Attention Artists and Musicians! This new Steemit update is our chance to make a difference!

Now is our chance to get original content trending and change the face of steemit forever!

With the new update of Steem your votes are more powerful, but most of your voting power will be gone after only 10 votes. If we all use our votes wisely then creators have an opportunity to grow and have a bigger opportunity to get their awesome content to the trending and hot pages.

Steemit provides an amazing resource for creators to earn, but it's very difficult to be noticed and there's a lot of bad advice out there. Don't cheat. Don't beg for followers (you'll get bad followers anyway). Don't use auto-voting systems. Don't upvote trending posts, unless you support the content (your rewards are reduced for these anyway). Connect and collaborate and help make steemit into a place filled with life and creativity.

Decentralize in 5
These are my graphics for my exciting new project with @starkerz and @patrickm
The introduction video is live!

I believe that creators should be paid simply to create.

Read that again. Everyone complains that cartoons are not as good as they used to be and that documentaries are boring, but good content takes time and effort and the skills of many talented people to prepare. Often the creators have to work full time jobs to make their amazing artwork and music and animation and video in their spare time.

We creators believe in our art. We fund our own projects and often we work hard for no pay, simply because we love what we do. Creators will continue to create but without support, they cannot last forever.

If you're an artist, be an art critic as well! If you're an aspiring film director, don't just post your short film and wait for the money to roll in. Go out and actively spend your time looking for other filmmakers and discuss techniques and connect with them on collaborations. Now, with the new Steemit update, you can make an even bigger impact on the community.

Sketch by @platonicsironic
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From now on, be careful with your votes!

Your votes are now far more powerful, but they drain your power four times faster, so use them wisely and support other creators so that we can all share in each other's success. Make sure you only upvote and resteem content that deserves a spotlight.

Every creator has a responsibility to upvote and resteem only high quality original content. We can't expect support from the community if we're not willing to support each other.

Sunset by @hentikage
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Think very carefully about how many followers you have. Make sure you get supportive followers. If you can get a lot of them, perhaps from a big network on another social media site, then fantastic! Most of us need to grow a good group of active followers. The numbers will come in time and they will engage with you and give you a more rewarding experience on steemit.

A hundred good followers is better than a thousand bad ones.

Thank you for reading and thank you to all the amazing creators that I've met on Steemit and who inspired my blog, It's awesome that I've made it to 10 blogs already. Your communication and support is noticed and appreciated and I know who I will be using my votes for.

Here's the introduction video from our new project - Decentralize in 5

Previously Featured Artists

Art Blog 9 featuring @hentikage
Art Blog 8 featuring @elena2017
Art Blog 7 featuring @shayne
Art Blog 6 featuring @headlessjess
Art Blog 5 featuring @winry
Art Blog 4 featuring @errymil
Art Blog 3 featuring @platonicsironic
Art Blog 2 featuring @bitcoinman
Art Blog 1 featuring @artwatch

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Art Blog 9 featuring @hentikage
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Art Blog 1 featuring @artwatch
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Art Blog 3 featuring @platonicsironic
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Help me find the best original content on Steem!

✎ Tell me about your favorite original content creators:

I'm looking for new Art, Video, Music, Cartoons, etc and I'll try to feature as many artists as possible from the comments section

Originality is the most important criteria, so for example, I'm unlikely to feature photography or cryptocurrency related content because there is already a lot of that.

Please comment, upvote, follow and resteem and I'll keep delivering solid original content to your feeds. @deimus