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Originally Posted by GerryT
Do people not post a comment cause they don't like it ?
Take my new Smitty, 152 views of the thread here, and only 3 comments.
Is it the subject matter? The artist ?
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Yes, but it post on CAF on 12/19 and it has 250 views and 10 comments. Hardly underviewed compared to some of the other art that we're looking at. I have pages that I've had posted for months that have significantly smaller number of views. There's a classic Dick Dillin Justice League page with 60 views 1 comment, or Spectcular Spider Man page featuring Black Lash and The Prowler by John Romita Sr and Al Milgrom sitting at 80 views 2 comments. Both were added in September of this year. So they've gone three months with that few number of people checking them out. Is it the fact that they're panel pages that causes people to not care? Not sure. As another example, I have a Ken Bald Blonde Phantom commission that I posted in September of this year that is sitting with 178 views 3 comments. So, the fact that your art has 250 views 10 comments in about three days isn't a bad sign at all.
The only thing I can think of it getting low response here on the forum is that you can't see the whole art in your post, only a portion of it. (plus the art image in the thread wouldn't show when I looked at it on my phone, so I had to go check it out on my computer). So people are probably clicking on your CAF link to check it out and maybe leaving comments there?
So what does cause people to not leave comments? Art that they don't care for? Does it have to be superbly amazing for people to comment? I know in this hobby there is a leaning towards covers and splash pages being held as preferred, with panel pages not getting as much attention or love. I also know there is a tendency to appreciate commissions from current "hot" artists, with the higher the cost associated with it making it appear to be better art. Adam Hughes can charge a few thousand for commissions and knock something out and it appears that it will be perceived as being better art than something done by say Tom Grummett because he doesn't charge as much? Is it demand? The level of difficulty in achieving getting the commision makes it more desireable and therefore perceived as better and more comment worthy?
Or is this all down to promotion? Where and how many places you post the links to your art that spurs the number of views and the number of comments that some of these pages get.
I'm not complaining and not going to change what I collect because I get art that I like, it's just something that really mystifies me.
Don
