Deviant Art opened my art world, I created my account 4 years ago, that is also when I started drawing seriously, bought art tools and thought properly about how to make good drawing, instead of just doodle random things on my note book., I made a lot of friends from all over the world, some of them are still my good friends until now. It's sad that dA is clearly going down in both quaity and traffic, the people I'm watching is still posting but it's more likely a habit to them, and to me, too. All the journal notification is about someone repeatedly announcing their commission, no more journal about artist bragging about their life, everything is not as livevly as before, it's so... dead. And the front pages are just ... sad, I'm not sure if I can tell this is a site about art anymore.
Artstation is a great art platform, I'm browsing it everyday to enjoy good art, but as an artist, the standard of this site is a little bit too high for me to join in, I think my semi-realistic style can reach the bottom level at least, but it's taking too much time for me to make one piece with that style, I'm not aiming to be a concept artist or something that high level either, so I will just satisfy myself as as viewer for now.
I'm trying to use instagram and twitter but don't quite understand how these work yet, I think I'm a little too old to learn new tech lol.
I'm using both webtoons and tapas, I really like the tapas forum, it connected me to so many great creators and they are fun, but as a comic platform I think I prefer webtoons, huge traffic is one thing but I think they are doing better than tapas in displaying titles and hooking readers interact with the comic they are reading.