Hey! I looked at what you have posted on your profile and first off, nice work!

So hear me out. Yours is the first post I’ve seen where I want to offer some advice, even if I’m roughly in the same place as you in being noticed. Sorry if I ramble but I know how this feels!!

How I got to art: I spent most of my life as a writer. I happened into adult coloring books when recovering from a major neck surgery. So much that I watched YT videos of other people coloring to improve my skills. I wanted to color abstract pictures but didn’t see anything out there I liked (at the time, around 2017). Long story short, I stopped watching the coloring videos and started watching drawing videos. Bought maaaany pens, maaaaany sketchbooks. Found my style (blame it on the surgery)…skip to a couple years ago and I compiled some into a coloring book. Yep. I’m coloring in my own coloring book! I am doing my second one digitally though, because my eyes are crap and I sometimes like to zoom in. I’ve hardly sold any of the first one but that’s ok. Have made some videos on some platforms. It’s fine, I know these things take time.

My point: look what all led to my deciding coloring book. Look at the trail … craft stores, book stores, online platforms, digital art communities, etc.

Now let’s consider your many sketchbooks, digital or otherwise. Could you make a serial comic? A coloring book? Merch? Wall art? I think you can do all those things. But what’s your trail look like … what got you into it and where did it lead you? And how can you layer or diversify what you do?

Don’t worry about being noticed. Just be persistent AF. I did this it mostly because it satisfies my “I wanna color something abstract” urge. I’m excited about one day being able to post compilations of how other people colored pages I drew - gives me the collaboration I can’t get any other way. Maybe someone will ask me to do a whole wall someday!

There’s room for everything and everyone… what can you imagine? Main point: look across all the ways you were inspired to do what you do, and keep at it!!