>>31778491>>31777464Criticism is necessary but positive reinforcement is a very potent dopamine kick that enhances the enjoyment to keep at it and keep getting better. It just makes the road much much easier to travel. I think its equally necessary to have both in balance. Have too much validation and you develop a blinding ego where criticism is hard to swallow, too much dry critique and if you have nothing to lean back on to, like large personal art goals, it it can suck the joy out of it and make you forget why you started drawing in the first place.
Also twitter for an audience sucks. From my observation its like 0.01% of who follows you actually stops to look at what you do, or shows that attention was spent on your post. If you get a popular tweet, maybe draw a holo/niji or something, you bet your ass, that gained audience will give zero shits about your personal projects or non-popular characters. Perhaps a good approach would be to diversify you social media platforms, sign up to all the art galleries and instagrams and all the zoomer shit and post your stuff on every single one.
