@cultpens @Polyhymnia ooh I haven't heard of that one, I'll check it out!

@cultpens @Polyhymnia The Dampinator XD Terminator, but wet

New inks! They're all Van Diemans, made in Australia using only Australian ingredients and Tasmanian spring water, are non-toxic and vegan - https://www.vandiemansink.com.au I also emailed them about lightfastness, they said at least 24 months, 48 if kept out of sunlight, but they've got swatches that haven't faded in the six years since they've been making ink.

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@Polyhymnia Hey @cultpens , do you carry Van Dieman's ink :D

@sikkdays yes

Croissanthemum

Further, I have a colouring book published through Barnes & Noble and a big art licensing firm in the US that represents me. Neither of these found me through FB, Insta, or Twitter. The only people who reach out to me with 'business opportunities' on Insta are accounts entirely unrelated to mine offering me 'influencer opportunities'.

Meanwhile, people here don't just buy art that I post for sale, they ask if they can buy art I haven't even listed. "Supportive" is an understatement. :artpaw:

You want to know the value of Mastodon over Insta? Posted this on Instagram to the 15k followers I have there, properly tagged. 29 likes, no comments.

Masto? *So* much engagement. So much fun discussion. So much more community.

Numbers don't mean squat if you don't have the follow through. I've never sold a single piece of art through Insta. People on Insta like passively browsing through images and tapping the heart. For an artist, it's a useless audience.

@TylerPentecost Thank you :D (And welcome to the fediverse! Unless you're not new but just moved to .online XD)

Weeeeeee! First 'proper' piece using the Foundational Hand script I picked up yesterday.

Materials: Pilot Parallel and Rotring calligraphy pens, Sakura Pigma Micron, Ecoline and Diamine ink applied with brushes, and Edding Gold fineliner, on Daler Rowney 90gm calligraphy paper.

#MastoArt #calligraphy

@davidrevoy That thing you say about proprietary social media having rules they don't tell us about that changes how our content is engaged with is so true, and so gross. I wonder how many people on Instagram know that your posts will get pushed more if you reply to comments within an hour? Not many I'll bet.

@fitheach I actually have no idea if they're called that outside the UK - would be interesting to see how many people are familiar with it

@gemlog @fitheach "The sleeping policeman name originates from the speed bump lying across the road and doing the job of a policeman i.e. slowing vehicle traffic." :D

Finished! :D

This is a Carl Sagan quote; "A still more glorious dawn awaits. Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise. A morning filled with 400 billion suns. The rising of the Milky Way."

Hand-drawn on 300gm smooth heavyweight paper with a variety of pens and inks.

I'll be putting a scanned version (alas it'll lose some of the metallic shine) on my Ko-Fi shop soon for people to buy as a digital print. :)

#MastoArt #CreativeToots

Sigh #mastocats