Practical guides, tips and stories for digital artists — on sharing your work, getting discovered, and building a community around what you create.
DeviantArt has 25 years of history and hundreds of millions of artworks. artbase is the new kid. Here's our honest take on how the two compare in 2026, including the parts where DeviantArt still wins.
artbase is the up-and-coming art platform of 2026: a portfolio and a community in one place, built in Australia, free to join, and young enough that new work actually gets seen. Here is the full tour, from artwork pages to dailydraw.
artbase's daily prompt site is live. One prompt a day, drawn from a pool at midnight UTC, the same one for the whole world — make it in any medium you like and share it on artbase.
Coming back after months or years away is a different problem from art block — it's guilt, rusty hands and a wobbly identity all at once. A gentle, specific re-entry plan, and why your first pieces back look worse than you remember.
Art block is often just an unmade decision wearing a costume. Here's why an external prompt gets you drawing when a to-draw list doesn't, how to use one when the idea doesn't spark, and the failure modes that turn prompts into another source of guilt.
