On April 6th was my 3 Year deviantART anniversary, and I've decided to pronounce that the occasion to finally renew my subscription, so say hello again to my horrible CSS (unless you haven't seen it before, in which case you're welcome to just say hi.)

Recently I did a Thumbshare Thread because I'd noticed that I had so little comments (around 800 at that time) which was a shame, because I really like commenting on people's work and do my best to leave meaningful comments, too. But I am a little lazy. In the Thumbshare thread I asked for people to give me stuff to comment on, and they did. I wrote over 400 comments in the first two days alone and kept on commenting for quite a while after that too. I'm ashamed to say that I still have some responses to wade through, but I'm determined to get to those, too, even if not right away. I guess it's my own fault for commenting three of everyone's pieces that I progressed so slowly.

But it was a lot of fun and I really like commenting and exchanging thoughts with other artists, so I'm really excited about the critique feature. Haven't used it yet, though. Anyway, in the process I discovered some amazing talents that I added to my watchlist, and some of those have way too low a pageviewcount (at least they used to, one of them had a DD in the meantime, but I'm gonna feature her anyway, because I promised.)

So I decided to feature those that I wrote down (I hope I didn't miss writing some down), and here they are in alphabetical order:

~aiyoshi



Aiyoshi is a photographer from Indonesia who really impressed me with her use of colors. All of her compositions are spot on, without superflous things and with a beautiful contrast between elements. She captures some beautiful nature scenes as well.

*asieybarbie



Asieybarbie is the one who got a DD just recently, and she really desevered it. She does some great drawings in a unique style and I love how she colors her images. Apparently some of the characters she draws are fanart, but I don't know the stories they're from. I'm sure you can appreciate them more than I can, if you know that, but I love all of her stuff nonetheless.


~BeckyFTW



BeckyFTW hasn't been on dA for too long, and her pageview count reflects that, which isn't at all justified, because her stuff is simply amazing. Her coloring looks very natural, and her drawings have a kind of childlike, cute style that I find absolutely endearing without ever being too simplistic.

*Heavenwill



I'm a huge fan of Heavenwill's artwork. His work is mostly about space and science fiction and he has some really amazing drawings among those. I'm always mesmerized by the cosmic colors he uses. And he's also one whose pageview count is way too low for his incredible artwork.

~Maverchare



If I had to recommend her to someone personally I really wouldn't know how to prounounce her name... Anyway, Maverchare has some really impressive drawings and paintings, and I think she has some quite interesting historic themes in her artwork that make for a unique and beautiful style.

I actually had one more on my list, but she seems to have erased her gallery... that's a real pity. Anyway, those are my newly watched that had a pretty low pageview count when I went there to comment, so check them out, they all really have potential. I might do a feature of those that are a little more fortunate in their pageview numbers later, because I found some great artists of that sort, too.

Happy Easter everybody.