Fill Your Feed: An Artist's Guide for Artists and Fandom Friends
Welcome to the Fediverse.
This is a work-in-progress guide for friends, acquaintances, and followers in the art & fandom spaces to populate their feeds when first arriving to the Fediverse. Enough has been stated about which platforms to use, what instances to join, and how the Fediverse works. So this blog will not seek to answer those questions. I find that, for many people, the hurdle is finding who to follow. I'd like to help with that.
There are many people on here and following more people will lead you to discovering even more people. So follow freely and unfollow freely, too. Mute and block freely. Make a space that is safe for you and healthy for you in your current moment. We're here to have fun.
Also, there are so many people on here that I am still discovering new ones every day. If you find cool people, boost them so more of us can see! Remember this doesn't work like Twitter: feeds are chronological and you only see posts from those (or that, in the case of hashtags and groups) which you are following. Having said that, here are some suggestions from me to make new beginnings easier. If you copy the link and search them through your instance's search bar (@user@TheirInstance), you can open their feed on Mastodon and easily follow them. If you can't find them by doing that, your instance might have blocked their instance.
Users
- Plumy – comics, art journaling about videogames, perfect if you love looking at sketchy work
- Cindy – plants, environments, animated illustrations, the loveliest mark-making
- Tisha Mark – small-size abstract landscapes, really cool!
- Colossal – the popular contemporary arts magazine
- Léa Muna – beautiful watercolor illustrations
- Malky – illustrator from Mexico making cool animal designs
- Maruki – lovely pixel art, especially if you love mushrooms
- Elaine Will – lovely environments with a Ghibli-Don Bluth vibe
- Ego Rodriguez – the most gorgeous illustrations of gay/queer men, by a queer person, too!
- Himbo Beefcake, PhD – 18+ art and comics of himbos, with the most crisp lineart and delectable shapes
- Ksenia Palchikova – detailed illustrations with lovely lineart and that “flat” coloring style I really like
- Victoria Maderna – gorgeous children's book like illustrations
- Averil – SFW slime girls, art & merch for you art nouveau lovers
- Kim Hu – the most fun urban environments and character designs
- Mossypine – lovely, whimsical & earthy nature merch designs
- Irene N. – if you're into horror... this one's for you
- Julia Bausenhardt – nature sketches done on-field, it's really fun to stumble upon these
- Djamila Knopft – lovely Ghibli-like nature work
- Hiko – anime-like illustrations with gorgeous, stain-glass like colors
- Hoka@名古屋クリマM-538 – really cute, vintage-y, cartoon-ish, anime-like illustrations
- Cartoonist Cooperative – just as it sounds like, it's a cooperative for people making comic-work
- Me!! – I tell stories through colorful illustrations, inspired by anime and Western cartoons
- This blog!! – you can follow this blog by searching for @fieryzard@DotArt.blog on your Mastodon search bar.
- Your Name Here – join us!!
Hashtags
You can search these from your instance's search bar and then press the Follow button to follow them. This might need to be done from the web or mobile web version of the platform. Some apps out there might not have this option available. * #MastoArt – a popular hashtag for artists * #CreativeToots – another popular hashtag for creatives * #WordWeavers – a monthly challenge where you answer one question about your characters/story each day, to help motivate you and connect you to your writing community