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For those interested, I am in the process of creating a website for digital artists - www.digitalprintmaking.net
It's focused primarily on "Digital Printmaking". What exactly do I mean by that?... think of printmaking in art terms- Woodcuts, Lithography, Etchings, Serigraphy, etc... and then add Digital to that mix. More and more artists are starting to experiment with Digital techniques and a few are even beginning to integrate digital work into more traditional media.
Part of the reason why I created this new site was because of this one. RetouchPro was really the first experience I had with an actual online community...well, one that did not feel like a bunch of bickering children anyway! As some of you know, I have a background in art and my interest for digital image making and traditional art has led to a desire to see a similar "community" type website for those interested in this new art-form. There is not much there at the moment, but I am intending for the site to have a few characteristic of an e-zine to go along with the forum, gallery, review areas, etc. To that end, I will be accepting and posting things like articles and interviews (and paying authors for accepted submissions).
The site is not meant for posting photo-art...number one, I can't afford the space required for such a site and second, the site is not really meant for photo-art in the same sense as we have here. (Besides, Danny does a pretty good job...why mess with a good thing!?
) It's really about printmaking and the tools used to create fine art prints, whether they are photographs, photo manipulation, machine-art, digital collage, mixed media, etc.... There is an area for posting images and a critique area similar to the one here, but I really discourage "filter abuse" and the practice of altering or creating different versions of other's work. (nothing wrong with it...just not the thing for my site) So, if you have an interest in Digital fine-art, Digital printmaking, art reproduction, etc...or you just want to see what on earth I am talking about, head on over!
It's focused primarily on "Digital Printmaking". What exactly do I mean by that?... think of printmaking in art terms- Woodcuts, Lithography, Etchings, Serigraphy, etc... and then add Digital to that mix. More and more artists are starting to experiment with Digital techniques and a few are even beginning to integrate digital work into more traditional media.
Part of the reason why I created this new site was because of this one. RetouchPro was really the first experience I had with an actual online community...well, one that did not feel like a bunch of bickering children anyway! As some of you know, I have a background in art and my interest for digital image making and traditional art has led to a desire to see a similar "community" type website for those interested in this new art-form. There is not much there at the moment, but I am intending for the site to have a few characteristic of an e-zine to go along with the forum, gallery, review areas, etc. To that end, I will be accepting and posting things like articles and interviews (and paying authors for accepted submissions).
The site is not meant for posting photo-art...number one, I can't afford the space required for such a site and second, the site is not really meant for photo-art in the same sense as we have here. (Besides, Danny does a pretty good job...why mess with a good thing!?
) It's really about printmaking and the tools used to create fine art prints, whether they are photographs, photo manipulation, machine-art, digital collage, mixed media, etc.... There is an area for posting images and a critique area similar to the one here, but I really discourage "filter abuse" and the practice of altering or creating different versions of other's work. (nothing wrong with it...just not the thing for my site) So, if you have an interest in Digital fine-art, Digital printmaking, art reproduction, etc...or you just want to see what on earth I am talking about, head on over!
I have been looking (without any luck) for a gallery/forum/CMS/calendar that would all work together without requiring separate logins. Maybe I'll have to write my own 
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