If You Do Traditional and Digital Art Should You Make Two Instagrams

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Hi everyone! I take a question to pose: I am a traditional artist and have made oil paintings for years. Almost two years ago I began dipping my toes into illustration. I have had one Instagram account for all my art, just I noticed that when I flip back and along between posting illustration and fine art work the engagement seems to stutter. I don't honey the idea of creating carve up accounts partly because I don't want to deal with the budget for two and partly because I don't like the thought of 'splitting' my image - I am a creative person who wears many hats.

My question is this - am I wrong to want to continue these 2 very different media in one instagram account? By doing so am I making it more hard for followers who are only interested in 1 or the other type of art?

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I've as well wondered this. I mostly do trivial sculptures, but I'm also doing digital illustration. The sculptures get more attending/interaction online, but I dont observe ppl mutter when I post the drawings... They just don't interact with them as much.

I'm inappreciably at a level where I'm worrying about splitting my audience though. I think if I opened up a second instagram for drawings it'd be a wasteland

I have three instragram accounts, because the input doesn't fit together.

1. Children's book illustrations
2. Realistic illustrations, mostly fanart also photo collages
3. For my shop, products, vectors I do and am selling and have nothing to do with my other freelance illustrator piece of work

I always think, what if publisher/editors get to an IG account to look there and see lot of manga/fanart and inbetween some children's book analogy (they are looking for), I recollect they would like more clear IG account to look at.

I personally also like more than accounts, where I see generally the things, same blazon of art, for which I did the subscription. I am non that interested in other stuff. I mean if somebody posts hither and there something different, than I am OK with it. The same goes for stories.

Have been wondering the aforementioned matter lately! But as Kyle said, I don't have the following to worry nearly that at the moment. So at present and then I postal service not-children's-illustration-related art, but mostly information technology'due south children'southward volume illustrations. But I'g with you -- multiple accounts sounds like a nightmare! Gauge information technology would all depend on whether a balance could exist found so that posting doesn't become a chore.

@MichaelaH when yous brand multiple IG accounts are y'all using unlike emails/login info for each of them? I was ane of the lucky people that had my IG account disabled for no apparent reason A few months ago and no way to gear up it. I tried making a new account but my login info like my email and phone number are tied to disabled account and so it won't let me make a new i.

@VeronicaMui I gauge it depends on what your goal is for your IG business relationship. This is my undertanding:

If you want your IG account to grow a lot of followers, have a lot of engagement, get potential task opportunities, then yes, it's advisable to have separate accounts. I think with the influx of information that viewers are presented with every moment or refresh, their attending span is profoundly reduced and you're lucky if you are able to hook someone long enough to actually click on your account and view the rest of your gallery. If they don't see posts similar to what attracted them in the showtime place, they lose interest.

Still, even if you have split up accounts does not guarantee numbers. It just increases the probability. So yous can weigh for yourself if the added stress of managing multiple accounts is worth the increase in chance.

If your aim is not also geared towards numbers and you lot don't desire to take up unnecessary pressure, and just want to focus on creating work at your ain stride and mode, then one business relationship works perfectly!

@K-Flagg Aye I take different email adresses for it, merely all 3 accounts are continued, because I fabricated the new accounts while beingness logged in in my first account. At present I can easily change where I am, only longer belongings click on my profile moving-picture show and than I tin chose to wich profile to change.

Guy with an Instagram here...

Personally, I would accept no interest in splitting my account--I desire people to connect with ME, not necessarily just the work I brand. Sometimes I postal service my kidlit stuff, sometimes I post a Batman sketch, sometimes I post a dapper Victorian dude holding an axe. I just make and post. And frankly, they all go a ton of honey.

I dont just want someone to buy my children'southward book...I desire them to buy prints or pins or tag publishers if they think I'g a fit for project or run across when I denote an advent. If all of those things are spread out of over multiple accounts, at somepoint you are going to cantankerous mail service because you desire to announce something and so dilute your brand anyway.

If it helps yous mentally carve up things, go for it. If your stuff is wildly different and your scared about your brand, sure...go nuts. It may totally work and stone. I think Instagrams are built over years not days. Just post. Dont overthink things too much.

@AnthonyWheeler I looked at your IG business relationship and your all work fits together, nicely connected...I don't think you would ever need second accound, because your style is similiar and it looks like one work.

@One thousand-Flagg Same! I tried making a dissever account for another style that I practice and was locked out of that account, which still has my name and looks super unprofessional since it's out of use. If I try to sign it, it just signs into my main one since I made them with the same e-mail address I tried contacting Instagram just to be able to delete information technology but I haven't gotten any answer and at this point it'due south been years

@Melanie-Ortins well it is overnice to know that if it disables 1 it doesn't do it to all of them.

@VeronicaMui I have carve up Instagram accounts. Also, I only utilize my illustration Instagram account to follow other creators, whereas I employ Twitter for the more than business organization-y side of things (keeping up to date on happenings in the industry, following publishers I am interested in working with, etc).

Information technology may non work for you lot, but I like having it all compartmentalized. I tin can wait at my Instagram business relationship with a more creator, creative, peer-driven mentality. When I am on Twitter, I can focus more on the concern/manufacture side of things.

I will likely alter this arrangement when it no longer serves me, but for now information technology works.

@VeronicaMui That is a great question! Instagram is a tricky affair.

I recommend watching these videos from ergojosh
Don't make these fine art Instagram mistakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_kz4fI9F0I

In the video, he talks bout founding a focus for your account--just that doesn't necessarily need to be the style or medium of your art. The focus could be your artistic journey as an creative person. He puts it a lot ameliorate than I ever could, plus he shows some example accounts.

I take three Instagram accounts - one for all my analogy work, one for my sculpture work, and one that's only for posts most personal life and my kids. But I don't dissever things upward for based on the media or intended audience (I permit the hashtags do that), and then on my aj.illustrates account there'due south a mix of sketchbook piece of work, pen and ink, watercolors, vector, and photoshop, because it'southward all me. For that same reason, I do cross-polinate: I'll postal service finished sculptures on my illustration account and apply that postal service to point to my sculpture account, I'll include grapheme design drawings on my sculpture account to show the design procedure and how illustration and sculpture overlap, and I'll brand mention of my kids and some of the projects we exercise together in both illustration and sculpture accounts (for example, they have been doing Inktober 52 with me, and so include their ink drawings as subsequent slides on my posts, and that actually connects for some of my followers).

Basically, I don't remember there's actually a right or wrong answer. It'southward up to you to decide what you want your Instagram to be, and and then, through trial and error over years, dial it in to be every bit effective as possible to showcase your artwork, yourself, and your artistic journey.

I just set up a 2nd Instagram business relationship under the aforementioned login but information technology is for a completely new venture. Only problem is I only seem to be able to access the multiple accounts via my phone and not on my iPad which is super annoying. I am not sure split up accounts are necessary if you are doing different styles of art.

@miranda-hoover cheers for sharing this! I just watched the video and it was actually helpful. I like how he broke things down and his emphasis on the stories and emotions attached to the images. I practise feel like my story is cohesive and then I may leave things as is

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