After recently searching for good art reference websites, I was a little taken aback that Tumblr is still a thing, as it apparently still gets around 140 million monthly active users. Back in the early 2010s, these pages were a wealth of creative inspiration, something I used all the time when on ImagineFX to find artists, and now it seems they’re still alive, after all, the internet never forgets.
This strange, sprawling archive of great digital art, particularly if you want to revisit what artists, illustrators and film fans were obsessed with throughout the 2000s and 2010s, is now a way to explore nostalgic aesthetics or learn digital art software tips, and I’ve become a little obsessed with diving back into dormant Tumblr blogs to rediscover old inspiration and remember how differently we used to look at art online.
