I had my fan art on DeviantArt for a couple of years but periodically fan art gets targeted by various stalkers (apparently harassing artists is something of a group activity in the DA culture) so I had to move my gallery twice and start my flist over.
Then DA itself began locking artists out of their own work. The intention was to address copyright infringement issues and protect DA from being prosecuted for facilitating the theft of intellectual property. In some instances this makes sense, but I ran into cases after case where artists were locked out of their own work because even though they created the image, it was a representation of a fictional character and fell into a legal gray area as far as ownership goes. To be on the 'safe side' DA frequently opts to treat such art as the property of the canonical copyright holders. If you can't get written permission from, say, DC Comics, then your drawing of Batman will be locked down and eventually deleted, your gallery placed on a list of artists to be periodically targeted.
I finally gave up and moved everything to Tumblr. There, I get art love and the members fight to keep my name attached to the image. So far I have no complaints whatsoever. I still post on LJ art coms but I no longer sweat the yawning chasm of indifference of both LJ and DW users.
fan art fun time
Then DA itself began locking artists out of their own work. The intention was to address copyright infringement issues and protect DA from being prosecuted for facilitating the theft of intellectual property. In some instances this makes sense, but I ran into cases after case where artists were locked out of their own work because even though they created the image, it was a representation of a fictional character and fell into a legal gray area as far as ownership goes. To be on the 'safe side' DA frequently opts to treat such art as the property of the canonical copyright holders. If you can't get written permission from, say, DC Comics, then your drawing of Batman will be locked down and eventually deleted, your gallery placed on a list of artists to be periodically targeted.
I finally gave up and moved everything to Tumblr. There, I get art love and the members fight to keep my name attached to the image. So far I have no complaints whatsoever. I still post on LJ art coms but I no longer sweat the yawning chasm of indifference of both LJ and DW users.