In my opinion, the third point is the most important, because comments help you build relationships and make you visible. Then you post and they will see you, they will come to your post organically, they will leave comments, some votes and you will be trending. Very hard work, but it will pay off. Thank you very much for the information, a hug.
En mi opinión, el tercer punto es el más importante, porque los comentarios te ayuda a crear relaciones y te hacen visible. Luego publicas y te veran, llegaran a tu publicación de manera orgánica, dejaran comentarios, algunos votos y serás tendencia. Un trabajo muy arduo, pero dará resultados. Muchas gracias por la información, un abrazo
Right - and so long as the comments are meaningful, and not just begging bowls.
I started with nothing on Steem and it struck me as staggeringly obvious that the only way to move forward was for me to introduce myself - and the easiest is to leave meaningful comments. First 2 months, I made more on comments than posts - many other people have had the same experience.
some posts I thunk are easier to interact with to be fair, like I find it hard to put much on a painting or photograph other than I like it lol without some cheesy line about the colour red contrasting against the orange. Written posts are much easier to engage with
Yeah, not many artists enjoy a good banter - maybe Ron Throop is a rare exception, as he is also rare in actually adding some (a)musings.
What can you say to a painting? "Can you make one in blues?" ;-)
Actually, I know quite a bit about art history, but artists can be so precious! haha - I await an outcry!
yeah haha I mean some artists the whole bit behind the art is the writing and then some (myself included) prefer to just paint what I feel / channel and leave it up to the viewer to interpret. Soemteims I really have something to write about with the image but sometimes to be forced to try and write feels so fake and weird and like I am just doing it so I get more money.
Sure, but going back to your original comment about commenting, does this also mean that artists tend not to comment on each other's works? ditto photographers.
Maybe they need a different style of communication. lol. a clickbaity fragment :-)
Many years ago I had funding from the Gulbenkian as part of their science/art collab projects. Was interesting, but I figured those artists were quite cerebral in how they constructed their art - altho this did include composers/musicians, which was also amusing. Musical rhetoric on harpsichord v organ v piano is a problem of both maths and emotions ;-)
I’m thinking about this it’s quite a conundrum and I’m wondering if it’s because artists are very visual on the whole and so apart from those artists who are more wordy and more do a visual to accompany the art or a 50-50 type artist themselves can look at a picture or present a picture and that’s enough, they just get it visually, without words, whereas the general public analyse more with words? Sometimes I find that people actually say things about my art in a way that I could never write, but it’s like they can take my visualisation and put it into words which I cannot.
I'm not sure I buy the "I am more visual" trope, as it is not the same as "I am ONLY visual" = otherwise artists would never be able to go shopping. lol.
I once taught a kid who knew zero English - we could communicate via maths symbols astonishingly effectively!
I do understand the posture of not wishing to elaborate - I still think there is an issue here within a paying attention platform ;-)
Like I said, I appreciate your reblurts as they save me a lot of time.
I think every single post and piece is different actually, the more I think about this sometimes you have loads to say for a Picture and sometimes you just want to leave it to the other person because you didn’t really think that much when you painted it you just painted it and felt it. I think the same with looking at somebody else’s work sometimes it makes you think deeper on a topic and you want to express that and sometimes your just like oh that’s a nice picture. For example I just re-shared this just because it’s a nice picture
https://blurt.blog/blurtart/@nestorgarcia/tulips
I don’t really know what to say about it other than this is nice LOL I mean what else can you say? But I think art and photography alone are as much of an equal part as writing for example just depending on the moment and the post. The same as sometimes you want a essay and sometimes a well done meme says it all in 3 words.
As a coda, you may wish to think about how the artists you interact with would prefer to interact ;-) If they don't, but still want vote-recognition, then that's an issue.
One's blog feed can serve like "posts at an exhibition" - a bit clunky compared to a proper gallery. Building such a gallery-interface could be done - possibly.
I don’t shop with a list tho lol I look and buy 🤣 I actually do buy food visually, I just go to the fruit and veg isle and see what looks good, or I feel a resonance to buying. Not even joking here I never take a list, but then with some things I analyse the shit out of them. It’s probably the conundrum of having an entire astrology chart mixed betweeem air (mind) and water (flow intuition). I think we are all very unique. Personally I just try to flow with what I feel in each moment, I never really try to make myself something that doesn’t feel natural just to make ££
I personalyl comment on lots of peoples artwork and I curate a lot but I do struggle to say much lol, I guess I just like it cause I feel it, or it speaks to me not for an analytical reason, perhaps none arty people can analyse why they like it easier.
I've noticed - the reblurts are really useful to me (and my other accounts) to slowly expand my follows. :-)
I had the same story in steem. I was one of the most active commenters, but when everything turned to proof of stake, I've seen people more turning their mind to that. So, only people with stake were interesting to them. And that what killed proof of brain in steem. We should do everything here to support proof of brain and #dcc is a solution I bring to the table. It's of course created on hive-engine, but the idea is to support content in blurt as well. You can read about it here : Bringing DCC to BLURT !. I didn't yet promote it among blurt users, but I hope people will start noticing it soon. That could be a good solution for those who are looking for votes.