My deviantART Story

A Big Big Happy Birthday DeviantArt!!

This is a major cause for celebration for all the deviants. Without this platform in place we, artists, known, professionals or not,  wouldn't have grown or found an audience. I personally would like to take this time to thank all the founders and helpers who placed together DeviantArt.

I for one has not been on DA for long, but for the past 16 months that I've been here I've seen great improvements in my work. When I first joined I only did manipulation following a tutorial to the T. It must be said that back then I would not have called myself an artist cos I brought nothing new to the work done. It was just something I did to pass time and almost never published them

After browsing quite an amount of tutorial journals and getting advise by other fellow deviants I started to see that I no longer had to follow a tutorial from beginning to end, I rather used them to learn individual techniques and them apply them to my own work. From there on I started to make progress as an artist. I was in better control of the final product I envisioned. A few months ago I started to provide stock images since I enjoy photography as well. I like to think of this of a way of giving back to the art community. Hopefully someday I'll be able to do my manipulation using only my stocks. 

The thing I love the most about DA, is that it celebrate art on a large scale. You can find almost every form of art here and this provides an endless source of inspiration. Sometimes I just can't keep up with my mind. Thank you DeviantArt for your role in my life!