> it got a DA Daily Deviation Can't believe I tought

I'm planning to do a my little pony cosplaying sailor moon to get DD on deviantart

>>2706722
>Can't believe I tought back then that getting a DD was a big deserving goal for an artist.

Why would you ever have believed that? Daily Deviations have always been full of shit with the occasional decent art mixed in.

>>2706730
Still half new and DA is the biggest english "art" site, so of course DD sounded like the best title you could get for a drawing.

>>2706722
Me too. I've gotten like 8 now. I used to freak out and tell all my friends when I made it to the front page, now I just roll my eyes because the idiots on dA have no taste. What does popularity mean if all the people who make you popular are fur-fags and general low-taste weebs?

>>2706877
Post work?

>>2706877
Pic or didn't happen.

>watching DA Daily Deviation
>using DA in 2016
what the fuck

>>2706886
Lots of pros are still using DA. Say what you want about the user base, but it's the most stable site there is when it comes to hosting art. DA will be around when Artstation goes the way of CGhub and tumblr and instagram are replaced by the newest social media fad. There is a reason why all the immensely popular artists like Sakimi, Kron, Doxxy, Loish, Algen etc all have their core fanbase on DA.

>>2706886
>watching DA Daily Deviation

It's on the main page, hard to look away.

>>2706722
I have 5 or 6 DD. half of them are for fanart.

It doesn't matter.

>>2706886
>Current year

Wew lad.

DA is another platform. It's every artist's duty to post art and links to their patreon in every fucking platform possible.

>>2706886
DA is the only safe place to host your art.
No insta-ban for false CP accusations, no doxx-loving SJWs, no people who are so shit at money their website go down. Just art and llamas.

The quality of your da experience is up to yourself but I like having a place where I can host and store very high quality files of my art and know it'll still be there 10 years from now.

>>2706722
omg Im in love

>>2706918
>DA will be around when Artstation goes the way of CGhub and tumblr and instagram are replaced by the newest social media fad.

What makes you so sure, exactly? It's already decrepit, most of its users already think it's dying, and it regularly fails to appeal to new artists because it's basically built around drawing eyes to their established artists who've been there for years.

I'm pretty sure my experience isn't irregular that in comparing my DA to my tumblr - and I updated both regularly - I got literally 7x (nearly 8x and the gap is widening) the following on tumblr (and I started a tumblr months after my DA). Unless you waste your time joining and submitting art to tons of groups your art gets basically no exposure, whereas on tumblr there's a system in place where people are incentivized to share your work.

DA makes most artists who aren't already big do a needless amount of legwork for a marginal gain. Perhaps there are exceptions if you cater to the autistic tastes of the DA mob, but those tastes are arguably even worse than tumblr's.

>>2706957
No one cares about your original art made deep from your soul, they want pictures of doctor who and naruto dang nabbit!

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>>2707653
>No insta-ban for false CP accusations, no doxx-loving SJWs, no people who are so shit at money their website go down. Just art and llamas.
Are you sure?

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>>2706722
Is there any thing wrong with this piece in particular? It looks perfectly fine compared to what people see daily in musems.

>>2706722
>that chromatic aberration

I do hope that's not your piece, OP.

>autistic pseudotrace reference pieces and studies
>art
Pick ONE.

dA died for me when someone reported my work as stolen and dA just took it all down without even asking me. I tried to send work in progress shots as proof but the guy just said "I've seen this image long before you uploaded it". Punishment for having created a popular image. Thanks, faggots.

i find it pretty hilarious that nobody is actually posting their DD's lol. and that this dude thought making a thread to show off about having one while insisting they're stupid and everyone fell for it

Is there a general art site that's not shit like Tumblr or dA (excluding furry sites like Inkbunny and shit).
I'm tempted to startup a art site for myself and others so they have their work to display and not have it stolen by others or the site themself (Tumblr and dA respectively).
I know making a new site isn't going to auto solve many problems, but hopefully will be a nicer shelter for people in the art world.

>>2710791
No need. There's tons of them.

Drawcrowd, Behance, Artstation, Pinterest and Graphicker are some. You can also post your art on twitter, G+ or FB if that's what you're into. Otherwise, make a portfolio site and be antisocial.

>>2710794
>Otherwise, make a portfolio site and be antisocial.
That was the original plan.
And I'd probably do more damage than good trying to make a new art site.

>>2710791
I think that would be a great idea, and at the very least it would be a temporary break from all the shit going around with tumblr and DA. You should go for it man, a lot of people on this board would really appreciate it.

>>2710794
I shill on FB, it's pretty good for freebie abuse.
I can friend request spam people for exposure, if I didn't just spam cute girls from Indonesia and the Philippines it'd be more productive...

>>2710795
Portfoliobox has this covered.

What software do you use? Paint tool SAI? I'm trying to get better at digital and I'm just in love with your shading.

>>2710791
YES. PLEASE. I'm sick of the DA furry porn.

>>2706722
I hate your art with a burning rage of fire that ignites in my fists.

Your work is complete fucking shit. Congratulations.

>>2706722
I wish i could just take a fucking baseball bat with nails in it and beat the living shit out of this dumb ass bitch.

OP isnt Nad4r.

>>IT got a DA Daily Deviation

Not I.

Fucking retards.

>>2710791
pixiv

>>2708290
>>2708292
One piece was deleted and that because the mods investigated and found it was violating one of the site's rules. Tumblr deletes your whole shit just because of he-says-she-says and doesn't even notify you about it.

>>2711628
Good. It's fucking shit. I hate it.

It's cancer. The big eye lip portrait filtered portraits are the cancer of 1016 along with any memes among the internet.

Personally I thought it was a troll artist. Apparently not, which is even more embarrassing and reprehensible behavior.

Fuck her.

>>2711631
2016*

when does it stop people?

>>2711631
>The big eye lip portrait filtered portraits

wat

>>2708290
>>2708292
>tumblrina pornfags with patreons complaining about DA taking down their shit.

Who cares?

>>2706722
>Another shitty witch hunting thread

Lol. Someone's mad that they can't draw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IewOpaLvKSw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzvRBuEestI

Irakli Nadar is a fraud. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>2714265
>Implying anyone is jelaous about Irakli

Guy is load of bollocks.

>>2714265
I cant believe you support a con-artist

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>>2714401

He overestimates irakli, the method is much cheaper.

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The guy is on a roll

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hey guys what do you think about my irakli?

This took me two weeks

>>2717116
whhoooa das mezing wer patreon?

>>2706722
I just recently was surprised as well to see the shitty amateur crap DA not only gives DD to, but shares in its Facebook page and Twitter

I mean technically this is a form of art in photo editing but it being passed off as painting is fraudulent.

>>2717188
Its the more advanced version of those selfie stickers that people on facebook use.
Doggy snout.

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>>2714401
there was always something not quite right about his work that got me, but after those videos plus looking at this gif of his 'process' - every feature is perfectly placed and there's no point where in painting over it he decides to adjust it - it's too perfect, like tracing.

i mean, the guy obviously can paint somewhat and place an aesthetic (albiet, a vomit one) into portraiture, why bother manipulating? why not just learn to paint at this point?

>>2717570
Even in this image you posted there are some changes step to step in placement. They're minor but they're there. He probably just is good at observation and actually painting.

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>>2717585
>someone out there actually believes this

>>2717598
>violent reactions to differing opinions
This is why nobody takes you seriously and ultimatedly dismisses your objective criticism of iraki's bullshit.
You're actually helping him so much, I begin to suspect you're actually a shill pretending to be an autismo.

>>2717714
>violent reaction
>autistic shill

Think youre stretching it a bit

>>2717714
>violent
Do you people need trigger warnings for cute animal pictures now?

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>>2717718
Irakli old work
Sargentfag

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>>2717726
Has he every drawn anything from scratch?

>>2717585
> He probably just is good at observation and actually painting.

The problem with this is that all the portraits he does look like they're referenced and he even admits to this - they're his 'reimagining'. The only one where I can sense any kind of originality is in the OP's post, which shows weakness in form in the body which to me says he doesn't have a fundamental understanding, only of that he can render to a very limited standard. It's his weakest drawing when you put it next to the rest of his gallery - which I feel are all manipulated.

So when you say he's observing and copying/manipulating from his mind - and let's say I believe you - it's still unwarrented to give him credit for being talented/good at observation if his entire gallery is nothing but heavily referenced images. :\

Basically, I'm taking 'he's just rly gud at making suspiciously specific images' with a grain of salt until someone shows me him painting something completely unrelated to all of these portraits.

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>>2717774
>The only one where I can sense any kind of originality is in the OP's post
What? You do realize that this picture is also a copy, right?
He's built himself a library of pre-painted faces and parts that he reuses and modifies slightly, so that he doesn't have to rely on the original face in the picture he's copying. He basically paints over an existing picture, then pastes one of his faces over it.

Deviantart is fucking useless. Years ago I would spam my shitty art to tons of DA groups to get them noticed and they'd get thousands of views. Now if I do it with my better art they get 100 views max because of how retardedly over-saturated with garbage the website is.

>>2717784
>citation needed

daily dev is more like participation award, they give that shit to everyone so it doesnt mean anything except being dev fave. admin retweeted your shit coz couple fangirls kept forcing it, does that really make you a better artist? no

>>2717787
>everyone
>forcing it
>broad generalizations and assumptions the post

>>2717788
bet you trace too since over half of your post is copying me. fucking weeb :^)

>>2717726
Why do people do this? This is almost as bad as that anon that slapped some fugly anime faces on a Bouguereau painting.

>>2717776
>What? You do realize that this picture is also a copy, right?
Oh shit. Well - to me there's still something off about it structually as an image in comparison to the rest. Like he designed that image itself while the others are his special renditions of photographs - hence them looking better since they're based on actual original form. Actually that fanart in your post's body gives me the same feelies desu.

idek know anymore, I just don't like his lazy ass, unoriginal shit.

>>2717794
In case I wasn't clear, all the prepainted faces he's got are also copies. I think he cuts them out from old paintovers and just reuses them. In fact, I know he does that. Look at the bottom two faces in the picture above. Those are from two different pictures, but he obviously didn't paint the exact same face twice.

>>2717797
All his eyes have the exact same reflections at the exact same spots.
As if that wasnt a dead giveaway.

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>>2717797
>>2717846
>>2717794

Not only paintings, but his attitude says a lot about him. In comment below he claims he did over 200 studies but somehow he deleted them all when someone asked if he has any old work around. I mean, sure, I lost some of my artwork in 10 years, but how does one go and delete all of it? And where is his traditional shit?

Also ''lol I don't need to prove anything'' sure thing bruh. That's why you'll do last ''hyperealistic'' painting of yours.

>>2717784
Groups are old and busted. The goal is hit top 10 in the popular 24 hours category because that's the default page people land on if they're logged into their account when they go to deviant art.com.

I finally got a pic on the 4th spot yesterday for about 15 hours and got 166 new watchers over the last 24 hours. If you can consistently hit the top 10 you'll get a ton of watchers. If you can't then spamming llamas is the next best option.

>>2717776
>black eyebrows

Gorgeous ! ..

>>2717894
How does that even happen?

>>2719176
Its a combination playing the categories system, the number of views you get per hour, and your favorite to views ratio.

DeviantArt has system where they don't want art of the same type in their popular 24 hours listing, so generally they only take the top from from each category, ie, first in MangaAnime/Digital Media/Drawings might be #3 on the list, but #2 could be all the way down at #33, even if it has more views/favs than the art ahead of it.

However, the categories are not transparent either, for example, Manga/Anime seems to be its own category, so all the ones ranked below it are generally put in the same category. However, 'abstract' is another category that appears often in the top, but 'abstract' is listed under multiple top level categories, such as Digital Art/Mixed Media/Abstract, or Traditional Art/Drawings/Abstract.

Not all categories are created equal either, dA has been trying to promote less popular categories. For example, if you try to put your art in popular categories like Fanart or Manga/Anime, its pretty much impossible to front page because you're competing against people with 60,000+ watchers. However, there are a number of unpopular categories like Fashion Design where its a lot easier to take #1 in that slot and appear in the front page. If you're absolutely shameless you can put art in completely unrelated categories and just apologize later. That's actually happened to a few deviants who were really blatant in abusing the system.

The rankings within the categories themselves depend both on the rate you get views/favs per hour along with the fav to view ratio. I don't know the exact formula, but having a higher fav to view ratio will allow you to beat out pics with high views but much lower ratio. Of course the absolute fav count plays a significant role too. Generally though, even if you choose a less competitive category you probably still need around 50 favs in your first hour.

I once got 14k views in a couple hours from posting the "draw it again meme" here with the before and after swapped places.
It's the little things.