Sunday, September 7, 2008

DeviantArt's Virtual Community...

Hey Everyone,

My presentation on Wednesday is going to be based on the popular art website, Deviantart. Some of you perhaps never heard of it before. Deviantart started on August 7, 2000, which isn’t so long ago; the amount of people joining this website is gradually increasing and as of right now there are over 8 million members. I believe it is a great community where artists all over the world can share their artworks with one another; sometimes seeing other pieces of art can inspire you to expand your creativity towards your own work. It is a great site to express yourself and to share with others your exquisite talent. This website contains different forms of artwork such as photography, traditional art, painting, digital art, literature, animation, and filmmaking. Each member of Deviantart has their own homepage, where they can customize their own artwork; they also have a personal journal, where they can comment and explain their own collection of pieces. Other members are gladly able to leave their own opinions or comments as well. Any piece of artwork will cause different reactions to different people. On the site, people are able to give you constructive criticism on how to improve your art and designs; sometimes peoples’ opinions can help to enhance your mind to view or see things in a whole different perspective.


Here is an article I found about Deviantart:


http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2005/06/67955

Feel free to comment on my blog. Thanks.. :)

~Antesh

2 comments:

myoussef100 said...

Hi, it's first time of my life I hear about a social network for art, but it seems that it's so interesting .I feel that website is going to be a huge website and will be well known because it's like an art school that everyone can learn for free.

Maggi

escorhythm said...

wow it's amazing! seems like people are coming out with many types of social networking now-a-days. This network seems pretty abstract and uncommon...then again thats the beuty of art! :)