What is the best way to advertise your services as an artist?

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#1

I’ve been on the site for nearly a decade now, and I’ve been developing for well over half of that.

However as somebody who likes to work for others rather than myself what is the best way to advertise my services? I’ve tried portfolios, websites, discord, ect. It’s just difficult to find the people who would want to hire you. I know they are out there but finding a decent medium of getting to the customer has been the challenge for me personally.

Any tips or suggestions you know of would be appreciated!

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#2

Honestly, Group Recruiting Plaza can get you small sales here and there, 1-5K per week maybe.

Also marketing yourself on twitter, doing free graphics giveaways to boost your followers, etc.

Once you’re known in the community commissions won’t be a problem for you.

Also, i’ve seen people make UIs for the sole purpose of selling them on here.

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#3

You can also try the Public Recruitment category here on this forum

#4

Yeah, that’s a great place as well, especially for GFX Designers.

I’d just contact anyone in a thread that entices you.

#5

In my opinion, the best ways to go as a GFX/Digital Artist is to make a Twitter or DeviantArt and throw your best work in there. Regularly update whichever one you choose (or both) when you complete jobs unless the buyer asks you not to (fairly rare).

Then join one of the larger GFX servers:
Roblox Graphics Community (RGC - 2.3k members)
Graphics Circle (1.7k members)

Those are two of the larger discord servers dedicated to GFX and buyers frequently post requests there. You can either hit them up individually and take on jobs contractor-style or post your artwork in their portfolio advertisement channels and wait for buyers to come to you. These are just ways you can take the initiative and seize business rather than post and hope people will contact.

Having the social media portfolios, twitter, or especially deviantart will be very convenient as you can just update it as you do work and easily provide it to customers so they can view your work/style/skill. It’s a very clean way of presenting your resume.

If you’d like info on the two servers, I can provide it privately. I don’t list the invite codes here because it could be seen as advertising.

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