very common problem with the idea of an “artist discord” is that the optimal number of active participants in a fully art-focused community isn’t a triple digit number, but like… 12. anything past that and people either start fighting for attention or clam up and don’t have smalltalk ime
my rule of thumb here is that if it’s a number of people that would make going into a small cafe off-putting, it’s a number of people that would turn an art-focused space into a socialisation-focused space (or in the worst case scenario, make a portion of the community interact with it as a popularity contest)
crucially, if it’s a place where people start keeping track of how many emoji reactions their sketches get and caring a lot about that, you’ve passed an event horizon