Perfect for artists looking to engage in discussions with others outside of sites like DeviantArt will love Polycount. Like ConceptArt, the forum centric design is perfect for chatting with other artists in both the 2D and 3D digital realm.
But one of our favorite sections, and one we find ourselves personally looking at time and time again, will definitely be their Technical Talk section. Beyond the regular discussions and critiques you can both give and take , Polycount also offers up contests on a repeat basis. One of the most robust sites on the list with still DeviantArt taking that crown will be 3DTotal. Not only is this site great for showcasing your own digital artwork to an enormous user base, but the shop is great for expanding your reference guide through anatomy figures, sketching tools, magazines, and more:.
So, if you want to get a bit better in Maya, 3ds Max, ZBrush, or any of the other popular tools — then be sure to check this great site.
Our Art Corner is simply an art challenge and critique site. With an immensely minimalist design, most of the community over there will focus on either the artwork or challenges section.
The artwork section is like most on this list — another great place to share your artwork for the world to see. Randomly squaring two artists against one another on a weekly basis, the community will decide on which piece they like better.
Their search bar centric design akin to Google makes it incredibly easy to find the popular works you may be seeking. For instance, when searching the term Mario, Pixiv not only gives accurate results, but it is fairly bilingual friendly by giving you both the Japanese katakana and English translation:.
If you copy and paste that Kanji character into Google Translate, you will know what you are searching a bit easier:. A more obscure site on this list will be Paigee World — a site highly focused on Japanese inspired artwork. Sifting through the artwork on the site though is incredibly easy as it shares many common design elements to Pinterest. With hashtag support along with many of the staple social media features like, comment, follow, etc. Paigee does also have a few free tutorials through their Store section that can be great for those looking to get better in anime style drawing.
A massive site featuring creator made movies, games, audio, art, and more — there is virtually no limit when it comes to the breadth of content featured on NewGrounds. Quite possibly one of the best alternatives to DeviantArt for artists who like to explore and see new things, NewGrounds has it where it counts — tons of artwork.
A trip over to their Art section will give you a smattering of fine art, 3D art, pixel, illustration, and more:. Their Community section is pretty active and a great way to get tips and have engaging conversations with other people who really love anime and other cartoon stylized artwork. The majority of work published to ArtStation is digital and related to entertainment artwork like characters, creatures, environments, storyboards, or thumbnail sketches.
A traditional artist can still join and publish work. This site is totally free just like ArtStation and even has a similar feel to the ArtStation design. If you visit the galleries page you can browse through all the latest posts from artists on CGSociety. There is a decent mix of both if you look hard enough.
I just notice it slants more towards 3D. Which is great! If you want a site kinda like DeviantArt but with more variety then Drawcrowd is fantastic. You can use Drawcrowd as a way to share your progress from complete noob to pro, or use this as a portfolio for your polished work.
Or maybe a mix of both. But one reason Drawcrowd stands out is because of its more laid-back social environment. I see Drawcrowd more like Instagram or Twitter where you can post any of your works to share with friends, followers, and your fanbase. Pics can range from simple studies to more abstract personal projects. You can keep up on site news from the official forums and sign up for a free account on the homepage. But this site has grown so fast over the past years that it simply cannot be ignored.
Instead, use it as a supplement to other platforms. Personally, I use Pinterest predominantly to source for design ideas and also to promote my work to reach a larger audience. What makes Pinterest special is its advanced algorithm that furnishes you with pins based on your interest, so any topic you search for will bring you a good number of designs matching your search. Since the pins come from multiple sources, you can explore designs from other people on the web tagged to any pin you view.
Aside from getting design inspiration, you can leverage the same pin feature to promote your own designs by pinning your own creation and circulating them across the internet. Drawcrowd is one of the most similar sites to DeviantArt on this list, but it has more variety.
Its design tilts towards ArtStation, but it does not have a specific preference for traditional or digital design. It balances both styles and houses so many artists with various skills. It can also be used as a portfolio site to showcase all of your polished work. Drawcrowd serves as its own social media platform.
It has the same features that you will find on regular social media platforms such as follower count, likes, and reshare options. This makes Drawcrowd unique from the other platforms. I consider sites like ArtStation as a clean portfolio page that you keep for job opportunities, whereas Drawcrowd is Instagram where you can share the latest on your plate with your friends and followers to engage with.
Trust me, if you are looking for a site like DeviantArt, then you will be happy with Drawcrowd. The platform works on the same principles as DeviantArt: Create and share your work, receive feedback, and build your following. With this, visitors can rate your works which can then be sorted during a search by the highest or lowest rated.
Getting started on Pixiv is free and you will find many useful features once you are inside. For example, Pixiv had a Livestream tool that artists can use to schedule live sessions on Twitch. The platform also allows you to submit an image gallery as single images, so viewers can see your collection as a single page.
The website is originally written in Japanese, but you can change the default language to English, although, you will still find fewer artists on the site. You may find it difficult to navigate through the tags since most of them are in Japanese characters. Even though you try to translate these characters, you may not get the exact words, so if you are looking to get any feedback, then you might want to look elsewhere.
However, I still recommend joining Pixiv in spite of the constraints because you can still browse the pages to get some great design ideas, especially if you are into the anime art style. While it is not nearly as sophisticated as DeviantArt, it has a very clean and modern layout that you will easily fall in love with. The platform houses 37 categories that range from traditional 2D art to more luxurious art forms like skate photography.
You can also buy and sell artwork on this site. Unlike other platforms that have a share per every sale you make, you can link your sale page on Ello. Overall, I think Ello. I know that when you hear of Twitch, your mind places it as a site unlike DeviantArt, but over the past few years, both Twitch and DeviantArt have shared some similarities, especially in the number of people that use the sites and in some of their sections.
Twitch has a creative section that lets you sit in front of the camera while you talk to an audience through your workflow. You can also see what others do when they make their own paintings.
The platform is geared more toward digital arts, but if you dig a little deeper, you will find some traditional artists there too. If you are also looking for a platform to help you grow, then you will get it right with Twitch as it is a fast-growing platform that accommodates a couple of thousand users. If you ever want to join the Twitch art community, now is the time to do so, because I reckon that in a few years there will be more viewers for your work than you can respond to.
It is a combination of an online art class and an online art forum. Although you can infer from its name that it tilts toward the digital arts, there are thousands of users on the forum with millions of questions about other subject matter.
Another similarity Concept Art World has with DeviantArt is its job board that hosts thousands of job opportunities from popular art studios and a lot of these jobs are remote work, so you can get paid a huge amount of money to work from your home. Well, it is entirely a challenge and critique art site. Most visitors to the site are either focused on the artwork or the challenge, but hardly both.
The art section is the part of it that is remotely close to DeviantArt. It is a great place to share your designs with the world.
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