Online galleries work much like their real life counterparts. These online galleries display an artists work and provide printing and shipping services. In return for the work marketing and distributing the artists work the gallery owner charges a commission on each sale. which can be anywher from 10% to 80% of the sale price depending on who you deal with.

Naturally when selecting a gallery to display and distribute your work you should consider the quality produced by the gallery first as w...
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Being completely self-taught I must say I’ve become very intolerant with the measure of arrogance that comes with success in the arts. Being a regular in the deviantART community I see it very often where talented artists go from unknowns to veritable artistic superstars and forget all the work that went into getting to the point where their work is out there and being appreciated.

For each and every artist in both traditional and digital mediums there is a period where the only person awa...

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Here follows my interview with Cheryl “Ireful” Roelofsz jewellery designer, painter, poet, photo manipulator, stock photographer and general Descriptor of Scorn (ok I made that last bit up)

Having set up my own blog adding pretty (I think they’re pretty dammit don’t judge me) bits and some (I hope) useful bits, some shameless self promotional bits and a whole lot of strange written bits, I decided it was time to add some ridiculously soppy lovey bits. In order to do that I’m going ...

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Ok as everyone can see i've been quite the busy bee this week.

• I felt I needed a bit of a content break so I spent some time working on the design and layout of my sites.
• I also have a new Digital Painting project underway I've asked the owner of the stock image for permission to display the image on my site and am still waiting. I have actually prepared a project page for this image but won't be publishing it publicly until i get permission.
•  Over and above that I've Uploaded a new P...

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During my time in DeviantArt art community I’ve realised that everyones reason reason for joining an art community is not always to be part of an art community but sometimes just to be part of a community. DeviantArt has a number of ways for the community to interact and for members to rank (and show off) their involvement and accomplishments. This is done through Page views for your profile page, Page views for individual art works, favorites, comments and now Critiques.

Page Views on Prof...

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When I started with my first steps into producing art two years ago I had no idea of how this would escalate and change my life. I don’t need to add any hyperbole or exaggeration when I say I was artistically illiterate at the time. I couldn’t speak art I couldn’t think art I definitley couldn’t create art. The school system and my peers had taught me very effectively that art was the domain of the gifted. I should leave art to the professionals and I’d spare the world the pain of v...

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When I started out I had absolutely no training, had never drawn more than a stick man and had no clue abuot the void not creating left in my life. As I spend more and more days without creating I realise more and more the need to create whether you create the exceptional or the ordinary the need to create is fundamental. The act of creating a neccessity. There is no substitute for the feeling no alternative for the void it fills.

 

I believe without a doubt the two things art gives are fu...

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I have spent about 2 years dabbling in the arts. It all started on the 13th of March 2007 when after about two months of anonymous surfing I eventually decided to take the leap and register at DeviantArt it took me another 2 months to actualy upload a piece of art. One of the things that struck me initally was the quality of the work and the willingness of the artists to share resources and critique.

During the first year i taught myself photo manipulation, which to this day I find to be ve...

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Really enjoying these photo manips. However more so than any other artistic endeavour these little monsters are infuriating!! The beauty of painting ones thoughts the colors of fellow deviants efforts intrigues me. But suspending disbelief making these artistic strangers best friends joined at the hip so that it's hard to imagine them as seperate images now that's the art in this art.

So excuse these random musings on my recent addiction need to go and introduce a few more strangers and check ...
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