Art community recommendations?

[ThunderStorm]

Hi fellow artists,

my younger brother spends a lot of his time drawing comic characters and as far as I can tell he has become pretty good at it (though I might be just a little bit biased). Whenever he comes to me with another work done, I usually go like "Hey, that's even better than the last one. You should really show that to somebody who knows this stuff."

As this is not exactly adventure-related, (though I would love to hire him as my art director), I thought I'd ask if anyone of you knows some kind of community that would allow him to upload his stuff to get some opinions and criticism. I know about deviantart.com, but when I browsed the site I felt a bit lost, as it covers such a broad range of works.

So - any ideas?

Thunder

[Khris]

I believe there's no problem with uploading it here.
Critics Lounge topics don't have to be adventure-related, afaik.

Just check out older threads and you'll find poems, music and even art that have nothing to do with adventure games.

[Andail]

Our CL is good enough for spontaneous publications, although if you want more serious and pertinent discussions ,seek out some good art forum.
The problem with most art communities is that they're based on personal sites with guestbook/comment-systems which encourage people to browse around just leaving comments, to be more noticed and get comments back.

Deviantart is quite a messy place, in my opinion. GFXartists is better, although it has the same "I scratch your back and you scratch mine" mentality.

[Dart]

If your brother is into pixel art, he could always go to pixelation.cjb.net.

For everything else, there's eatpoo.com.

[Pes]

If for nothing else, for inspiration: http://forums.sijun.com/ .

They have a section for unfinished and finished works. There are professional artists on the board so the feedback will probably be pretty good. At least accurate. Hopefully not too harsh.

[MrColossal]

and in addition to eatpoo

http://www.sketchbooksessions.com/thedrawingboard/

They even offer limited space to upload images

[Al_Ninio]

And in addition to Eatpoo, Sijun, and The Drawing Board:
www.conceptart.org

[Evil]

For Manga/Anime/Other Japanese stuff I don't have any idea about:

http://www.polykarbonbbs.com/

A LOT of advanced artists, but some not so's aswell. A lot of inspiration if anything.

[ThunderStorm]

Thanks a lot for the links, everybody!

After having a quick glance at all the sites, the drawingboard seemed the most suitable to me, but indeed there's plenty of resources on all  of the others too, and they'll surely find their way into my own bookmarks, if only for my weekly I-wish-I-could-do-this-myself sessions. 

Some of the sites seem to focus a lot on photoshopping, which is not quite what Luke does to his drawings, it's mostly just hand-drawn, colored and scanned. (He's more of a playstation guy than a computer nerd.  )

OT: Darn, if only I could sort out my upload problems, so I could give you an example, but FTP uploads tend to stop at 97%, just like DCC sends. Mail attachments miraculously work though. I still blame it on my ISP.