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Graphic design

This is the graphical section, dedicated to the subject that kept me busy for quite some time when I was little. If you are part of those who like to work on a nice desktop or put some nice sketches and drawings on their works, I hope you'll enjoy these few links.

General art
Customization
Web design

General art

Let's start with a few general and professional websites where you'll be able to admire some beautiful works:

DeviantArt

For me, it THE website, as soon as you're looking for something that is related to graphic design and art. Everything is there, best and worst, but the most popular deviations look usually rather good. Some are pretty incredible as some professionnals also display their work here. In short, whatever you're looking for, this is the place to start.
For those who aren't looking for something in particular right now, here is a list of some deviants I like. (display list)

Manga/Comics	Drawings/Paintings
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Myu-chan: nice comics drawings, often emotional and intriguing SanguisGelidus: beautiful illustrations of fantasy and anime fanarts Ry-Spirit and his great geeky drawings AlectorFencer in fantasy (with some good brushes as a bonus) Sakimi-chan for manga fanarts and tutorials, animated cartoons, and comics Qinni (digital paintings and animated cartoons) Abelphee. Quite a few dragons Naolito and his minimalistic cartoons Pepaaminto: some more manga and a nice alphabet Shadow-Wolf and his anthropomorphous creations Sandara: fantasy illustration Yangqi: some great illustrations, very diverse Neoyume (colourful) Unodu. Yep, some more Manga/comics in painting style Nuriko-kun. A style that looks a bit like oil painting or knife painting Arvalis with his realistic pokemons, among others Yosinori. Some eye-catching drawings, in a textured manga style (no flat tints)	Aurora Wienhold: quite a few colourful drawings of portraits and animals; interesting textures Faboarts and his magical drawings with colour pencils Alifann and her very unreal portraits AliceXZ. Beautiful portraits and fanarts Michal Orlowski: landscapes (pencil drawings and watercolours) Neoyume (colourful)
	3D and vector
	ShinyBinary or how to be gifted regardless of the graphical style... Moodswing08. Some vector art DivineError (3D idiot) He1z. Nice ads, among other things Wazzy88, for his remarkable series on pokeballs Maccollo, too see Midna and walking dinosaures RayBender. A lot of good 3D and some futuristic drawings (spaceships, land/cityscapes...)
	Géométrie, fractales
	Eresaw: some fractal art Fractists (I let you guess) Lindelokse an her (ultra)fractal flowers
Photo(manipulation)	Miscellaneous
Alex Cherry and his gorgeous photomanipulations BenHeine. A very extensive and interesting collection (photos and drawings) TheRedGirl for her still life photos Jyoujo, some nice photos of Japan Jan-Ex. A mix of photos and typos	Abiogenesis, with his futuristic animals and his drawings/paintings of various vehicles Jesar, whose work I am unable to describe shortly... there is some photomanipulation, some vector art, some 3D... and it's pretty PetitPlat -> some miniature o-LilSweets-o: tatoos and digital paintings

CrystalXP

Though it is mostly specialized in Windows customization, the news will make you discover many animations and short movies, mostly realized by art schools. Moreover, the numerous galleries are full of tux, mascots, wallpapers, etc. Finally, you'll find tutorials regarding various graphic design software on the forum, where you'll also be able to admire the members' work. As for associations, you can also contact the team of CrXP for logos requests (they'll be then transmitted to the members).

Hebus

An active community where some may find what they are looking for.

W. Siudmak

All French SF readers know the genius who painted many of the most beautiful (to my mind) front covers of the Pocket edition. Here is his website, where you'll be able to see his wonderful work.

Ted Nasmith

Let's keep going with some fantasy painters: here comes Ted Nasmith who notably illustrated many scenes from Tolkien's and G.R.R. Martin's works.

John Howe

And here is another artist who, for me, realized some of the best paintings related to Tolkien's universe.

Daniel Reeve

He also worked a lot on fantasy, but I rather like his work on calligraphy.

C.M. Laurent

Some more on calligraphy with nice mandalas and calligrammes...

Customization

For those who would like the destops to look a bit more attractive – it's always more enjoyable when you turn on your computer – Deviantart and CrXP still two references in this field, but here are some other links:

Desktopography

Here is a interesting website if you're searching for nice wallpapers... anti-ecologists may want to look somewhere else ^^

Gnome-Look & KDE-Look

Let us be clear, I'm a linux user before everything else and when I speak about customization, I adress more specifically those who chose the free path :P. To those people, Gnome- and KDE-Look will uncover a large choice of icons and themes, among which you might find the one you were looking for without even knowing it.