djdj1978 opened this issue on Sep 09, 2002 ยท 15 posts
ChuckEvans posted Mon, 09 September 2002 at 6:07 PM
I took a look at your gallery. Since it takes R'City so long to pull pics down to my cable-fed PC, I didn't look at all of them. I'll offer my humble comments: (1) Dialyn is right about "advertising" yourself, I think. The most-viewed pieces in my gallery were accompanied by a post to the Poser forum when I was starting off. And people took a look to see how a newbie was doing, I think. (2) More of your posts are in the mixed medium gallery. If you take a look at the entire site (galleries and forums)as a whole, Poser users make up about 75% (rough guess) and the rest of the different areas make up the rest of the 25%. So, it's easy to see where all the traffic is, "Poserville"! So, I think that plays into number of views, too. (3) Female subjects garner more interest than male subjects. And more nudity, the better. Nature of the beast. But I remember a very good and touching piece of art done a few months back...one of a mother explaining to her child why she had to go somewhere (she was a fighter pilot). The WIP was posted and comments suggested. And the artist returned later with changes and people "swooned". And I had to fight back a tear. Just like right now, remembering it. That's my way of saying meaningful pieces of art CAN get attention and hits. If there are done technically well and with thought (a message, so to speak). (4) Not sure of your money situation and computer speed, but I'm sure detail (read: anything approximating photorealism) also garners more interest. It appears you are using the P4 figures. Don't get me wrong. I've seen some incredible P4 figures posted and read with disbelief that they WERE P4 figures. I think that takes some textures. And some talent. (5) To a lessor degree, I think the thumbnail and the title bring a viewer in. (6) And finally, the reputation factor does it. When someone has displayed damned fine talent, it's only natural people will remember the name and take a peek when they see that name again. I still remember the first person to "lock" in my mind--Cin. So, there is my opinion. But, as you can see, I'm no viewer magnet, either. I'd like people to look at my stuff, as, I suppose, most anyone posting would like. But, in the end analysis, I like it when I finish something that I saw in my head and was reasonably succesful in creating. So, do what you like to do, try to do a good job at it (or the best you can), and take comfort in having even a few amount of views if you can find that one (or two) viewers that "connected" with it and left a wonderful comment. Does this make any sense? Perhaps on of the "real" artists should comment. Your question was nicly asked and seemingly with good intent. Therefore, as you can see, you "captured" my interest and time for about 15 minutes.