Amateur Illustrator is a social network for artists. Their main goal is to create a place where students and professionals can meet, and where you can upload your creations so people can tell you what they think of it :

AmateurIllustrator.com was started in the summer of 2006 by two illustration students at the University of Lincoln (in the East Midlands of England.) During the first year of our degree we came up with the idea of building an online web portal for illustrators and students of illustration. We wanted it to be a place where anyone could come and upload their drawings and images for others to look at and critique, and would also include many other features such as:

• interviews with professional illustrators
• tutorials and tips
• an 'Illustration News' section
• an 'illustration of the week' feature
• a personal gallery section where illustrators can create their own online portfolio
• a forum for people to chat, exchange ideas and post their work and work in progress
• a public gallery organised by medium so that someone wanting to look at or upload lots of images done, in say, pen & ink would be able to do so easily
• contests now and again with small prizes
• We also hope to add more and more features as the site grows

The site looks very nice and seems to have more than enough users and visitors. A must see for all art lovers, and certainly for illustrators !