The Consumer’s Corner

deviant ART is an amazing user driven art web site that everyone should know about, eveN if for no other reason than their selection of brlliant wallpaper images. The site as a whole covers all things art, from traditional paintings, 3d digital images, photography, even poems and short stories!

I think places like Deviant are what makes the internet such a great place; where else can thousands (millions?) of artists come, and show off their goods, just for art’s sake. All the images can be downloaded  directly to your hard drive absolutely free of charge, where they can be printed. Better yet, you can have some of the pieces professionally printed (on canvas or poster paper) in many sizes, and shipped to you for a reasonabl fee. They even make coffee cups! Anyway, you get a high quality product for a low price, and help that starving artist out at the same time.

When you register, you’ll receive your own little page, where you can store your favorite works by others, and have your own submissions on display. You can even run a blog. The search features are super easy to use, allowing you to type in whatever you want to look for, or use the menu to find things by process of elimination. Each image has a ‘Zoom In’ and ‘Add to Favorites’ buttons which are self explanatory. Most artists will personally thank you on your page if you make one of their images one of your ‘favorites.’

For the kiddies and the conservatives out there, the site does host a massive collection of nude photography (some of it well past the ‘is it art or pornography’ line), so be careful while surfing. A filter is available, should you choose not to be exposed. The great majority of it is tasteful, and falls well within the ‘art’ grouping rather than straight ‘porn’, but I just thought I’d give you a heads up. Enjoy!

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–Jeremy Hobbs

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