Poll: How do you feel about DeviantArt?

[everfreeDragon]

I'm an active member and head og a group, it and Escapist are both equally frequented so yeah I love it.

 

[Kollega]

I think it's pretty okay... i don't really "hang around" on it, and so can't form an informed opinion. But when Sturgeon's law (90% of everything is crap) is taken into account, it dosen't look that bad. Definetly not the worst place on the internetz.

 

[Soxafloppin]

I've never went on it on purpose but sometimes on google images and ive thought ohh that picture looks cool and ive enlarged it and its been from Deviant Art.

 

[child of lileth]

I like it. It's different from the art channels that only let you post images, since at least this way, you can still keep credit for your work.

 

[Jark212]

Oh the fetishes...

So ya, I really like it...

 

[Jonluw]

It supplies me with this: http://humon.deviantart.com/gallery/#Scandinavia-and-the-World so I think it's cool. Since I'm not a member I don't need to worry about the dirty stuff either.

 

[Sleekgiant]

Its quite alright........FurAffinity is better IMO :O

 

[hazabaza1]

The art is okay, but when the forum starting making cancer jokes about my friends mother, I left.
That's 4chan standard of internet.

 

[RJ Dalton]

The complete lack of standards and how open to registration it is makes it a real bag of mixed nuts. Some of the stuff there is brilliant, but quite often it gets buried beneath mountains of slush and nonsense. I suppose it all depends on how much you're willing to go digging through garbage in search of gems.
Don't much like how corporate its administrators are becoming, though. It's honestly starting to get annoying.

 

[CK76]

Love checking out the art. So diverse and many talented people there. Yeah, some stuff you don't like, but that's any place.

 

[SimuLord]

Some very talented artists turning out some very appropriately-titled "deviant art".

Sturgeon's Law is in full effect on that site.

 

[Continuity]

I'll tell you what I don't like about it, its got so little art. I mean Art with a capital "A" and probably a good dose of phlegm but let me illustrate my point, only yesterday I was browsing around in drawing and photography and after like 3 hours I realised that the content of deviantart can be summed up as follows:

70% Sex
15% Cheap shots and lame unoriginality
14.9% absolute rubbish
0.1% inspired Art

GOD I am so fed-up with our society being so super saturated with sex, its pathetic.

Don't get me wrong I'm not a prude but there is just so much more to life and to art than damn sex.

Edit: despite the above I still keep going back and sifting though the sex and rubbish to find those all too rare gems... There is some brilliant art buried in there.

 

[HaraDaya]

My problem is with all the badly drawn fetish drawings(and etc.) showing up on the front page. That stuff should be left out from showing up there, and censored like mature content. People who wants to look at it can, but spare us who don't.

 

[Willis_D]

I like it. The people I follow have really good art, and most of it is original stuff.

 

[Continuity]

Well my girlfriend's photography has gotten some recognition through that site so I'm all for it.

what does she shoot? better yet what's her username?

 

[leviathanmisha]

I'm on Deviant right now...enjoying the Hetalia...

 

[Abedeus]

It's okay. I uploaded only one coloration, downloaded myself a few (two of them on my cellphone, one as a greeting screen, the other as the wallpaper). Too many fetishes there, though.

 

[McNinja]

DeviantArt is mediocre. On one hand you have brilliant artists who draw pictures like http://mikelopez.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d1pvft7 (yes, that is pencil).

On the other hand, you have those guys who draw like ten year olds on MS paint and upload it.

On the third hand, you have the nude "art," some of which is actually art, but some of it belongs on... other sites that are solely for adult pictues/hentai.