Trend

We all know what a trend on the internet means nowadays: the trendy content, the subject matter or the style that dictates what is current and what is not.

Nothing new to mention in this aspect, what today is among the most seen, tomorrow could be forgotten. Perhaps it is a matter of luck, as it does not depend so much on how striking the subject is that everyone is talking about, but it depends much more on the popularity it reaches, on the acceptance or echo it provokes in people.

-does all of this verbiage have anything to do with the topics that make up this blog?-

It turns out that in art there are also trends (or artistic currents), but due to the pace at which things move on the net, none have managed to establish themselves in a concrete way, the tide is strong and if you don't go in its direction, you're likely to end up swept away.

What I am saying is that digital art has to stay in trend by its very nature, the artist develops based on the visibility he achieves, otherwise his art becomes a soundless melody, therefore, it is much smarter to take advantage of that tide to help you move forward.

The problem with this is that when an artist tries to specialise, it is not best to change style or model so frequently.

I know I'm the one who advocates creative freedom and variety the most, but great work requires a little more time to look just the way you want it to.

Which means that there will be occasions when, before publishing your creation, you will make a couple of additional attempts to get the result closer to the idea you have in mind.

Obviously this has 2 consequences: the first one is that you, as an artist, will be more satisfied with the work that your audience will see, but the second one is that most probably, the trend has already changed to give way to the next one.

In the end, it will be up to you to make the decision to follow as many trends as possible to place your content as well as possible, or to pass up some of those trends to concentrate on polishing a project and hopefully show it to the public soon enough to still be recommended by the fickle broadcasting algorithms.

There can also be negative trends, which far from being something attractive or fun, manage to resonate in social networks because they are polemic and morbid, these resonate much more because of the already known "internet hate" than because they are really something interesting or striking.

But trend is trend no matter what the purpose of its origin.

The game is to bet on the outcome that best fits your visualisation strategy.

I know that many digital artists are both fast and efficient, although fast content rarely compares to more detailed work.

Actually both options are good in some ways, I'm just trying to put the options into perspective for you to consider what is best for you depending on where you are at the moment.

Fortunately, neither position limits you to staying on one side only, nothing prevents you from changing your strategy from time to time.

A trend can be many things, depending on how you look at it, but for content creators it can be summarised as a mechanism by which you can find out which topics are the most promoted by the algorithms of social platforms at the moment,