Getting your art seen

Its certainly not easy being recognised. There are a lot of people who want to get their art seen by a large audience. But here are a few ways that may help you get there.


1. Entering competitions.
If you can manage your time then you could submit multiples entries to multiple art competitions. Certainly don't force yourself to make something because that never work. If you try your hardest, your work will be displayed and you could win a prize for it too. The only problem that I find with art competitions is that the judges have different opinions on what is good art in their eyes. So you could spend hours on a really detailed painting and not get anything for it. A good website for art competitions would be: http://www.artistsnetwork.com/category/competitions
Also if you are interested in manga and want a chance of getting your own book published in Japan or featured in the weekly shonen jump magazine then you should go here: https://medibang.com/ +  https://medibangpaint.com/en/ (free art app)
The best part is that the medibang staff will translate your comic into another language for you and their competitions give you the chance to send your comic to a proffesional editor and win money.







2. Social Media
Using social media is a good way to show off your art and hopefully attract people and customers. You could post pictures on facebook and make your own art page, post your art on instagram, upload it to medibang, DevianART, Patreon, etc. The last 3 mentioned are websites designed for artists and there are many more. It helps when the website has a smaller community because it is easier to be recognised in a smaller crowd. For example, DeviantART is the internets biggest online gallery and many people use it across the world. Of course this means that they have millions of people to compete with so it is difficult to been seen amongst the crowd and there is a very high standard of art on there. Even people who are very good at art may not get noticed.




Art is something you can start at any point in time. Many people think you need talent but talent doesn't really exist. It's just the result of lots of practice and concentrating on your faults and fixing them. So practice is all you need to get better and definitely challenge yourself. Many people go for the easier things to make or draw but you really need to try something harder. If you keep drawing stick men, then you will become a master at drawing stick men. If you try and draw a realistic cyborg dragon then you will eventually become good at drawing realistic cyborg dragons. It will take longer to get good at but it's worth it if you want to turn your art into something bigger.
So try different forms of art, find the one you like the most and start making stuff!