JoshDykgraaf

Hey peeps, So I started selling some of my work as art prints on Society6 recently. Being the fine people they are, they've featured my work and until the 9th of November are selling it with FREE SHIPPING WORLD WIDE (kind of a big deal when you're ordering stuff to the other side of the world). Use this link if you're interested: http://society6.com/joshdykgraaf?promo=JJWDXN6MCCBY

I've just finished a new piece and video to go with it showing how the image was made from start to finish. It crunches about 50 hours of work into 30 minutes. Check it out: This was not as simple as I had thought it would be and took up sickening amounts of hard drive space screen capturing the full process. If anyone has any ideas on how I can improve the process or make the video more digestible I'm open to suggestions!

In the last few years DA's share of global net traffic has been dropping off quite steadily and significantly - not really surprising given how much competition is out there now in terms of art websites. Here's some of the data here: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/deviantart.com Note as well DA's rank has dropped 16 places in the last 3 months alone. I've been noticing this as well in terms of the raw number of views my work has been getting too (though the fav/view ratio has been going up dramatically, which is kinda the only important one to me). When I got a DD a few months ago the piece got less than 5,000 views, where in the past for DD'