Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator @Curator@mastodon.art

Our current #MastoArtHeader is by @brandkopf \o/

Find their portfolio of beautiful illustrations at https://art.sommerwolke.com/

If you'd like your art to be featured, it needs to be 1500x500px, and you can toot it to us with the hashtag #MastoArtHeader ^.^ You can include some info about yourself for us to share, or we'll pull it from your profile.

•ART will never serve you ads, track you, sell your data, or charge you to use our site. But there are still costs related to running one of the largest artistic communities on Mastodon, and we rely on the generous support of our users to keep the lights on.

If you have the means and inclination, you can support us in two ways:

https://www.patreon.com/mastodonart

https://liberapay.com/Curator/

Otherwise, just keep on inspiring the with your amazing art! Thank you!

Following is a thread of toots about how you can support •ART.

Our instance is fully hosted and managed by @mastohost, who does such a fantastic job keeping us updated and running smoothly!

But it also costs money every month, and we rely on the support of our users to keep going.

Looking for other creative instances to try out? Take a look at these excellent choices:

General #art:
http://imaginair.es
http://kafuka.me
http://mastodon.art
http://merveilles.town
http://raconteur.ink
http://artalley.social (18+, NSFW)

#Photography:
http://photog.social

#Writing:
http://writing.exchange
http://wandering.shop

#Animation:
http://socel.net

#Comics/Narrative art:
http://comics.town
http://comicscamp.club

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I'm going to start a thread of quick #MastoTips for new users. Apologies for any hiccoughs, these toots aren't planned, so they may seem a little haphazard.

First of all: Welcome to Mastodon! If you're coming from Twitter you'll find some things very similar. Mastodon is a microblogging platform for sharing thoughts, photos, music, video, etc.

Posts on Mastodon are affectionately called "toots". You can laugh, it's OK. We found it funny too when we first joined.

Here's a #CC0 #ArtReference image that you can use as inspiration or practice :D Play with different styles - try it without lines and just blocks of colour, try it with very thing blank ink lines, try it with a square brush - there are lots of techniques you can use to practice interpreting shapes and colour ^.^

Share your sketches based on this image back here! <3

(Source https://pixabay.com/photos/cathedral-lighting-system-pond-5965374/)