sheezy.art

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I'm interested! What can you customize there? What are your favourite features there? Do you often find art related to your interests? Is the community outspoken? Do they have art tutorials like on Deviantart (I really liked those in the form of posts)? Do you have fun customizable things or inner jokes like the stamps or llamas?   

Fellow Sheezy user here, maybe I can try answering these as I have some thoughts from my esperience so far. You can customise quite a bit on your profile, actually! Background, box styles, text, image and audio/video hotlinks. CSS and html ability's pretty much openly available to anyone with only a limit in how many of each section type you can utilise on a free account (eg. comment section, pinboard, media box, gallery box, custom box, etc). It's quite akin to how it used to work with Deviantart with its own twist, most customisation's focused on the profile page and boy can folks go all out with them!

I've only been on the site for maybe 7 months or so and I utilise it occasionally. The site's still being worked on bit by bit but it is a tremendous improvement over dealing with any twitter or tumblr-like places, to me. Because there's currently a hard limit on daily submissions (5 per day for free users, subscribers get a higher limit), it's actually more normal to take your time on making stuff over there. I'd very much say it lends to a more laid back feel to everything, you can just worry about making what you wanna make at your own pace.

Journals are also commonplace here, and gods did I miss them. Some do tend to write short update-esque journals, but plenty more are being more open about themselves, bringing up actual discussion topics, and just chattering about things they enjoy with no limit. The best part, to me, is on the frontpage there's even a dedicated journal section that showcases new entries alongside with the typical sections for new and popular artworks, so it lends into allowing folks to find journals of interest as well as arts. The only problem I'd probably pick at is the commenting culture overall is still a little quiet, but it has been somewhat improving since I first joined (either that or I'm finding the handful of folks around who are sociable in the old sense). Plus I moreso chalk this up to folks not being quite used to making comments and getting into discussions, so I consider this more a nitpick than a problem. Plenty are jumping in from sites like Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram, after all. So in a sense the community's more laid back, not super outspoken but definitely wanting to take things more casually (now if you go to the site's Discord, folks there might be more outspoken, but I can't say for sure as I've been keeping completely off of Discord these days).

As for finding art-related interests or just nice-looking artwork in general, I tend to be a bit hard to attract to new things and even I've actually been finding some good art since joining. I've even easily found some new artists to follow, which I figured was gonna be pretty tough for me to manage! I don't often follow a lot of site-wide inside jokes, but I have seen several pop up that involve the main mascot, Sheemz, and on April Fools this year the whole site became Gnome-themed and everyone happily chimed in with it, so the jokes are aplenty as far as I can tell. Stamps have certainly made their way over to SheezyArt, plenty originating from DeviantArt and plenty made entirely new. There's no system akin to llamas, but Sheezy does have their own badge system that gets rewarded either by events or artwork features. Unfortunately I can't say much in terms of art tutorials provided by the whole community, I haven't had much need to actively look for any in years. A cursory glance tells me it's a bit far from all the good ones that used to be posted on Deviantart, but there are a handful around at least. That might change in the future, hopefully!