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Leo · Posted: Wed Oct 27, 1999 4:35 pm

Hail! Hey folks, what do you think about this
topic? How to promote yourself and your digital art? Where to begin... Dhab, HOW did you began selfpromotion

?
/Leo

[This message has been edited by Leo (edited October 27, 1999).]

Dhabih · Posted: Wed Oct 27, 1999 9:04 pm

Self promotion for myself started with creating this web page and then sending some drawings that were game related out to some real big news sites.

-dhab

Shrimpish · Guest Member #

Hey, Dhabih, do you rely on search engines at all?

Dhabih · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 1999 12:09 am

for promotion? no i havent done anything with those things to promote

Funfetus · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 1999 1:18 am

I get most of my hits from search engines. I submitted to every search engine I could find, and used lots of (relevant) keywords in my meta tags. People usually get to my site by searching for "digital art" or "fantasy paintings" or "jungle girl" and whatnot.

Another thing you can do is make friends with someone who gets a lot of hits, so they link you. :P

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Funfetus
iCE VGA Division
http://fetus.ice.org

Shrimpish · Guest Member #

Hey, fetus, You're hella good, mang!!!
It's rare when I see an artist as good as you. Most people make a big deal out of it and they're wannabe's.

Anywayz, GL with your art! Keep it up!
http://bluebrush.com

Leo · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 1999 4:03 am

Hey Shrimpish, nice website you've... extremly remind me Dhab's work (both web design and artwork)... but there can be only one Dhab

!
(Wow! Just everyone starting the reply with a "Hey" word

)

Dhab, what "some real big news sites" do you mean? ...or maybe someone else know them too

?
/Leo

Shrimpish · Guest Member #

That's wird, cuz when I designed my site, I tried to stay as far away as possible from anybody's style. Especially Dhabih's.
I personally don't think it resembles of his site whatsoever.
Mine looks all dirty and rusty, I got the street environment, street signs, rollovers, totally different frames... etc.

Weird that you think that, but oh, well.

Chris · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 1999 9:51 am

Shrimpish,

Your design doesn't look anything like Dhabih's. So I don't know what he is talking about either. But I remember your old site and how many ppl said that, so I am glad you changed your designed, and even better got your own domain name...cool site.

I didn't look at the code, but I did notice a thin black line between the top frame or and the below frames....but I looking with netscape 4.0 and I don't know how it looks in IE..but good design.

immi · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 1999 9:56 am

Shrimpish, weren't you the guy who was getting youre pants in a knot over dhabih's use of that model for his eclipse pic? Ah well, what can i say, you suck.
Funfetus, your artwork has an awesome style!

and to leo, dhabih is referring to places like www.gameart.com, probably bluesnews.com, and the quake related game art sites that sprung up. Do a search for his name on alta vista, and you can actually track it.

Anthony J · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 1999 1:17 pm

FunFetus you rock the ruckus man =)
I totally dig your style...I like dark art.
The 'don't ask' image is sooo bad ass !
I like the meaning behind it...
whatever drove you to create it, all the best to you in the future!
check out my lil site, with not much work...
half of my work / to almost all of it
is sitting on my Harddrive ready to be worked on with a WACOM tablet, but I haven't gotten mine yet. I'm still thinking....
6x8 ...or 9x12 ?! ahhh the choices!

I totally like the jungle girl pic too
I just wish it wasn't in comic-style, and more realism...but I can't get everything I want...even for christmas! ACK

later http://anthonys.8m.com

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"you must feel the force in order to use it Obi-Wan..."

Leo · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 1999 5:01 pm

Shrimpish, don't take it to heart! It's only MY opinion... simply for me, your website content look same to Dhab... yeah, you've got the street environment... it's kinda hard to explain... well, do you feel difference between Dhab's and Craig Mullins websites?
Anyway take it easy, i've bookmarked your site

.

immi, great link but what about non 3D Action news sites? Say... RTS?
/Leo

[Shizo] · member Member # Joined: 22 Oct 1999 Posts: 3938

hehe leo you bum,
ja toge dumaju on s dhabiha ripuet

poglyadi na Quake3:arena, viglyadit takge kak koe kakoi risunok dhaba, ahh.. hotya ya dage i takoi ripoff ne smog by

and since then i love horses!

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Russia is power. You dont agree --> we nuke you!

Shrimpish · Guest Member #

Hey, IMMI, chill!

I know it's easy to talk shit when you got nothing to defend yourself with.

BTW, I think your art sucks ass, too. (In advance.)

Binke · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 1999 11:21 pm

Oh I remember the days of Braindeads Quake Art Gallery..*siigh*

Leo · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 1999 11:52 pm

Hey, hey, hey! Folks! We are talking about art promotion... if you wanna say that you are suppa-puppa cool artist, so show us your
stuff!

[ShiZo], yeah, i argee with you

. I saw that Q3 picture you are talking about. Pohoje emu ne daet pokoja slava dhaba, vot i delaet pod nego. I think if you have a tablet you can do some magic things

. I'm working only with a mouse.
/Leo

Samuel · Posted: Sun Oct 31, 1999 7:20 am

i just wanted to say his site shouldn't need much work on promoting since his url is on that gaming magazine sometimes...

Samuel · Posted: Sun Oct 31, 1999 7:20 am

i just wanted to say his site shouldn't need much work on promoting since his url is on that gaming magazine sometimes... ( i think )

Anthony J · Posted: Sun Oct 31, 1999 11:11 am

Can anyone take a look at my work in progress
and help me figure out what to do!
I draw with a mouse, so I can't pull off the
amazing tablet styles...i paint instead
of filling in an outline.
http://anthonys.8m.com/Kneelman.jpg

check it out, tell me what you think,
what can i improve on.

So far I think the light source is coming from the left hand side. I want the kneeling man to be holding an object, perhaps a weapon of some sort.

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I changed a few things, slight difference.
It looks a bit cleaner, but obviously
FAR from being finished.
Any suggestions ??
Colour, use of light? Some kind of texture.
Oh, BTW I have no idea how to do those crazy
texture things, to put armour or something
on the guy. I'd really like to be able to do something like that...

still awaiting

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Digital Painting Gallery http://anthonys.8m.com

"you must feel the force in order to use it Obi-Wan..."

[This message has been edited by Anthony J (edited October 31, 1999).]

Leo · Posted: Sun Oct 31, 1999 5:42 pm

Anthony, your first hyperlink don't work for me... i've got a forbidden msg

.
/Leo