Went from posting art on DeviantArt in 2008 to using ArtStation now, what a shift

Back in 2008 I'd scan my pencil sketches at 72dpi and upload them to DeviantArt with a glow effect filter around the edges. Now I'm taking high-res 4K renders, tweaking them in Photoshop for an hour, and posting them on ArtStation with a proper lighting setup. The funny part is my old stuff got way more comments and faves than my polished work does now. I think people liked the raw amateur vibe back then. Has anyone else felt like the bar for what's "good enough" to post has gone way up in the last 10 years?

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hayden14416d ago

Those glow filters were definitely a phase we all went through.

miles27916d ago

Remember when everyone put those little copyright symbols and "do not steal" watermarks on everything? My old gallery had tiny text at the bottom of each piece like I was some big time artist. Real cringe when I look back. The glow filter thing too, my god. I layered it on so thick my pencil lines looked like they were radioactive. Funny how we all went through the same weird phases without even knowing it.

williamb2915d ago

Did everybody just collectively forget that adding "do not steal" actually made people want to steal it more? lmao I was so guilty of that too, like yeah buddy, that 72 pixel wide drawing of a dragon is definitely going to get ripped off by Disney. And don't even get me started on the glow filters, we all thought we were making our art look magical but really we just looked like we dropped our sketchbook in a puddle of radioactive slime. The funniest part is how serious we took ourselves, acting like we were guarding the Mona Lisa with that tiny text nobody could even read. Honestly though, looking back at mine now just makes me laugh, those phases were dumb but at least we all suffered through them together lol