Should I Have Separate Accounts for Art and Photography

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Hi anybody! I take a question to pose: I am a traditional creative person and have made oil paintings for years. About two years ago I began dipping my toes into illustration. I have had one Instagram account for all my fine art, but I noticed that when I flip back and forth between posting illustration and fine fine art work the engagement seems to stutter. I don't love the idea of creating separate 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 desire to keep these ii very different media in ane instagram account? By doing so am I making it more difficult for followers who are but interested in one or the other type of art?

Wishing everyone a happy, salubrious, and artistic new year!
Thank you for your assistance!

I've also wondered this. I by and large do little sculptures, only I'one thousand besides doing digital analogy. The sculptures get more attending/interaction online, merely I dont find ppl complain when I post the drawings... They just don't interact with them as much.

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

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

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

I always think, what if publisher/editors go to an IG business relationship to await at that place and see lot of manga/fanart and inbetween some children'south book illustration (they are looking for), I think they would similar more clear IG business relationship to look at.

I personally likewise similar more than accounts, where I come across mostly the things, same type of art, for which I did the subscription. I am not that interested in other stuff. I mean if somebody posts here and at that place something different, than I am OK with it. The same goes for stories.

Have been wondering the aforementioned matter lately! But equally Kyle said, I don't have the following to worry about that at the moment. So now so I mail service non-children'south-illustration-related art, but mostly it'southward children's book illustrations. But I'thousand with yous -- multiple accounts sounds similar a nightmare! Guess it would all depend on whether a balance could be found so that posting doesn't become a job.

@MichaelaH when yous make multiple IG accounts are you using different emails/login info for each of them? I was ane of the lucky people that had my IG business relationship disabled for no apparent reason A few months ago and no way to fix it. I tried making a new account only my login info like my email and phone number are tied to disabled business relationship and then it won't let me make a new one.

@VeronicaMui I guess it depends on what your goal is for your IG account. This is my undertanding:

If you lot want your IG business relationship to abound a lot of followers, have a lot of engagement, get potential job 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 greatly reduced and yous're lucky if you are able to hook someone long plenty 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 first place, they lose interest.

Still, even if you have divide accounts does non guarantee numbers. It just increases the probability. Then you can weigh for yourself if the added stress of managing multiple accounts is worth the increase in chance.

If your aim is not besides geared towards numbers and you don't want to take up unnecessary pressure level, and just want to focus on creating work at your ain pace and way, then one account works perfectly!

@1000-Flagg Yeah I have different email adresses for it, but all 3 accounts are connected, because I made the new accounts while being logged in in my commencement account. Now I tin easily change where I am, only longer holding click on my profile picture and than I can chose to wich contour to change.

Guy with an Instagram here...

Personally, I would have no involvement in splitting my business relationship--I want people to connect with ME, non necessarily just the work I make. 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 get a ton of beloved.

I dont only want someone to buy my children'southward book...I want them to buy prints or pins or tag publishers if they recall I'g a fit for project or see when I announce an appearance. If all of those things are spread out of over multiple accounts, at somepoint y'all are going to cross post because you want to announce something and so dilute your brand anyway.

If it helps you mentally separate things, go for information technology. If your stuff is wildly different and your scared about your make, certain...become nuts. Information technology may totally work and rock. I think Instagrams are built over years not days. But post. Dont overthink things too much.

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

@M-Flagg Aforementioned! I tried making a separate business relationship for another mode that I do and was locked out of that account, which still has my proper name and looks super unprofessional since information technology'due south out of use. If I try to sign it, it just signs into my main one since I fabricated them with the aforementioned email address I tried contacting Instagram just to exist able to delete information technology merely I haven't gotten whatsoever answer and at this point it's been years

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

@VeronicaMui I take separate Instagram accounts. Likewise, I only employ my analogy Instagram account to follow other creators, whereas I use Twitter for the more business organization-y side of things (keeping upwards to date on happenings in the industry, following publishers I am interested in working with, etc).

It may not work for you, just I similar having it all compartmentalized. I can look at my Instagram account with a more creator, artistic, peer-driven mentality. When I am on Twitter, I tin can focus more than on the business organization/manufacture side of things.

I will likely change this system when information technology no longer serves me, only for at present it works.

@VeronicaMui That is a great question! Instagram is a catchy thing.

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

In the video, he talks bout founding a focus for your account--merely that doesn't necessarily need to exist the style or medium of your art. The focus could exist your creative journeying every bit an artist. He puts information technology a lot better than I ever could, plus he shows some case accounts.

I have three Instagram accounts - one for all my illustration work, one for my sculpture work, and one that'south but for posts about personal life and my kids. Simply I don't divide things up for based on the media or intended audience (I let the hashtags do that), so on my aj.illustrates business relationship at that place's a mix of sketchbook work, pen and ink, watercolors, vector, and photoshop, because it'due south all me. For that same reason, I do cross-polinate: I'll post finished sculptures on my analogy account and use that mail service to point to my sculpture account, I'll include character design drawings on my sculpture account to bear witness the design process and how illustration and sculpture overlap, and I'll brand mention of my kids and some of the projects we practice together in both illustration and sculpture accounts (for example, they have been doing Inktober 52 with me, so include their ink drawings as subsequent slides on my posts, and that really connects for some of my followers).

Basically, I don't think there's really a correct or wrong answer. It's upwardly to you to make up one's mind what you desire your Instagram to exist, and then, through trial and error over years, punch it in to be equally effective equally possible to showcase your artwork, yourself, and your creative journey.

I just gear up a second Instagram account under the same login simply it is for a completely new venture. Simply problem is I only seem to be able to admission the multiple accounts via my phone and not on my iPad which is super annoying. I am non certain split accounts are necessary if you lot are doing dissimilar styles of art.

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

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