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Deviantart and Instagram for Digital art?

Learning skills feel better when shared. When you draw your first piece of illustration, the excitement and satisfaction are out of the world. But when you are the only one staring at the art you made, another pair of eyes can be so rewarding. There are plenty of websites to share digital art. But I picked Deviantart and Instagram. 
Deviantart is such an amazing website that holds artists from all around the world of different level of expertise. The community is nice. People share their arts and they support each other with feedback. 
Then Instagram is no stranger to anyone I believe. Instagram is an American photo and video sharing social networking service created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. In April 2012.... Okay okay, no copy-pasted long description haha.

So, my idea is to post one good drawing of mine produced in illustrator, colour calibrated and signed in photoshopped. Like this drawing of mine. 

This image is posted in my Deviantart (DexLearningSkillz). By the way, this is officially my first post and illustration ever. (Actually, I created an illustration before but that's way too embarrassing to show.)


And for Instagram, I made two accounts. One being an Insta for this blog, DexLearningSkillz Insta, where I share the skills I learn and the arts I draw. For the same project, the images I added in that insta are like this:





And the other insta I made, gettin_older is for the final products only but with only full drawings and no logos, no rough sketches etc. It's basically the Deviantart for Insta for me. 
The images I would post there would be like:


If there are any other websites where I can and should share, I would surely love to join. I will keep an eye online. This blog was all about the pages I created to publish my illustrations. Let's see in few years as I get better and better and turn pro, it would be interesting to look back at the journey. I hope I have not missed anything out. That's all for now. 

Deviantart: DexLearningSkillz
Instagram: @gettin_older
Backstage Instagram: @dexlearningskillz

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