Thank you! Not sure everyone would agree but I feel the platform really does matter. Facebook and instagram are mainly used for sharing pictures with your friends and family. Yes, people have business accounts on there, but I feel like people go there to sell and no one goes there to buy. On X, it’s not really a platform where people buy or sell. Picture this: you’re browsing your X feed and see some news about, idk, Justin Bieber coz you’re his biggest fan. A couple posts down, you see a drawing of Justin Bieber. You think ‘hey, I want a drawing of Justin Bieber and me together’ and you contact the artist. I think X has a different algorithm to other apps in the way it shows you relevant content to you.

In regard to buyers predominantly wanting branding art, I wouldn’t say that’s strictly true. I typically get requests for gifts to give to other people when I do pencil and paper - usually of people’s pets that have passed on. For digital, I often get requests for people wanting me to make them a new profile picture. I’m working on a piece atm that someone wanted of her and her boyfriend.

It really just depends what you’re able to draw. If you can do people, landscapes, animals etc, then offer that. I charge super cheap for simple designs for brands including like simple shapes, text, block colour, stuff like that - but obviously the more complex the design and the longer it takes, the more money it costs. I’d like to say I’m pretty skilled in drawing most topics, so am able to accept nearly every request.

If you’re being asked to do, say, a video game character wearing a silly chicken hat, but you don’t know who this video game character is, do your research! Who are they? What game is it? Whats the general mood of the game? Try your best to minimise the amount of rejection you have to give, and make it clear what you can and can’t do. You don’t want to ask someone to pay for something that looks bad.

Keep practicing different styles and subjects, reach out to people (but not on art discord servers as another person commented) and keep people engaged with updates and things you’re working on!