PPP// Attacking Social Media

At the beginning of the year I attended a small lecture about how engaging more with Social Media is hugely beneficial as a creative to get your work out to percentile clients and job opportunities. Sites like Tumblr, Instagram, LinkedIN, Twitter and Youtube were recommended to us as Social networking/blogging sites that would be a good way of broadcasting our work online. I've been following artists online from an inspirational perspective since 2008, with sites like Youtube and DeviantART; where I heavily obsessed over a selected few artists from all over the globe that I found inspirational and inspired me to look at my drawings skills part 'being a hobby'. I remember engaging with DeviantART as an artist before considering my skills as a possible career, stacking up a number of follows with MSPaint illustrations; looking back at these drawings I can't describe how much I cringe and question why X number of follows LIKED these illustrations (badly drawn). Then again, I was a child when I was putting my work online. I didn't have a thought in my head about anything involving getting a job or recognition from posting my illustrations online - but rather I clicked upload because I wanted to be part of that. I wanted to be part of a community that shared art, shared a love for creativity. I remember doing the same within the Youtube, creating short WindowsMovieMaker and MSPaint animations with my own characters not to gain attention or support; but because I loved doing it.  Social Media engagement has been something I've been doing since I was a child, originally not to benefit my career as I'm developing now but because I enjoyed it.  

To develop an online following as an artist I first began with creating accounts under my artist name 'MollyPukes' with the following websites;   Instagram, Youtube and Tumblr. I created a new Tumblr account for my own creative work as well as edited my YouTube account with my artist name to better sculpt my presence on that social media platform. Instagram was a new thing for me, I'd never consider it as a platform for artwork and only assumed it was some sort of gallery for Selfies and personal photos. I'll update on my progress in a few weeks! Wish me luck!