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Technology changes: it's pretty common. The only issue is a lot of creators exclusively use Instagram for their networking and digital marketing. I really, really highly recommend that everyone get a website with a blog as their baseline for their integrative marketing strategy, but in the meantime, we want to make sure that we hold space to cover some of the ways that Instagram is changing for creators, and some helpful strategies moving forward for using the platform. Written by Stephanie Crumley, this is an article she wrote for her own Digital Marketing brand named Sigil Marketing.  You might be...

Paul Romano is a fine artist and designer living and working in Philadelphia, PA. Romano's work often consists of vivid colors, mythical beasts, and crisp typography. His work is unique among modern album Artists as it is almost entirely created on canvas by hand (At times including mixed media). This traditional art process is done with a craftsman's keen eye. Romano's Art for the heavy metal, rock, and death metal communities has been well received and brought his distinct Art to a much larger audience. His depiction of a white whale or 'leviathan' thrashing about in a blue-colored sea has rightly become an...

The UK has always been on my must-visit list. Growing up in Southern California the notion of “historic” came from the white colonized perspective, meaning buildings created in the nineteenth century.  The prospect of seeing towering fabricated behemoths that have seen anywhere from a thousand to several hundred years standing prominently amongst the contemporary cityscape was something I could barely conceive. I often travel to see the originating locations of urban lore and legends. I'm sure a lot of you reading this can relate to it, it's definitely in our niche. "Our," being the target audience of dark art lovers...

The contemporary Dark Art community is brimming of amazing talent, one of which is Indonesian-based Artist and illustrator Altar of Sorrow. This self-taught artist creates in both the digital and paper media, detailing his work with a jaw-dropping stippling technique that seems borderline impossible. 

Dave McKean is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book Artist and graphic designer among other things. His eclectic work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found objects and digital art. McKean is truly a mixed media artist and one of the first to embrace digital technologies in such an open fashion. In the 80s McKean met author Neil Gaiman with whom he began a partnership that would produce much creative work. Teaming up with authors, playwrights and filmmakers McKean has had the chance to create a spectacularly varied body of work. The mixture of Art mediums makes Mckean's work recognizable and at times even frightening in...