A New Idea?

Hello All,

Hoping the new semester is treating everyone well!  As we all know, it’s not easy maintaining a steady output of personal creativity when there are professors and assignments galore that are ridiculously demanding and time-consuming.  Hopefully once everyone gets into the swing of things there will be an opportunity to squeeze in at least a sketch or two to channel the creativity that can not be vented through the cookie-cutter school assignments.

So! As I was perusing the list of watch-worthy artists on DeviantArt a while back, it dawned on me that this artist -

http://imaginism.deviantart.com/

- is actually several illustrators who share a username on the site.  I thought it was interesting because they have an official site (see below), but DeviantArt receives so much traffic from the online art community that it’s almost a better way of getting outside feedback on their artwork.  So I thought I would toss in the idea of perhaps creating a Cx3 DeviantArt (or similar website) page for everyone to share — not to take away from the official blog, but as a supplement to whatever ideas are spawned here.  Even if it’s only used as a sketch dump for dead-end concepts or tangents, it might be worth considering.

Of course DeviantArt is not perfect — plagiarism and image-pirating are problems any artist faces with the combined blessing and curse that is the internet — but it’s the only sort of ‘facebook for artists’ I know of, so if there’s a better option, let’s hear it!

Anyway, Back to Imaginism.  Here is their official site:

http://www.imaginismstudios.com/

I love the style of their illustrations…they are very whimsical yet dark and edgy at the same time.  Even the more grotesque drawings have a strange sort of sweetness to them, and their sketches are, of course, quite amazing.  If you haven’t seen their work before, check out the DA page and the official site!

~Snowflakeinca

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