Trying to see what's up with this site after gaia has been a bit underwhelming lately.
I love meeting new people and would love any sort of recommendations/ help for maneuvering here as possible. Lol.
Oh, and I do have a question, if anyone sees this, I do tend to have an art shop that I set up to help make $ on sites like this, is this a large enough base for people who would want art to invest my time into another shop like that?

Welcome to voltra. :D This is a great site with a super friendly community. My biggest suggestion is just start posting in various hangouts or charities and someone will reply.

Undercurrent you can post multiple times in a row with no issues, everywhere else you can only do two posts in a row. We've got themed hangouts all over the place but in no way do you need to stick to the theme. They're just hey here's a theme incase you need something to talk about and will also provide you with an idea of the thread creators interests so that you perhaps have something in common to talk about and get to know other volties. ^^

As for art shops there are plenty of people with interest and lots of freebie art threads made during events, we have an event coming up soon too which will be a lot of fun it's one of the bigger ones on the site.

I definitely suggest checking out charities because there are many that give out some awesome items for free to our new voltie friends that join who don't want to just be silouettes.

Of you have any specific questions feel free to ask.

Oh yeah and creating your own shop go right ahead. I think you can have one or two shops I forget which, the rules in that specific part of the forum highlights the rules of that area of you ever forget like I do. :D

Miss Sandman:

Thank you so much! I am excited to meet more of the community here :3

@PhotogenicPhish: Hello! Welcome to Voltra! It's wonderful to see new people. ^^
If you haven't looked yet, check out the newbie guide, it has lots of good information and links! https://www.voltra.us/forum/view_topic/969

I personally think we need more artists selling art! I would love to buy some myself.
It's more popular during events I've noticed, so maybe try an art shop/event thread in the upcoming event!
It's the Halloween event called a "Reaping Ritual" and it should be starting in a few days.
You might just get a fan base going.

You should also check out the item museum to see all the old items that have come out. https://www.voltra.us/forum/view_topic/3712
It's never to early too start a wishlist. (people on here are generous)

Vixen:

Thank you for the help and suggestions, I appreciate it all so much. I will definitely have to go check out the shops and change into at least something. It's nice hearing that someone else that is new is enjoying it so much already. Also great idea for asking for items instead of currency. I will have to get used to prices and how it all equals out so that I can do this. :3

Miss Sandman:

Thank you! It's nice meeting you and so many others so far!

@PhotogenicPhish: how are you dear? :)

@PhotogenicPhish: I do think when people have an item to offer as payment for art they like to do that. But it depends if they have the right items or not. So I would recommend volt prices with an option of items you’d also accept.
You can also ask for ohm but they aren’t very common to find on here. If you do, the average value is 20 volts for 1 ohm. (Though I’ve noticed 25 lately because ohms are pretty rare)

If you do a thread in the event forum selling art it can be set up pretty simple (they usually are In the event forum). Even ask for price suggestions or make it a bribe shop I you aren’t sure what to price at yet.

Totalanimefan:

I was just looking through some Gaia forums and someone actually had suggested a few similar sites to check out. I have been on Gaia since '07 so I was ready to see what else was out there at this point and get involved in a new community that was a bit more inverted at this point.

Vixen:

Yeah that isn't a bad option. It also got recommended that I try a bride shop at this point as well and that way I wouldn't need to do some much to figure it out so quickly. And that seems promising as well.