Angelo Sotira from DeviantArt

deviantART is a web site launched on August 7, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff, Angelo Sotira and Matt Stephens. It aims at providing a central location for artists to display their creations for feedback and public exposure. It puts an emphasis on digital works as pieces of art rather than just desktop eye candy.

It also hosts prose, poetry, photography, Flash exhibits, cell phone art, traditional art, wallpapers, fonts, stock photography, program related tutorials, skins for more than 105 applications and a recently added section for Artisan Crafts. deviantART’s focus is placed not on merely being a place to store and retrieve art, but also on providing artists everywhere with a community in which they can interact - providing them with a plethora of interactive areas (like forums, a shoutbox, IRC and weblog-like journal features).

As of January 8, 2005, deviantART has 9,461,281 Deviations (art pieces) with one new deviation (piece of art) every few seconds. It also has over 20 million deviants (users), making it one of the largest communities on the internet.

 

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