,,Are you a winner?''
I don't know. When I came here in december of 2017 I was just looking for a place to show my art. A place where my art would be valued and praised. And place where I would be paid for showing my art. So far I did not become rich by posting my art here. I failed at my original goals. I guess that means that in that sense I am a loser. But my goals soon changed. As time went on I cared less and less about the money I could get here. Meeting in real life with people I found here and liked was my new goal. I write this in 2021 and so far I have not achieved that new purpose of being here either. A few times I tried to move friendships and connections from hive to the real world. I failed to beat the distance between us. So I am a loser by the main criteria I had while being here. But despite all this I had a good time here and I still have fond memories about this place. Perhaps now I have a better understanding of myself. I am grateful for what this place and people here gave me even if it was not what I wanted. And if could go back in time I would most likely still act the same way. I tried to achieve crazy goals that many others in my situation would likely not even dare to have. Let alone pursue. To them those goals would be just an impossible dreams. For me it was different. I was mad enough to ignore all odds and to still try and turn those goals into reality. I don't regret that I tried. I am proud of it. My plans failed time and time again. So what? I still tried again...and again. According to Rocky this makes me a winner.
Out of curiosity and concerning your art, have you been using the NFT art platform? or onchainart community? I am not sure if it is suitable for you, but it is worth looking into if wanting to connect with more people.
Failure or being a loser is more a mindset. At least for me, failure is from not learning from past experience, not failing to do something new.
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I am using onchainart tag but to use it better I should do more of a looking for posts and people that look interesting. I am not familiar with NFT art platform. How do I use it?
I think that onchainart also has an interface, but not sure.
https://nftshowroom.com/
It is a place where people can create digital "prints" of their work and sell them. check it out.
I don't use it myself, but perhaps @castleberry can chime in here.
@fieryfootprints OnChainArt community is a community you can subscribe to that is dedicated to Art. Definitely check out their pinned post and read up a little about their expectations for posting in that community. Here is a link to the community's about page. You can also join their discord to interact as well to get help and make some connections.
https://peakd.com/c/hive-156509/about
NFT ShowRoom is an art website where artists can tokenize their art by minting their pieces and then put them up for sale. They also have an active discord and everyone there is friendly and extremely helpful in navigating the onboarding process and how to get started selling your art. The NFT Showroom is Hive based. There are other places where you can sell your art for crypto like MakersPlace which is Ethereum based. I prefer NFT ShowRoom because of the low to non-existent transaction fees compared to Eth gas prices.
Here is a link to the NFT Showroom discord where you can ask questions and get help if you are interested. Social interaction and networking is a big part of getting familiar with our fellow artists. Much like on Hive, if you are interacting and engaging... then that is a win.
https://discord.gg/k5t3fUcE2T
Here is a link to NFT Showroom so you can take a look.
https://nftshowroom.com/
The SketchBook community is another place to post your artwork.
https://peakd.com/c/hive-174301/created
Taking advantage of the communities when posting your art will give you the advantage of targeting an audience that is already interested in your focus. Explaining your techniques or describing your process is helpful in engaging folks with your art. Making sure you get really good quality photos, at least as far as focus is concerned is helpful. Taking your time to maximize the quality of your efforts will pay-off in the long run.
I wouldn't consider you to be a loser just because you didn't fully succeed in accomplishing your goals. If you learned from your experiences and derived anything of value, then i would call that winning. That Rocky scene was one my dad used to overcome some very dark days toward the end of his life. It ain't all rainbows and sunshine... but sometimes the sun does shine and at times rainbows do appear, but usually after the darkest dawns and after the storms have come and gone.
Save your voting power and please don't upvote my comment brother! Keep on keepin' on and know your best is yet to come.
Thanks @tarazkp for calling in the big gun! I would say if this comment was helpful... then i am definitely
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@castleberry thank you very much this comment. I believe that this information will help me a lot.
That looks really interesting. thank you
You are most welcome! I hope this does help encourage and help you! The community is where the tag comes from... so using the tag won't be as helpful as accessing and operating through the community.
You can go through and find other art and artists that you like and see what has been successful for them. That can help you organize yourself to emulate and recreate more success for your own content creations.
Success won't necessarily be measured in upvotes and money/Hive value... but in engagement. The more you engage others, as you did here, the more likely they will be to interact and engage you and your content!
I look forward to seeing some of your new stuff! Be inspired my friend.