Spring Cleaning 2012

It is that time of year again, time for some spring cleaning and purging of my online galleries. In the next week I will taking a long look at my online galleries and deleting older less quality work. I started this last year and it is definitely something I would like to continue! As last year, Deviant Art will be taking the biggest hit. You do know I have a Deviant Art account, right?

Deviant Art - the purge is coming!

DA will not be the only gallery getting a once over, but fear naught... these pieces of my work will always be in my blog as a timeline of my journey as an artist. The online galleries need to stay an example of my best (better) work and to insure that, there needs to be some purging. Sorry for any inconvenience...

That is all for another exciting week on the blog, see you back here on Monday! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Spring cleaning to start the new year

For the last several years January has been a big time for self reflection and planning... but I thank that is a fairly common reaction to the start of the year. I have already talked about the year in review now I am looking ahead. More importantly, I am looking ahead in how I and my work is represented online... I am looking at you, ONLINE GALLERIES. The purge is coming!

Well, it has already kind of begun... Starting last month I have begun cleaning things up online, making sure online are up to date and tidy. Even though I am still in the process of giving my entire web site a face lift I went through and really cleaned house last month. I was a little embarrassed to see some of the work I still had up there. I was slacking in the self promotions department big time by having really out dated work on my website while newer work was painfully absent. I made sure the work on my site represents the type and quality I want to produce. Since my galleries are still small on the site I made sure to have up a temporary 'best of' page while the site gets overhauled. Not a perfect solution, but it gives the viewer a chance to see the work larger.

Having taken care of the more important location last month, I am turning my attention to the web site with the largest online gallery of my work, Deviant Art. I created my DA account just under two years ago and I have been uploading work there often. There has been little to no editing all this time and it is very much overdue. I sent out a journal post over the weekend stating my intentions to purge my galleries in the coming week and to have last looks because work will be going away forever.

Deviant Art - the purge will begin this week!

Removing art will not be my only goal, I also want to better organize the work there so that people interest in a particular branch of my work can find it. Work for Pathfinder and Fantasy Flight Games with be getting their own galleries. This is something that I should have gotten around to sooner, part of self promotion is making sure your best foot is forward with your galleries. And remember, I have said this before, art directors judge you on the WORST piece in your portfolio and not your best. So now is a good time to get rid of all those weakest links!

That is all for today, see you back here on Wednesday! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com