Profile for Ste7en - Artists- Look In Here! The Great Art Career Blog.

Ste7en aka Steven Lefcourt is a 25.12 year old boy, has been a member since September 14, 2005, has scored 5454 submissions, giving an average score of 2.67.

URL: http://www.tastypaints.com
AIM: ste7enl

Dec 22 '07 by Ste7en

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Artists- Look In Here! The Great Art Career Blog.

Freelance has been harsh since mid-july for me, and I know making it as an artist can't be easy for many other people, so a few alumni and I put together a nice list of all the places we know of to get the wheels spinning in all of your young (or old- Aaron- haha) careers.

Feel free to list other places (contests, job listings, mailing lists, forums) that might help this list grow. Don't be afraid to share work/contests with people. Making it as an artist is all about connections, and you wont make any if you don't ever give help and advice to others.

Lets try to keep this blog on track (for a while anyway). Happy Holidays to everyone. This is a present for all of you.

Every Art Opportunity Ever (subscription required)
ArtDeadline
AIGA

Art Competition Listings
Graphic Competitions

Art Job Listings
Malakye
Indeed
Craigslist
Creative Pool (UK)
Artists Council (UK)
Freelance Switch
Genuine Jobs (all freelance, not just art)
Computer Love
Gumtree (english craigslist kinda thing)
WellThreaded
iFreelance
Creative Hotlist

Freelance Membership Sites (pay for)
Elance
Guru
DesignQuote

Art Contests
Vans Shoe Contest (submit before jan 1, U.S. Only)
Threadless (haha)
Design By Humans
Iremba (shoe contest)
Shirt Woot Derby
LaFraise
Worth1000
NakedandAngry
mojizu
RipCurl Boardshort design
SplittheAtom (may be inactive)

Ongoing Spec Work
Crazy Shirts

Art Forums
ConceptArt.org
Deviant Art Job Listings (these usually suck but ive found a couple decent jobs)

Art (career) Networking
Linked In
Coroflot Portfolio and Job Linking
Talent Database

Sell Your Own Products
Etsy (for limited handmade crafts)
Big Cartel (for unlimited sales of just about anything
Lulu Self Publishing
prickie button printing (may not be accepting new submissions)
Bountee

Online Portfolios
Photobucket
Flickr

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Bramish on Dec 22 '07 at 2:26pm

Prickie's defunct I think. In terms of accepting new submissions at least.

Ste7en on Dec 22 '07 at 2:29pm

noted

Bramish on Dec 22 '07 at 2:35pm

Great blog by the way. I hope more UK people get involved.

How about a section for ready made online portfolios/slideshows?

Bramish on Dec 22 '07 at 2:36pm

Teetonic
Bountee
camisteria.com (Brazilian)
Split The Atom

Ste7en on Dec 22 '07 at 2:39pm

oh, good stuff, I forgot about all of them (and bountee keeps paying me haha)

jublin on Dec 22 '07 at 2:49pm

i think split the atom is over too. i'm pretty sure they havent printed anything new in quite a while

Ste7en on Dec 22 '07 at 2:50pm

I know there are some much better portfolio sites, but theyve slipped my mind, if anyone can help with that, it would be great

SoldierofGondor on Dec 22 '07 at 2:56pm

Is there an age limit to being a freelancer?

Ste7en on Dec 22 '07 at 3:00pm

I would suppose the working age wherever you live would be the limit. Otherwise, no.

Ste7en on Dec 22 '07 at 3:01pm

but some of those sites might independently require members to be a certain age...read carefully

Ste7en on Dec 22 '07 at 3:30pm

awww...anybody interested in this? I cant believe more people havent checked it out

dacat on Dec 22 '07 at 3:49pm

I think it's useful, I will bookmark many of these, thanks!

roadkill3d on Dec 22 '07 at 3:54pm

*watching*

Ste7en on Dec 22 '07 at 4:22pm

Good! If any links don't work let me know...I already caught a few typos

Ste7en on Dec 22 '07 at 6:33pm

bump

Baja318 on Dec 22 '07 at 6:41pm

www.artdeadline.com too, they have all of that info bundled together...i won a grant found on there...loves it

Malcolm Man on Dec 22 '07 at 6:51pm

wow, really cool thread.

Thanks ya!

Ste7en on Dec 22 '07 at 7:24pm

thanks for sharing Baja!

Baja318 on Dec 22 '07 at 7:27pm

no problemo

Jemae on Dec 22 '07 at 7:33pm

SUPER AWESOME blog! thanks Ste7en for higlighting this! really helpfull stuff! :)

hellofromthemoon on Dec 22 '07 at 7:34pm

wow! thanks for putting this up : ]

Jemae on Dec 22 '07 at 7:35pm

oh yaa! thanks man for the "Hot Wings"! i saw it on your avatar too (i think!)...enjoy your hot wings! haha! :D

Ste7en on Dec 22 '07 at 7:35pm

hey, no problem, I had to get help, myself from a bunch of other artists here, so no reason not to pass it on.

If anyone has anything not listed, please share

Ste7en on Dec 22 '07 at 8:48pm

bump

kayceislost on Dec 22 '07 at 8:49pm

AIGA is a good site, if you are a member, but Im pretty sure you can look through jobs without being a member.

Ste7en on Dec 22 '07 at 9:02pm

thanks kayce! you arent completely useless, confounding, confusing, and infuriating afterall! Thats a compliment!

francobolli on Dec 22 '07 at 10:29pm

This website is handy.

Ste7en on Dec 22 '07 at 10:33pm

its currently down, or something, but i'll add it

kayceislost on Dec 22 '07 at 10:34pm

Wow.

francobolli on Dec 22 '07 at 10:36pm

Oops, should've checked that before I posted. But it is pretty useful when it's up. Keeps an pretty extensive and up to date list of any creative comps happening around the world.

Ste7en on Dec 22 '07 at 10:38pm

Kayce you know I was joking about everything...except useless, but you clearly proved me wrong there, so its all good!

kayceislost on Dec 22 '07 at 10:40pm

I have a few more links, but Ill post them later, when I'm not being so completely useless, confounding, confusing, and infuriating!

:P

jenraskopf on Dec 22 '07 at 10:41pm

That's really cool!

Ste7en on Dec 22 '07 at 10:41pm

by not posting them, you're just playing into the kayce stereotype!

Ste7en on Dec 23 '07 at 12:19pm

bump

JOHN2 on Dec 23 '07 at 12:31pm

Suhweet blog. Definitely going to keep a watch on this one.

dhectwenty on Dec 23 '07 at 12:41pm

Art Networking:

Talent Database

Ste7en on Dec 23 '07 at 1:03pm

cool, added, thanks

polynothing on Dec 23 '07 at 2:13pm

You guys rocked socks compiling this list!
I don't think I could really add much to that, other than:
For mailers if you're freelancing (simply the best/most updated list in the industry):
http://www.langermanlists.com/

For aspiring comic book artists, this foundation really kick started my career, as they give grants, plus give credibility to up and coming comic book artists:
http://xericfoundation.org/

Ste7en on Dec 24 '07 at 1:47am

good stuff, im exhausted, but i'll add them in the morning

yoshi andrian on Dec 24 '07 at 1:56am

what a great present for all of us! thanks ste7en!

Flying Mouse on Dec 24 '07 at 1:57am

Nice blog, thanks man.

KDLIG on Dec 24 '07 at 2:02am

art Forum:

gfxartist.com

KDLIG on Dec 24 '07 at 2:08am

GFXartis - they have contests, and I also met someone there from Rome and asked me if i could do there Poster for a stageplay =D, place some vector artworks here and earn money - illustratorworld.com , istockphoto.com and crestockphoto.com

polynothing on Dec 24 '07 at 7:37am

I agree... Thanks Ste7en! Must've been a load of work to compile this!

Ste7en on Dec 24 '07 at 11:55am

no problem, it wasnt that hard... a few of us just pasted out bookmarks and such

Lhiiiz on Dec 24 '07 at 12:00pm

Wow, thanks for getting this together. AIGA is pretty good. I won a bunch of scholarships and stuff when I was involved as a student.

3 days later

Ste7en on Dec 27 '07 at 7:39pm

bump

3 days later

mj00 on Dec 30 '07 at 11:49pm

I didn't see this one linked:
http://www.graphicdesignbasics.com

I've found that to be the most substantial site for visual arts contests.

Also, Burnswell recently added a t-shirt contest (and it could really use some more entries!):
http://www.burnswell.com/

Pizazz on Dec 31 '07 at 12:03am

Thanks for doing this! It's great to see all this in one place. Could be useful in the future.

Isn't DeviantArt helpful with the whole online portfolio thing?

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