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Here’s something that’s very confusing: when it comes to music, musicians who are extremely talented do get recognized, go viral, and find millions of fans, and thus they can easily be stumbled upon using YouTube’s algorithms. However, I have found that this does not hold true in the visual arts, and so on Instagram the algorithm picks up on things that go viral for reasons other than the quality of the work. So for me if I find something using Instagram’s algorithms, I automatically assume that my standards are not high enough, and I need to dig much deeper into recent posts of various hashtags, because the top quality stuff doesn’t make enough noise to “attract” the algorithm.

Leo Fernevak 2y ago

Overall I find Artstation to be one of the most interesting places for contemporary art. Over there artists are generally followed by other artists so there is mutual inspiration. Not sure exactly how the visibility algorithm is designed but it seems to function decently.

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chowcollection 2y ago

conceptart.org used to have a dedicated section for artists working in traditional mediums, but I’m not seeing that on ArtStation

Leo Fernevak 2y ago

Nice to hear. There are hashtags for traditional mediums on Artstation but I'm not sure how often artists remember to add the appropriate hashtags.

I came across one artist on Artstation that built physical models of spaceships, in small scale of course, then there are some traditional painters also.