DelWhen I joined masto, I gravitated towards following creative peeps and noticed a thing that's pretty common to all of us: we feel guilty for promoting places that people can buy our work or otherwise support us financially. So I started the #CreativeToots hashtag for that very reason. Got an Etsy page? Online store? Patreon? Selling a piece of art? Throw that tag on it. Do it with unfettered abandon. Everyone else: Look at that tag for artists to support. Buy their stuff. Help them create. <3
Drew@WelshPixie Fuck that's cool as hell. Super into this.
@INJ9 :D :D Thank you! I love that it's still going and people are using it frequently and stuff.
@WelshPixie Art is so hard to make a career out of. I'm all for mutual support in the field for any type of art!
@INJ9 I got *really really really really* lucky with my stuff, and I'm good, but TOTALLY was in the right place at the right time (I got in on the colouring book trend just before it started dying down). Right now I'm making a part-time living from it, which is still way more than I was expecting, and people 'on the outside' don't realise just how much work you have to put in to promoting - and if you don't get those lucky breaks, it's even more difficult :/