I'll enjoy reading your posts! Keep on going. Don't look at the money. Post like you would do on Facebook or others platforms where you get nothing. Focus on your art, it is really amazing stuff you build, just keep talking about it here and everywhere else and at some point, you will get bigger votes here on steem or wherever it is.

I'm in a quite similar position than you, just joined 2 months later...still refuse to give up as long as there are a handful of active readers of my post I'll enjoy writing it and I combine it with stuff I would do anyway.