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Introducing the Studio: an all-in-one place to submit your art and manage your drafts.

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Submit with Style and Ease

The submit process has been redesigned to make it easier and faster than ever to publish and monetize your art on DeviantArt. Visually, the submit process now matches the rest of DeviantArt, and functionally, you can do so much more:

• Easily create and edit descriptions with the same text editor as elsewhere on DeviantArt.

• Select where to publish your deviation. You can add it to a Gallery or submit to a group.

• Offer your deviation for sale with Core Membership—easily sell your submission as a Premium Download, or add it to a Premium Gallery or subscription tier.

• Apply appropriate content labels for your deviation, whether it contains Mature Content, was created using AI tools, or you want to add the NoAI label. If you frequently apply one or more content labels, use presets to remember your settings.

• Set advanced settings, including deviation details (Model, Object, Character, Artist Reference, Location), adding Creative Works licensing, disabling comments, submitting to Scraps, or allowing free downloads of your source file.

Fine-Tune Preferences and Save Time with Preset Settings

The Studio lets you select and define Presets for all your submissions to ensure full control, save you time and ease your workload:

• Preset titles and descriptions to include consistent messaging across all submissions.

• Set default tags, to ensure tags you regularly use are always added to your submissions.

• Apply content labels for when your art regularly contains Mature Content, was created using AI tools, or you frequently want to add the NoAI label.

• Remember advanced settings for when you frequently include the same deviation details, allow Creative Works licensing, disable comments, submit to Scraps, or want to allow free downloads of source files.

Manage Drafts En Masse

With Core Membership, your Studio becomes your go-to place to manage and edit drafts individually or in bulk—and, in the future, you’ll be able to manage existing deviations as well.

With the Studio, you have helpful tools at your fingertips:

• Bulk edit titles and descriptions with ease, including replacing or appending text when sharing a series.

• Add, remove, or alter tags on multiple deviations at once.

• Change or update content labels for multiple deviations, including whether they contain Mature Content, were created using AI tools, or you wish to add the NoAI label.

• Offer your deviations for sale and easily set your deviations as Premium Downloads, or quickly add them to a Premium Gallery or Subscription Tier.

• Bulk manage advanced settings, including mass-adding deviations to Galleries, toggling whether or not comments are enabled, and adding licensing information.

• Schedule and bulk submit deviations.

Coming Next: Multi-Image Deviations

For years, deviants have been asking for multi-image deviations so you can show off multi-panel comic strips, photo sets, and more. This revamp of DeviantArt’s submission process lays the technical groundwork to make multi-image deviations finally possible. While there isn’t an ETA yet, it will be worked on later this year.

Get notified when this is live by voting for this feature request.

— Your creative Studio is ready. Try it out for yourself now! Visit the Studio!

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It is time to feature more tutorials and undiscovered art!

As usual, the feature will be divided. The first part includes tutorials on how to design characters and creatures, and the second part is a selection of artwork I’ve discovered recently with fewer than 50 favourites.

Previous features are linked at the bottom of the journal, and I post a new feature each month on my profile, usually around the 15th

We'll start off with some guides on how to design human/humanoid characters. First, Dinloss has an excellent walk-through of how to design the character themselves - their body, their hair, pose, and much more. However, the clothes and accessories of a character are also essential to their looks - which is covered more in-depth by HANIICU and Deamond-89, with one discussing functionality and style and the other cloth detailing, including how to draw those:

Animal characters are a different beast, however Luckily, we have experts on the topic - of which Chickenbusiness is one. The first tutorial covers general tips for designing characters, and is valid for any species, while the two others are more wolf-specific... Which doesn't mean they can't be used as inspiration for all kinds of other critters, though!

Talking about inspiration - I personally find that looking at (often rare) existing patterns and colors of various animals can give me new ideas. Charts of various patterns and colors can be really helpful in this respect, and three great ones are Mambastar's chart of Bengal cats, Krissyfawx of primarily red foxes, and CowsAreNeat's of horses:

Finally, it's time to talk about designing your own animal species. Rodrigo-Vega and Hauket start us off by listing some of the most common ways of combining existing animals to create new ones, with examples. ARVEN92 has an excellent guide on how to make a species "from scratch", and SeaSaltShrimp covers dragons - with some excellent examples which can provide inspiration for other species as well. (This is also part 1 of a series - I highly recommend checking out the other parts too!) And finally, ImperfectEnthusiast covers... pretty much everything and more, with a long list of things to think about when making species, including presenting them and starting a group/ARPG:

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With that covered, it is time to look at some great new artworks which deserve more attention!

Previous features:

Trees

Fire and Glow Effects

Stars and Galaxies

Scenery

Humans

Water

Watercolor

Animal heads

Shading and Color Theory

Rocks

Metal

Clouds and Ice

Canines and felines

Artisan crafts

Birds

Hey all, It's been a while since I uploaded anything here and I noticed by a few comments that some may have misunderstood my SMB schedule. SMB: to clarify...when I said 2024, it wasn't meant to be once the year started. It just means sometime this year it will resume. Reason? I put it on hiatus to focus on the last episode of our Meet zah Marios dub. I am working on lots of new art work for the final episode and it needs most of my time and attention. After that, I am going to start working on art for my Super Mario Bros. movie review. I do not want to have these two projects linger forever, especially with the sequel releasing in only a couple of years from now. It's something I really wanna do and is also very important to me. If I can get these two projects done in a reasonable time frame, I can have some time to stock pile SMB pages again and hopefully upload again by December of this year. If not, then I'll have to hold out until maybe spring of 2025. I apologize for the upload schedule being derailed and dragging things out....I just hope you guys can continue to have patience with me. I will link both projects on DA once they're done if anyone is interested. I hope you enjoy them and future pages once they're up and running again. Thanks for reading

As some of you may know, my cat Max took ill a few days ago, the worst happened last night, he developed a blood clot in his lower spine and lost all feeling and control to his lower body. Unfortunately, there was nothing the vet could do for him, and we had to say goodbye at 4 am this morning.

I am a wreck, my partner is a wreck, I am asking for people to give me a day or two to grieve and figure out how I am going to deal with the cremation process and cost.

Please do not push me about commissions during the next two days.

If you are one of my commissioners who receives a weekly update for your commission, please understand that there will be a day or two delay.

Anyone who cannot respect this or is disrespectful towards this will be either pushed back in the queue or blocked.

Thank you for understanding.