It’s a long story! I’ve been actively posting my artwork online ever since I started drawing digitally in 2003, so that’s where it started for me. I started out on these websites called Oekaki boards, where I posted artwork alongside other board users. I also posted all my work to Deviantart and maintained a personal website during that time. In 2009-2010, social media platforms became huge. During this time, I branched out to tumblr, instagram, facebook, and twitter. In general, I try to stay flexible and evolve with the changing social media landscape. I think posting cosistently for such a long time allowed my following to snowball over time, and I also think that I started out when was way easier to build a following – social media algorithms didn’t exist yet and the platforms were way less saturated. In many ways, I was in the right place at the right time. My current focus is on building my newsletter, since I find that social media is getting more and more restrictive.
Online presence
Where to find me
My website
I’ve had this website since 2004! In the beginning, I coded it myself using notepad because my little sister was generous enough to teach me basic HTML. If you want to see some of the previous website designs (warning: they are sometimes a bit whacky), check out this google album. The current version of this website was expertly created by my partner, Arjen Klaverstijn, using WordPress! WordPress is my tool of choice for my own website designs, like Loish’s Digital Art School and my links page.