Creatives are nothing without actually getting their work out there and getting to their audiences. There are several ways of doing this. A few ways are by publishing work, gallery exhibitions, posting on websites, social networks, forums and online communities. Those platforms are all ways of getting feedback. By receiving feedback we can understand what the audience like, thus making us better at designing for the audience. It also allows us to get our voices heard, our names out there, making people recognise us as artists. Simon Peplow uses his own website and a blog to show his own work as well as others in order to advertise himself to the world. Another artist who does would be Mike Perry. Mike also uses installations, magazine designs, product design, poster design and character design to diseminate his work. By using websites and blogs it allows a wider audience to view your work and comment as they like. For some, it's easier to communicate over the internet than it is to talk face to face to someone, especially when criticising another's work.
Personally I use www.flickr.com to post my work and share it with a vast array of people. Two personal examples of work which has been commented on on flickr would be a cupcake I drew while learning Adobe Illustrator and an ink and pastel self portrait for my own corporate design. It's also a good place to gain inspiration from other creatives around the world.
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