to have my comics published weekly in the school newspaper from 1988-1991, so 35+ years. Here on Tapas it's been since September 2022

[Leyelle]

like gag a day comics?

[GothickangelStudios]

I used to do picture books in the 80s of fantasy stuff with other kids.

90s was more hand written on line paper short stories and OC raw sketches. I eventually had them typed up onto a floppy disk. And printed them off to share in small cardstock folder with metal pinch prongs. Which Canadians call a duatang. Still have one copy of each and it on a floppy. I also did local school anthologies and contests. And newspaper ads for local charities.

Early 2000s I was in college so did half tradtional written stories + mixed media art. And Digital. But also took my coding skills from the 80s + 90s courses and put my art online my first domain site. And still have been online, with a domain since.

In 2012 was part of the local comic cons art dept.
Since 2019 onward I've had short stories printed in books from local authors and done in person - huge event art galleries in Toronto too.

So its been a decades I guess.

[Leyelle]

Oh what art gallery events?

[yurina]

i'm in 8th grade now. i started writing a novel on march 11, 2025 and my friend and i drew a comic on paper and posted it on march 30, 2025. :3

[ThunderChicken]

The school paper was weekly, so more like Sunday newspaper comics. I occasionally did some political cartoons in it too.

[skullforceagents]

Well I started my book series in 2019 and joined a professional comics group to help me make it. So approximately six years now. Though it’s only been published since 2023.

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[GothickangelStudios]

Its called BIST its short for the Brain Injury Society of Toronto.
The event is called Expressive Art Show. Lasts a month. Its digtially online all the time and updates yearly. But the month long in person event.... I can't make it in person. Cars and motion and me dont mix with my epilepsy well. But people take video and pics for me, where my canvas prints are hanging.
They do a free yearly gallery for any brain injury survivor from (in) Canada. To submit any type of art as long as it fits within the size requirements. Every year the venue is changed to different galleries. Last year it was 3 floors for the show. I sold one piece my first year.

Ive also done the exhibition here in London, ON. (Canada).

[XiuLyn_12]

I started sharing my artwork on DeviantArt back in 2014/2015! They're a mess though, I didn't know how to manage an art account yet. I moved to Instagram a year or two later (still a mess, ahaha!)

I started putting more effort into creating a more organized account in 2023, including publishing webcomics!

[Caro]

I think I started posting art on deviantart around 2006 or 07. POSSIBLY a little earlier but I would’ve been very young. I stopped posting around 2010 because the vibe of the site just wasn’t well suited to me anymore. By then Tumblr was peaking so jumping ship was easy.

Honestly nobody should have let me post art online at age 12 but oh well.

[Leyelle]

do you have a friend or agent there selling your work for you or does the show facilitate the sales for you?

[GothickangelStudios]

While the art gallery pieces are being compiled for the show, artists submit paperwork and if they want to sell their piece. And the estimate price they want for it. The price is never shown at the gallery. But people ar aware it can be sold.
BIST would contact me about someone interested in a piece. And then that party, BIST and I would talk. Then BIST does the paperwork, etc and transactions. BIST gets no percentage. The whole point is to help support brain injury artists.
When I do my own commissions for clients. I have paperwork, sign offs and how payment is made too. Many of mine have business.

[wolflu66]

If you're referring to sharing work online, I've been doing that since high school. Back then, there weren't such developed social media platforms, and you had to find separate web space to host images, which was more troublesome. Looking back now, those pictures really make me want to dig a hole and crawl into it.

Many years later, after Facebook, Twitter, and DeviantArt appeared, I started sharing my work extensively.

What left the deepest impression on me was that for several years I drew a ton of fanart for The Little Trashmaid. I also collaborated with its creator s0s2 on a short story, which was my first work to exceed 1 million views.

Additionally, a puzzle game that s0s2 released on STEAM included several pieces of my fan works. Thanks to her, my Instagram has over a thousand followers. I'm really grateful to her.

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As for family and friends in real life, most of the time I don't actively share with them.

I've also drawn some NSFW illustrations. Although I don't actively share these, I don't deliberately hide them either. I think quite a few of them probably know about it anyway XD.