Hazardous Concepts - My Facebook Page

Over the past few months I have been considering various ways to attract outside audiences and network with other people both locally and globally. Generally a place where people can admire my work and build up a steady fan base over time. Because I don't currently have the funds to run my own website I have instead made my own FaceBook page where people can 'Like' both my art work and the page in general.

This is the front cover of my profile on facebook. At first I wasn't sure if I was going to get anywhere with it, people would have no real way of finding my artwork and even through promoting it there are still many other well established artists pages on facebook that quite easily overshadow mine.
I was actually quite nervous of making this page, my confidence isn't at all up to scratch so having to publicly display my artwork not only to friends and family but also to complete and utter strangers everywhere seemed very daunting even if I wasn't showing my work to the people face to face.

It surprised me that over the past few weeks my page has gained a steady flow of people visiting and liking my work, some even commenting on pieces which gives me some extra confidence as it has shown me that people have taken enough interest into my art to actually write something about it. Its a plus for me as any feedback I get on my work is good and will help me improve immensely.

I've also noticed that now that I have my facebook page I can take notice of what it is that people enjoy seeing out of my work. recently I've been uploading a lot of dinosaur concepts, I've noticed that the carnivores in particular have attracted a lot of likes so in the future I'll be sure to focus on more meat-eating and scary concepts. It really does help me to know just what people like and what they don't like as it means I can make more of what they do like and less of what they don't.

I'll continue to update my profile and make sure that I network with the people who talk to me on there, even if they just want artwork from me I think it would be a good opportunity to keep in touch in the hopes that my work not only spreads through friends of friends liking it but also word of mouth and eventually other mediums too.