I saw your stuff on IG. Hive and cryptosocial media is another territory to navigate. It's both a social media but not quite like the usual place where you can just post as much as you want as a like here can be synonymous to upvote and that equates to monetary value in crypto.

It's difficult to get noticed early as you're new but the fastest way is just connecting with other people that share similar interest. For now, it's not ideal to watch other people's payouts, that's the most solid advice I could give as rewards on a post don't mean the quality is justified.

I like surreal art. I think @phage93 would love to put you under his curation radar too. We got a lot of curation communities dedicated to promoting other users.

Another helpful tip is not to post too often, I think thrice is already the max socially acceptable rule of thumb because it comes off as spammy and less people aren't going to upvote the same person even all the time. So post once or twice a day and spend more time engaging with other users is the best way to manage your time.

I recommend having a discord account and getting in touch with communities here. I run an art community called ArtBees, it's not an upvote community but a place to just share your art and chill with other members if you can, it's just a small knit community. There are a lot of art communities here too but some are inactive/unmoderated and users just end up unnoticed.