We all have good days and bad days; what if someone can make your day better and put a smile on your face? Devon Rodriguez, you may have heard his name on social media platforms or seen his videos on TikTok.
He’s famous for drawing strangers in the subway and capturing their reactions. He’s now the most followed visual artist on TikTok. He has over 25 Million followers, and it keeps growing.
He says that at first, he drew portraits and posted them on TikTok but didn’t get any vast views. First, he pulled the Kanye West; it only got 1,000 views and didn’t go viral.
Disappointed, he drew another celebrity, but it got only 1500 views. He did some experiments like posting varnishing videos, posting videos where he does highlights in the eyes, and posting videos where he gives little tutorials, but nothing went viral, he said.
But one morning, he wanted to do another experiment; in one of the videos on his YouTube, he says this.
I always love drawing portraits on the subway and painting portraits on the subway so I thought you know let me go back to that idea and I remember it was I think it was like two in the morning when I wrote a note to myself in my note app and I wrote like viral idea drawing people on the subway and you know I just had this idea that like if I recorded them.
So he did the first video of a guy wearing a blue hat and a red shirt. So it went super-viral. By the end of the day, he reached 4.9 Million views and got 50k followers on his first viral video. Then he kept going. Check out his first Subway viral video.
@devonrodriguezart He had no idea! 🤪 #drawing #tiktokart #nyc #fyp #foryoupage ♬ Up Beat (Married Life) – Kenyi
Check out his videos on TikTok and tell us about your favorite video.
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