Everyone wants to show off their work, whether you are more experienced or just starting out. If you are clueless with html, have no money to buy a personal domain, or you want to reach a wider audience, these websites come in handy
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Concept Art - Really good showcase website with different activities like: Thunderdome, Challenge Area, Specific forums for diverse mediums, tutorials, online classes, and a special forum for the ladies.
Deviant Art - Probably the most popular website for artist to set up their own galleries/ Devart has many features such as galleries with personalized URLs, chat rooms, a news network, and a forum with many different categories.
GFXartist - Also a very nice website that offers a personal gallery, and web url. It has a great forum, news network and many contest
CGsociety- A community for Digital Artist, you can set up a basic gallery for free, but upgrading can buy you new features. CG has Job listings, forums and even a newsletter, also a store
Shadowness - A community that allows you to customize, and choose whether you a private or public portfolio, and it also comes with a blog.
Renderosity - A community that caters to every medium of art, from digital, to writing, to photography.
Behance - Behance also caters to most/all mediums, and has a really awesome gallery layout. It has project, and medium groups.
Flikr - A really popular gallery site for photographers, and other art mediums. It’s gallery makes pictures look nice a crisp look, and offers multiple features for blogs, and personal sites.
Etsy - A site where, artist, clothes designers, and anyone else can sell their products, and open a shop online.
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By: Daniel Mazer
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Make up artist are artist too, and they are equally talented. This career takes patience and creativtiy and has really awesome perks..like traveling all over the world. I’d like to post some makeup artist I admire and if YOU are a young make up artist, contact me, because i’d like to talk to you. (Click links to see full post)
Alexis Renny is a very talented and established makeup artist, who works in Miami.
Stephanie Flor is a equally talented Makeup artist who works out of New York
Eva Beadle started at 18, what’s stopping you?
Kate McCarthy enjoys special effect makeup
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Here are some artist that are well established and maybe they can inspire you in your next art work!
She mixes her photography and art
Really amazing Classic Art
Really awesome digi artist
Lafraise has many awesome T-shirts, and awesome designs..so I thought I post both a male, and Female T-shirt.
Male Tee - Zebra Blooms
100% Cotton, Short Sleeve, and comes in the color Asphalt - Comes in sizes S-XXL men, and also in Women. (S-XL) Price: 11 Euros = around $17
Female Tee - Peurs et désirs
It is 100% Cotton, comes in sizes S-XL and only comes in black
and it’s nicely priced at 22 Euros. = Around $18-$19
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(By Clotheshouse on Etsy)
It comes in Four Colors ( Red, Creme, Pink & Brown)
It’s extremely cute, and currently they are selling sizes small and medium.
Bust: 31”-35”
Shoulders: 13”
Length: 36”
And it’s only $38
( By missbombshell on Etsy)
This really vintage and cute dress is inspired from the 50s and this currently sell in sizes XS-XXL
Price: $85
(By Brooklynroyalty on Etsy)
This really cute black and gold swirl hoodie comes in sizes S-L (For Men, but there is a woman version of this jacket)
Price: $72
Emily Oldroyd, 18 is a very talented digital artist. Her paintings look like photos and reflects the time and details she puts into them. At the age of 18 she is in the ranks of artist with twice as much experience than her.
I did an interview with her:
What’s your name? Emily Oldroyd
Age? 18
And when did you first discover your talents?
I don’t like to sound so immodest about it as that! I’ve been drawing all my life so I’ve just gradually improved over the years. The first time I started digital painting was when I was about 10 or 11. I’m still learning, of course!
What other interest do you have besides digital painting?
I’m very much interested in fighting/martial arts and have practised Karate for ten years, and currently practise Kenjutsu (classical Japanese swordmanship) and ‘street fighting’ (self defence techniques that are practical for the violence of the streets - basically, you have to learn to take hits and go ape!) as well as knife throwing.
What motivates you to keep painting?
I getart block all the time but usually manage to kick myself out of it (eventually) by playing around with sketches until I find one that actually gets its fat behind off the ground and beyond the ‘idea’ stage. I know that art is what I want to do with my life and I owe it to myself to keep developing. Plus, it’s damned fun.
Which art/artist do you look to for inspiration?
If I stumble across an artist I like, whether he or she is a painter, photographer, sculptor, or anything else, I’ll write their name down somewhere (or add their page to my favourites if I’m online) and thus, over the years, I’ve built up a lengthy stack of artists I look to for inspiration. Most recently, I have enjoyed Cornelia Parker’s sculptures, which attach a history to broken objects by creating a ‘snapshot’ of their destruction, and… well, I’m always coming across digital painters online whom I adore. I’m a big fan of superrealism and also fantasy paintings.
Really great answers, What do you plan to do with your art in 10 years?
I still haven’t really decided what kind of artist I want to be. I’m going to art college at the end of this month, where I’ll be trying new things, which will hopefully give me some much needed experience. I’ve always been interested in the prospect of designing conceptart for games or graphics for films (for anyone interested in this, Cinefex is a great magazine about the visual effects of the latest films; I’ve been reading it for years) so that might be a route I have a go at.Art ‘s a pretty risky career path: the way people talk about it, they expect the attempts of all upcoming artists to go horribly awry, resulting in living in someone’s attic attempting to mix paint with mouse droppings and spit. As long as I’m doing a little better than THAT in 10 years, I’ll be happy!
What do you enjoy most about being an artist?
It’s one of the closest things a human can get to creating a world they see in their mind. You get an idea, and you can think to yourself ‘I can paint that’! Of course, a few weeks later, you might look at an old piece and decide that you hate it, but that’s what makes it addictive - I won’t settle until my next piece is better than the last, or until I try something new. I don’t think you peak : I think you can keep improving.
What tips would you give younger artist?
Boringly, probably the same tips as younger artists have heard many, many times already! Drawing using a reference (with permission or the use of a stock photo, of course, if you’re not using a photograph or real life reference of your own) is the best way to improve your understanding of the way the world fits together visually. Try not to get stuck in a rut of doing the same thing over and over - the more experience you have with styles or media, the better. As for digital painting specifically: use a big canvas. You can’t go wrong with a big canvas if you want a detailed image. Plus, you can afford to scribble a bit. Oh, and don’t feel bad if people criticise you. You can tell which ones are trying to help and any snippet of advice is probably going to aid you. The ones who aren’t trying to help should be ignored and not allowed to damage your self esteem!
Here is Emily’s Devart, and she is currently doing commission!
Some more of her work:
