I really need some kind of "drawing" icon.

[greek_amazon]

Hey artists! Question time.

[Poll #1727197]

Could you also please explain your reasoning for whatever answer you've chosen? I am curious.

Comments

[aymaera.livejournal.com]

I appreciate that there was an option for me :D

[velleitas.livejournal.com]

Unfort, I don't draw as much as I used to, but I wouldn't post at DA if I did. For one, the community is just *too big* now, so I feel it's lost its appeal of being a "deviant" site. I still watch tonnes of artists on DA, but if I find out they also post elsewhere, I take their DA page off my bookmarks and add their new one.

The second is just kind of on principle? A while back, they were really nasty and insensitive about some gender-related issues. Their response left a really bad taste in my mouth, and I guess it's silly in an age when people don't really boycott things on principle, I can't really continue with such a place!

I just made a huge transition in my life, so I'm hoping having relieved some of my stress, I can get back to drawing... In which case I'll post at my tumblr and other art communities if I find any that appeal to me!

(This is caeline, by the way)

[buboplague.livejournal.com]

sometimes, but rarely. whoops. I want to try and post more, but I just don't actually have the art to post, and the random doodles I DO do I don't think anyone would be interested in, either.

I am a part of 3 different RP-based art communities on there, but I just help mod two so I don't really participate (I'm not a commuinty-RP kind of person), and the most recent one I hope to participate in more because it's smaller and stupider (pokemon).

In general I just don't have too much to post?

I'm kind of sad that a ton of people are flocking over to tumblr, because tumblr is just waaay too hard for me to keep up with because of the way it's set up. I also don't like the fact people can reblog whatever is posted or blog any picture they come across, so some artists tend to have their art circulated around but then the actual artist gets forgotten about.

[pariahsdream.livejournal.com]

I despise DA for several reasons- their lack of interest in cracking down on art theft, their blatant sexism when it comes to male vs. female nudity, the fact that you can have fetish photography running rampant but art done with artistic intent that happens to be sexual too isn't allowed, their blatant money whoring and probably some other issues I've forgotten/haven't come across. All in all, I won't go back to DA even if I haven't completely deleted my account. I keep it just to keep a folder of art tuts and such.

I haven't found a good art site since. I use a couple- tumblr, Y! and here but all of them have their drawbacks.

[saehral.livejournal.com]

I still post to it...it's easier than updating my website, and gets the most response *shrug* Plus I'm not on anything else art-community wise so it's not like I have options! XD

[thegiantkiller.livejournal.com]

I am not an artist these days, though I did draw portraits of all my dinner companions with crayons on a placemat today and impressed myself with their quality.

[rocococious.livejournal.com]

I don't really draw anything outside of work at the moment - which is a situation I'm trying to change as the "artwork" involved in my job is basically all GUI stuff ... coder can't be bothered finding the PSD files for whatever button he wants so sends it to me to change the text. :/ Buuut, I would still use DA, however cannot, as I've been locked out of it, pretty much. I'd had the password saved in my browser and it turned out to not be one of my regular ones when I deleted my cookies ... and, I'd changed my e-mail to one at my personal domain name, and for some reason they say the password reminder messages won't go to "custom" domain names. Though help desk tickets do, mysteriously.

TL;DR: I might use DeviantArt again, but currently don't.

[mr-twitcher.livejournal.com]

I don't because of school. Instructors still mention it as a moderately relevant place to establish an identity though. Key ones are Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, Youtube, and Vimeo.

But I don't feel like keeping up on DA. Too much noise. Embed yourself into too many communities and you're spending all your times trying to keep up, or monitor your work. I'd also have to wipe my old account clean, and I'd rather just abandon it, and preserve it as an archive.

[uneide.livejournal.com]

Still there, and I upload to Y! now and then too.
I'd been asked to flounce out by friends way back when but... really I didn't see the point. I guess the question is why you post there; for me, it was ( and still is) the easiest and quickest way of seeing what friends are doing and showing them some of what I'm doing. *shrugs*

As for y!, I'm really ambivalent about it these days. I loved when it started that it was a place to put the things I couldn't really display anywhere else, but I'm over the thrill of it I suppose. There are only so many times a man's bits can flash across your screen before you tire of it. ;)
For some reason it also feels like lately there is very little quality work up - prOn stick figures, anime characters, repetitious poses make up most of it- and their filters have rather slipped. Really not a place for me anymore.

I find that much of my current art I keep personal. When its something that I want to share I put it up on LJ or DA ( or often both); people seem to be enjoying Tumblr, though!

<3

[zakniteh.livejournal.com]

I still have my dA account and tried bouncing back but I haven't posted anything since October of last year. I really wasn't posting a whole lot before then so, whatever. I also don't really have anything to show. =/ It's nice when people actually comment though.

The only places I post art aside from dA is LJ and a site called >a href="http://www.redbubble.com">RedBubble. A friend recommended the site, but I've only kept it so I can keep little more in touch with her (even though she's just as scarce, haha). Anyway, mostly post everything to LJ. I feel way too awkward and self conscious to post any art on Facebook and I don't have Twitter, Tumblr, or whatever you kids use nowadays. XD

[luthien13.livejournal.com]

I have no artistic talent, but I still use DeviantArt as my go-to for fanart, pretty grapics, PSP brushes, fancomics, and crafts inspiration.

[alienpigpen.livejournal.com]

I. Um. Deleted mine. XD

But I have two more accounts on DA that I never post to either. XD

I should, Y!G doesn't appreciate my earnest, smutless attempts at 3D. X3 (And I am not making Poser-pr0n just to please them. :PPP)

Anyway most of the reason I stopped using dA is because it doesn't function properly on 64-bit Firefox for Vista. I have no idea why, it's just broken. :P I can still use it on Safari if I need to but that kind of killed the desire to use it very often.