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Where do you share your art with the world?
Where do you share the art that you make with the world? Do you use a social media site? A personal website? Do you keep it all to yourself? Is your art something that can't be shared online so easily?
I'm not sure if this necessarily counts, but I have the somewhat unique opportunity to publish my "art" daily, both online and in print. I'm a reporter at a newspaper and also do a fair amount of photojournalism for the paper. If I'm especially proud of a photo, I'll post it on Instagram, but there's something deeply satisfying about seeing your photography blown up on the front page of a newspaper.
Flashed back to the one time I was an 'accidental photojournalist'. I drove by a large older RV pulled over on the shoulder and got out to help the driver who was frantically looking for a fire extinguisher. I gave him mine, another driver tried his but to no avail. Within five minutes the RV went from a small electrical fire under the dash to a raging ball of fire fuelled by old wood, fiberglass, tires and a venting propane tank. You could see the belching black smoke for miles and it shut down the highway because the heat was so intense no one dared try passing.
We were out the boonies and the fire trucks took 45 minutes to arrive so there was nothing left by the time they pulled out their hoses. Meanwhile I snapped some intriguing close up pics, and sent them in to a couple of local papers. It was definitely satisfying to see them above the fold of the paper the next day with my name on the credit.
Ironically, as the driver stood in the ditch watching his rig go up, he held up his pack of cigarettes and said disgustingly, "Damn! I have my camera and all my lenses and gear in a bag right by the door, and what did I grab on the way out? My cigarettes."
I pretty much don't. I have shared a few things here over the last few days, and I occasionally send pictures to people I know in person, but I'm not consistent about it. I occasionally make a stab at having some kind of online presence for my art, but I inevitably stop updating before too long.
I post my photography to Flickr mainly, but I also have a personal website that I have some posted on too.
I know close to nothing about photography and jargon, but I love how classic your shots are. It makes me feel like I'm watching a movie. A cult classic kind of movie.
Thanks! Any in particular you like?
I've given you a follow OP. I'm a sucker for Japanese photography, and I like how varied your style is.
I usually post finished projects to both Reddit (probably not so much anymore though), and Deviantart.
I didn’t. I made denpadreamer who does. I take pictures with nugget cameras. I used to stick them on Reddit. (Don’t think I will anymore) I also put them on Imgur, Flickr, and instagram.
What's your favorite "nugget camera"?
It’s going to either have to be my Olympus camdia c-4000z or my Minolta dimage G500.
Do you have the cable for the Dimage?
No, but I wish I did. I have to charge it with a universal battery charger.
Pardon my ignorance, but what is a nugget camera?
Nugget is an adjective that you can put in front of words. Sometimes it can refer to cheapness of an item. Sometimes it refers to the idiotic operation of an item. I picked the word up off of YouTube from dankpods.
For me a nugget camera is a digicam. Or any other camera that idiotic. That is weird shape, annoying controls, proprietary card format.
Thanks for clearing that up! At the risk of dating myself, I had one of those original Sony Mavica's, which took 3,5" disks. It was groundbreaking at the time, but now it could easily be called a nugget.
Ha, I recently bought a Mavica FD87 from goodwill for like 12.99. Definite nugget status, but it's fun to play with. I was impressed to receive it with both a working battery and charger, and even a floppy disk still in the drive. Shooting at the camera's maximum resolution of 1280x960 you can fit a whole six images per floppy disk.
Whoa, amazing find! Hope you'll consider sharing some of your shots here.
I loved my Mavica-- one of my first big personal purchases (also dating myself). It went on my very first intercontinental trip with me and was an absolute trooper. Should've brought more disks, though! Finding 3.5"s in another country proved... difficult.
I am open to sharing it, but usually don't. Mostly because I don't have any consistency in a platform. Most of the time I text pics to friends, but otherwise it stays in a pile in my spare room, lol. Sometimes something makes it onto a wall.. Lately I've been shifting more toward sewing, so I get to wear my work, which is super fun :)
I have an instagram for my drawings, but I just do those for fun. My graphic design work, or rather, the stuff I’m proud of, is on my personal website.
I'm on the hunt for a decent place to host a portfolio, but I'm not sure the perfect one exists yet. When I redid my website I wanted it to be as low maintenance as possible, providing a link to an external portfolio. I currently have my ArtStation, but I'm planning on gradually migrating everything to Pixelfed.art, which has promise, but hasn't yet taken-off as much as I'd hoped.
I generally prefer posting works-in-progress, which microblogging works best for. Since the Musk takeover my engagement on Twitter seems to have dwindled, but fortunately Mastodon is ever supportive, and a great place for artists.
I thoroughly enjoy your colorful style and choice of subjects!
Is pixelfed.art invite only at the moment, or is registration fully closed?
I believe it's still running on invites, although I haven't been following it as closely lately. They did a few rounds of open registration, and last I saw the admin was sending invites to anyone who messaged and asked.
Sweet! Just emailed him with crossed fingers.
I think given what has happened with the Musk takeover of Twitter, Huffman's management of Reddit, and some of Zuckerberg's recent failures with the 'Metaverse' there might be some substantial shifts in social media as a whole. I can see within the next few years a platform such as Pixelfed attracting more users.
I used to post the occasional thing on r/Analog as well as my Instagram but perhaps I shall migrate to Pixelfed as well!
I post to instagram and my redbubble. I did share some of my shop designs on Reddit in the sticker subs. I don’t really have anywhere else to post them.
For photography, I used to share them on Unsplash before they got acquired by Getty Images and my Instagram. A while ago there was an "exodus" of Instagram users to Vero. I need to start using more of it.
For voxel art, it used to be Dribbble, Behance (owned by Adobe) and Twitter.
I personally use deviantart, artfol, twitter, tumblr, and instagram, all at different capacities. I'm also very, very much screaming into void. I a.) don't post often and b.) don't try to do algorithm specific content. It's too much work for a hobbyist like me.
I can't agree more about screaming into the void, and your reasoning behind it. It feels like Sisyphus' hill trying to succeed at anything on social media, but especially in a saturated field like art.
Can you tell me a little about Artfol?
Artfol is an artist focused app, less focus on numbers and the like. It got a lot of steam for a little bit, but it was a smaller dev team and started only on a mobile app before having a website. It got some flack, but part of that was they weren't prepared for the app taking off, ontop of artists expecting it to kind of solve all their social media issues.
So I think it's a decent app, and there's still people on it and it has decent activity. I enjoy the interface and the simplicity of uploading my work.
It’s been a while since I created something worth sharing. Not being a working artist or creative comes with the drawback of life getting in the way of creation.
I used to dream about becoming an artist, but failed to make it real and now that I’m starting my forties, I need to come to terms with putting that dream to rest. It’s all good though, my life turned out different bit rewarding and now I have two kids to create with.
Anyhow, I’m rambling, since I can’t get around to put up a personal website, which is the ultimate goal to host my stuff, I dump digital creations to instagram
I scrolled through some of your art and I really like the style - it’s extremely unique.
I’m in a similar boat at the moment. I love graphic and media arts, but my day-to-day career is the furthest thing from that and life just gets in the way. I am contemplating attempting a career change that is more in line with my interests, but at this point in my life, the prospect is a bit scary.
Hey, thanks for the compliment. It actually means a lot.
After changing careers twice, I can say that it’s well worth it. I heard it described once as analogue to creating an RPG character. You can either focus on one skill exclusively or you could focus on some a bit. Both are valid options, but your play will be different.
I am now in a position were I won’t change due to financial stability. Now, there are kids involved and I want to live a certain life with them. That means I won’t take certain risks. ATM. If they were not in the picture and with the knowledge I have about myself, now that I resolved those inner conflicts that kept me from becoming a working artist, I would definitely go for it.
I really like the RPG character comparison. I have taken the mastery route so far, but my career of almost 15 years has lost its spark with few opportunities to be creative. I appreciate the recommendation and I may just go for it. That said, I do relate to the concerns about financial stability. Though I don’t have kids, I’m at a point in life where a radical change could do more harm than good if not navigated carefully. Hopefully I can find a nice balance.
Thanks for the advice, and definitely keep working on your portfolio - it would honestly make a really cool art exhibit.
Well, I hope you find the way to go. For me, changing careers had a huge payout and was well worth it. If you like to bounce ideas off of me, let me know.
And again thank you for your kind words. An exhibition is actually something that I out on my personal roadmap, so now your comments spark slme confidence in me. Thanks.
As long as you keep sharing them, perhaps one day some will become movies. I think good scripts are harder to find than people who want to just ... make films.
The unfortunate truth is that the hardest part of writing a screenplay is getting other people to read it.
For feedback, yes I can imagine! I guess it's a chunk of time to commit. I think professional script assessors are a thing partly for that reason. Tbh I will only read screenplays by close friends.
But I was meaning more, things like InkTip for the finished product if you can't get industry interest. There are people out there who want to make a film but don't have a good script.
I've done all that but it turns out, unless you hit one of those one-in-several-million accidental successes, the only way to sell a script is to know people who know people. Now I just write as a hobby because it's fun.
Fair enough. Sorry if I came across as annnoyingly optimistic about the production side.
Come to think of it, I once heard that you have a better chance of your idea becoming a movie if you turn it into a book and get that published first. Not sure how true that is, but if so, it says a lot about how bad the odds are!
Anyway, writing for fun is more important, and better for you. Scriptwriting is a super cool way to spend your time.
I'm writing my first book! Screenplays took forever for me to learn how to write, but prose annoyingly eluded me until last year when I finally made an attempt I didn't delete in disgust at the writing quality after the first 12 pages.
I'm working on the second draft now, and am about 3/4ths of the way through. It's no great work of literature, but it's surprisingly readable for how excessively nerdy it is.
Hey, congratulations! That is quite the achievement to be past a full draft. I've never been able to figure out how to write prose fiction (is yours fiction?); it eludes me still. Is there much crossover? Have always vaguely thought I would use McKee-style classical 3 act script structure if I ever try again.
What's your inspiration?
Hardly anywhere of late; I need to start sharing again. I'm a writer, so traditionally it has mostly been print media, and the occasional web-based magazine (which seems to have a wider reach in the long term). Occasionally in exhibitions - I'd like to branch out more with that kind of cross-disciplinary stuff.
I have a personal website where I share some things. I'd like to expand onto various platforms, especially audio and video. When I was younger I used to do a lot of live performance stuff, and would like to bring that kinetic/auditory element back into my work somehow.
I share mine on Instagram mainly for updates and fun stuff. I do have a Behance and Personal portfolio website for work though. I think there's another platform too, but I can't remember it right now.
I did start a Mastodon, but abandoned it after a while. Nothing bad, but I have a hard time posting things online. Even my instagram isn't as updated as I would like it to be. I know I should, to gain more traction and eventually more work.
But if not for putting my art out there, I wouldn't be on that kind of social media.
Most of my art is created for commercial purposes. It's gratifying to see it living out in the world, but I generally dont share it outside of professional circles.
I have been considering designing and building a personal website to curate it all though.
When I do share, it's usually in the form of transient or ephemeral art installations I make on the beach with seaweed. They only last for a day or two, so Im never sure how many people I really share them with. I made a post here on Tildes where I shared some recently.
Is 500px still a popular platform among photogs?
Fair enough. Thanks for your reply :)
I used to use DeviantArt and have thought about going back to it. I don't think I'm Artstation quality, if I'm honest, so idk if I'll ever go that route.
Sometimes I'll share on Reddit or Instagram or Twitter, but I don't really keep any consistency. I would like to be better at social media, but honestly I just don't like it that much.
The only place I have most of my current art posted (other than Discord), is my redbubble. I feel a bit weird linking to a shop, but the incessant need to capitalize on my hobbies has led to this being the only place that I regularly upload to. :(
I'm hoping to get some decent places from this thread to upload my work to!
I'm an amateur photographer. I've been posting some of my stuff to Instagram, although the amount of spam comments and shit there is out of control. I used to have a Flickr Pro account but they changed the pricing and features there a few years ago, which made it unattractive, and they seem to have lost most of their audience so you got very little interaction with people there.
With all of the social media upheaval lately, I think I'm going to start posting photos on Mastodon. I know that it isn't a destination for that kind of thing, but I like the interactions I've been having with people there.
I'll just say that the website's commonly referred to as HF and let inquiring minds finish the work on their own - not sure what the policy on NSFW stuff is here since the terms aren't super clear.
Personal website.
I use instagram as a digital portfolio, and from there to my FB feed and maybe Twitter, though not as much these days. I used to use Flickr for my photography, but I had so many photos there at once that I had to cull when they imposed a limit of 1gb for free users that I stopped using it.
At the moment, nowhere. I just share with friends on Discord. A long time ago I used to share on DeviantArt (ElfWood before that haha), but I shifted from doing a lot of art to focusing on building tech skills to work in software. A few years ago, I've come back to art, but haven't started sharing outside of inner circles. Eventually, I'd like to share more broadly and originally, I was considering Instagram (and still might honestly.) But, the Mastodon.art instance seems appealing, so does Cara.app. My favorite place to go used to be ConceptArt.org I miss that place!
I do comics and doujinshi (fandom cartoons with cultural connotations from Japan). Built a hand-coded personal site with a links page, gallery page, and two logs on subdomains separating SFW/NSFW art. The SFW log has a mirror on tumblr and mastodon since one of wordpress' few advantages is the number of plugins that can crosspost on other sites, thus minimizing the amount of harassment one can get.
How about yourself, OP?
I have an instagram page and a Flickr where I post photos and short video clips. It's just a hobby and I don't expect to grow a big following, but it's something fun to do. Would be more than happy to hear any feedback.