I don't have much experience with online art forums and the like, but I know that a lot of artists meet online. There are exchanges of work in which a piece is passed from person to person, each artist adding something or working into it before passing it along. There are a lot of groups documenting such exchanges on YouTube, just as a lot of artists post excerpts of themselves working on a piece of art from start to finish so you can see it develop.
Anyway, a friend of mine from the Kansas City Art Institute, who is much more involved on facebook than I am, has started a facebook group devoted to amazing and inspiring artists. It is a great opportunity for artists to share experiences and to direct one another to cool artists working in different veins. She recently created an open studio critique in which we can post some photos of our work and comment on them amongst one another to get outside input.
Anyway, it seems like a good idea, but so far only three people have posted much of anything. It is difficult to critique another's work based on photographs of it, especially in process. I suppose I am getting a better sense of how jurors jurying from slides or digital images must feel. So I don't really know what I would say on this topic, other than to beg the questions: is anyone else out there doing something similar and how is it working for them?
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