Different Artist Platforms

Social media’s presence in our everyday life is something that we are now used to, and helps people in any craft have a chance to promote their work independently. Because of this, it is obviously a huge platform to promote your work in ways that were not previously possible. Any person from any location can now upload their work and share it with the world. These are some of the more popular sites that allow you to do this.

Personal social media accounts

Many people use their existing social media accounts to promote their work. Instagram can be used to show pictures by them, and you can scroll through a person’s profile to see all of their work shown in thumbnails, which are ordered by the date that they were uploaded on. Tumblr and Pinterest can be used to compile images and source materials. Twitter and Facebook can be used to showcase work and you can post within pages and communities to help promote your work.

DeviantART

This is one of the most known well sites that is available and can be used by artists as a way to display, share and promote their work with other people. The site allows you to view and submit work, and it has a community that will both allow you to see other people’s ideas, while also allowing you to get feedback off of other people. There are options for both a free and premium account and both allow you to view and submit work.

Renderosity

This website allows you to display your art in galleries, setup your own blog and you can even buy and sell art. You have to sign up, but there is a large online community which specialise in digital art.

AskART

Ask Art is a much more polished version of some of the other sites that are shown here. They showcase things from art jobs to museum and gallery directories. The site allows you to start your own online artist’s studio to display and sell your work pieces.

Carbonmade

Carbonmade is one of the best portfolio sites available online. It allows you to show off the masterpiece of you show your work in a welcoming community, with a flexible interface. The free option is a bit limited, but a free account still offers you the option to upload 5 projects and 35 images. A paid account gives you much more options, including domain binding, video & flash project and technical support. This website is useful for artists and designers who do not have skills on the technical side of HTML documents.

Wix

Wix is a free website builder which relies on dragging and dropping parts of the website the easy to use website editor is great for people who are clueless about website development and any sort of the coding and design process that goes into building a website. The website comes with hundreds of website templates that you can customise, which allows you to build a website that meets the design you have in mind.