Firedrake

i wouldn’t recommend it. i did the same thing a while ago, not knowing anything about myspace, on the advice of a friend. let me put it this way, as a venue for promoting your art, it’s a great way to be innundated by freaky, pervy messages from sleazy creepy strangers….but that’s just my take on it…
not a single bite on the art, except from some illiterate guy whose page was covered in porn…needless to say i didn’t respond.
i find myspace really creepy…having said that i’ll friend you – but i may cancel my account soon ; )

I’m not sure if I’m your friend….. but you now are Rupert Murdoch’s lackey :-)

I don’t use myspace I use facebook, but I don’t really use it to promote my art more to keep in contact with friends. I know Sam uses it for promotion.

sorry, don’t have a myspace account… but all promotion is good promotion, good luck!

if you have excess time to waste…go for it.

i joined for about 8 hours…

I joined ages ago then lost interest … I think the book of face has a little more life left in it! Or try stumbleupon. Nat Perkins has put together a great list of sites that are handy for promotion/social networking :)

lee wilde is on there, maybe she`ll throw you a couple of her 4000+ friends.

For what it’s worth, your space looks good. =)

geek

hehe, i have one…i’m never on there though…:(

I’ve always liked your personal site; a classy affair. I hope the MySpace thing drums up some huge sales for you though!

you wanna make money….make tees.

My MySpace Name is Art Ocean and, yes, I’d be honored to add you as a ‘friend’.

One of the members of the RPG, Matt Bray, also has a MySpace page, Remodernism on myspace.

I’m pretty sure he’d like to add you as a ‘friend’ as well. And I have heard rumors that art galleries are now using MySpace as a tool to search for new talent – so it may not be as silly as you seem to think it is.

Here’s the review I wrote for my links page: “Although this gargantuan free site is advertiser-driven and designed for jits looking to hook up, it has become a very popular promotion tool for musicians; artists with some knowlege of HTML may find it useful as well, as it is possible to include links and images.”

Myspace are going to have a section just for artists soon, they are working on that since at the moment its mainly for musicians and comedians. But yes its a good way to network.

wotever.

mmmmm i have one its not that bad
unless you add strangers then it gets very weird

personally I mostly find myspace a spam fest, I don’t think it’s helped drive traffic to my site but… I’m a slacker when it comes to promoting myself so that’s probably got more to do with it! XD”

Good luck tho, and your profile page looks ace! friends you X3

i have a sitemeter on my blog and added my blog to my myspace.

So i KNOW i get traffic there from my space. I use my account there mostly to stay in touch with my daughters in Melbourne (Bad Ladies) and their band Trashivory.,... so you could add them too… I admit i keep my ‘friends’ real friends or Writers and Visual Artists ….

Think wheel hub….. and myspace is just another spoke to direct traffic.

wendy

you just filter your friends slightly and you should be fine…...best of luck. :)

LOL for some reason I thought u were a dude!

I am not really into myspace (so many fugly profiles); but I have to say yours is the coolest-looking ones I’ve seen by far.

I recommend an exorcism. Maybe with a bottle of alcohol.

Looks clean and good. Nothing like most personal myspace accounts. I agree with the more the merrier approach. It can’t hurt. (And you like fur patrol? MY god. I haven’t heard them in ages.)

I have a MS page, but it won’t let me upload images of my work, so the whole ‘art marketing’ plan went a bit tits-up.

I did boost my RB sales a bit by placing an ad in their ‘for sale’ bit though…not by much, but enough to buy me a pint at the end of the month. <:)

I am on myspace to find out when my fav. bands are playing. And I joined especially so I could send Ween a message when they came to Oz and dean ween wrote back. well i think it was him. any way the moral of the story is I’ve only had a few freaky people want to be my friend. easy to ignore them. the spam is not bad at all. people can not give you eggs with glittery puppies in them or whatever they hell they can do on facebook. but as far as promoting art work goes, well I’ve never looked at art work on there, but good luck. AND i’ll be ya friend x

I swore I would never have a page there! But, a friend also convinced me to get my own page to promote my art. So, I too caved in. It’s been an excellent experience for me! I’ve met some amazing artists, a mentour, and, I met someone who purchased my first art piece! It’s all in how you use it. The sleezy stuff can be easily avoided….just check the profiles of everyone that friend requests you.

www.myspace.com/lynsye818

:)

ya its good for networking, but you have to add just artist and stuff, theres alot of creepness, spam, and little kids,that leave nasty messages. i have a page, but i have to take a break from the site often. i much prefer deviant art redbubble ect.

the trouble with myspace is if you just open an ordinary account its difficult getting poeple to view it as very few poeple brows the ordinary site i have 2 on myspace one for my musi and one for art if you set up a music account i find poeple brows you get hits every day but the ordinary accounr with just my art on dosnt get any in both cases you have to work at it especialy in the begining the best way and it is a pian is to click on brows check out the different members see who is interested in art or at least who you feel would be and send them an invite but dont go cold leave a pleasent but not sugery note remember they get hundreds of invites from poeple who just want to network i did this for my music also for every ten you send out you might get one visit and somtimes thought in all i sent out i only got one you can get some nasty comments back with my music page iv had nearly 3000 hits an made a lot of friends
now i dont bother sending invites out as once you start getting reply and building friends they start inviting you the music page has about 280 friends but the art page has only had bout a 100 hits as im a musician im licky coss i have a slide show of my work with my music and all my links but dont expect to sell much from there lots of lick and i hope you prove me wrong

it’s a great way to be innundated by freaky, pervy messages
from sleazy creepy strangers <—-—-—--
hahahaha…...I totally agree..

after thought you can find me thier url www.myspace.com/dnlddean another good tip is when you start building friends start leaving comments on thier pages and use an interesting default picture believe it or not poeple notice your picture when leaving comments on thier friends pages and click on the default

They are changing that :)

everyone can get a FREE SITEMETER from www.sitemeter.com

i have a premium account which just gives me more details….and for $5 a month it is soooo worth the work i put into the internet as it helps direct my time to the sites that prove their worth in either traffic or ranking on google…...

can we say. art with a science base?

can’t hurt….......

:)

i’m on there, ‘elven made’. i’ve gotten a little bit of work through myspace, but really its just there until i can rope someone into helping me do a website!
good luck with it!

From long frustrating experience trying to actually sell artwork, the best way to promote your work is through actual shows and placing your website in reputable art sites. You very rarely will attract real people interested in art on MySpace, Facebook- etc. except kids and as someone said- real pervs!! And they aren’t looking for art!

Could not ‘get into’ my space then when I kept getting spam I tried to cancel my account but it did not seem to work?? So now I get some randem spam I try to ignore lol

I recently joined myspace too as a friend recommended it would be good promotion. I have a group on Facebook, but i’m thinking a fan site would be better. I think its like anything – any promotion is good publicity. You should try placing a free ad in a zine or something as well or do some art for a zine/local rant as you will get good publicity there too.