preparing to promote work online

So, I am planing to make an online protofolio and was thinking about how to organise my pictures most effectively and securely.

I have an account on Deviantart since, which I used privately so far to post drawings, doodles and sketches that I thought were worth sharing. Now, I will try to use it more professionally in order to build up a first online protofolio. I believe that it is a good platform to promote my work. Deviantart has a big community where hobbies as well as professional artist come together.

However, I am concerned whether people will share my pictures without crediting me (can happen, without mean intentions!), what if my uploaded pictures gets copied, distributed or worse. The easiest fix would be to set a little name tag on it... at least I think so. The picture below (see a) shows how it would look like with a little copy sign. Is it ugly? Does it upset people? Why do I even ask this myself? :D

Another good thing about posting the art first on Deviantart is that they provide a nice embedding code, that I would like to use in future for the blog. There is also a possibility to just link Link to snowdrop

Then, I also created a Facebook page, which I think is a big bonus and big danger for sharing stuff (there are always two sides of a medal). Of course, I should not forget the other social media... but, I think I am a really small fish, so I'd like to keep simple step by step :)
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Snowdrop by jezymania on DeviantArt

The start of art or the other way around?

So, here I am full of energy and unbreakable motivation! The creativity is engaged and I am drawing and painting and ready to show my work ... to show my work, well, yes, I would like to, but where?

Not that it would not be obvious what type of service I want, clearly, I'd love to show my pictures and I'd love to blog, but surfing the terms of service and conditions, trying to understand what all the legal conditions and statements mean, turned out to be a long stumble and fumble through various social media sites and the sad remains of a the world wide web, now suffocated by a handful of megalomaniac data-Kraken (octopus). Slowly I started realising, that it is more me providing a service to them, by shovelling tons of bytes of pictures and other content into their hands, rather then they providing a service for me...  But, let's face it - I knew it all the way a long, and whats the point of becoming paranoid about it (might as well be the biggest kraken then :D )!

I am dying to blog about my progress and my art and so, to cut the story short, here is the start of my art blog!

The page will get a new refurbishment as soon as I get familiar with the handling. The design will be adapted, and a couple of pictures will come soon

I hope you enjoy :-)