With the recent set of upgrades Lightwyrm has grown into something that can be considered a full social network for digital artists.
If comparing it to other networks it would be similar to linked in in the way it handles the 'contact' list.

Unlike LinkedIn the focus here is less on networking and more on learning and sharing. What separates this from other art communities is that it is not focused on favourites and following. From the start we wanted to eliminate that, instead Lightwyrm is focused on providing a knowledge base for digital artists.
The difference?
In layman's terms there is less 'that looks nice' and more 'that looks nice because... and here is how... oh and don't forget to... and in personal experience... ' so on and so forth.

How was this accomplished?

After long consideration we decided that it is best to put two aspects of the website as the top priority, the tutorial articles and the discussion community [Forum]. The forum is there to receive direct help, immediate critique and more. While the tutorials are there to give you access to a volume of information that can be searched as you need it, be it for a project or just to get to get to know a technique. Everything else is there to help accommodate this; a robust user point system to have more users participate in day to day activities and the profile system to place valuable information about yourself.

Our hope is that this will get the artists to collaborate with each other further. Important milestones get met when you work with others. Humans are a group oriented species, we do most things better when we are together and the more we work together the greater the outcomes become.

If you agree with what we said help us out with getting this to a larger public. The more people participating the more effective this will become.
Take a look at some of the ways you can contribute in this thread

For the full description of all the new features take a look  here


-The Lightwyrm Team