Ahhh that's totally understandable.

Alright for some advice, if you don't want to connect your Steemit with your other online galleries, that is totally fine. In fact, there are communities in this platform who prefer people who only upload exclusive posts to Steemit, not some old arts that have already been uploaded some where else on the internet. However, you should put more of yourself in the post, write your thoughts and detail your post with work in progress. If you do that and keep posting, you will definitely receive higher success than what you have been getting now :).

Another advice is to check discord if you have time. You can meet other artists on Steemit here https://discord.gg/ENN8KCb

Good luck and have fun :D.