Web Gallery for artists of today

[Pau1Winslow]

Hey CA,

Looking at master painters' work on what are known as webmuseums, I've been toying with the idea for the past couple of months of launching a web gallery to display fine art and concept art for the big (and upcoming) names of today. I wanted to grab some opinions from the forum to help shape this idea...

It would be a non profit site that I would maintain just for the pleasure of displaying great art and hopefully getting those quiet ones noticed :bounce: As well as putting up pro's work to drool over :drool:

I'm not 100% on how an artist would have his/her work on show, whether I take it upon myself to put up work or if people would submit their stuff? Any contribution to this idea would be appreciated.

Thanks all.

[subversive-imaginati]

You could look at the various sites already in existence to get an idea of the different ways to do things. CA has galleries, epilogue.net has galleries, paintersblock is another place, storm-artists.net, deviantart.com, elfwood and many others.

See how they work, what's good and bad about them, CA's gallery system appears to be fairly sparse and lacks growth or so it seems to me, elfwoods massive and slow queuing system is consider a pain by many people, dA's lack of quality control is considered bad by others, epilogue has many bugs, but on the flipside, CA's is full of nothing but good art, elfwood has tutorials and spotlights, dA has so many different artists that you're bound to find something worth looking at from a casual browse and epilogue does have some of the biggest names in the fantasy art business.

A lot of places let the artist upload their art either directly to gallery or into a queue where it needs to pass quality control to make it actually onto the site and be visible to visitors. There's lots of cons and pros to a juried system, on one hand, it heightens the quality of work depending on the rules and the jury but on the other it causes delays and people can get quite upset about it.

[Pau1Winslow]

Cheers for your reply,

I'm not really aiming to go as big as gallery sites like DA, I'm looking to keep it small... pretty much looking to do something about how often I come across a thread on here by somebody with some really decent work and on their way up.. I'd throw their stuff up on the site to help out, breaking into the industry type of skill level..