Artists after getting double digit likes: "Man, this is doing numbers"

Just realized that by doing this video, you also promoted your own characters and stories. You smooth motherf-

From what I’ve seen online, the objectively “bad” art is usually made as a joke by well known and talented artists (like “shitpost” art). This can seem daunting to beginners because what you originally thought was “lazy” and “rushed” is getting tons of likes!

Making art to popular memes or audio is one thing, but not getting too overwhelmed and not finishing it before the meme dies is another TwT

I find the first two ridiculously accurate. My most popular video is just a meme shipping two book characters, and it took me less than 30 mins with minimal effort in a moving car because I was bored. You hit the nail on the head

Also, "draw this in your style" can get people's attention on your art, if they browse through all the drawings and find your artsyle interesting they might want to look further into your stuff!!

OH MY GOD THAT INTRO ANIMATION IS SO ADORABLE BRO

Yeah, I've seen this! Bad art can get so much attention, and it makes a bit sense as art is subjective, but it still hurts sometimes!-

i cant be the only one who loves the aesthetic with her titles

Just in time. That's what I needed, thank you!! It's kinda frustrating expecting for more than 12 likes, but it's okay to do what I'm used with. The best part is to do whatever I want, not only for likes but for myself.

“That’s another thing that can really help you as an artist is that you can make something UNFAMILIAR… like a comic…” I see what you did there haha :)

_all of the tips in this video_ 0:13: redraw a current meme/funny photo with your own oc 1:53: redraw a popular sound/animatic/meme with your own characters 5:56: add a little animation or motion aspect to your illustration 8:48: add a frame or something to make your drawing pop out more

The meme/animatic community isn’t talked about enough! I’ll give a brief explanation for those who are just hearing about it, A meme is ultimately a short video. There’s media memes which are funny videos, like vine and short non-art related trends, and there’s the art memes; which are short videos of art panels typically added with music/audio. This can be animatic or animation. These may also be called edits, but edits will use the already drawn art and scenes. There is three memes you’ll come across; which is art, funny clips, and gacha. Gacha is it’s own separate community built around a game by Lunime. It uses pre-made styles and where you can make characters and set them into scenes. There is a lot going on in that and I wouldn’t recommend falling into it with looking directly for fandoms, original stories, or not knowing it’s past problems. So, animatic and animation. Animation is basically a lot more, quicker-moving frames. Animation can also be without music while animatics typically go along with music. Animatics have more pause between frames and can be more picture-to-picture. This is like comics in movie framing (or layout), generally with more panels as well. It is like animation but slower, much like you’d see in story boarding in the first frame work of movies. Just like a movie, but you’re not seeing that fine print and several frames for every scene, most of the time at least. It’s its own style and much easier than animation. There usually a more sketchy or unfinished look to them as well, but it depends on the artist. Back to music. Audio plays a big role to all of these. Although animation gets away with it more without, both animatics and animation can be with or without audio. Animatics will usually follow an audio/song to display the story or meme. It makes it much more entertaining and fun for the viewers and artist. Most are like a music video but with OCs or fandoms. Fandoms are a huge community in these much like they are in the art community. If you have a comic, you might want to see if someone made one of these for you! If you enjoy comics, you need to check out the animatic/memes community. Especially if you own a comic or have a favorite fandom or character. I personally much prefer animatics and memes to animation, movies, or just a picture of art. I also watch more animatics then comics and have been lead from them to smaller comics I wouldn’t have known about. Go look check out each of theses, if anything it’ll be good knowledge to have if you’re interesting in an art career. :]

This is amazing art. Don't let anyone ever get you down about it

Thanks for giving this advice! I’ve noticed that since the Insta algorithm has been getting worse for artists, there’s been a lot of guilt trippy reel trends. I don’t think people do them maliciously, more out of desperation. If Insta isn’t allowing artists to be shown, it’s only natural that people want to ask people to engage with their work more. In addition to this, seeing other reels with these audios that have a lot of likes and comments makes it more appealing. However, it doesn’t sit right with me personally. It’s a bit sad that artists have to beg to get attention, but I guess it’s an inflated market. It does often feel like low effort content like selfies and conventionally attractive people lip syncing get more attention, which can be discouraging when most artists spend hours on their pieces. Obviously, artists are not entitled to attention just for existing, but these are things that I’ve noticed.

Something that I haven't really seen anyone mention is relatability, honestly I think that a big part of why "bad art" gets so much love is because people feel like they could make something like that.😅

I love how art as a medium is growing as a whole :)

Memes pose for OCs (comedy to engage) - animatics too (romance is popular) - movement to pics - fun frames (specially simple drawings) - visual clarity to prevent visual clutter in social media

I got the unfamiliar book for my birthday recently so seeing babs made me so excited! 😅

One I'd recommend doing is drawing your OC or promotion in different styles, or cosplaying popular characters, or in the same position as popular film posters etc. As L.T. wad sayiny, it helps people because they can immediately recognise something they like, it's much more likely to get engagement.

I just love your art style, so pretty and bubble yet dark and spooky. (Sorry if bad English)

"i recommend making something Unfamiliar, like your comic-" i see what you did there

I honestly hate it when I’m scrolling thru art and I see a little kid sharing art and someone in the comments are like “that’s bad” like dude at least thare trying

As an animator I can definitely confirm this is a good way to promote your characters! (Also love how you had Babs use her powers at the end of the short❤) Amazing work as always!!!

I experienced getting viral a couple times due to memes and I regret it. I don't advice it as most of the followers you get from it only follows you for the "temporary" laugh and not for your art. A lot of them will no longer engage longterm when you post something that's not a meme

I tend to like "bad art" because I think it has a charm to it. Like a certain vibr to it that I really like

the part where she just draws babs and sun together is adorable!

It’s hard to promote stuff on a site like Tapas, especially since Im a traditional artist and I don’t post on other sites. But this was helpful nonetheless, I always look forward to your videos. And my art is getting some attention now. It’s weird, after 2 years of posting to start getting likes out of nowhere. Mainly, I try to stay true to myself and not compare myself to more popular artists. Thanks for the vid :’)

I FINALLY GOT MY HANDS ON UNFAMILIAR!!!! I read some of it digitally but I really wanted to have it on my shelf to share with my friends and support you. I’ve been waiting to buy it for months and months and I got it as a birthday gift yesterday!!! Thank you for this art, I like the early sketches in the back

It's beautiful how your style has developed through the years! I would not be where I am with my art style today if it weren't for videos 💖💖

This will help a lot, thank you miss lavender!! Always love your art!!

“some thing unfamiliar…like your comic” her comic literally being titled unfamiliar:

Currently going through this situation on both Tumblr and DA, a hand full my shitpost art get over 1k while fan art that took me hours or days to draw barely reach that and my OC ones are even lower Like, I really greatly appreciate all the attention towards my shitposts stuff but it would be nice to see that on the drawings that I put a lot of thought into :')

Ahhhh yes I was having such a bad day and the LavenderTowne posts a video!!! Tysm 💗 Also I've never seen that dog meme but IT'S SO CUTE

Crazy how I’ve never thought about these things but I can totally see now how they make your art more interesting! Great tips overall, will definitely be using these now that I’ve started posting a lil more on Instagram

i love how good lavender has gotten 0over her whole yt channel she went from good to even better love u lavender

Uuuuugh I can't get over how freaking cute and pretty your art is!!!!!! I have LITERALLY been watching your content since the 3rd grade and it just keeps getting better! Absolutely keep this up, you inspire me (and other) so so much! xx

I've watched her channel since like 4 years ago and I'm kinda happy that she still keeps her video style consistently since then. Especially the outro music blended with the Patreon shoutouts

lavendertownes comments is my safe space. it's so wholesome here and i never see any wars or negative comments. fr love this community and love lavendertowne

i used to watch your videos so much back when i first started drawing for real, your channel was such a huge help for me both for learning about art and as a motivator. now, years later im more of an intermidiate artist, and i still love watching your videos. even if i dont learn as much as i did as a novice, they never fail to motivate me and inspire me to draw!

These are some really cool ideas! I like the point you made about making unfamiliar things familiar. At the same time, I personally want to become the change I want to see by checking out unfamiliar art and supporting small artists.

I realize that what you talked about in this video worked on me. I saw that little romance bit with your characters on youtube, subscribed, and have an interest in coming back to check out more of your stuff.

This is really useful, thank you ♡ It can so heart-breaking and discouraging to put so much love and care and effort into what you make and never have more than 12 people acknowledge its existence--over 20 on a really amazingly high-performing piece. Especially if creative work is what you want to do for a living. And certainly it could be a skill-issue, too! But I'll try some of these and see what happens ☆

I have some pet peeves from being on art tiktok for a while that make me immediately scroll away, if anyone wants my opinion: First is when people are revealing their finished art by erasing the sketch to reveal the art underneath and take AGES to erase it. I don’t know how or why this became a trend, but the way I see it, there’s no point to it other than to be annoying. Idc how talented you are, how interesting your sketch is, or how many likes you got. If it takes you longer than 10 seconds to erase, I’m scrolling away. Making quicker videos in general is also typically a good idea on tiktok, esp if you’re just showing an image or two. And if you’re doing a speedpaint, make it SUPER quick and add a popular audio in the background, preferably a fast paced one that will hold people’s attention. Another pet peeve I have is when people have text walls explaining their extensive lore. ESPECIALLY when they use one of the text to speech voices, forcing me to listen to it all. I’m not saying the lore is super uninteresting or badly written either. It’s usually just because it’s a text wall overlaid onto a still image and my attention span is garbage. The attention spans of most tiktok users are just awful so you have to be aware of that when posting. This last one isn’t a pet peeve, but I have noticed if you’re going to post a video of an animation or pmv (or just any video, even not art related) putting text explaining what it is will get you more views. It doesn’t have to be anything too in depth, it can basically be nothing, (just a bland “look what I animated”) as long as people know what they’re watching. If they don’t they’re more likely to scroll away because they don’t care what’s happening. Sounds harsh but it’s true.

OMG this couldn’t have come out at a better time! I’m about to market my art on instagram/Facebook and I LOOOOVE these tips!!

i saw your comic unfamiliar in walmart!!! i wanted to buy it so bad but i didn’t have my money with me! but it was so cute i looove the artstyle! 💜

I just read your book unfamiliar which recently got added to my community library, it's enjoyable and emotional to read. Really great job!

“something unfamiliar, like . . . your comic” this was really funny to me for no reason

I always love the tips that you give in each video

Luv you lavendertowne!! You're amazing!! You motivated me to continue art when it was really hard for me to, thank you so much for making your wonderful videos you're my favorite channel!! 🩷🩷🩷

I just realized that I saw the short you made before the video. It’s amazing

Man, I hate that artists have to fully convince people to even give their art the time of day. It’s like climbing a cliff face with no equipment in the middle of a storm to me Just wish people cared enough to not scroll right on by :/

the first couple tips made me think about how ppl used to animate their ocs as vines :> this is genuinely good advice!!

I have learned a lot from and taking in your tips has helped me get stronger with my art skills and even my art style. Thank you so much!

This is an incredibly helpful video. I’m so thankful for creators like you for committing to generating good educational content for other creators. Keep up the great work!

I did the windows one for graphic design project ! I’ll definitely do it on my actual illustrations too

i bought your comic unfimilliar!! i love it!!! ur voice is so calm and relaxing, i watch ur videos when i cant sleep! and i loved this video!!

tbh this helps a lot with making me more comfortable getting into that. I was so worried for a while because of college that I didn't want to come across as unprofessional with my work online and stuff and have been holding myself back because of it. this video was so motivating to just do it.

Woah!!! I'd love more content like this- *the struggle is so real*

Hey Lavender I just bought your book and I love it so much already ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

I love your art and advice so much, you're an amazing person 💗

Thank you for all the advice! You always help so much people with your art!

AMAZING TIPS. THANK YOU LAVENDER TOWNE 💗💗💗

Your cute character designs always make me want to make up my own! It always takes me a couple minutes to come up with one though.

Ur art style is so pretty!

You are amazing! Thank you for the tips but also i would like to say that i love your comics

YES, animation memes are SO MUCH FUN!!!! I totally recommend doing animation memes! they are fun, not too hard to do, and will often get more veiws!

its so difficult to watch through this whole video, i just get so excited to do the things youre talking about i wanna go do it right away! but ill stick around for that sweet watch time, ofc! :D

Awesome ideas! I think with the push for video content like TikTok and reels artists are super intimidated to be expected to make big high quality videos, or to just not care and upload photos as videos. This is a cool middle ground to get nice effects without too much effort 😎

I never thought of doing a really simple animation! Thank you!

You give the best kind of advice I really should habe jsut known this 😮 thank you Lavender

I JUST LOVEE UR ART STYLE :)

Early, love your videos!! Anyways a really weird strat I saw for promotion was threatening to block anyone who didn’t rb their art XmX, not a v good way for engagement since it comes off as super annoying lol

OMG THANK U 4THIS AMAZING VIDEO 😻😻A HAVENT WATCHED IT ALL YET BUT I CAN TELL ITS GONNA BE HELPFUL ‼️‼️

this is exactly what I needed. I'm releasing a webcomic in May and need to figure out how to promote it!!

I love your art! I am really inspired by you!!

BABE WAKE UP LAVENDER POSTED AND ITS SO HELPFUL-

Feels so weird to be early,this will help me so much!!!!Thank you so much

Even if it's just a meme for few seconds, it's a beautiful results of hard sweating work. And I really love your tips and tricks.

Thank you so much for making this video! It's really helpful to small artists like me.

That was so so helpful!! I really want to expand my social Media Accounts and I really struggle with it. Thank you so so much 😊

I've never been this early to a video before, but I just wanted to tell you I've been a fan since 2019 and I love your channel so much! Your videos are always amazing and thank you for making them! :D

Yo wait a minute, I saw this short!!! Also, thanks for the advice!

Yes new lavendertowne video

Really great tips! Will def be utilizing these with any future art I make! ^^

I got Unfamiliar from my library today! I just want to say that I love it!

thank you for makeing my day better!!!😄

Lavendertowne never fails to make me smile

I think your first suggestion shows how good vine compilations are. I even saw a comment on one that said, "the fastest way to understand someone's characters is through a vine comp". It's pretty fast paced, usually funny but there are more serious ones, and you can indeed tell a lot about character based on who they're drawn as from the vine

Thank you so much for the tips. Really trying to help get my friends art out there. If only they believed in themselves more and stopped beating themselves up. OwO

this is such good advice!

Lily Bell is fire 🔥 so unique and cute. Good job LT 💖 I admire your creativity.

I've never been this early, thanks for uploading :D

OH GOD I LOVED THE LITTLE BIT WITH BABS AND SUN THERE SO CUTEEEEE

you're awesome lavander towne

Really needed this!

the first one was so cute!!

That's really solid advice, thanks :)

The "serious" character looks so badass. I love the design, the colors, everything !

i keep pausing the video because i get too excited watching it, i suppose thats a good thing! it just makes me want to comment, good job on that haha (also love your ocs!)