Talk:The Online Freelance Artist: How Freelance Artists Benefit in the Digital Community/@comment-27012100-20151028043336

Good direction. I like how you defined the term, online artist, before proceeding to contextualize it. I feel like you also need to define the specific aspects of "benefiting". Perhaps you can break up the term into financial, emotional and career benefits. That way you can concentrate on each aspect separately.

The examples you give (i.e. Kickstarter, CrowdFunder, etc.) are good examples of how artists acquire the financial means to fund their projects, but they cannot necessarily be attributed to how the artists gain popularity or critical acclaim. It could be worthwhile to research some specific forums, which act as online galleries. Remember that artistic success does not refer to only wealth acquisition (unless that is something you want to argue). To support this claim you can use this article, which speaks about what motivates modern artists:

Towse, R. (2001). Partly for the money: Rewards and incentives to artists. Kyklos,  54(2‐3), 473-490.