2023 DeviantArt Guide to Get More Favs, Watchers, Comments, and Popularity

DA is a huge supporter of AI art (which alone is criminal, but also supports neo nazi art, hate crime art and porn of all sorts, even child pornography, which has become a huge thing in the last two years because it's all made via AI.

what if the groups are dead? I mean no one publishes there anymore and if they do there's no attention or activity there. And also very old groups

Help!!! how can you upload 1000 pictures at once?

The thumb share was really inteeasting to me and I will use more groups, bc I already tag the heck out of my art and I do pretty well with that alone but I think I wanna go harder with this tbh

My effect way is to simply just consistently post and tag ur art and u should get daily likes and watchers

Thxs I'm learning to animate and I also like making comics in my spare time I think I might post some of it on DA.

Even if I done the most of the tips I didn't get any attention. I am so sad and frustrated...I was thinking to even quit drawing. Why am I pushing myself, when it goes to nowhere? :( I will be still ignored...

I got suspended too

yeah okay but ¿how am i supposed to make another deviantart? ¡because some idiotic asshole blocked me on deviantart for a reason! ¿can you help me how to unblock me and continue sending my comment to that guy please?

all good but be real you only can earn watchers and people will notice you if you do fanarts :/ or NSFW

Can you recommend some groups that are good for getting noticed? There's thousands of dead groups since the Eclipse rollout and it's only gotten worse since DA embraced AI generated art theft. For every active group it seems like there's 3 dead ones.

And many of those groups get flooded and push your works down or are super niche or fetishy (not that I have an issue with NSFW/fetish content but I don't really feel comfy submitting artwork on main to folders overrun with porn)

Hi again, I have the feeling that these monster 10,000+ groups are a fallacy. You are hopelessly lost in the masses. 50-500 you are seen much more and the submission remains much longer on the page. Right?

Hi, do these long tags all written through in one really work? dnddungeon vs. dnd dungeon. Normally you search in single words.

I just returned to DA yesterday after three years, definitely going to try some of these tips! Thanks for sharing them!

Thank you for the tips! i didnt know how to categorize it with the new deviantart! Going to see your artwork and your channel.

@The Art Mentor

Ibteresting video woth some good advises @TheArtMentor. I took your advise on choisong the tags and topics and it did work for me tho i only got a few more new deviants. How does "Commission" work on the other hand?

Hey Sean! Just discovered your channel and I'm so glad to see these videos about DA! I want to push it this year and start getting commissions for real. DA will be my first place to invest time and effort since I've been there for 14 years already. I stayed so many years off the platform then got back and forth a few times since Eclipse happened, but I wanna change things this year. Thanks for your videos! I've watched a couple of them and have another 5 opened in queue haha

Use a lot of good tags, use a name for your images do a lot of comments on big Devians.
And... Make great Graphic art! 😉

Images are so tiny in all AIs...their use is so limited. I am surprised money is asked for this

Honestly after two years of being back on DA (and posting for about 1 year) I have realized that the secret to growth as an artist is engagement. You have to spread the joy of your works and works you like. Even though I have only done about 15 deviations and they are very unfinished and the 3D equivalent of a sketch, but across said posts ive accrued 10K views and many llamas. And most of the llamas i got was when I began interacting with other people.

Is there a way to search deviants like u ? I mean on DeviantArt

IMO, DA groups are more useful for getting more favs on your artwork, than to get more watchers. I recommend users to watch as many Deviants as they can, and hope for a watch back.

This is crazy how under rated this creator is!! This helped me so so much, great tutorial

I'm one of the bigger guys on deviantart with over 5k watchers. Ever since last June I suddenly decreased in viewership. I used to get 20k 30k per deviantart submission, and now I get 1-5k everytime I submit.

Hello and thank you so much for teaching me those tips! What's the best way to add my artwork to these topics in 2023?

I've been posting hundreds of drawings from my sketchbooks in chronological order. I've been suddenly growing a lot of favorites and watches within the past 2 days, (at least it feels like it, since I've got a hundred favorites after all), I hope this video gets me to understand if I'm doing well or not. And if not, thanks for the advice on how to fix that!

Damn I miss the category tree thing.

I never got many faves in deviantart since since I joined in my early teenage years. Now I’m
getting even less faves in my art since the update. I’m usually not confident about my art at all so maybe that’s one reason. I’m hoping one day this will work. Thanks for the tips !

great tutorial thanks

I'm still learning

Thank you so much!!! ♥_♥

This vid definitely needs more views as there pandemonium going on twitter and people are migrating. I've talked to artists, and they act like DeviantArt is the plague/is a dead site and never advice going back. And it's nice hearing this guide as it seems like there are still many active communities on the platform. Thanks very much for the advice!

I just have my Deviantart account when I was a teenager in the 2010s

Ok i will try out these tips i write literature on deviant for the last 2 months i have been putting out a new story almost every day i am not sure if its the best place for it but i have been lurking on the site for over 15 years i usually get between 1 to 2 k views and only between 2 to 6 favourites and i rarely get any comments but when i do get a comment its usually positive

the only criticism i get are for grammar mistakes that then i edit out i also noticed that i story i wrote recently is getting like no views i think its because i uploaded it to the scraps folder first in a unfinished state and then about 1 hour later i fixed it up and i put it in the main gallery but i don't think my watchers can see it or its buried below newer stuff but this does not make sense because some of my first stories got a huge boost in views and likes suddenly

also i put everything on mature for obvious reasons so that may affect my stories success too but i notice that writers who make similar content to me either get way more views or the same amount of views as me but a lot more likes and comments and i don't know why maybe its just because they have been around longer or because they are using your tricks also something

The heck, just draw a portrait of a Japanese artist and I've seen one exactly like mine in the video😹 unfaiir, we had the same visual reference

It flabbergasts me that absolute idiots get 6000 followers for mid arts

Ok but how do I make one? Where is the thingy?

sorry but the groups on DA are AWFUL, they do not work at all, they are not as simple as you make them seem, most of the time you have to request your artwork to a group and await for their approval and most of the time it just goes ignored, it rarely works, and then there's the fact that these groups tend to have way too many subfolders and a lot of the time these folders are over their size limit so it becomes a waste of time. Groups are just really ineffective and they don't seem to benefit me at all with the amount of times I have managed to submit something in their groups. Categories sound like a much better system.

Great video & nice tips!

Does anybody know why whenever I attempt to upload a post onto Deviantart, why it is coming out so blurry with low quality?? I've tried doing it from my phone, tablet, turning off mature content, changing the file size, and its still blurry! Super frustrating.

Great video! Ive learned so much things in this video! Also how can I improve my deviant art account? So I make my little pony art on deviantart for a year now. My account has been growing a little. I want to improve more and more. What do you suggest for me to improve? And what tags do you suggest I should put?

What about money i want get paid

I've been using DA for years and ever since the update of Eclipse, I've lost so many veiws and potential watches and favorites. I get like the same 6 people faving my art which is nice, but I'm not really seen anymore, just lost out in the dark pits of DA.

I need help pls I tried different accounts & keeps getting rejected & unverified 😟

I started to develop my deviantART and ArtStation accounts around the same time. My ArtStation took off pretty well, but my deviantART account was just lagging behind. For a while, I went out of my way to participate in the Thumbshare, to add my work to groups and also just be active and post on other artist's work. I invested way more time into deviantART than ArtStation, but gaining traction on deviantART was like pulling teeth for me. I get ten times the amount of traction on ArtStation with much less exhausting input. After a while, I just completely gave up on deviantART. The only reason I started posting there again recently, is because they added the NFT theft alerts (I got an alert for one of my pieces in my e-mail, which is how I found out they even added that feature). I haven't gone back to trying to grind for attention, though. The amount of effort vs. the payoff just doesn't seem worth it.

Is there a limit for how much I can post as a free user? I see something that says stash storage is limited

Hey can someone please make a video on how to drag and drop on a mobile phone. I've been searching and I can't even change over to my laptop because the screen disconnected from it.

Great video thank you

On asking questions in the description: if people DM you in response to asking what characters they’d like to see, do you take the requests as inspiration for new personal pieces, or do you attempt to convert those into paid commissions? It seems disingenuous to invite suggestions only to ask for money when they DM you, but it also seems counterintuitive to getting commissions if you satisfy those requests for free, so I’m interested in any insights you have here.

Keep it up, man, love these videos!