How Joe Rogan helped launch my Art Career

Last May I was looking for someone to paint for practice and came across a JRE podcast that gave me some inspiration- I was going to paint Joe Rogan (Fear Factor/podcaster/UFC commentator) himself. The finished painting is below.

After completion I had DM’d Joe in hopes that he would share it and I got a response 1 month later!

This exposure to his audience took me from roughly 700 followers to 4000 on Instagram. Now with consistent posting I’m sitting at 157,000 followers! My goal is to be at 300,000 by the end of the year on Instagram and 10,000 newsletter subscribers.

Thank y’all for helping me reach my goals last year- there’s a long road ahead but I will keep putting out the best pieces I can for y’all.

Stay on the lookout for more news about my print drop.

-Sam Ryan