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Putting Your Artwork on Social Media
2 min readOct 14, 2021
Putting your artwork on social media can be absolutely terrifying for some artists. Let’s face it, people suck. Not all. But the few whose goal is to just scroll through social media searching for places where they can leave their particular brand of hate and nastiness are sometimes enough to keep even the more experienced artists in hiding. There are tons of haters and trolls out there. Eventually, you may run into a few.
- Expect them. Don’t live in fear of the ‘what if’ some troll leaves nasty comments on your post. Expect it. Take the power back and expect it. If and when you do come across your very own troll, you won’t be surprised. They’re out there with nothing better to do than to try and bring as many people down to their level of misery as possible.
- Don’t engage them. Any response at all on your part is exactly what they’re looking for. Your response will add fuel to their fire. In other words, just completely ignore them. Let your other followers shoot them down. They usually do. And I must admit that it’s entertaining to see the troll just drop out of sight.
- Keep posting. The more you do it, the less nerve wracking it becomes. You’ll be surprised at the fan base you start building. Many of them can’t draw to save their lives (or so they think) so anything you do is absolutely amazing to them. For others, your…
