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Hi there!
People asked me several times when I've became 'popular' on this site and in which way. I must admit I smelled a bit of envy in their tones, but the thing that troubled me more was that they didn't think that my work was worth all the pageviews I got over the years.
Well, I wanted to explain this little thing right now... dA costed me a lot of work! It wasn't a 'BOOM! POPULAR!' thing at all for me.
I had to study other people's methods too and to work hard on improving my art, and it wasn't easy. At all!
So tonight I'm sharing with you some methods to get attention by dA community.
Don't take them as unquestionable laws, just take them for what they are... Hints.
They worked for me but they may not work for you.
And now that you have a dA account...
What should you do?
► POST FINISHED ARTWORKS ONLY
Your first post should be a finished work, no matter if in black and white or not, just post something finished in you gallery. It will be your portfolio. If you want your audience to see your sketches there's a section named 'Scrapbook' in which you can post them or either Tumblr is a good platform too. People should find your art interesting. Reply to this question: 'Would I watch myself?' 'Is my art good enough?' If the answer is 'YES' then you may have the qualifications to be noticed by the Community. If you don't like your art yourself, I suggest you to take art classes trying to improve your art or try with different media. Everybody can be good at art, you just have to practice everyday. Never give in!
► BE CREATIVE
Do your best to improve your art and to find other and better ways to do art. This site is full of amazing tutorials to learn how to draw digitally or traditionally, or to approach new techniques. Also, a periodically checking of this amazing dA section called What's hot could waken your creativity. Just remind you don't have to copy others to be creative: always keep you style and you'll go far!
► BE ACTIVE
Post something every week. If you can't do it (busy with work, or school), keep your watchers updated with a journal or post an ID.
► REPLY TO COMMENTS AND NOTES
This doesn't mean you have to spam other people pages with a 'thank you for the fav' comment. Just reply to other people comments in your main page or deviations. Your watchers should become attached to you and you should love them.
► KEEP YOUR PERSONAL LIFE AWAY (FROM dA JOURNALS)
Ok, journals may be 'personal' but, please, don't use them to say you're ill, you got a haircut, you visited your relatives... It's preferable to make new art for similar news, like doing a self portrait with your new haircut, maybe. Everybody may read your personal stuff and this is not good for your reputation (even if you had great time), use Twitter for that. A good thing is to share your reached goals with your watchers, though. 'I graduated', 'I got a job', 'I made an exhibition' are things your watchers die to know! They want you to be flawless to their eyes.
► USE dA FORUM
Get in touch with other Deviants. Always keep in mind this is a Community and if you don't watch or comment on other people's work, then they may never noticed you and your art. My best choice, when I wasn't popular was posting my art in the Deviation ThumbShare section of the Forum, in which you can share your Thumbs and see other people's artworks.
► MAKE GIVEAWAYS AND CONTESTS
People would love to be paid or win prices for drawing your OCs or either participate in a Themed Challenge with prizes, or either win something without doing anything. So do it! And don't forget to encourage/require people to put a link to your journal in their entry comment.
► JOIN GROUPS
Absolutely join dA groups and put art in them! Some groups are really big, they have over 1000 watchers and they could help you increasing your audience exponentially. Check out dA groups HERE.
► SHARE RESOURCES WITH PEOPLE
Be kind and share some tutorials, steps by steps, color palettes, poses, Photoshop actions or brushes, bases, Memes, wallpapers, with the community. 
► SUGGEST DAILY DEVIATIONS AND BROWSE ART
Please do! Really. To get people interested in your art, you should be interested in art first! Be an active art enthusiast, fave and comment over other people's work and do it with pleasure.
► DO ART FEATURES
Yes, same as above. Show people you care about other artists and quality art. Spread the love! People are here for the art and they'll thank you if you'll show them new good artists to follow.
►TAKE COMMISSIONS
Question yourself as an artist. Take commissions and show Deviants what you can do when you're out of your comfort zone.
►NEVER STARTS FLAMES
If you have something to say to a user never say it in public. Send them a note instead. Being polite is the best way to coexist in a huge community like this one. People opinions may differ. If you and another user don't think the same, just politely explain your opinion and if they don't understand/respect it, well... No trouble! You can always deal with them in private or either block them.
►INVEST IN A PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP
And you won't be disappointed! You can change your main page appearance, which is really good to impress your audience. Furthermore, you won't see ADs, you can change your username (I did!), your Sta.sh storage increases of 8GB, you can view your Stats (which is really important in case you want to build a consistent audience), you can set your own royalties over your prints and have a 10% discount over prints in general, creating a dA Portfolio and much more .
►GET AN APPEALING AVATAR
An avatar is like 'your face' on dA community, so it should rather represent a picture or your face or a detail of your best artwork. Pixel art avatars are cute, but they always disappear in the ocean.
►RESPECT dA RULES
Yep. I forgot to write it before but yes, you should also respect rules. Like... never post +18 art or you'll be banned, not even in your Sta.sh! Always flag your nudity with 'mature content' (I learned it the hard way...).
Read dA rules in case you're in trouble.
► DO FANARTS (BUT NOT TOO MANY)
Even if I do NOT encourage this method to get watchers, this is absolutely the best way to get them. I didn't use it, though, because it's a double-edged sword... People may not like the fandom you're in. People may get bored of your work quickly. People may ask you if you can do something 'that's really yours'. Do you want to get noticed for your originality or because 'you made that awesome fanart of Korra, OMG!'? It's up to you.
I think it's enough for now.
I really hope you can find it's useful somehow.
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[Open] Commissions 2019I can draw: all types of felines and canines, dragons, mammal species, deer, and some big birds.
I Won't draw: NSFW, offensive things, humans, and anything related or the main focus is: race, religion, negative groups, heavy gore or sexual themes, I also don't draw ship art.
You must credit to me on any artwork you share on different websites please link to my deviantart! Also credit me on any designs I have made.
unless it is a design please specify whether you want updates
Everything is in points, 100 points equals 1 dollar
please read my T.O.S if you can
If you have questions about prices ask!
things that say they need photo references have a R
things that say they need a character reference have a C
Ive tried opening commissions
but what ends up happening is no one buys them
I don't want to lower my prices to below 30 dollars
since if I do that would undermine other artists
I guess I will be broke hahe
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i think the best option would be to lower prices, to get more grab. I've harshly lowered prices before, but I did end up selling what I wanted to. It sucks, but its a tactic to get more views/attention on commissions.
I also think everyone is broke on here lol
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My gallery is kind of messy because I've been changing my style and probably improving too. Should I delete the old art to make my gallery nicer? I know I don't have much right now, but soon I will post more.
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I didn't understand the "DO ART FEATURES" part.
Can anyone explain how I can feature other artist's work? Thank you.
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In order to feature another artist, you can make a journal and include the thumbnail of their work.
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Thank you for this, I'll be sure to try out some of this advice!
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Thanks, bro. Please take a loot at my profile... 
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Thank you for this, for a while now ive wondered if my art wasn't good enough to get more views or perhaps I wasn't do something right like not becoming a core member, either way whatever little views or favorites I do get, I feel blessed with. And despite wanting to get my art more attention, I will continue to make what I love, but ill also take it a step further and try to amaze everyone who sees it.
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This is really helpful and motivational, thank you!
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I hope this works T^T I been trying so hard! I'll take this advice! Thank You!
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Silent reader is not an option, huh?
Well, alright, thank you so much for this information, sir.
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thanks for making the tutorial, i'm sure that's gonna help me a lot!
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Ok i guess it can't be upset I got no new watchers since I been offline for like 5 months XD
Will try these tricks thanks for posting!!!
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I'll admit, this helped a bit. Though I can't get over how little recognition the work I put out gets, despite how hard I try... Either way, thank you for this.
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Thanks a lot for this! These advices are really good and practical. I'm new to dA, so I'm still seeking ways to get my art noticed by more people. But then again, thank you very much!
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This was truly very helpful...! Thank you for the advice! ^^
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This is helpful! Though I rarely post because I try to add effort to my drawings. They take like a day or 3
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Thank you so much for this journal! It's really a good check-list ^^
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If anyone is interested i have a ongoing raffle. You will fond it in my most revet journal!
I only recently started stydying anatomy and adding bsckgrounds on my pieces. I got a few more favs and views per piece but i guess it will take Years or maybe not at all before i get as popular as i desire.
The most frustrating thing is when you actively work on a piece for about five hours or more and end up happy with it, upload it and get like 3 favs and 10 wievs..
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Thanks a lot for your guide! I'll try some of your tips ASAP
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Thank you for this guide! It's really hard to get noticed around here. If anyone is interested in trading watches let me know.
Check out the thumbshare forums as well: forum.deviantart.com/showcase/…
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Thanks for the tip. It is also fun to read.
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u see, if i spotted this earlier i totally would've tried your hints hah
but now i'm up to the point where i don't care whose watching me lol
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:0 I finally looked this up, I've been on DA for yEARs and really, no idea what I've been doing wrong. Joining groups is something I've also been doing, but a lot of popular ones are just full.
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" must admit I smelled a bit of envy in their tones, but the thing that troubled me more was that they didn't think that my work was worth all the pageviews I got over the years. "
I disagree with this notion that the majority of people are asking you this because they feel you aren't worthy. Working hard on your artwork only does so much--half of the game is learning in which what ways are the best ways to expose yourself. Marketing means everything and people want to know how other people do it.
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Hey thank you for sharing your experience and tips with us. I try to get a bit more noticed here since a while. But most of the time I'm very inactive. I try to change that tho ^^
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Just read the last part of the journal, you won't need anything else. Indeed, the only way to get noticed any more is to do fan art.
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Sadly true.
Getting noticed for original art IS POSSIBLE you just have to work 10x harder 😅
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This is very true. I experienced that myself. But it sucks. People only care about your fanart and not about any original art. My Pokémon art got popular but not my Characters. I think fanart is the wrong way. If you enjoy it . Do it. But doing it for fame only is the wrong way in my opinion
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No, I agree!
Fan art is nothing but a waste for the most part; like sure, if you enjoy it, draw it! But why would I want to be known for making tons of artwork for an already existing property when I can just showcase my creativity?
A lot of people do draw fanart for the attention, and I find it lame. I recently drew a fanart (it’s been 2 years since I’ve drawn any at all) and even though it got a lot of attention, it didn’t make me happy.
I’ve only been here for 2 years and I can say I’ve been doing well so far; I have fans who do come back for every original post I make and that’s really all I need.
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I've actually been here for a really long time, almost 6 years if you include my older account.
I have not done much drawing art, I mostly do literature and tbh I don't think people are very keen on reading non-fanart literature here.
I notice a lot of wonderful original stories going unnoticed and it's just disheartening.
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People are just too lazy to read these days.
Even comics (which are a visual form of literature) are often overlooked because people don’t wanna read.
It seems cartoons only get appreciated in the art community and it’s tiring. I have yet to see a webcomic build up a huge fan base like shows, movies, and video games do.
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This might be useful
To be honest, I'v lost a lot of watchers
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