/fur/ - Furry★

>>56828 (OP)

I found your account by correlating the timestamps and view numbers. It's no wonder you're getting so few views. First of all, most of the things you're submitting aren't furry. And secondly, most of your art consists of the exact same theme: a single human female standing naked against a plain white background, looking at the viewer, and doing nothing else. This is boring, and art that isn't interesting doesn't attract viewers. Your skill isn't your problem here: your imagination is. Experiment with ways of making your art more interesting

>>56829

How did you manage that? Can you search by an exact sub date?

>>56828 (OP)

It just means that you're doing something unappealing. If it's mostly consisted of standing humans as the other anon claim, then you're not going to strike a lot of favs with it. Tweak their poses, draw backgrounds, or draw new characters entirely.

It's not really skill that get you views, it's caring about what you put into your art.

>>56828 (OP)

>people don't appreciate me

>maybe if I delete everything so that nobody can appreciate me, that'll show them

>>56837

>a fat diaperfur

I expected nothing from that example link and I'm still let down.

>>56841

That's not the OP. That's the default number that he modified several times to find the OP's profile.

>>56848

I think he knows that. That's why he said "example". And yes, I'm pretty dissapointed as well.

>>56837

How did you get the right time zone though?

I feel like FA is garbage for getting any kind of recognition. When you submit art it's like throwing your shit into a tornado and hoping somebody notices it enough to even give it a fav. The timeline moves so fast that most things are gone from the first page after a few minutes.

>>56829

>>56837

>>56856

If this anon's investigation is right, which is pretty damn nice, then he makes a really solid point.

Make boring art, get little results and the imagination part is very solid. A lot of nobodies on the site became somebody when they began to push the boundaries, but for god sake drop the human stuff if you're on a furry site. Thats like furries invading on human sites it makes people mad.

But >>56831 makes one of the best points that the art should come from YOU. If you cater to others then an expectation will come with whatever reputation you bring

>Make free stuff for "popular" artists in an attempt to leach off their audiance=They will always expect you to draw things for them and drop contact with you the minute you refuse. You may be able to scrape a few of their followers but never anything substantial

>Make generic furry art in order to appeal to a large crowd=You look both uncreative and greedy, every price increase will be seen as you sniffing for more coin which will drive people away

>Bad art but still pushing to take commissions=See above but now have nothing redeeming. Your improvements will come under suspect of tracing

>Drawing primarily human content on a furry site=What? That's screaming "LOOK FURRIES! LOOK HOW DIFFERENT FROM YOU I AM! I DRAW HYOOOOMAAAAAANS" which, come the fuck on, it's lame when furries do that everywhere else.

Bottom line:

Don't do shit for others until you know you're ready. Make some gifts for friends, real friends, and they'll show that shit off. Don't go for the commission kill until you know you've got the quality to back up the dollar. Pave your own way and express your own mind. Keep the human shit off of furry sites unless it's on occasion or you genuinely don't care what people think. Produce content reguarly, once a few months won't cut it because people enjoy regularity and it'll keep you showing up on the front page for curious clicks. And above all: don't do for other people's attention and make people demand YOUR attention. Those are the secrets to being a success and after 17 years in the fandom (9 of them on FA) those are what I observed for being successful.

I average 161 views with 1243 watches, but thats with years of inactive with random bits of activity (My last post was 3 months ago) but every day or two I get an extra watch. Being yourself, taking no shit from anyone, and having good ideas is what makes you last.

>>56905

If there's anything I learned from about a decade writing fanfiction, it's that the more of "myself" I put into the work, the more people hated it. My best received work was a PwP, single-chapter, pun-filled bunch of nonsense I thought up and wrote in a single day. It sat proudly next to epic works I'd constructed for years and with all my of effort, that had maybe three people who read it.

Bottom line:

Draw shit for yourself if you want, to pad out your gallery, but if you don't draw what other people want, you aren't gonna get JACK SHIT. You can be "yourself" when you've already gotten a huge following via whoring yourself on every bandwagon that comes along. Otherwise you'll be the best artist on FA that nobody fucking knows.

I've found that if your art is somewhat decent and you draw stuff that people are big fans of (like Star Fox, Renamon, etc.) then you'll usually pull in some favs. Also keywords are important because some people literally do frequent searches for their favorite things on a daily basis.

so is nobody seriously gonna post OP's account? i wanna see

>>56930

I don't think anyone does that on FA because hardly anyone uses keywords properly, if at all. If it's an IP then maybe they tag the character and franchise, but hardly anything else.

>>56950

I'm confused. Most, if not all of their art isn't even their own.

I think OP deleted one of them. Everything from Nov 2 11:27

is from https://www.furaffinity.net/view/2161522X/ to https://www.furaffinity.net/view/21615233/

Whereas the ones from Oct 31 10:33pm start at

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/2159565X/

And end with

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/21595663/

I found what his profile is though as I know their profile from /furi/. Just improve your technical skill and try different subject matter. I feel you're stuck in a comfort zone from not doing studies. Tutorials might be easy and less tedious than a book or trying to learn photos/life, but you won't reach full potential with tuts unless if you learn the hard way. I was in your position before and I didn't like studying because "it wasn't me", but I discovered I would rather dump time into a study that improves my skills tenfold than spend a week in using layer tricks that make my art look like airbrushed amatuer stuff at the end.

If you think about it, we're learning things all the time and it's best if you learn the right things.

>>57056

Oh shit, you're right. I don't know why I gave art critique when he's a writer.

>>56950

Is this actually OP? That's hilarious, what a drama queen.

I have a YT channel with 1.1k subs which is nothing compared to the effort I put into it but you know what I'm happy and grateful that people see my content, and when I made my first videos and they got 100 views each I was grateful for the few people who watched it. If you're making work entirely for the recognition of others you're doing it wrong, you have to be satisfied yourself by what you're doing.

channel in case anyone cared (videogames)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQB9CePNSp9yRVGBIjM6JrA?view_as=subscriber