Why Twitter Can Be a Perfect Portfolio for Artists

Lewer has been drawing for a long time. He works as an intensive care nurse in Australia and makes art for games. He would sometimes charge a fee. He took his work to the social networking site.

He tells me that most of the commission requests he's received have been done by the social networking site. I have reached a point where I can charge up to $300 for a piece of artwork. Because of his full-time job and the labor-intensive nature of his art, he doesn't take a lot of commission work.

On a daily basis, you'll find that visual art is generating engagement. A portrait of an armor-clad knight that has more than 400 retweets and more than 5000 likes was posted by a person who has 11,000 followers. A panel from The Moon and Me, a comic book written by Elena andOlivia Ceballos, was posted on an account owned by them. Gustav Klimt's classicized early work Allegory of Sculpture was posted by the Gustav Klimt Bot on May 5, and it picked up over 600 retweets and over 4,000 likes.

Art lovers prefer it to platforms that promote other forms of content and artists use it as a portfolio and work. It doesn't substitute traditional portfolios, which artists still tend to keep as a more "permanent" showcase on platforms such as Behance or on their own website domain

Colorado-based engineer Andrei Taraschuck, who created a series of art-historical bots that share art of specific artists or institutions, sees it as part of a shift toward a visual way to convey information I don't think it's just a social networking site. He says that information is sharing by visual means. It creates more opportunities for artists to get their work seen and, hopefully, bought, as people expect to see the visual arts on social media. He appreciated the meme-friendly grid and the option of having an alt text.

Social media has helped connect independent artists to other people. Esther Goh, an illustrator based in Singapore, says that social media has helped make the work of independent visual artists accessible to the public. If you want to build a career, you don't need an agent or gallery to represent you.