Zirngibism
December 23rd, 2008, 02:40 AM
It seems like many people here (including me) have been working on building up a collection of art which is both fine and illustrative, as well as historical and contemporary. Doing this of course involves a lot of repetitive right-clicking, and is limited only to the artists the collector has heard of so far.
This thread (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=2054998#post2054998) inspired me to think there were easier ways to put great art on a hard drive.
(I realize there are threads like the inspiration link list, but this would be more about sharing bundles of pre-selected images. That would be the fun- and might help expand all of our tastes.)
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So here's the idea:
Share your "art collection" in a .rar or .zip format.
(You might have to break it up into categories in order to host it..
http://www.mediafire.com/ is an easy and free way to host files of up to 100 megabytes each.
You can then paste a link to mediafire (or a similar site) in this thread.)
---Attach a text document explaining any notes you'd like to make about your file collection and include your user-name so people can keep track of who they got it from.
---(If you get the art from forums, try to find out the artist's real name to label the folders with. If that's not possible, indicate the forum and username of the artist, and/or the URL they posted the work on. That way people can find more by that artist if they desire.)
---Try to include text documents of the URLs of images, if you can remember where you got them from and it's not too tedious.
Hopefully this won't seem like too much work.
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By the way, I'm not sharing anything now because I feel like my collection isn't very worthy to upload yet, as much of it is pretty limited and mainstream (due to my currently dismal background in illustration history in particular).
This will eventually change.
This thread (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=2054998#post2054998) inspired me to think there were easier ways to put great art on a hard drive.
(I realize there are threads like the inspiration link list, but this would be more about sharing bundles of pre-selected images. That would be the fun- and might help expand all of our tastes.)
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So here's the idea:
Share your "art collection" in a .rar or .zip format.
(You might have to break it up into categories in order to host it..
http://www.mediafire.com/ is an easy and free way to host files of up to 100 megabytes each.
You can then paste a link to mediafire (or a similar site) in this thread.)
---Attach a text document explaining any notes you'd like to make about your file collection and include your user-name so people can keep track of who they got it from.
---(If you get the art from forums, try to find out the artist's real name to label the folders with. If that's not possible, indicate the forum and username of the artist, and/or the URL they posted the work on. That way people can find more by that artist if they desire.)
---Try to include text documents of the URLs of images, if you can remember where you got them from and it's not too tedious.
Hopefully this won't seem like too much work.
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By the way, I'm not sharing anything now because I feel like my collection isn't very worthy to upload yet, as much of it is pretty limited and mainstream (due to my currently dismal background in illustration history in particular).
This will eventually change.