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I am a member and I have to say that it is a great art site and a great site for any who is an aspiring artist or just loves art. For some reason most of the references to the site are about a minority of members who are Nazis or bronies.

because everything that isn't Warmachine or something better than GW is bad... lol

Where did you get your idea?

I've never heard anything about Deviant Art's reputation on this site. I've been a member of DakkaDakka and of DeviantArt for years.

I use Deviant Art for my sculpting portfolio.

They have a messaging system in addition to the comments that works very well for feedback and communicating with potential clients.

It's also less expensive and time-consuming than having a dedicated website.

 Kilkrazy wrote:

Where did you get your idea?

I've never heard anything about Deviant Art's reputation on this site. I've been a member of DakkaDakka and of DeviantArt for years.

pretty much this, ive never seen anyone say anything negative about deviant, in fact I rarely see any mention of it at all

As the above several posters mention, I have been a member of Dakka for a long time and never seen anything negative about Deviant Art here. I'm sure you saw something, but it is by no means a prevalent opinion on this site, imo.

 viewfinder wrote:
because everything that isn't Warmachine or something better than GW is bad... lol

That's some good mental gymnastics there. Trying to make a supposed site wide dislike of Deviantart to be about how the site also (supposedly) hates GW.

You should try out for the Olympics with moves like that.

Yeah I've been on deviantArt for over 5 years, and since I've been here I've seen no negative comments on it. If anyone here is on dA also, I'd recommend checking out the GW group on there, its recently getting an overhaul (its not official GW of course) But you can find some great painted models on there, and the member is doing a good job getting discussions going, and even dedicating journal entries to the new members each week.

Deviant Art isn't very known as site with high quality work most of the time. Especially on the category I work in (Graphic Design). Press search and there always seem to be piles of microsoft paint works and [insert weird stuff here.]

So I'm not sure about the models area of dA but some parts of dA makes my eyes cry blood.

I have never seen anyone here mention deviant art until this thread.

Perhaps this is just brilliant marketing. How many people ventured over to DA after reading this thread?

Deviant Art is a website where anyone can post their artwork. This means there are some excellent artists who may post some great artwork, paintjobs, sculpts, or what have you. However, for every one of them there's a couple hundred thousand people who post furry porn, pregnant fetish art, Sonic the Hedgehog fanart, Original Character Don't Steal-levels of stuff, and all sorts of other garbage. The community there trends towards younger users, and as a result you have a lot of unskilled people using less than ideal tools to make their artwork. I used it a bit in high school, but most serious artists I know have completely abandoned it.

I have been on DA for years, and Dakka for a while, but I have never actually noticed this. Do you mean like negative references to users, or just the site in general?

I mean, if its users, you cant help that, or claim its a negative bias. If someone is a dick and has the charm and charisma of a Portuguese man o' war, you cant control what comes out of their mouths, nor whether or not they have a DA profile surely?

Considering that there's two threads in the DCM section just about art from deviantArt (and other places), one of which is one hundred and fifty nine pages long, perhaps its just that certain users have poor taste. =P

Oh, and talking about a particular user, I do reference one fellow as having interesting art, but being a total donkey cave (being a nazi feth head of course) at times. Though its been ages since I posted a piece of his art here.

I have no idea what the OP is talking about.

It's a decent image hosting site, but it's inundated with garbage. CGHub is much better.

Ironclad Warlord wrote:
I am a member and I have to say that it is a great art site and a great site for any who is an aspiring artist or just loves art. For some reason most of the references to the site are about a minority of members who are Nazis or bronies.

Oh look. Shock value, just for the sake of the shock.

Deviant Art is bad ass. This particular subject is one of my all time favorites.

A spoonful of sugar makes the brains go down....

http://www.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&global=1&q=disney+undead+princesses

Because I'm tired to seeing Yarrick and Ghazghull in passionate embraces.

It really depends what you search for. There are plenty of respectable artists. But like any place on the internet, there will inevitably be some rubbish stuff. Plus don't forget rule 34. And besides, on deviantart you can enable the feature to not show mature content, so you won't see it in your searches. Sadly there's no filter for Pony and Sonic OCs xD But to be honest, there's more quality stuff on there than bad stuff.

Yeah, I've never heard anything bad about deviantart on here beyond complaints of Rule 34 and My Little Pony. Beyond that, I don't think there's some general anti-DA community on Dakka.

For what it's worth, one thing that Deviantart is good for is finding stock reference photos. Always nice to have a resource like that when the roommates are out and unable to pose.

A Dakkanaut Dislike of Deviant Deviations is news to me.

The Auld Grump, who is just too tired to alliterate his way through the entire post....

 Fafnir wrote:
For what it's worth, one thing that Deviantart is good for is finding stock reference photos. Always nice to have a resource like that when the roommates are out and unable to pose.

This is very true. About the only reason I ever browse deviantart anymore is for stock images. You can find just about anything.

 carlos13th wrote:
I have never seen anyone here mention deviant art until this thread.

This.
Maybe it's just some jerk you saw.

DCMs seem to have the opposite opinion as Wyrmalla stated. I don't browse it, but then again, I do most of my browsing on someone else's time, therefore I try to avoid hang ups with the work filter.

They're jealous of the artist's massively greater talent?

though seriously, I've never witnessed deviantart being mentions of this site until now.

I often refer people there when looking for artists on the cheap. Lots of talented people mixed in the sea of not quite so talented. Many of them do work or are looking to do work professionally.

Regarding stock photos for different poses, consider

http://www.photo-reference-for-comic-artists.com/

And their sister sites (3d.sk and the like...careful, you will see nipples and other parts at 3d.sk).

I went ahead and started paying for them since it is handy to see poses from 360 degrees as opposed to just a few different angles.

Definitely bookmarking that site.

 TheAuldGrump wrote:
A Dakkanaut Dislike of Deviant Deviations is news to me.

The Auld Grump, who is just too tired to alliterate his way through the entire post....

But "doubtful"... it was right there just waiting for you

with art like this, how can you go wrong?

and CGsociety is great too