At first glance, art and social networking may seem strange bed fellows. But as you begin to understand the power that social networking has, then you can see why it makes sense to spend time on these internet sites and interact with everyone there. Let me explain more...
For an artist, be he or she commercial, fine, cartoonist, abstract or whatever other type of style, finding people to take an interest in their art and potentially become buyers of art, is a difficult thing to achieve.
Most artists put on a show to gain exposure for their work and you may have even visited a show that was trying to do just this, get you interested in the art and maybe purchase a piece or two.
Well social networking on the internet makes this so much easier and it has other benefits as well.
At the moment I am really getting into Twitter. You set up a profile and then follow people and hopefully, people choose to follow you. If the people who follow you are the one's you are following, then you can engage in a type of conversation with them. Simple but very effective.
Here is my link to my Twitter profile click here
So I have already found that 150 people are following me and I can share with them all about my work and daily life as a caricaturist & cartoonist. I can share other interests as well, it is up to me what I want to share on twitter.
It has great potential for my art.
If you have or will set up a twitter account, please do follow me and I will of course follow you!
See you on twitter!
6 comments:
I really enjoy Twitter too Steve. Good to have found you there (and here).
I love twitter, because of the variety of people on there. I doodle a lot, so when I see artists/cartoonists and doodlers. I always get excited and immediately have a nosy at their profiles :)
Unlike blog directory sites, where you have to put yourself under one topic, twitter allows you the freedom to have a nose at everyone.
Yeah, Twitter is cool and addictive...D'oH!
Another twitter fan here; took me a long while to really "get" it, and I still don't tweet as much as I perhaps should, but that's how I am normally -- a bit of a wallflower (or weed!). What really amazes me is the number of people some twitterers keep up with; their stream must be a constant buzz of activity.
glad I found you through Twitter - excellent blog!
Hey Steve
As you know by now I have come into the world of Twitter and am suitably intrigued.
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