As an artist it can be a bit taxing on a computer to save all of the art files. So where do you find it most convientent to save your files? On a cloud storage, a USB, a spare drive, or on your desktop? Personally I keep all my art on my desktop which can lead to some storage space issues. I just find it much more convienet compared to a USB since I lose them so often.
I keep all my stuff in my pictures folder. Also, I tend to upload anything worth keeping online anyway. Places like Deviantart, tumblr, a discord sever for artists, toyhou.se, forums, derpibooru, and more! If it's not on the internet, it's either a work in progress or a random doodle on a piece of paper or sketchbook.
In a physical folder, with the scanned copies saved to an external HDD. I don't post most of it anywhere, ever, but things I might want to post somewhere are at least available.
Demand is at an all time low for traditional art. Maybe I will if it picks up and seems like people want to see it. I plan to be doing some more soon, might post those.
In my opinion traditional art has gone very underappreciated, not even talking about myself (I'm okay at drawing at best) but in general, and it saddens and annoys me.
My traditional art (on paper and in sketchbook) is stored in 2 main big "suitcases", my digital art is stored in an extra internal disk, NOT with system32. That way I can still get it if my PC's compromised. No way it'd all fit in a USB key!
I keep hi-res .psds or .clips with layers intact, in case they need edits. I have .pdfs sized appropriately for print. And I have .pngs at web resolution. All on an internal 3TB D drive (separate from my SSD C drive), and all auto-backed up to yet another hard drive in case of drive failure. Storage is getting cheaper all the time, I would rather keep it all and expand my storage than delete anything!
I agree Perfectly Chaotic! It's best to ALWAYS keep psds when saving, in case something needs to be changed. I usually keep my art files in organized folders by years, and save both PSDs and PNGs.
I save the few art pieces I make to my pc storage, but I do plan to get a big hard drive in the future for dem extra space. Most of the art work I do is pixel art anyway, and those often don't take up more space than 1 kb.
I just keep them in folders on my Computer, but it has been a bit packed since I've accumulated a lot of images and haven't gone through and deleted the ones I don't need anymore (since I save screenshots etc. along with my art). For physical art, I just keep them in drawers or boxes depending on whether I want to put any of them on display in my room or to work on. Old stuff I don't really care about gets put in boxes (I do re-open them for nostalgia sometimes though) while my recent stuff is in drawers that I can access easier.
I would keep my traditional art in a portfolio nowadays since my backpack is suppose to be used for school work or to help carry my laptop. For my digital art, they are kept in several portable flash drives so I won't loose them when my computer crashes. I mostly save all of my digital art as png so I can go back and fix them if I noticed a mistake.
My pictures folder is incredibly disorganised - it used to not be - but I do at least have a general idea of where everything is stored. More recently I've been trying to make a transition to making a dedicated "Banners" folder so I can store all of the GFX-related stuff in there, rather than being dispersed across a bunch of folders; it used to be enough to store them in the "Eclipse" folder, but now half of that folder consists of various .txt files for record-keeping and such, so that doesn't work. As far as my policy on keeping .png and .xcf files (XCF is the file extension for things created in GIMP, and is the equivalent to Photoshop's PSD), I tend to keep both for several months afterwards. I also upload the .png files to a site like TinyPic or Lake Valor's Gallery, though I have been transitioning to use LV exclusively, since TinyPic only sometimes works for me (the actual problem is that when I go to input the Captcha code, nothing shows up - so maybe it's a problem with Captcha? Ah well, not a big deal anymore), and besides, LV Gallery is a lot more organised anyway. If I tend to not like the banner I created very much, I don't keep the .xcf/.png files for very long on my hard drive. If I did, though, or wanted to remember a certain technique I used to accomplish a desired effect (mostly the latter), then I will keep them. I don't clean out my folders often (it's only when I remember to clean) so this check happens once every couple months or so. I'm in the habit of keeping every file I think will be even slightly necessary, though I know that I need to change my thinking - I know I have a sizable chunk of files that I'll never ever use but want to hang on to them 'just because' they might be helpful. (I doubt it, though.)
I save everything onto my mac's hard drive and back them up on an external hard disk every once in a while - I don't really trust the internet to host my files forever hahaha for traditional draws, most of them are in my sketchbooks / lost in the abyss of my room's eternal mess....
For digital art, I just keep them on the device since it doesn't cause me any trouble. Traditional art, though? My drawings are just scattered all over my room I used to have a designated folder, but just ended up not using it for some reason definitely not because it was stolen and I gave up on folders, nope.
I have everything in folders on my laptop. I do not make much art, and if I do it is more traditional works and those I store in a map.
I have a personal sketchbook where I keep my art- well... now it's two. I don't really make any digital art, but I do take pictures of my art just in case anything was to happen to my sketchbooks.
I have a sketchbook and like 300 pieces of printer paper. Once I'm done with my art, I save it to my phone because that's how I get a picture of it.