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Seems like its so hard to get critiques these days on the internet. Is there an oversaturation of digital artists now?
Or is there another interactive medium that I should be on besides deviantart ?
What do people use these days anyway? Help please, so ronery.

Update (more recent stuff that I like)______

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i actually dont know if there is anything besides deviantart. i mean there are subforums for art in various sites but i dont think ive come across anything thats like deviant art where the sole purpose of the site is art.

not getting critique sucks though i know what you mean

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I've seen a lot of professionals use Behance to post their portfolio and keep contact using LinkedIn and/or Facebook. Oh and Instagram too.

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I do use facebook, no one ever bothers to look at it. Maybe its because i suck at socializing/ marketing, I guess I never felt like it was a crucial thing.

edit:

Updated OP with some of the more recent stuff. Ive been slowly trying to move back to slightly anime style drawing...again. Ive always wanted to, but just didnt feel like I had enough skill to do it before.(also kind of a homage to where I started).

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those headphones look really really good

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http://www.cgsociety.org/
largest on internet

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Thanks ;o, they also sound pretty good lol.

Will be streaming some speedpaint right now
http://www.livestream.com/renevatia

Cgtalk is big but theres even less interaction on there than deviantart. Though, I am taking a look into it.

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this is awesome as fuck...
i've seen a lot of artists get recognition from facebook "like" pages or whatever and instagram
also society6 if you're down with selling your art prints on like phone cases and t-shirts and stuff. if i were an artist i'd be stoked to see someone using a phone case with my art on it lmao

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your art is fantastic. I have no valid criticism from a professional standpoint as I am not an artist, but your stuff is amazing, keep it up!

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If you keep both a Behance and LinkedIn profile with updated work, there are certain groups/communities that you can join (or request to join) that offer weekly/monthly portfolio review webinars which are pretty helpful if you want critique for industry professionals. I don't know any off the top of my head that I can name, but I'm sure they're easy to find with some looking around.

I guess for example, I was invited to join the Association of Registered Graphic Designers awhile back, and I usually get emails with all the group updates, many of which are portfolio review webinar dates.

Nice to see that you're still around doing what you love though :cool:

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sketch



trying some stuff.

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LMFAO i fuckin thought the headphones were an actual picture taken by camera

you're still amazing

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this expresses how I feel about Renevatia's art.

Anyway, here's some pieces I did:



Fast 30 minute acrylic ink self-portrait.



flower done using the stipling method (dots and shit)



Some photoshop work with the theme of "beyond nature" put into it. Quite impressed I could do this in like a few hours.

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coooool ps

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what the fuck x_x love

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Gorgeous. Love the cityscape the most.

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I like the dot art, its so time consuming though.
You might want to try a higher contrast if you do get another chance to do that.

third one, are those your brushes?

:D

I am actually somewhat uncomfortable doing cityscapes and only did that one because someone suggested it as something out of my comfort zone for practice. I turned out to quite like it as well.

Heres a new one. TERA online fan art, kind of.

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@Renevatia Yeah stipling looks really good but I think of it as something that stresses me out and yet is therapeutic. I might consider doing it for a portrait though.

I can't exactly remember how I did the snow piece but I think I used some pre-made brushes. For the snowflakes, I just customised the preset brushes. For the ink, I just Googled ink splats and used them, lol.

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lighting/contrast studies.