As many, i was a hobbyist who grew up with DeviantArt since ~2007. I remember getting into dA not because "sonic fanart" or something like that, but - if i remember correctly - because several famous photographs (inluding artistic nudes ones) used it. Regardless whatever was happening to dA in terms of "quality" or…
I also really like ArtStation. Its clean and focuses on folio content. I read somewhere it is used by recruters and the site design reflects that. If I need to view a lot of examples quickly that is my go to. If I need a forum, I come here.
It's social media. Everybody is talking at each other, nobody is talking to each other. It is dead, soulless, selfish tool for selfish pursuits. It's just a tool and tools don't create themselves. It is output of culture that values selfishness and greed. Nothing good can come from it. Nobody can just follow their own…
You know, a hard truth I feel like everyone comes to realize eventually is that the world's not made for them. Just because something is large and easy to access, and you happen to be aware of it - like artstation, doesn't mean it's going to be what you want it to be or that it was ever supposed to be that. Besides, the…
Also tell me what my owl avatar represents, now I gotta know. Probably a religious (the scary word) conversation that i hear on certain sites we should not be involved in, wasn't it a rule here once? lets just say it represents the wrong side. Symbolism does matter its all over everything and if it didn't mean anything…
I was apart of the unfortunates in the yahoo user leak, so i lost a lot of things i totally forgot the password and all that other stuff, its there but, eh, i'd like to get it back but going through that whole ordeal feels dumb to me.(dumb because wayyyyy to many login bs things and going here and there takes time away…
Well, that didn't help. But anyway, I'll tell you about the owl photo. I was playing with a new lens and some lighting equipment a few years back. My wife took a photo of me holding a stuffed owl. And then a good friend of mine edited it so that my head was on the owl, and vice versa, as part of a set of silly photoshops…