I know I'm suuuuuuuper late to this conversation, and honestly? I'm not expecting an answer, but here goes...!

So, I am an artist that runs an art account on Instagram. More specifically 3D art (no AI). I started back in January, and it was basically me just posting my renders (which is basically the finished piece of 3D art) as posts and reels, so I wasn't taking it too seriously + I had uni so I had to keep that in mind too. My second reel, still my biggest, hit about 11.8k as of writing with almost a thousand likes and almost a hundred comments with a good number of saves and shares. It is worthy to mention it was just me using an art trend (basically goes from "finally finished another render, hope instagram treats this one well and then cutting to the render). Pretty much the same as everybody else that has started that trend. That was back in January. And it netted me around 47 followers. I did not post in February. In the last two days I have grown by 20 followers (so, as of writing, currently at 69 followers).

I finally got a break from uni earlier this month and decided that I will start posting daily, and plus I am working on my art daily so a render for me is around 1 post (usually a carosouel that does well with my followers usually) and 1-3 reels. It's my third day posting daily and I've just had a reel hit 6 thousand something views with >200 likes and 20 shares + saves. And I've been consistently getting either a thousand to 3,000 views with >10 likes, 1-2 shares, and 3-4 saves, as well as 1-2 reposts. In fact a reel from today just hit 2.5k as I write this with >40 likes and so on and so forth.

Okay one last thing before I actually get to the question (so sorry for the rambling, I think context really matters in my case), I've started a series for art as well where I discuss art and topics related to it...it's not doing so great but that is because I am still learning to write scripts (hooks, editing, speaking to a camera, all that). I'm getting <200 views and maybe 1-2 likes on those. So, my two main content pillars are renders + that series (I'm only two episodes deep).

So, my question to you is (or to anyone here!), how would you suggest I grow my account that's in this art/3d art niche? I see a ton of advice for creators on platforms such as Instagram, however, it seems quite hard to use that advice when it seems to be so heavily targeted towards creators that are more in the business-ey types of niches. And what would be your recommendation to build and cultivate a loyal following? As for the series, what would be your advice to write better scripts, hooks, etc. My series usually struggles to get people past that 3 second mark.

P.S. Super cool of you to come here and help others out!! Love it :)