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[stormhive]

For all of you creative people- how do you decide which websites to keep accounts on and upload your work to?  Here are the bunch that I could think of in 5 secs

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[la_citlalmina]

Good question! I have a lot of accounts and I usually end up loosing track of them because it's so hard to stay active in all of them..

[stormhive]

Glad I'm not the only one! There's a helpful comment below yours that you might wanna check out.
I think LJ is enough for me at the moment... I might get a tumblr but then that'll be another couple of hours wasted every day.

[reni_m]

For all art I use deviantArt as the host site. I then embed/link the art from there onto my LJ/DW and crosspost the journal entry to various communities.
If I like the piece enough, I will pimp it on twitter. Though everyone who follows me already follow me on LJ, so it really doesn't add any new viewers XD
I don't have a tumblr but every once in a while my art will get recced on a fanart blog. So far everyone has been really good about it and link/credit from my dA (apparently there's a 'share' option on dA that will post and credit the art to other blogging sites, all in one click).

I have a love/hate with AO3. Love it for fic. Hate it for art, mainly because AO3 isn't formatted for hosting visuals yet. I don't mind if my art is embedded in stories that's I've collaborated on. I just don't do stand alone entries.
Though one down side of AO3 is their connection to OTW, and their fanart image policy is pretty terrible.

[stormhive]

Thanks for breaking it all down- very helpful. I don't really want to mess with deviantArt because of some whack stuff I heard years ago about their terms of use. Plus, I'm plain lazy about maintaining accounts. What's up with the OTW's fanart policy, if you wouldn't mind explaining?

[reni_m]

Yeah, dA has a very strict policy on porn images. But even then you can get around it by 'storing' art so it's not public

[stormhive]

Ooo thanks for all the info! Yea I'd feel kinda weird about losing control of being able to take down my stuff. Then again, I already assume that anything I post on the internet will be out there forever. Yet another reason to make sure my "real" identity and the fannish one never intersect.

[spomarani]

I use DeviantArt as my main art hosting site because of its sharing features that I can use for both my Tumblr and my Livejournal. Plus it saves the hassle of posting all my art to more than one site each and every time.

[stormhive]

Good point....... Maybe I should go for it.