Deviant Art: Website for Art Lovers and Artists Alike

In my travels upon the WWW I have surfed thousands up on thousands of websites in the past 10 years of my web history. Few sites have enriched my life as much as www.deviantart.com/ has done.

What is Deviant Art all about you may ask? Well deviant art is a user supported art site with over 44 million submissions at the time of this writing. Whatever kind of artwork you are looking for you will find here. Some of the submissions are as good as any that the masters of art have ever produced and I'm sure that future generations will consider some of the artists that started their craft in the deviant art community to be masters in their own right.

Deviant art is not just for art lovers, it is for artists as well. there is a whole community with all kinds of support and forums just for artists as well as a platform for budding artists to sell their works if they so desire. Deviant Art is a well designed website with hard working moderators and coders who really care about what they are doing.

On the main page of Deviant Art you will find a well designed layout that breaks down the most accessed and liked artwork of the day as well as options to look at previous days work as well. You will definitely find it worth your time to learn this website well and it will payoff with stunning works of art that you will desire to look at over and over again. Another feature I enjoy is the option to leave the artist feedback whether it be good feedback or bad. I strongly feel that this encourages developing artists to spread their wings and soar to the height of their work earlier in their career and the result will be ever more stunning pieces of art for the world to enjoy.

Another service Deviant Art provides is permanent storage for artwork in a medium where it will never be stolen and disappear from the public eye never to be seen or heard from again. Digital storage for art is a boon to artists and art lovers alike because even if the original was stolen, a exact duplicate can be reproduced from images that are in a safe location. This is not to say that Deviant Art should be the only place you store your backups because any site could go down for any reason, but it is a awesome repository that has yet to be duplicated throughout the entire world wide web.

So my advise is to check Deviant Art out. Grab a good cup of coffee and a muffin or cookie of your choice and sit back and surf till you find your masterpiece. Its as close as the above link.