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The Stars of dAr - =GillianIvyThe Stars of dAr is a series where I interview one member of the deviantART Related (dAr) community each time, about personal and dA related matters. Today, we meet `GillianIvy!The Stars of dAr - =GillianIvy1 year ago in Community Relations More Like ThisThough she's a multisided artist, she is probably best known for
babbling a lother journal and gallery skins, and her enthusiastic participation and always friendly attitude in the community, especially when it comes to helping others learning the ropes of
Thank you for your participation, Gillian!
- Please tell us something about yourself!
Gillian trivia...I'm 5'3"(ish) half Chinese, a mom of a 5 year old, a gamer and artist (of course). I met my significant other on DA, ~silverbane. I have some white eyelashes in my left eye as my birthmark. My first white hair was when I was 15, or so, I'm 32 now. I love Sci-fi/fantasy, I have no favorite color, movie, book or song (how
7-Day deviantART BirthdAy Giveaway!Last year, I was involved in another BirthdAy celebration with `PurpelBlur and `TimberClipse - which went rather well. So this year my brother and I are hosting a 7-Day deviantART BirthdAy Giveaway!7-Day deviantART BirthdAy Giveaway!10 months ago in Contests More Like This
Next week it's deviantART's 12th Birthday (only one more year of violating COPPA!), and to celebrate, =lightpurge and myself will be giving away some fantastic prizes during Birthday Week.
What is it?
Each day of the week from August 1st to 7th, we will give away one thing from the deviantART prints or gear shop.
Contests - Win Premium Memberships| Browse & search for more contests | Tips to hosting a contest |Contests - Win Premium Memberships1 year ago in Contests More Like This
Many people would like to make use of the Premium Membership features of dA, but of course not everyone is able to reserve some bucks for this, or to use them online. Thankfully, deviantART has a wonderful community where many people are willing to help each other out.One way to get a Premium Membership eventhough you cannot pay, is to participate in contests where you can win premium memberships, or points to pay for them - this list will hopefully help you find some to enter.
(Note that in this journal I will include contests with chosen winners only. There are also 'contests' around where the winners are in some way randomly assigned - perhaps you
MURO everywhere on the 12th BDay!Yeah, dA's 12th Birthday is in the corner!MURO everywhere on the 12th BDay!10 months ago in Personal More Like This
As you may know and I already posted a little blurp about it, on the 7th, dA will turn 12! Still a COPPA case
But why am I writing this journal now?
Because I have some fun for you on the 6th and the 7th!
That's right! There will be loads of points and memberships to win!
August 6th
I'll be posting a thread on the 6th in the DrawPLZ Forum.
All the info will be there but I'm not going to spoil the fun! Make sure to warm up your tablets or mouses for this!
This event will last until the end of August 7th so you will have plenty of time to finish the task!
August 7th
In :#communityrelations: @ 11 AM PST (6 PM GMT) there will be a Muro event hosted by me and the amazing ^KovoWolf!
Also I have amazing news for you!
If you can't or would not like to participate in these, then be sure to check my journals on the 7th because I have some othe
DeviantART's 12th Birthday Hat Contest! About The ContestDeviantART's 12th Birthday Hat Contest!10 months ago in World Events More Like This
Time Frame:
Ended! hosted by ^KovoWolf
Thank You Everyone!
The contest is currently being judged!! Thank you everyone who participated! They all where amazing and creative!!
In preparation for the Birthday Shinanigans about to unfold here at DeviantART, we want to ask you, the community to get your crafty scissors, gear up your imagination, and all the materials you can for this contest in preparation for celebrating DeviantART's 12th birthday! What we're asking of you is to make your OWN birthday hat to wear for DeviantART's birthday!
Here are some ideas for you to get started on a birthday hat!
The Judges
:iconastralseed: :icon3wyl: :iconlyricanna: :iconSanguineVamp:
The Rules
Below you will find the rules for the Hat contest!Please do not submit something you have already created
Conceptography II + Contest!Conceptography II + Contest!3 weeks ago in Contests More Like This
Conceptography
noun [kuhn-sep-tog-ruh-fee]
1. The science or study of Conceptual Art and the techniques involved in the procedures, processes, methods, of making and developing a conceptual piece through any form of medium
2. In conceptography the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand to express the meaning being portrayed.
Not to be confused with "Concept Art" which is an illustration that conveys a visual representation of a design or idea for use in films, video games, animation, or comic books before it is put into the final product.
Contents
1. Featured Concept
2. Announcement
3. Conceptual Artist Interview with ~BlackJack0919
SuperQuick Contest! Win Points! Any Visual Medium!UPDATE: I got all your entries and will post winners soon.SuperQuick Contest! Win Points! Any Visual Medium!9 months ago in Contests More Like This
Thank you!
Contest ended, below is struck through
Hello Guys,
So I have been MIA for a while, but, not too long ago I won some points from ^ladygagz So, want to turn those around to you guys!
I am inviting anyone who is interested to comment below with your best NEW work. The only restrictions are listed below:
- Please comment with a LINK of your deviation, and favorite the journal
- It must be NEW on or after August 15, 2012
- You may submit any VISUAL medium (No lit, sorry)
- You may submit only once
- Collabs are fine, but only one person will be awarded the points
- Deadline September 1, 2012 at 11:59:59PM PDT
Good Luck!!The best submission will receive 800 points! Can't be any easier than that now can it!?
Happy September guys!
2012 Epic Movie Poster Contest - Final DayDeviantArt and :iconscreeners: PRESENTS:2012 Epic Movie Poster Contest - Final Day1 year ago in Personal More Like This
THE 2012 EPIC MOVIE POSTER CONTEST!!
Contest Closed
Winner's Journal can be found here: http://screeners.deviantart.com/journal/WINNERS-2012-Epic-Movie-Poster-Contest-326939107
You can download the EPIC MOVIE POSTER SURVIVAL GUIDE by clicking the above image, then following the “Download File” link.
This downloadable .pdf file contains everything you need for the contest – including the Film treatments, Contest Rules, FAQ and more! It’s the same info you will find in our linked journals… just in one, easy to read package.
After your submission is validated to meet contest requirements, you will receive an invite to the #Screeners ACCEPTED SUBMISSIONS folder.Journal: DOING WELL AT THE EMP CONTE
dA Related (RED) Contest!Welcome to another deviantART Related contest!dA Related (RED) Contest!6 months ago in Official Contests More Like This
This contest is all about supporting (RED), the cause known for fighting for an AIDS free generation by 2015.
The contest is split into three (3) categories: Deviant Stamps, Journal or Gallery Skins, and DeviantIDs. Each category will have one Major Prize winner.
Deviant Stamps
(RULES)
A Week in dA Related - #043IntroductionA Week in dA Related - #0431 year ago in Happenings More Like This
Welcome to the next installment of A Week in dA Related!
A Week in dA Related is a weekly news article series that aims to bring you the most important and fun deviantART and dA Related news from the previous week. It also includes a handful of features from the gallery that were submitted in the last 7 days.
If you have any deviantART Related news you'd like to share, shoot a note to ^ladygagz.
This issue covers May 14th to May 20th, 2012
From the Writer
First of all, I hope you all had a splendid week. There were some exciting new changes on dA this week. The one that most of you should be already aware of are username changes. The deviantART community as a whole seem to be split on whether it's beneficial to the community. I'd really love to hear what you think about it all.
Another major thing is our dA Related CV, $namenotrequired has taken over another g
A Week in dA Related - #041IntroductionA Week in dA Related - #0411 year ago in Happenings More Like This
Welcome to the next installment of A Week in dA Related!
A Week in dA Related is a weekly news article series that aims to bring you the most important and fun deviantART and dA Related news from the previous week. It also includes a handful of features from the gallery that were submitted in the last 7 days.
If you have any deviantART Related news you'd like to share, shoot a note to ^ladygagz.
This issue covers April 30th to May 6th, 2012
News
Official deviantART
Site Update: New Sta.sh Writer Toolbar by $danlevCelebrating Deviousness - May 2012 by $fourteenthstarAnnouncing the deviantART Creative Grants by $fourteenthstarCommunity Relations Newslett
deviantART Poll BirthdAy Game! - Win 1,500 Points!BirthdAy Poll Game!deviantART Poll BirthdAy Game! - Win 1,500 Points!2 years ago in Contests More Like This
Win 1,500 Points on deviantART's BirthdAy!
Come and join us for an awesome opportunity to win 1,500 points!
Who?
You! Any deviant, including Gallery Moderators, Seniors, and Staff are eligible to play!
When
August 1-7!
What
Every day, August 1-7, we will post a poll at #deviantART-Related's poll and
All you have to do is answer the question and comment with your answer correctly, and you could win!
*As `TimberClipse will be away for a few of the days… he will not post Aug. 5, 6, or 7 with a reminder.
What's the catch?
There is always a catch! To win the points, you must answer ALL of the questions correctly!
Luckily there are no time constraints so whether you comment every day, or 5 minutes before the deadline, you can still win!
Winner
We will choos
Is it a bug? Is it a feature?No, it's a bug feature.Is it a bug? Is it a feature?6 months ago in Art Features More Like ThisWarning - contains insects and spiders.
I'll try to not make it too scary
Found on the Premium Thumbshare and normal Thumbshare +forums, and while browsing
Everyday we're CV'ingAs a Community Volunteer - I do as much or as little within the community that I feel comfortable doing. We're not pressured to do this and that, we don't even have to give a Daily Deviation every day, we choose how we promote our selected galleries/chats and forums and we're not fixed to any specific rule on how much or how little we do. But I do believe that it's important to share with you just what the community volunteers do and why we do it. More importantly it's so easy to get lost on this site full of many people - and miss out on the awesome that's going on. So I'm going to share with you exactly what the latest awesome is...Everyday we're CV'ing7 months ago in Community Relations More Like This
Project Educate
Almost every week since October last year the Community Volunteers have been working hard both independently and as part of small teams to bring You Project Educate.
Project Educate is about bringing forward art forms whether they are popular or overlooked and giving
The Neglected Importance of the Online CommunityWhat is the Worldwide Online Community?The Neglected Importance of the Online Community1 year ago in Editorials More Like This
The Worldwide Online Community is simply a group of people from a wide variety of countries and continents who come together to share their skills, experience, and/or love for a subject. Online communities are a fairly new faction and are not fully understood, their importance is neglected and may not reach their full potential until the next generation incorporates them more and more. It wasn't until the '90s that the Internet or World Wide Web really became a part of the culture, but in less then 20 years its impact has changed society from top to bottom.
In order to really delve into the importance of the worldwide online community, one must first define what it is. There are hundreds of different definitions of what an online community is, but this statement is generally accepted throughout these definitions.
Worldwide online communities are groups of people who join together on the Internet with a common int
DeviantART'S 12th Birthday Gameshow: Starting soonDeviantART Birthday Gameshow is starting in just FIFTEEN MINUTES!DeviantART'S 12th Birthday Gameshow: Starting soon10 months ago in Community Relations More Like This
We're looking for game players to come and join in our deviantART Birthday Event! In just a short while ^3wyl and myself are hosting an interpretation of a British game show called Pointless. The idea of the game is that you have to guess the least popular answer to a multiple answers question. You will be awarded points accordingly, those with the most points will win - but you will have used pointless answers to get there!
We'll have pre-judged the least popular and most popular answers by asking a panel of CVs beforehand for their responses. Want an example?
Name a Film Starring Tom Cruise
Okay so Mission Impossible is a really high answer and if you said that one, you'd get lots of points. Which isn't good! If you said Rain Man - you'd possibly be getting less points. But if you said something like Endless Love or Taps, then you'd be hitting on an answer tha
Deviousness Award Interview with TimberClipseWhat is this Awesome Achievement?Deviousness Award Interview with TimberClipse1 year ago in Interviews More Like This
The Deviousness Award is an accolade which is traditionally handed out
on the 1st of every month to one truly outstanding deviant.
The Deviousness Award for May 2012 goes to `TimberClipse.
Get to know more about Zev with this interview.
First things first, who is Zev? As an artist and a member of deviantART?
Who am I? That's a good question! I am 16, finishing up my junior year in high school and a lover of film and video. I have been on about 50 film sets in the last two years working on a different array of jobs from production assistant (PA) to key grip, gaffer, director of photography (DP), and editor. My passion is to continue on sets like
The 2012 Emoticon Talent Show! Winners Announced!Winners are at this Journal http://fav.me/d5gfde8 Thank you so much to all of you for making my first contest a success!The 2012 Emoticon Talent Show! Winners Announced!10 months ago in Contests More Like ThisVoting Closed!
Check out the collaboration above then send a note to me, *a-kid-at-heart, titled ETS Vote with the name/number of your favorite Act, and the name/number of two other acts worth a mention. Favorites will get 2 points, mentions will get one point. Voting ends midnight September 29th! You can only vote once!
UPDATE: Time is up and the entries are in!
There are a couple of entries that are just a tad late, but I will be adding them to the collaboration as non-competing entries. I really want to give people exposure for the work they did.
If any of you watch `Krissi001 you know she has run into a computer problem that will hopefully be fixed in a few weeks. Since she is helping me put the entries together in a flash animation format, voting will start for
Manip Challenges #003I wanted to do this last weekend, but ended up doing everything but thisManip Challenges #00311 months ago in Contests More Like ThisBut here they finally are: our third edition of the Manip Challenges!
) In any case, it's about having a challenge and not about breaking any participation records, so let's just get it on
I can't wait to see all your gorgeous entries!
Please don't forget to credit and notify all resource providers you use stock of - including the challenge stock!
The Rules
You are given 8 stock images (see below) of which you have to use at least TWO in a way that we don't have to go hunting for them with a looking glass. You can use additional stock, but I ask you not to use premades - this is a challenge for your skills, not for someone else's. Your entry has to be a p
Two Poems: A Contest (DEADLINE EXTENDED)NaNoWriMo is on its final wind-down, and many of you are hopefully very ready to terminate your one-month lease of a headspace where editing was unwelcome. Even more of you are, like us, feeling near-fatally neglected by the muses who have been showering their grace on prosehounds and keeping their distance from verse (or so they would have had you believe). On the heels of the no-editing, no-poetry silence let's recapture our words mid-arabesque--and then hilariously beat them down to nice respectable pliés while that one leg's still stretched backward. #confessional-poetry and a mangled cast of extras present:Two Poems: A Contest (DEADLINE EXTENDED)6 months ago in Contests More Like This
Two Poems: A Contest of Poetry and Editing
Essential Info
- Poetry contest, obviously.
- Submissions open December 1, 2012, and close February 28, 2013. (NO MORE EXCUSES. YOU HAVE PLENTY OF TIME NOW.)
- Open to all members of the site.
- ORIGINAL WORKS ONLY. Nothing that wasn't written specifically for this. This i
ARKs: Kindness Quilt Contest! Winner!ARKs: Kindness Quilt Contest! Winner!7 months ago in Personal More Like ThisActs of Random Kindness Contest
What are Acts of Random Kindness?
What is a Kindness Quilt?
Winner: =Mommy-of-Ein
Please see the prizes you will be receiving at the bottom of this journal.
Unfortunately, even with a month-long extension, most participants were unable to finish their quilts. With that issue, does anyone have any suggestions for how we should approach or run the next Kindness Quilt Contest?
Start date: November 1
End date: December 31
Quilts accepted: After October 15
Gallery: ARK Quilt 2012
Category: Community Projects / Projects & Clubs / The Ki
Birthday Wallpaper Contest: Winners Revealed!The Judges:Birthday Wallpaper Contest: Winners Revealed!10 months ago in Contests More Like This
:iconinfinite705: :iconmoonbeam13: :iconCasperium: :iconvsconcepts:
We have our final 5 and we are glad to announce the following winners:
First Place
2400 points + 1 shirt of choice *(based on availability):iconsketchingGalaxies:
Second Place
1600 points + 1 shirt of choice *(based on availability):iconTwistech:
Third Place
800 points + 1 shirt of choice *(based on availability):iconHMFS:
Runners up:
400 points each:iconFantasyPS:
:iconweb5ter:
Congratulations!
Please be aware prizes will be given out soon as possible!
If you are a winner please send a note to $Moonbeam13 and let her know what shirt you would like and size (based on availability), but make sure your 'Subject' of the n
Rules for the Photomanipulation Mini-ChallengeRules for the Photomanipulation Mini-Challenge10 months ago in Contests More Like This
So! For those of you who may not have been paying attention lately, today (August 7th) is deviantART's 12th birthday! To celebrate, we held a Stock Challenge chat session earlier today. Now, it's time to MANIP THAT STOCK!
MANIP CHALLENGE RULES
The idea, once again, is that we are creating a “fractured” fairytale in which we will be twisting a well-known story into something completely different. Can you take the story and put your own alternative spin on it?
THE THEME
“Fractured” (Twisted) “Beauty and the Beast”
The moment it all went wrong. The night an “old beggar woman” was turned away from a warm hearth and a curse that backfired and twisted the world in a way nobody - not even the old beggar was ever expecting.....
A beast who turned out to be a beauty... or a beauty who was really a beast. Y
This or That Emote Pack Contest - Closed!Emoticon Pack: a collection of emoticons (emotes) meant for use in a messenger or on a personal website that covers a variety of different emotions.This or That Emote Pack Contest - Closed!1 year ago in Customization More Like This
Required emoticon themes
Lazy OR FlirtatiousSheepish OR MischievousSpeechless OR Down-troddenHurt OR ImpatientIn Love OR HungryEvil Laugh OR TMI (Too Much Information)Envy OR GreedInsecure OR Grateful Relieved OR ConcernedWait, what?! OR OMGYESPLZ
RulesYou must select one (1) emoticon theme per pair, as listed above.
Sta.sh
Warning - contains insects and spiders. 
