You write some of the best comments and I don't know, what impresses and inspires me more... your visual art or your writing!
Clicked on every picture in your last post, but so far none of them enlarged... can't wait to see the big close ups.
Hahaha.. yes, the upvotes are quite mysterious and I certainly haven't figured out the secret. Sometimes a simple picture on bescouted is more successful than something I put together with a lot of work, pictures reworked to fit and lots of text (by my standards).
Thing is, as artists, we want to create and in a way, a post is also a creation, a little bit, as if we were painting something. And as artists, of course we crave attention... somehow one thinks a bigger effort deserves more of that, but then again, maybe the effort was already made with the artwork the post is about..
And I agree with you, a big part of the reward here is the "family", other artists we come to know and with whom we share our ideas or even just chat a bit. Makes us feel less alone in our ivory towers ;-)