DA in my experience does have a lot of professional artists on the site, and you can get noticed, but you have to be very lucky and/or put in a lot of effort to get your name out there. As someone who uses dA just to hang out, post some art, and get the occasional commission, I'm rather satisfied with the site (just wish they'd take things like tracing a bit more seriously). Lots of fanart there--seems that if you do some fanart, you do better on the site. However, I do watch plenty of artists who only do original work.
FA and IB I won't touch with a ten-foot pole. I'm not into porn, and those just have way too much of that for me to be comfortable having a presence on either.
I visited CA many years ago and found it extremely intimidating (and I wasn't even looking to post art!). Haven't been back since.
I was on Elfwood eons ago, but frankly having to jump through hoops to post art was counter-productive for me. There were some fantastic artists on the site though, and as it was a smaller site (at the time), it was very easy to search out what you were interested in. I don't remember it being very community-oriented (all the EW community stuff I was in was on LiveJournal rather than the gallery site itself), but that may have changed if the site's been revamped since I last visited. If all you wanted was a place to post art, this was it.
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Date: 2012-01-05 11:07 pm (UTC)Lots of fanart there--seems that if you do some fanart, you do better on the site. However, I do watch plenty of artists who only do original work.
FA and IB I won't touch with a ten-foot pole. I'm not into porn, and those just have way too much of that for me to be comfortable having a presence on either.
I visited CA many years ago and found it extremely intimidating (and I wasn't even looking to post art!). Haven't been back since.
I was on Elfwood eons ago, but frankly having to jump through hoops to post art was counter-productive for me. There were some fantastic artists on the site though, and as it was a smaller site (at the time), it was very easy to search out what you were interested in. I don't remember it being very community-oriented (all the EW community stuff I was in was on LiveJournal rather than the gallery site itself), but that may have changed if the site's been revamped since I last visited. If all you wanted was a place to post art, this was it.