Where Is Your Art Online?


Thought we’d try something different today! I’m curious where you put your art and animation online. Do you have your own blog that you keep updated regularly with new work? Fan of DeviantArt, Newgrounds, or Tumblr? Maybe Instagram or Facebook are more your fortes? Leave a comment below and talk about where you like to house your work online for others to enjoy. Feel free to include a link as well if you’d like, and others can stop by and see your efforts!

Personally I tend to have a LOT more artwork laying around my office than ever ends up online. Sketches here and there and a lot of life drawing practice rather unworthy to end up in a showcase. When I do post things online, these days I mostly toss it up quickly and easily via Twitter. That doesn’t make for much of a “portfolio” kind of setting, but rather a “share as I go” sort of feeling. That works for me right now, and I must admit getting a favorite or retweet is a little thrill of the heart!

Now posting art everywhere!
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Once upon a time pretty much all artists posted their work to personal blogs or free-hosted websites. Now it seems things are spread out a huge amount over a number of different locations. I’ve come across artists online who link to their blog (for some reason separate from their website!), Twitter, Facebook page, Instagram, YouTube channel, Vimeo, and even others still. What’s astounding is often some of these places have art that isn’t posted to others! Do you prefer this “each thing separate” method, or would you rather visit an artist’s singular site online to see all their work?

There’s benefit to having things in multiple locations, of course. As Ferdinand discussed in this video, sometimes online locations shut down, without any warning. At the same time if you simply stop updating one collection of your art and continue on another, sometimes people think you’ve disappeared from any online presence even though you’re still going strong someplace else.

It’s an interesting thing to take a look at! And now let’s hear about what it is you do. Where do you prefer hosting your artwork when you put it online? Do you do so for fun/social reasons, or is every piece you put up for an ever expanding portfolio? Don’t forget to include a link to your best work!

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Chris

I usually post up my artwork on my blogger website http://www.chrisjaser.com. Then post up the links on my facebook and Google+ pages. I do use twitter and instagram for my progress pictures I am working on. Lately I been doing time lapse drawings and posting them up onto youtube. Also promoting my kickstarter project Tracking Jaws https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chrisjaser/tracking-jaws-the-animated-web-series-documentary. Almost everywhere and anywhere at this point lol.

Sabina K

Woah, this really is something new. 😀
You can find me pretty much everywhere, but I’m most active on instagram ( http://instagram.com/ssabinak ) I tend to upload more finished/digital art there and spam all 22 of my twitter followers with sketches from my sketchbook. ( https://twitter.com/ssabinak )
When I created tumblr I wanted it to be my ART tumblr, a place where I show all my art to the world….. but the gifs took over 😉

Andrew Thomas

I post my work-in-progress work, sketches, and newest stuff to Twitter (@andrewgthomas) initially. I always post my best work on my website (andrewgthomas.com). I’ll sporadically post on art hosting sites like Behance and DeviantArt, too. Posting my work is always important to me. If I don’t post a piece of artwork, I never consider it finished…posting it ASAP is kind of like saying, “I’m done! Let’s leave that one alone, on to the next drawing!” Plus I’ve recently been getting into contact with a number of potential clients, so it is crucial to make a good impression.

Ryan

I don’t put my artwork online because its no good. I look at it next to so many other amazing artists and want to throw it in the trash can. 🙁

Petr

I post my work to Blogger (It was a big dilema Tumblr vs Blogger) – http://blog.pejey.com because I couldn’t just remove some animations that wasn’t actually good anymore from my portfolio – http://pejey.com.

Jesse J. Jones

I’m a big fan of Tumblr (http://jessejayjones.tumblr.com) and Instagram (http://instagram.com/jessejayjones) for uploading my doodles and illustrations because of their ease of use, but I keep my professional work on my Online Portfolio at http://www.JesseJayJones.com.

Lashanda L.

I still do keep a personal blog for all my artwork. Not a lot of people visit it but it is mostly for me to give to possible employers so they can see my work. It is like my own private sanctuary of art in an ocean of online art puke. XD

Jody

It’s awesome to get to share! I post my work mostly at ConceptArt.org http://www.conceptart.org/forums/forumdisplay.php/41-Sketchbooks It is a great place to meet other concept artists and get feedback. I hope people will come join us. 🙂

Rustyhound

I put it out on Newgrounds: http://rustyhound.newgrounds.com/

I genreally just put out Animated videos and a few pictures I consider somewhat decent to a certain degree of some sort. The drawing is just something I do while I’m bored in class, it’s mostly done as a practice in order to improve my art for animation purposes

moop

I am sorry that I missed this but it was nice to go see everyone’s work. If you have time to see more it is here: http://pivot5.newgrounds.com/movies/

DK Upshaw

My work can be found mostly on my website–that’s why I have one!

http://shesladytooner.weebly.com

James Anthony

With every passing year, more and more art is being sold online as opposed to standard settings. Even galleries themselves, traditionally a haven of in-person sales, are seeing more and more online business.