{"id":6113,"date":"2019-11-06T15:23:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T20:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/?p=6113"},"modified":"2021-03-10T11:47:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T16:47:21","slug":"tiktok-artist-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/originals\/tiktok-artist-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use TikTok As a Designer"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 4<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

By now, there\u2019s no way you haven\u2019t seen a TikTok. Whether you\u2019ve seen a video cross-posted on Twitter, pitched the platform as a social strategy to a client, or witnessed your Gen Z cousin become a viral star, TikTok is impossible to avoid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What you probably haven\u2019t<\/em> done is thought about becoming a TikTok creator yourself. And that\u2019s a shame. Allow us to make a case. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a designer, you should be on TikTok because of its ubiquity alone. With almost 1.5 billion users<\/a>, the app has experienced meteoric growth. Its especially popular amongst Gen Z<\/a>, which constitutes 41 percent of users. TikTok seems to have just the types of content that hold this audience\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And for creatives, TikTok is an arbiter of some of the most inventive, hilarious, and bizarre minds on the Internet\u2014making it a space ripe for self-expression, or maybe even overnight fame<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We rounded up four ways that you, as a designer, can use TikTok to hone your craft without coming across like a total boomer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Illustrate your skills<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Joining the ranks of other talented designers and artists on the platform is probably the most natural and intuitive way in. You don\u2019t have to change anything about your style or technique, just how you share your work with the world. There are plenty of existing challenges to hop onto, as well as new trends cropping up daily. A quick search through the #drawingchallenge tag yielded some cool trends, like: <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Take a design or drawing you\u2019ve already made. Then, recreate it…in its most simple form. It\u2019s a fun exercise in perspective to reduce your own work down to its most basic elements, and it\u2019s fun for others to see the comparison between your crude stick-figure drawing and the finished product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or maybe try a tutorial video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Bite-sized tutorials are a powerful way to build an audience and to show tips and tricks you\u2019ve picked up along your career. We\u2019ll discuss this more later, but showing your process instead of immediate perfection is key to creating content that feels native to TikTok. <\/p>\n\n\n\n