[Marketing] How do you market yourself to get at least one commission?
Hi, first of all, I want to apologise if this is a commonly asked question. I’ve had this confusion for a while now because I’ve had friends who do well marketing themselves and when I ask, I get the same answer all the time, which is to post religiously and you’ll get a customer someday. I’ve tried that before, posting daily to get my art out there but after a while, I stopped because of burnout. I wasn’t getting any kind of attention on my art and I couldn’t get any commissions compared to my friends.
For context, I do 3D sculpts in Zbrush. A lot of my friends do 2D art and do pretty well for themselves as far as I’ve seen. I’ve tried to adapt what they have done for their art and themselves to get commissions but it doesn’t work for me. I am quite confused and burnt out because I’ve heard a decent chunk of advice and they’re all the same hashings of “put yourself out there, you’ll get clients eventually”.
I kinda just want advice on how to market better, even if it’s a little unhinged because I’ve been doing commissions on and off for other stuff, like adjusting vroid parameters in unity but so far, I’ve only sold two sculpting commissions in the span of 2-3 years.
EDIT: I've added my carrd to the social link in my bio. In hindsight, I should have done this earlier but I genuinely forgot.