Ask HN: Artists – where do you post your art?

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by hershyb_ • 6 years ago

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I was looking to see if there was a single place where artists post their pictures/art and discuss it. Do you guys just use Instagram or do you have your own art webpages. Is there anything you would want to improve about the experience?

raptorraver• 6 years ago

Not an artist myself but my wife is. She posts to Instagram. Easier to get audiences and follow other artists. Downsides are that it's owned by Facebook.

bobkrusty• 6 years ago

reddit is good place to post art

personal website too

i use both

thecupisblue• 6 years ago

I don't. Posted maybe two times on instagram. Thinking about making my own page for it, but not sure if it would make sense or if Id have the will to maintain it. Other friends in the scene also use instagram, with one even getting his main income via instagram sales of his pieces.

codingdave• 6 years ago

Mostly, I don't. Building an audience doesn't feel relevant to my work. It does nothing for getting me into juried exhibitions - I still need to do that myself. It can be actively detrimental to selling photography as you now cannot claim exclusive rights to a photo once you have published it. Even for portrait and event photography, most business comes from word-of-mouth, not people searching online for photography portfolios. Etsy jumped the shark years ago, with success there being more about marketing than your artistic skills.

In short, I am completely content keeping my work offline. I do post some photos to my personal site just for documentation purposes, but not my best work. And to be fair, I don't try to make a living with it. Someone trying to be a professional artist may very well want more online marketing.

olikas• 5 years ago

I use instagram and my own webpage. The single biggest problem I have is consistency. For me art is a hobby, so I don't always have the time. So my instagram engagement is all over the place. The webpage is good, but hardly anybody reads it (which is not necessarily a bad thing).

Ask HN: Artists – where do you post your art?

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