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We’re joining in on the snow-themed Community fun with our own snow-themed challenge in AnthroCommunity ❄️ We’ve collected a list of our favorite Snowy Animals below as your inspiration for creating an original wintery Anthro character 🐻‍❄️ Create a new deviation based on one of the following Snowy Animals and submit to our gallery for a chance to win some DA Points this holiday season 🎁 ● Arctic Fox ● Arctic Hare ● Arctic Wolf ● Caribou / Reindeer ● Emperor Penguin ● Polar Bear ● Snow Goose ● Snow Leopard ● Snowy Owl ● Walrus Here’s the rules and rewards for this AnthroCommunity group challenge: ■ ✅ All deviations must abide by DeviantArt Terms of Service, our Fair Use rules for submissions, and the Submission Guidelines for AnthroCommunity … off topic or inappropriate entries will be removed ■ 🙏 Create your images with digital and traditional tools in whatever art style you’d like … use the tag “AnthroCommunity” when submitting your deviation please and thank you ■ 🎨 One entry

It is time to feature more tutorials and undiscovered art! :dummy: As usual, the feature will be divided into two parts. 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 :la: This month, we'll focus on an art form which can be a bit hidden on DA, namely writing. There are a lot of good stories, fan fiction and poetry out there, though - as well as some excellent tutorials on writing! First, we'll start with... well, story writing. @illuminara and @OokamiKasumi start us off by giving some tips on how to start writing in general, as well as giving some beginner tips. illuminara also has an enlightening guide on how to write your first draft, and then @MomoPoms gives some great advice on how to write good fanfiction

Blue Eye Samurai on Netflix is a visually striking animated series with a gripping storyline, unique characters, and powerful themes like identity, honour, and vengeance. Set in Edo-era Japan, the eponymous blue-eyed samurai, Mizu, embarks on a relentless quest for vengeance. In a society that values purity and conformity above all else, the mixed-race Mizu is an outcast, experiencing deep-rooted prejudice and abuse at every turn. Demonised by society, Mizu's insatiable need for revenge against those responsible for her origin begins to threaten her very humanity. This week's Fan Art Friday feature pays tribute to Mizu's unforgettable journey - her strength, determination, and vulnerability - with some amazing fan art created by the community. An artist gives all they have to the art, the whole. Your strengths and deficiencies, your loves and shames. Perhaps the people you collected. - The Swordfather If one god forsakes you, another one will help you. - Akemi To a man

Throw Snowball badges at deviations and comments to climb the Snowball Leaderboard and win points or a one-of-a-kind event t-shirt! Get ready for a flurry of fun, because the Great Snowball Fest has returned once again! This year, the seasonal Snowball badge is free to throw, so let the snowballs fly to secure your spot on the Snowball Leaderboard. The leaderboard is especially thrilling this year, because when the leaderboard tally ends at 11:59 PM Pacific Time on December 31st, deviants ranked 6 through 15 will receive 100 points, and the top-five snowball throwers will receive a special event t-shirt! Winners will be announced on or around January 2nd, 2025. The Snowball Leaderboard Rank 1-5: T-Shirt Champions — 6901 snowballs thrown — 6369 snowballs thrown — 6264 snowballs thrown — 6178 snowballs thrown — 5656 snowballs thrown Rank 6-15: Points Pursuers — 5457 snowballs thrown — 5362 snowballs thrown — 5077 snowballs thrown — 5048

The holidays are here, and your OCs deserve their own winter snow globe moment. Welcome to the In a World of Snow Contest Show us how your OCs would spend their time in a miniature world of endless snowfall. Will they be making snow angels, building snowmen, ice skating, or starting snowball fights? Draw your original character(s) inside this snow globe in an anime style. Rules Your OC must be drawn in an anime style inside the snow globe template provided above. [download link] Editing the template is allowed. Use #snowyDA24 among your tags. Submit your entry to the contest folder. Membership to the group is required to submit to the folder. All membership requests are automatically accepted. Your work should be created specifically for this contest, which means no work submitted before December 01, 2024. You can submit as many entries as you like, but only one of them may win a prize. AI and AI-assisted images are not eligible for this contest. Dates to

Welcome to another Adopt Contest! We have a brand-new themed prompt so you can challenge yourself to come up with an adoptable design and win some exciting prizes! In celebration of the holiday season, the theme for this contest is... Frozen in Time Create an ADOPTABLE design (humanoid/ anthro/ animal/ item) inspired by the theme! Rules All eligible entries must be listed as adoptables and have a means for someone in the community to be able to adopt them i.e., there must be a price mentioned (fixed / auction) Use #frozenDA24 among your tags. Submit your entry to the contest folder. Membership to the group is required to submit to the folder. All membership requests are automatically accepted. Your work should be created specifically for this contest, which means no work submitted before December 01, 2024. You can submit as many entries as you like, but only one of them may win a prize. You can use any medium you like as long as all stock and resources, including

Daily Challenges has been a really fun way to engage with artists across the world and this past year we’ve received literally hundreds of thousands of amazing deviations covering all kinds of themes, subjects, art styles, and genres inspired by these tags. Let’s keep the fun going through the end of the year with an entire month of Daily Challenges tags in December suggested by Deviants! How to Suggest a December Daily Challenges Tag ❄️ Think of things that you associate with December: colder weather, snow, winter, holidays, gifts, traveling, spending time with family, eating too much, sweets, etc. … ask yourself: what does December mean to me? ❄️ Once you have a December-specific idea, try coming up with some words that describe your idea but are still open to most art styles and genres … for example, #Icicle is more accessible than #IcicleWatercolor. ❄️ Before you share your idea, scan the comments below to see if anyone else has already posted that #tag … if so, don’t post the

It's November, and winter is coming - or has come - for most of us. So what better creature to draw than an arctic fox, all poofy in their winter fur? (And even if winter isn't coming your way, who can resist them?) Because that's what we'll be doing! And if you follow the steps and post your artwork with the hashtag #ArcticFoxTutorial, you'll also get a special badge: I have drawn this with your good old graphite pencil and some colored pencils, but you can obviously use other traditional and digital media as well Without further ado, let's begin! Step 1: Draw a circle, and divide it into four parts. Step 2: Let's get the most important details added, namely the eyes and the nose. The top of the nose should be halfway between the center and the lower edge of the circle. Also remember that arctic foxes, like other foxes, have small noses compared to dogs and wolves! Step 3: Time to add the muzzle! Each whisker pad is a nosewidth wide, and has a rounded "smiling" shape. I've

Dear members, I hope you’ve all been well and that you’re all as excited as I am to be entering the holiday season! ❄️ CRPhotography is happy to present a new monthly challenge for you to partake in, with exciting prizes to offer! Please carefully read the details below to find out how to enter. The Prompt  🌨️ Winter out of your window 🌨️ Capture a view from a window in your home (or another building if need be) showing us winter in your area. Not very wintery where you're at? No problem! Decorate your window in a winter theme and show us how to make winter come to you The Rules 🔗 Enter by linking your deviation in the comments section of this journal. 💙 Please include a link to this journal in the description of your deviation. 🙋 You must be a member of CRPhotography to participate. 📸 Any photograph submitted must be your own. 🆕 You may only submit newly taken photographs for this activity. ➕ You may submit as many photos as you wish. 🚫 Per the group submission rules, no AI

Yeti Tutorial - Q&A: December 10th at 6PM MNT - CLICK HERE #YetiTutorial  Step 1 - Initial sketch People say they can only draw a stickman. For me thats where I start. Just some basicshapes and lines as the foundation for what comes next. The pose I had in mind was sort of a boxing pose. Step 2 - Form Start figuring out the anatomy with blocky shapes. Thinking 3-dimensionally, adding thickness and heft. Simple shapes. Block out the form. Step 3 - Layering Just start filling details and mass be loose don't worry about mistakes. Hopefully for your own work you already know what you're going to draw so you don't have to worry about design. Follow your guidelines. This will reveal whether your initial sketch work. You'll see right away if there is anything that doesn't work. i work digitally. so I'll lower the opacity of my current layer and start redrawing. Adding detail, refining. You can also start to erase the guides as you see fit. I'd say my type of illustration is