New Graffiti Art Blog - Feedback PLEASE!!

[Salaam - Mac815]

Hey everyone, could you check out my blog and tell me what you think, the link is -

Salaam - Mac815

My name is Salaam and I am a Leeds based artist, and I am also currently establishing myself as a self-representing graffiti artist. I graduated this year from the University of Huddersfield with a First Class Honours degree in Business Management (BA). My current goal is to harness the skills and knowledge that I attained within my degree and combine this with my life long passion for art to establish my own small business in which I intend to produce and sell my own art work. I intend to produce a range of varying designs on canvas, that I will then be selling to anyone interested in my work. Each design will be a limited edition and there will only be a certain number of each design produced, such as 20 canvases. Each canvas will be designed, then hand painted, signed and numbered by myself.

thanks for looking

salaam

[Jessemn]

Hey Salaam - Love the art (disclaimer: I don't know anything about art). Seriously though, it looks damn good. Great style.

As for the blog, the only thing I noticed was the outbound link to deviantart. For some reason it wasn't actually linked, just written. Your average user isn't going to bother copying and pasting something into the address bar just to follow it - so if you want people to follow a link, always make sure it's actually working and easy to follow.

[Salaam - Mac815]

Hey Jessemn, thanks for your nice comments, and trust me all you need to enjoy art is a pair of eyes, lol, you dont need to know anything about it.

Iv updated that dead link that you mentioned for deviantart, thanks for your feedback

salaam

[knubbl]

Originally Posted by Salaam - Mac815

Hey everyone, could you check out my blog and tell me what you think, the link is -

Salaam - Mac815

My name is Salaam and I am a Leeds based artist, and I am also currently establishing myself as a self-representing graffiti artist. I graduated this year from the University of Huddersfield with a First Class Honours degree in Business Management (BA). My current goal is to harness the skills and knowledge that I attained within my degree and combine this with my life long passion for art to establish my own small business in which I intend to produce and sell my own art work. I intend to produce a range of varying designs on canvas, that I will then be selling to anyone interested in my work. Each design will be a limited edition and there will only be a certain number of each design produced, such as 20 canvases. Each canvas will be designed, then hand painted, signed and numbered by myself.

thanks for looking

salaam

I like your blog and also the topic, the graffiti art. I think you could really create a nice blog. One thing to keep in mind though is that if you want to create a professional blog than I would buy your own domain and set up a blog there.
But if you just want to do it as a hobby than using blogspot is a good place to start. What you could do to improve your blog is to use a different design. There are lots of good blogspot designs out there so you should be able to find something that fits you needs.
Other than that I would just keep writing and keep creating new graffitis.

[Salaam - Mac815]

Hey knubbl, thanks for your comment, i'm glad you like my blog and the content. In terms of a professional blog, do you know where it is good to buy your own domain from? Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks

Salaam

[axiomwolf]

I would put your About Me at the top of the side bar, above the Archives. People are going to be more interested in seeing who you are and what you're all about than a list of your past blogs. You're definitely a very good artist. Might I suggest making a video blog with videos of you working on your art and some "How To's"?

[owllovespanda]

wow, your very talented

[Salaam - Mac815]

axiomwolf - Thanks for your comment, I will definatly take what you said on board and will put the 'about me' section at the top of the page. Plus your idea about producing some videos is something I am definatly going to branch out into, maybe some stop motion videos of the pieces being constructed? What do you think?

owllovespanda - Thank you :-) your comment is much appreciated

salaam

[Salaam - Mac815]

by the way axiomwolf, and anyone else interested, I have posted one of my videos on my youtube space, check it out here

YouTube - Graffiti (Afro Samurai)

YouTube - Graffiti (Afro Samurai)

salaam

[mln20]

hi salaam, wao im impressed with the art work!! great stuff man. i gotta tell you you are good! keep it up, i found it quite interesting your blog!!!