#art site

[4eternal-life]

MIKHAIL GEORGIEVICH ABAKUMOV  (Russian/Soviet, 1948 -2010)

Autumn in Totma,  1998

© 2016-2022 Soviet Art  / Abakumov

[theatomicpumpkin]

Pspsps,, I have a Sheezy account now

Deviantart MOVE OVER...sheezy is the art site for me,,

[ritabuuk]

Given the recent state of the internet, I've been wanting to get back to how things were in the good old days and have my own personal art archive in its own little corner of the world wide web.

While I was creating this website, I also made it a project to go back and scan a lot of my super old art that I've never shared online before. So this archive spans from art I made the other day all the way back through art class projects in school and even further back to art I made when I was a kid in the 90s.

I don't intend to stop posting on Tumblr, but it more and more seems like a good idea to have an art archive that can quietly exist away from social media and all of those problems. You can stop by my site any time you'd like to check out the latest things I've drawn, without fear of missing anything due to "algorithms" or timezones or whatever else. I've also made a pretty elaborate tagging system, so you can easily view every drawing I've ever made of Gastly, Haunter, or Gengar and things like that.

[phantaemon]

Still in the process of setting up my artfight! Gotten much more confident with my art, this is gonna be entertaining Account is "Phantaemon", as usual! Don't be shy, share yours...

[cloverlink]

ok so I've watched Izzyzz's video on DeviantArt's history and man, we need another site like that

one of the main reasons I came back to Tumblr is to actually search for communities of stuff I love and also ask blogs are hella fun

but I also wanna explore other alternatives SO I'll be trying these sites(list may grow as time passes):

Artfol

Site 7

and I'll write about my experience on them so maybe it'll come in handy for fellow artists!

If you know about any other desktop sites or apps targeted towards artists please let me know!

all updates on this will be posted on my art blog @mabinogion-artist and reblogged here on my main! Feel free to follow whichever

[djwaglmuffin]

I guess I'm posting my work up here again...I guess.

@deviantart ...let's hope it goes better than last time? Yea?

[allyssotd]

Mystic's Cave

An artist's personal website

Content warnings: adult themes, suggestive artwork

[getvalentined]

Anyone else have an account over on itaku? I recently discovered it via the burning bird site, and it seems like a really nice place to aggregate my art. It's entirely user-funded; the lowest Patreon tier is $3.50, and they take one-off donations via kofi. They allow NSFW and have a really solid content filter, built-in tag blacklisting, and one of the most intuitive UIs I've ever seen on an indy platform like this.

If you have an account or choose to join, hit me up!

[bzzy-b]

moon consultation ♪☾, a funerary stele by sara blosseville

[giustoart]

Hello everyone! I need help!

I would like to find a site in which I can post my drawings and comics such as deviantart but more related to comics/manga. Can you suggest a site?

Thank you ^w^ ❤️

[4eternal-life]

Gustave Мoreau  (French,  1826–1898) Saint George and the Dragon

oil on canvas,  h: 141 cm (55.5 in); w: 96.5 cm (37.9 in)

[crescentcaribou]

thinking of no longer using DeviantArt, after the whole "oh yea there's now a function where we can use your art to make AI art" thing (and the fact that I hardly get any traction no there anymore) I don't see much of a reason to keep using it...

making a couple more sites on different platforms, I'll post links here when they're presentable lol

[cottean]

Still sad about buzzly :’)

Feel free to ignore this, I just wanted to say it somewhere. more about buzzly under the “keep reading”

Sorry for the word salad, I just wanted to dump someplace! I’ve just been so devastated this entire year because all the sites that artists use to not only build an audience or post for fun but directly use to support themselves have stabbed us directly in the back, but on top of that I already was struggling to make something of myself before all of this and still am. 

I hate to air it out because I don’t wanna seem like I’m fishing for compliments or support... but art is more than just a fun hobby to me, it’s the only thing i can do for a job so it’s directly tied to my self-worth, the way I can provide for myself and my bf when we move out. So when I make something, I want it to be worth it to others, and so I put everything into it, more hours than what the work demands sometimes just to make sure it looks right, only to post it and receive not nearly as much engagement as I would hope it’d receive. It makes me feel terrible, because it makes me feel like “What if my work isn’t worth it?”. 

Idk... maybe i’m freaking out and poking holes in it or maybe I just can’t see the bigger picture on how far I’ve come but it’s really taken it’s toll on my motivation to create. I felt that personal growth back when it was vanilla dA or back when it was early buzzly but I hate having to keep moving sites because it’s like i’m restarting all over again over and over and over. 

I’m still so very sad about buzzly’s downfall, it was like the chosen one. Of all the indie art sites I’ve tried that sprang up, Buzzly was the most promising (before the gross rule changes) I had so much engagement there and it felt like old deviantart again. It felt good just to comment on polls and talk with others, the layout was fun, and when I’d post something it actually got engagement back! and the fuzzy little bee mascot was so cute TT TT

If you’re unfamiliar, I won’t go into too much detail but tl;dr: Buzzly was an indie art site that was run into the ground very fast after it was made, it’s still around but they added rules that essentially allowed bestiality and other similar concerning nsfw to be posted as well as some issues regarding the lead dev and the person who owns the site (don’t know if that’s changed but afaik it’s still in the same sorry state)

I’m very supportive of new sites and I’m currently trying them out just to see if I can recapture that lightning in a bottle from early dA days but it’s just something I noticed that still makes me sad to think about. I just haven’t experienced that since buzzly. unu I’m currently on inkblot and it seems very promising but I hope they add polls and more engagement options like that! I’ve also tried artfol and while it seems nice it feels so quiet. I don’t get much engagement there and there’s only really art activities to do, not socialization like journals or polls (things I like in my art site experience)

I feel  like I need to refocus my efforts, but I just don’t know how to do that. Should I just focus on the sites I know and am established on, despite some of the problems they have? (I no longer have a buzzly acc btw i mean like on da) Or should I just attempt to restart from scratch on places like Inkblot and hope for the best? I know it’s for the best to post on multiple sites but with my ocd / anxiety idk if i have it in me to do that all the time. I feel like i’m going in circles. 

[otterloreart]

in case ur interested

I started a portfolio site typa thing you can check out here.

Right now I've just kind of dumped stuff on a few pages but over time I'll start to organize it and include posts from individual projects and stuff.

[dddemigirl]

I made an account here

[minnnieminmin]

i found this site through a friend and thought maybe it could help others. it’s an online art community where you can post drawings and talk to other users. i draw on it sometimes it help calm me down when i’m feeling anxious

basically it has it’s own inbuilt drawing tool and you can reply to others posts. it’s kind of a small community now but i honestly find it fun