I want community back- idk rant

[jacksinn]

I have spent the roughly past decade lamenting this exact thing, the homogeneity/hostility of social media sites towards artists, the HUSTLE, etc etc.

buzzly.art popped up around the end of last year, and it's similar to pre-2010 dA. I've managed to make a few solid friends there, even. Would recommend giving it a shot, if nothing else than for how active it is and to have a concrete gallery.

[irresponsiblepics]

That's Discord!
Yeah I miss the old Deviantart. Now its just dominated by pervs and thieves.

[Brumoss]

I just tried to make a buzzly and it said it wasnt accepting new members but thanks, it looks cool, and ill keep trying!

And i feel that so hard! Like i use to not care about the numbers but the lonelier i get the more im starting.

When i find myself caring too much about the numbers i take a break and work on a art project for just me that i don't plan to post.

[Lev404]

Its not deviant art, this also happened to me that when ur art is worse people tend to react and draw ur oc's and stuff do boost your confidence,

[Zhengo]

I like the features DeviantArt has. It was an art site first and foremost but had a lot of social community features like public chat, forums, groups that make it feel like there was a lot of avenues to connect with others and also promote art.

Nowadays when you post artwork on sites like Instagram and Twitter you gotta hope people spot it in the tags and also spam the link all over Discord and maybe Reddit in the channels full of other link spams and hope some people see it and are interested. It honestly feels helpless sometimes.

[river121693]

has anyone hangout other webtoon artists in real life?
I've always wanted to meet folks and share our work at art fairs or cons. I used to do that with folks from local anime and cosplay communities and it was a lot of fun to get to know people more personally.

Outside of that, I find smaller discord art groups helpful since its small enough for everyone to kow each other and keep a cohesive conversation. Instagram too, so long as you're willing to put yourself out there.

[TheLemmaLlama]

One of the other people in the writer's club at my uni happens to be a webcomic writer, but collaborates with an artist, if that counts

[Fafnir]

i wish i could, but im sooo busy. =/ sry.

[Panpan]

It sucks that you haven’t found that on discord! I’m part of a server where we’ve grown close and try to do a group call once or twice a month to play trivia games.

[Legendofgenii]

I’m in awe of your work. @Scarlet_Cryptid It’s just my cup of tea. Your expressions and backgrounds are amazing.

[sushy00]

Oof I can relate. I remember when forums were more of a thing, those were the days!

[surenlicious]

I remember the days in which deviantart was actually a good place to build connections, make friends and network with your fellow artists and be tight-knit. Nowadays...ugh. It's become a sewer. I had the same community move with me to Tumblr and that also went alright until the big nsfw purge, and now that's a ghosttown I feel...

I finally managed to build a good community on twitter, but I definitely had to search for my people haha.

[river121693]

Oo that’s really cool. I have some illustrator friends irl and it’s nice whenever we talk about art, but I have no comic writers

[Scarlet_Cryptid]

You are too kind. Especially since I could say the same thing right back to you.

[system]

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