Blue Sfear

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This art community is one of the communities where it's true heart is in it's forum. The website itself has links to many tutorials for specific applications such as Photoshop, Flash, 3D Studio Max and also tutorials on HTML, CSS, JavaScript and more. This community is focused on not only art but on web design and creation. There are downloads and resources sections that can be a great for extending a digital artist's or web designer's creativity and knowledge. There is also an articles section with more interesting information directed mainly at web developers, but also some stuff for the artists.



The forum, as I said is where most of the community action happens. There are three main sections for artists, web creators and programmers. The most popular section is the Graphics Corner for artists. Over all, there are 1,290 members so this community is by far the smallest I have looked at. However, the members are active and there are thousands of posts. Coming in a close second to the artist's section is the Programmers Corner. Here web programming languages such as PHP, Java and others are discussed. It's a good place to gain some extra knowledge.


The main feature about this community is the battles. Over a period of time battles are held where artists can enter their work and the community votes to pick the winner. The winner gets a victory added to their score and their art is featured on the main site. The artist also wins a prize. The prize at the moment is a years worth of web hosting. This includes a free domain name with a .com, .org or .net domain. 400MB of space, 10GB bandwidth and more. It also lists respect as a price. This is a substantial prize and well worth any effort made to enter. (Perhaps I'll enter it myself!)


Overall this community is fairly small but is packed with some good quality content.


Overall Community score: 5/10


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