What do you post when your life is just you at a desk drawing
Sat down yesterday to post something on social media and realized I had nothing. No dramatic studio shots, no plein air painting in some scenic location. Just me, my tablet, a half eaten bag of chips, and the same Procreate file I've been nudging for three days.
I know consistency matters for building an audience but I genuinely struggle with what to share between finished pieces. My process is mostly me squinting at value thumbnails and undoing the same brushstroke forty times. Not exactly riveting content.
Does anyone else feel like their day to day is too uneventful to document? I'd love to hear what actually works for people whose creative life is pretty quiet and routine. What kind of posts have connected with your audience when you didn't have some big reveal or milestone to share?
This is so relatable. I spent a long time thinking my sketchbook pages full of construction lines and ghosted strokes were too boring to post. But something I've noticed is that the posts where I share the unglamorous stuff, like a page of boxes in perspective or a gesture study that went sideways, actually get the most genuine responses. I think the algorithms now are surprisingly good at finding the specific people who connect with your particular vibe, even if that vibe is "squinting at value thumbnails with chip crumbs on the tablet." In my experience you don't need to be wildly entertaining. Just being honest about what your process actually looks like seems to find its audience. The people who think like you do are out there, and they want the real version, not the curated one.