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Week 3 - This is how you connect practice with society
Can I be a social agent if I am a graphic designer? Before that, we need to grasp upon social agents and graphic designers. Social agents are people that amplify your message and content by collaborating and communicating with people. Similarly, graphic designers create visual concepts that communicate people’s information. Therefore, graphic designers are just as similar to social agents, where both need to communicate information and the needs of people. The only difference is in how they execute it- graphic designers express it through a creative touch whereas a social agent will express it through action. Hence, a graphic designer can be a social agent and vice versa.
When one is a graphic designer with similar intentions as a social agent, they’re practising what they call “social-engaged practice”. Socially-engaged practice, sometimes referred to as social practice or socially engaged art, encompasses a wide range of artistic forms that involves people and communities in discussions, partnerships or social interactions. To put it short and simple, it is an art form that focuses on meaningful social issues and social discourses as its main medium.
An example of this practice is Edi Whitehead’s work, titled “Rewriting the Dictionary: Portraits of an Essex Girl”, which showcases the stories of women and non-binary people from Essex. Her project is based on her negative experience growing up in Essex. Back in Essex, she felt that she could not confidently be a feminine queer due to the strong stereotype of women that people uphold. Hence, she did this project as a voice, telling the women and non-binary people in Essex that their feelings are valid and stay grounded to those that belittle them.
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What is Socially Engaged Practice? | A guide to art terminology. (n.d.). https://avantarte.com/glossary/socially-engaged-practice
Converse Digital. (2023, November 14). What is a social agent? Converse Digital | Business Development Coaching & Training Agency. https://conversedigital.com/what-is-a-social-agent
BrainStation. (2023, December 22). What does a graphic designer do? BrainStation®. https://brainstation.io/career-guides/what-does-a-graphic-designer-do
London, B. (2021, March 26). Interview: Edi Whitehead on “Portraits of an Essex Girl.” BDA London. https://www.bdalondon.com/post/interview-edi-whitehead-on-portraits-of-an-essex-girl
#social agent#graphic desginer#social engaged practice#social practice#socially engaged art#Portraits of an Essex Girl#Edi Whitehead
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He's a bit too excited to see you clock in
#my art#moondrop#fnaf moondrop#fnaf moon#moondrop fnaf#moon fnaf#just for reference - I'm not back</3 just posting whatever piled up#i won't be active socially/with reblogs. sorry!#I'd love to but I'm running really low on energy and responding to anything drains me as i put too much thought in it and get anxious :(#but i see and read everything!! and your engagement does really encourage me a lot. thank you!#also#i wonder if anyone recognises the pose lol
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long time no see
#lucas mother 3#ness earthbound#nesscas#sorry guys art school and everything got hands and also i got hit by the social media engagement demon who threatened me if uh#i did not draw gabriel ultrakill enough so uhh im really sorry#:(
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We should normalize being the average artist who never really goes viral and is happy in their lane creating for their own sake (be it commissions, or art for themselves).
The clout chaser mentality of all social media sites rotted our brain where we can't find value in our work unless it has a big number besides it.
Create for yourself, not to please some elusive algorithm that changes on a whim and pushes you back to square one.
#art#artist#artists on tumblr#kat talk#also I don't mean that you shouldn't grow your social media because i know it's crucial to stay afloat as an artist#but please;please don't give silly numbers so much attention#I'm never gonna stop osting about my ocs and idc if the engagement on those posts are shit. they are my pride and joy#because I created art od my blorbos and that's what matters to me#or that I made a client happy with the art I created for them!#you should enjoy the process and not the numbers
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More of the Nb fire emblem protagonists since I got asked about them. (Didn’t have the energy to Draw Kris sorry💔)
#posting two days in a row since Im and idiot and social media algorithms are going to hate me regardless#anyway they were so fun to draw<<33#based Nb Corrins hair on one of Female Corrins short hairstyle bc I think they look so pretty with it.#I was gonna draw Robin a new design too but guy is literally the most nonbinary character ever#like I genuinely couldn't come up with anything#art#digital art#my art#fanart#digital illustration#fire emblem#fire emblem fanart#fire emblem fates#fire emblem engage#fire emblem awakening#Corrin#Robin#Alear#fe robin#fe corrin#fe alear
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hmm feeling a little upset today again but what's new lol
#and of course its about always stressing about either day job#or social media engagement#or my art#like always those there#can those three be easy and controllable for a second please
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Apparently Facebook is the most popular social media platform?? Bro I thought Facebook died AGES ago, what is happening
#I was just curious and wanted to see if perhaps I should start putting my art on another platform...#Considered Twitter/X for two seconds and then I went. Do I REALLY want to do that to myself#Checked to see the most popular social media platform and yeah it's FB. WHY is it FB. That astounds me. LMAO#Shima speaks#Anyway. X is such a shitshow now bc of Musk so it's definitely not worth it#But the engagement there is so much higher than it is here...sigh...#I love tungle but engagement here has really died off#I was looking at my older stuff from like 2020 and there was SO much more feedback and chatting then#I MISS IT. I miss all the nice comments and getting lots of asks and my art blowing up unexpectedly#Twitter is NOT worth it Shima. Just remember that. Listen to me.
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friendly reminder for anyone who messages me: please specify what you want to talk about. if i get just 'hello' or 'hi' i honestly dont feel like moving the conversation forward. it feels like im forced to interact, and I wasn't always comfortable with that, especially if I don't know you at all.
also, messaging me hourly with just saying the same two things I will be fully convinced you're a bot and not a real human. 😅
edit: asks are always welcomed. i may not always answer them due to me not having the right thoughts in mind to reply, im busy doing work, or i just did a quick glance in my inbox and forgot about it. i know i have asks that have been sitting for months, but i hope to get around to them.
#at this point it was spam i had to block im sorry.#paola speaks#tbd#i dont bite i swear just jingle some keys in front me#the keys being something i will actually want to engage with#like art. a doll project. something ghost related. anything that lets me know your intentions with me#im just weird with social interactions i just never do good with simple hellos
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#YALL IT FINALLY HAPPENED#someone tried to pay for my services with sponsorship??? JSHDJSJ#girl was like hi we want 4 chibis and a logo for our social media#and i was like ok your total is $$$ but we can negotiate it :)#and she was like oh we usually work via collaboration and we have a total of 250k followers on insta#collaboration my ass social media numbers wont pay my bills nor my vet bills#and one of them had like idk 50k something followers on insta but had... very varying engagement?#like on average posts had like 300 likes#and thats what i usually get for star wars fanart on my insta w 5k followers#anyway influencers should go fuck themselves 🤩#and actually pay for the shit they want 🤩🤩🤩 girl i dont even know you! JWHSJWH#anyway thats the gossip besties enjoy the bits and pieces of my daily life#not art
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tell me about your ocs. I'm being for real. DM me, reblog, reply, tags; do whatever. let's just talk about ocs
#my ocs#original character#my original work#artists on tumblr#writers on tumblr#art#dungeons and dragons#dnd#fan character#prose#digital drawing#digital art#oc#dnd oc#i became upset that NO ONE indulges me on my autistic collection of dozens of ocs#and realized everyone else is prolly like that too#like the most engagement i get is ALWAYS from fan art#so for once id like to be social and engage#so begging pleading on my knees we'll make an accord. oc talk.
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so I was on twitter and I see this tweet. and it's a screenshot of a fic writer who is pulling their writing that they worked on for around six years due to plagarism and lack of engagement. the screenshot shows them in the A/N saying the next chapter will come out if they get x amount of comments, like back in the early oughts. I don't really think it's a big deal so I don't pay that part no mind.
but I checked the QRTs...and it's people saying the author is entitled, that they have a big ego, that this is just for fun and they should be doing this for themselves, and if they are only doing this for engagement then they're just miserable, and that this is just a hobby, and no one's entitled to getting responses, and like. I have. Thoughts. Opinions, if you will.
I was talking with stace about it because I feel insane?? like being in fandom is so different compared to when we were younger...it's so...idk. my lip started curling up at how many people were saying that the author was asking for too much, that they're entitled because they are just grateful for getting two kudos or they got one comment and it made their entire week. and like. stand up. STAND UP!!! WANT MORE. YOU'RE ALLOWED TO WANT MORE!!
'you're supposed to be writing for you! you should be drawing for you!' yeah sure but we're sharing this shit with y'all for a reason. if I was just doing this for me I'd keep it to myself like I did when I was a kid.
because sure. this is a hobby. this is something we should just be doing for fun. but is it really so entitled to want more responses, more engagement? more dialogue? people loooooove to parrot the idea that fandom is all about community, it's all about creating and communicating and having fun with each other over art and writing and all that shit. people love to say that! but when artists talk about how not great it feels to share something they worked on forever and barely getting anything back it's a problem.
maybe it's because I'm getting burnt out. I'm tired. passion can only get one so far, and after a while it gets tiring after a while, putting something out with that passion and not getting much in return.
#fandom critical#long post#I see people turn their nose up at others wanting more engagement with their art#more comments on their fics and saying shit like 'ao3 isn't social media it's not a community forum'#'you're not entitled to engagement' oh worm. bet
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Trying to figure out how to draw this gyui… Gobo the beloved aroace icon fr 🫶🏽
Click the links below to see more doodles of the Fraggle Five!
Mokey & Boober || Wembley & Red || Fraggle Five
#the people voted for whiteboard fox doodles (thank you for voting by the way :D) so you're gonna get them#atp i don't care about social media engagement anymore i'm just gonna post whatever i want!!!!!#gobo fraggle#fraggle rock#the muppets#sketches#doodles#whiteboard fox#<- omg that's an actual tag#chris p fried art
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✨ life is always better when we are together..! ✨
#art#digital art#my drawings and wares#artists on tumblr#my art#illustration#cute art#cute#kawaii#hopepunk#clip studio paint#pink#cats#this tanked on all other socials because socials hate images with text.. i just wanna say something nice but social media punishes me for i#frustrating bc ive been getting more sentimental and wanna include words in my work more but i cant bc my engagement (and my income) suffer
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I have a lot of (mostly negative) thoughts about Wattpad, but everything that's happening over there w/r/t another fandom purge is why AO3 exists in the first place. It's sad to watch another cycle of queer and sexual art get removed because of Corporate Values, regardless of my personal opinions.
Everyone unfamiliar should do their Fanlore homework on Purges, starting with the infamous FFN purges.
#random fandom thoughts#I don't like social media and Wattpad was always a weird middleground for me#in that algorithm-driven sites rot people's brains and they turn their own art into “content” to “drive engagement”#also people stole my work and posted it there TWO separate times so lmao#but even so that doesn't mean I think people's art that they themselves made should be cleansed from the site#I'm also really not looking forward to Wattpad folks mistagging on AO3 to “drive engagement”#or posting “placeholder fics” (which are against TOS btw)#but they will learn some way or another
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ftr i do think lesser of you as a person if twitter is your primary, or heaven forbid ONLY social media. why are so many supposed leftists and artists so ride-or-die for the ai scraping fascist propaganda app. why do you make fun of the people leaving for bluesky and crow that they'll be back. why are you proud of staying there.
#i only put some of my stuff on there and ppl have to follow me here to get all the real fresh exclusive dottyposts#but for a lot of ppl it seems the opposite. theyll occasionally crosspost their art here/on tiktok later#but keep all their conversations and extra thoughts on twitter. so if you actually wanna socialize w them u have to follow them there#it fucking sucks. every second we spend on there is giving the rat more advertiser money#like not to be all our blessed hellsite#but at least our shitty transphobic ceo isnt the richest guy on earth who bought our country's election#and got a position in the new fascist govt to further enrich himself for it#give it up. twitter sucked before musk but now all its value as a news source is gone. let it fucking go and go somewhere less awful#we need to stop giving people engagement there and reward them more for moving elsewhere#ofc this is the y'all cant even boycott chick a fil a generation so.#dottysalt
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