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does anyone know anything about Pinterest?? by L James
I joined Pinterest because I heard it was the fun + cool place for creative types but I have no idea how to use it appropriately or how other artists use it! It looks like a cool system that might be good for grabbin and organizing inspiration while maybe keeping a board for one's own stuff, but I don't know how other people use it or if there's any particular etiquette to know. If anyone is over there, lemme see your page and maybe give me some tips on what you do over there!
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I've heard of artists using it, but I guess Pinterest has a rule about not purely using the site for self-promotion which means there would probably have to be a lot of curating involved as well. Keeping track of refs seems like a good idea for it! I might just give it a go sometime and if someone tells me I'm doing it wrong I'll find a different way to use it.
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huh. i either never read the rule, or that's why i decided not to post anything xD can't remember.
but yea, as a source for artistic reference its great.
don't go too crazy though, you may lose everything hahaha xD
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I never heard about a rule for not just self promoting on their, but an easy way around it is to just keep a pin board of recipes pinned from other people (or inspiring pics for future projects). I haven't used Pinterest for art, personally, but I've found it useful for a lot of other stuff from DIY projects, to homesteading tutorials, making knock offs of commercial products, art tutorials, gardening, budgeting, ect. I keep a couple boards for color and design to ref FOR making art but I don't have any of my art up there.
It's not really social, at least I haven't experience it as such, but I know of a lot of bloggers who use it to promote articles they write and things they make and direct traffic over to their monetized blog (just ads and stuff) but they've had great success with it and it's made their stuff accessible when I probably wouldn't have found it before.
Otherwise, there's no real etiquette you have to worry about. At first I didn't like it and thought it was boring until I just bit the bullet and jumped into it--it's more intuitive than it seems at a glance. Make a board for a specific topic, search for related content, and pin stuff that you like for easy ref later.
If you are planning to do any crafts though, make sure you check out Man-Vs-Pin or Corrine-Vs-Pin on youtube on the threadbanger channel since they test out a lot of the too-good-to-be-true ones.
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I didn't see it myself (I didn't read the terms too carefully, oops) but when I was googling how to use pinterest I saw that rule come up a few times. I'm not really into crafting, but tutorials and reference sound neat and I could probably keep some collections of that stuff! And inspiration, and I swear I've seen web design posted there, and dang I'll just have to look. They let you download an extension that makes it easy to pin stuff from around the web but I'd probably have to check for proper sourcing and make sure the artist is cool with it and all that basic stuff.
Is the social part of it kind of like tumblr, where it's great for sharing pictures and other content but awful for actually interacting with people?
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Yeah, I'd go so far as to say it's worse than tumblr in that regard, at least what I've seen with it. Also, there's issues where captions are super easy to remove, so if you do upload art, I'd make sure it's all signed.
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i just used it for refs but i got bored of it really really fast x'D idk how artists actually use it aside from that. i've never uploaded to pinterest before cause i just figured i shouldn't? idk.