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- vpcwiu, on 10/12/2007, -20/+5320,000,000 deviations would be impressive if 5,000,000 of it weren't snapshots that would be better served on photobucket, 5,000,000 weren't "Look at me, I'm sad and suicidal" pics in the bathroom and 8,000,000 weren't poorly drawn anime.
It's sad how little of the 20,000,000 is actually considered quality work. - blueangel5383, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26if everyone was good then no one would be exceptional then =)
And it is the exceptional ones that makes us keep going back there, while the not-so-exceptional-for-now ones can look up to them and continue to strive for that level. Everyone starts somewhere...even the now exceptional ones, started with stick figures some time in their life. - MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17not only that, but they got rid of the original founders. Since that happened, I havent been back on. And I can really care less since its just a bunch of emo kids.
- DanSheldon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1567% of all statisitcs are made up on the spot.
- anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"DeviantArt is a webpage where you can download wallpapers, skins"
A webpage with wallpapers and skins eh?...What a truly awful description of DeviantART. - antisthenex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Spyed took over the company and fired Fark. Pretty much everyone agrees that Spyed is a douchebag that just wants money.
- Steeple, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10it's great as a meeting place, but if you upload artwork you agree to let them do almost anything with it, without royalties
- howittsdone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Deviant Art rocks, however it's looking a little dated. They should change the way you browse art submissions to make it faster something like flickr. They should also change the comment system.
- theiss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Awesome stuff. Props to great art community.
- rvalles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6DeviantArt's absolutelly amazing, yet it lacks proper search facilities, making finding whatever you need kind of hard to impossible.
Also, what's the license of each pic? It does no good for it to be unknown. - DanSheldon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Wallpapers and Skins are the best you can do to describe it *sigh*
- fac3less, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Jark.
- Daniel591992, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I don't make skins or wallpapers, and I'm a member.
http://daniel591992.deviantart.com/ - ghostaliaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I like DeviantArt & always will. For the negative people get a life and just not use it. I love that people beginners & advanced are atleast trying to do something, so if you do not like it , then don't look, but I like just the fact that they share there wonderfull work & I will always continue to use this site because it rocks & to the misable people no it is not perfect (shoot what is?) but it does the trick for now, so enjoy or just don't use it.
- sedgemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I agree somewhat that DA is a vast wasteland... everyone seems to be pointing out how great democracy is on an art website, but would anyone go to a gallery in real life if any six-year-old with a digital camera and crayons could hang their snapshots and doodles on the wall? Yes, art is subjective, but coooooome on.
On the other hand, DA has so many excellent artists posting there's bound to be a great piece of work for all comers to enjoy. DA's popularity draws in all the good artists along with the aforementioned six-year-old-digital-camera types. I would guess DA wouldn't be half as popular if it didn't allow everyone to post. - Zlatty, on 10/12/2007, -10/+13Too bad dA blows chunks nowadays. I have been on there since 01, and its not fun interacting on there any longer.
- briansalo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I agree, searching for terms on there is just like blindfolding yourself and hoping you throw the baseball in the right direction.
That's good news though. The fact that any smalltown artist can create an account and publish their creations to a big mecca for a large audience to actually see is definately something worthy of a place on the internet (which can't be said about a million other sites); and I hope they make it to 30,000,000 and beyond. - dvgraphics, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4If you spend enough time there, submit some work, make some friends, watch some people, you really see amazing things happen. At least 20% of the 20,000,000 submissions are really great...and that's a LOT.
- defectDS, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9I am personally offended that this is how you see DeviantArt. I myself use it as somewhat of a portfolio if anyone wants to see things I have done so far before asking me to do something for them. Yes, there is bounds of, well quite frankly, not, good, art. But it's only practice for the work they will do later. Find a really good artist, and look back at some of his first Deviations. It's likely they suck. At the time they thought they were good enough to show to the public, and so they did. Why not delete them? Because it shows how much they improved over just a few years.
As for the slow part, the only time i sense slowing down is when I upload a file, which is pretty much expected.
Seriously guys, have some respect. - Stillbored, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I think more people join for the community aspect. Who cares if not everyone on there is good at what they do?
It's a site about art, and about the love of art, and about creating a community of and around said art. That being said, I love it, but I think I'll keep from whoring myself out on digg.
Long live Jark. - estvir, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6.. and 90% is anime/abstract/useless community whores.
private forums ftw. - wtfdan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3In all honesty, DeviantArt is a great idea. It's even executed well... for the most part.
The problem is that the site is not organized well. It feels bloated.
Navigating through all of the (I'm not going to say mediocre...) similar 'art' seems like a chore.
It needs a moderation system. I can't stand sorting through the thousands of pictures of "eye portraits." You know what I'm talking about.
They cut a slim image, increase the contrast and leave only their eyes (probably colored blue or green for effect) and their trendy black rimmed glasses. It's awful.
The site stinks of cliches. If only there was a way to filter it out I might browse for longer than 30 seconds. - fiv3isaliv3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Where'd you get the number 20% from?
- LouCypher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2and here is the 20.000.000th deviation:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/20000000/
by ~Kiwi-Up - repomonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dugg because I've been a deviant since Mar 27, 2001 at 8:22 PM. It's a behemoth now though - not at all the place I used to love ...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Lots of very ignorant people I see. Well done Digg, you always show your true side. DeviantART is not something you can just walk in from somewhere like Digg and expect to be pleased within 12 seconds like the RSS-Junkies you are. DeviantART rewards members who participate, commenting on other works and uploading there own. And if you knew how to "sort by favourites" in the browse section, you would actually find that dA is full of absolutely mind-blowing art.
- ElectroOverlord, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6I wanna put some of those deviations on the back of my laptop lid. Looking for a design to drop on...have www.laptopdesignusa.com do the dirtywork though. I would design my own but I have the creative skills of N'Sync. They have a contest too for best lid going on now....would be awsome to see a Deviant lid win.
- BassCadet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Been going to DA for years but ultimately the place needs a major overhaul. I understand it is a graphic intensive site, but it's just too godda*ned slow and the search engine stinks. And that pea-green motif needs to be retired.
- MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2As much as I dislike da, I did go to the summit last year, and I was impressed. They treated us well, well with the free red bull that is. I did get to meet Angelo (spyed, and he was a total dick) in fact, I have a video I shot there on google video,
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5741166863093087557&q=deviantART
pretty funny. - kramer3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This site is SO FREAKING SLOW!! They need to upgrade the servers and have some freaking search button available.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't understand why so many people join a website whose domain name implies that its members are homosexual.
- m1ck3y, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2deviantart has a lot of very talented people, but i must say it's also full of trash
- LouisC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+220,000,000 deviations, not 20,000,000 users.
- fkuall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3thats the best part about DA though.
it doesnt matter how good you are, you're still accepted and have the same rights as the most popular artist on the site. - hayden.evans, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2deviant art is the myspace for emos
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I enjoy Deviant art, i do agree it is full of some myspace emo kid stuff, but aside from that it really does promote art work. Which is great
- gyrfalcon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you don't consider ~18,000,000 deviations of stupid photos and photoshop mishaps an accomplishment, digg this...
- aura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've always been able to find a great peice of art at DA, mostly wallpaper. There are some accounts which aren't very good, then there are the ones that are great, and it's great to see DA support this community.
- mercyop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree, there's a lot of great art that goes unnoticed there...when so many people submit so much at the same time it's hard to keep track on all the great stuff because it drowns in everything else :(
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2That counter is not totally true, its just a javascript estimate....(I am pretty sure) So its not totally right. I am sure they have more than 20 000 000
- ChrisGranger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2For Antisthenex and Dynamit: the founders were Jark (not Fark) and Matteo. There was quite a lot of controversy over Spyed deciding that he was the supreme head honcho, although he's been the CEO behind the scenes for a long time.
jark.deviantart.com matteo.deviantart.com
Check the earliest versions of dA at the Wayback Machine and you'll see Jark and Matteo posting most of the news articles.
As for the 20 million deviations, yeah, sadly several million of those are mediocre at best... That said, there are some truly great artists submitting work there, like Arcipello and Enayla and many, many more. - paulchu, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5deviantart is not for "artists." its for emo kids who want to be japanese ^_^ or think their photoshop blur filters are more l33t than yours. plus their site is slow.
real digital artists go to www.digitalart.org - mikev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I used to like dA but it got too slow for me...and then dA politics got into it which really turned me off.
Feckit. - paulchu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1redundancy, you've heard of it?
- dynamit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I knew something was wrong when I saw spyed as the founder. As I remember it someone else started deviantart and spyed had some site called dmusic. How did it happen?
- kuchino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I no more a fan of DA, That site use to be about art, now its about who you are in the DA community. I seen so many good art submits and none of them got a comment or big views, then some hot chick posts a picture that The British idol judge would say is ugly in his words, gets 200 comments fave all in all for attention of this hot chick, DA is not what is use to be, but congrats to them on it.
- maverick3x6, on 10/12/2007, -8/+9Yeah, I've been there for about 3 - 4 years and there are a lot of pieces that can't really be considered art. But on the other hand, many great artists are there... even a few celebrities.
http://maverick3x6.deviantart.com - bebop717, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Deviant"Art" Source of erotic furry art, and DBZ illustrations. There are some real artists in there, but you really have to hunt for them. On the bright side I'm glad people are expressing themselves through art.
- DeadlyCouncil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Jesus christ, that counter was at 16 million in December...
- defectDS, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Thats nothing to be proud of.
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