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This was so helpful! Sometimes imposter syndrome gets in the way of me posting my work. not sometimes, most of the time actually. Thank you for breaking down that barrier a bit. Also, personally love readymag and use it for my portfolio. Love their built-in animations!
RU-vid Elliot is very formal and informative guy. Twitch Elliot is a different beast. Love you Elliot, keep it up. I wish I could send emotes through this... but oh well.
It doesn't matter if you didn't go to design school at all! and never apologise for it. I was trained on the job and once someone actually criticised me and was really p"""ed off because I charged more than him because he went to university. He honestly thought he deserved it and i didn't, even though he wasn't very good. With the overwhelming amount of formulaic layouts on show on all the logo critiques - icon on left, sans serif text on the right - you can keep design school.
Hey man, I recently found you and I really like your work. I follow you literally everywhere and hope you upload regularly because my notifications are definately on for you. You somewhat inspired me and thank you for that. My only concern is that in the first video you did tell us that you will make it a thing to give out more art design accounts and I hope you continue that in every video! thanks again and keep it up...
Love your video, I was thinking of starting my RU-vid channel but I am a bit embarrassed and feel like Instagram is a bit more comfortable for me at the moment. Will take some of the best practices.
Consistency Confidence Combining Being human Keep audiences on the platform The bigger your account gets, the less hashtags you should get TikTok is an excellent tool for growth Takeaway: Be consistent and have your own personality. Post things that conveys said personality AND keeps users on the platform. They should follow who you are, not your work. Thoughts: I think that having your own personality should extend to having your own art style. Elliot does this (notice his posts have the same layout style, charm, and color scheme of yellow, blue, and red). Make it consistent, and the content of the post should be enough to keep the users on the platform, whether by scrolling through your other posts, saving them, how long they look at the post, comments, etc. Great video!
I personally don't post "work" to Instagram. I actually went back through my posts and deleted almost all of them recently. A few months back I started changing my post style to reflect my brand and business and help educate designers that may be in the types of situations we used to be in as young and/or self taught graphic designers. Essentially, I want to build value and share it with people on Instagram.
I love your business cards with honest statements. Reddit is full of angry dickheads, so it doesn't surprise me they wrote bullshit comments about your work. You can sum up almost any Reddit comment with: "Angry angry angry. Attack attack angry."
It used to be a lot harder though considering you used to have to email stuff to yourself and then post it on your phone. They finally figured out that people do want to post from a computer.
"DESIGN IS SUBJECTIVE" - totally. There's so many emperors' clothes out there it's shocking. I actually heard one youtube typography genius tell us that letters are mostly the same width. He designs type!! ,,,,, look up the points system, for sans serif and roman. the conceit is unending.
Just came across this mate, so great to see where you are right now and what your anxieties and existential crisis-beating actions have brought you too!
I started posting my work on IG this summer and barely gets past 50 likes on average. 80% of those followers/likes are friends and family lol. the point is, as a creative person, my ideas are unlimited. regardless how many likes or followers I get, I will always be creating. might as well post.
Something I’ve considered is using a second account for more catered posts that are in an aesthetic and then my affydraws art account for all my work. I even created the second account but have found that it’s hard to compartmentalize these two accounts so I stoped posting on it. However, I’ve always wanted one of those aesthetic accounts and the color thing is a really good idea! So then it still gives flexibility for experimentation!
Elliot! How much time do you spend on instagram content per week? It seems like such a daunting amount of work but like is that just my brain doing a *stress*?
Thank you so much for those advices... When you mention using Creator Studio, did you notice posting from desktop makes the image more compressed ? I did research it's because they are pushing mobile use etc but anyway, do you post from desktop ? Because your instagram post are very clean when zoomed in and I would love some tips to achieve that when posting from desktop if you have any... Thank you again
@@welliot Oh thank you for your answer ^^ So even when you publish from desktop it's ok ? Great news maybe it evolved. (and definetly noticed the red blur/pixel thing too...)
very cool video Elliot 👍 do you have some advice if I started an IG page but abandoned it for a year now, should I just start posting again as if it never happened?
thanks so much yoana! I would probs suggest starting again as its easier to build momentum off a fresh start than a dead page... but also hard to start from 0... i converted my (dead) personal page to a design one though so i think do whatever you'd find easiest!!
mate, I'm on 3:34 and I already laughed so fucking much! love your vibe, sense of humour and obviously your work. all the best to you and looking forward for more videos like this one.
