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This article was originally inspired by a discussion with Alavesa and posted in a journal here but people told me I should make it a news article So here's a revised (hopefully improved) version. Any updates and additions will be posted there.
First, this is something I find many just don't realise... Did you know that you're way more likely to meet new friends and getting your work noticed if you interact with unknown artists, instead of only watching already popular ones? Unknown artists will appreciate any feedback you leave them a lot more (be it a critique, a fave etc.), and often will keep talking to you and return the favour, while to many popular artists, you may be just another drop in the sea.
Remember, the amounts of exposure you get doesn't just depend on the quality of your work – you'll have to get some people to look in the first place!
So, if you feel like being the first to discover great art, where do find them? Well, you can use the random deviant or random deviation button, use discovery (hint: every time you load the page, you get 9 popular artists and 3 unknown ones... you can see their watcher count without having to leave the page so seek out those with few watchers!), lurk the Thumbshare forum or the :#ThumbsShare: chatroom, follow some :devgroups:, or – and this may be easiest – just set the front page - www - to 'newest' instead of 'popular'
Other places to find art include today, channels, the portals such as literature and photography, critiquables, News Feature Articles and journal features, and collections.
What do you do when you find an unknown artist? Well, there is of course DDs, and DailyLitDeviations for literature (besides normal lit DDs), that you can suggest them for – but there's also some initiatives that focus on unknown talent specifically.
More you can do to help them;
Tip for unknown artists
First, this is something I find many just don't realise... Did you know that you're way more likely to meet new friends and getting your work noticed if you interact with unknown artists, instead of only watching already popular ones? Unknown artists will appreciate any feedback you leave them a lot more (be it a critique, a fave etc.), and often will keep talking to you and return the favour, while to many popular artists, you may be just another drop in the sea.
Remember, the amounts of exposure you get doesn't just depend on the quality of your work – you'll have to get some people to look in the first place!
Where to find them
So, if you feel like being the first to discover great art, where do find them? Well, you can use the random deviant or random deviation button, use discovery (hint: every time you load the page, you get 9 popular artists and 3 unknown ones... you can see their watcher count without having to leave the page so seek out those with few watchers!), lurk the Thumbshare forum or the :#ThumbsShare: chatroom, follow some :devgroups:, or – and this may be easiest – just set the front page - www - to 'newest' instead of 'popular'
Other places to find art include today, channels, the portals such as literature and photography, critiquables, News Feature Articles and journal features, and collections.
How to help them
What do you do when you find an unknown artist? Well, there is of course DDs, and DailyLitDeviations for literature (besides normal lit DDs), that you can suggest them for – but there's also some initiatives that focus on unknown talent specifically.
More you can do to help them;
- Suggest them to helping-the-unknown - if chosen will get their own news feature from one of the (usually more known) admins! (they also have a chat event coming up, see: helping-the-unknown.deviantart… )
- Suggest them to 3wyl for her Make a Difference series: 3wyl.deviantart.com/journal/23… which features 3 different artists in an article every week.
- If a deviation has received 0-5 comments (not counting replies), send it to ProjectComment to be featured in a weekly article (example: news.deviantart.com/article/14… )
- Christianonfire7 has a weekly feature and likes to feature unknown artists too – note her with your suggestions.
- hiddendelights has a series called deviants discovered focussing on underappreciated artists, for which she takes suggestions too.
- Or... maybe you could feature them yourself? As a premium member, you can for example feature them in custom boxes (like phoenixleo does on his page!) or journals (like Christianonfire7 and petrova and many many others do)... if you don't have a premium membership, you can feature them by displaying your 'faves' widget on your page, and you can feature them in news articles too (see the guide to dA news I also recommend you check out NonPremiumStyle
- At least as useful, comment on their work. Tell them what you like about it, maybe even critique if you can! Many are on dA to improve as artist, but don't usually get constructive feedback and will be happy to receive some.
A better 2018, two months in
In the last days of 2017, I resolved to do my little part to make 2018 better. I decided that I'm going to change, then what I'm going to change and why those things, and how I'll change them.
Two months in, let's see how it's going.
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Overeating: I've made some progress. I have done this maybe 4 times, and mostly only slightly.
I still rarely separate the lunch and dinner before I start eating. What helped me get this right was mostly just having made myself the promise of not doing it, and having seriously thought through the consequences.
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Sleeping enough: I'm as surprised as you, but I actually made progress! Especially in February,
For a better 2018, final part
So far, I have decided that I'm going to change, then what I'm going to change and why I'm going to change those things. The last question: how?
Ideally each of these would be a skill or habit that I train until it's natural and mostly effortless.
I can only sketch the initial attempt at improving these things. With time I'll learn if they work or not and change the method. I'll reflect in a month.
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For overeating, the first step could be to decide how much I'll eat before I start eating. Ellen and I often cook more than we need to leave some for lunch. I could separate this in advance and leave only the amount I intend to eat, before I e
For a better 2018, part 3
Step 1 was deciding to better myself.
Step 2 was choosing five things I know I could do better. I have more, but five seems a good number to get started. And these five should lay a good basis for whatever may be next.
Step 3 is imagining. To be properly motivated to improve myself, it's important to realize well why I'm doing it - who I could be if I work on it, and who if I don't.
What if I don't?
If I don't improve on any of these dimensions, next year I'll be a year older and none the wiser. I'll still be wishing to improve on these things. I may have realized even more things I need to do better. I'll be further behind, and further fr
For a better 2018, part 2
What would "becoming a better person" look like, for me specifically?
I don't need to bother defining "good". I think I know how I can be better, if I ask myself.
I don't know how to be perfect. But some part in me knows at least 5 things I should be better at, by my own standards. My conscience tells me all the time. I just have to pay attention. That's hard, because I'm so used to ignoring it.
Actually, I just threw around the number 5, but let's see if I can come up with five.
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One of the most common things it tells me (that I ignore) is "you should stop eating now". When I ignore it, I often end up with stomach ache, or being unable
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DA really need to do something to make unknowm artist more easy to find. i mean, helping us seing popular stuff is good since they're popular for good reason and make awesome art, but useless. useless because since theses artists are popular, you eventually get to see their art in less than a week even without trying.
i fav this journal
i fav this journal