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Honing Your Skills by team, journal
Honing Your Skills
Looking to broaden your horizons as an artist? Want to start selling your art on DeviantArt? Here's a list of tools, tips, tutorials, site features, and more that can help you on your way!
BEGINNER | ADVANCED | MONETIZATION
BEGINNER TUTORIALS
ADVANCED TUTORIALS
MONETIZATION
Seller Guides and Tips Be the Shop Hero!
Tips and Tricks for Holiday Art Sales
Buy and Sell Profile Skins in the DeviantArt Shop
Promote Commissions on Deviations and Profile
Carve out a customized Profile Skin
New Buyers for your Old Commissions
An Artist's Guide to DeviantArt Subscriptions
What to Offer Your DeviantArt Subscribers
How to Give Your Subscribers the Best Value
How to Gain Subscribers
Promote Subscriptions on Deviations and Profile
Best Practices for Successful Subscriptions
Expand Your Reach with Commissions
Boost Your Art: A Guide for Tags
New on Stats: Benchmark Yourself
Stats and Insights for Your Art, Profile, Audience
Featured DeviantArt Events by team, journal
Featured DeviantArt Events
The DeviantArt community comes together for special occasions! Here is a list of previous community and cultural events.
2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019
2024
2024 Snowball Fest
DeviantArt's 24K Gold Birthday
LGBTQ+ Pride Month 2024: EmpowerMay the 4th Be With You: Kyber-netic EnhancementsDevianTART - Lets get bready to crumbleWomen's History - We Can Do It!
Share your passion this Valentines Day
Did you collect them all?
2023
Happy Holidays from DeviantArt!
The Great Snowball Fest Strikes Back!
Trick and Treat with the Trick or Treat Badge
Drawtober 2023: Draw every day in October
Hispanic Heritage Month: Celebrate Art and History
Award a Nice Shot badge to your favorite photo!
Celebrate DeviantArt's 23rd Birthday
Evolution of the DeviantArt Logo
Celebrate Juneteenth!
LGBTQ+ Pride Month: All Out With Pride
Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month 2023
Give deviations a Totally Normal badge!
Celebrating International Women's Day 2023
Trade Gold Coins for good luck for St.
Freeze your friends at the Great Snowball Fest! by team, journal
Freeze your friends at the Great Snowball Fest!
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
— 4912 snowballs thrown
— 4781 snowballs thrown
— 4657 snowballs thrown
— 4248 snowballs thrown
- 4210 snowballs throw Rank 6-15: Points Pursuers
— 4123 snowballs thrown
— 3859 snowballs thrown
— 3680 snowballs thrown
— 3320 snowballs
Get more as a top supporter of Exclusives! by team, journal
Get more as a top supporter of Exclusives!
New features have arrived to help creators and owners of Exclusives and adoptables connect even more!
If you’re new to Exclusives, they’re one-of-a-kind artworks that artists can sell and buyers can own and resell through an easy, secure, and automated system. These can be adoptables, digital art, photography, 3D art, mixed-media creations, and much more.
Showcase your fans with the Exclusives Top Supporters board!
If you offer Exclusives and have sold Exclusives to at least three different deviants, you can now see the Top Supporters board in the Exclusives tab when viewing the Shop section of your profile.
This board shows up to 10 of your top supporters, who are owners or resellers of your Exclusives, ordered based on the total value of their purchases and the number of transactions they’ve made in a given time period.
You can also install the Top Supporters section to the Home tab of your profile, to show appreciation for deviants who support you!
Give your supporters
NEW: Boost your art! by team, journal
NEW: Boost your art!
Update, November 19th: Boosted content will now start appearing in more places across the network! In addition to displaying in the Home feed, boosted content now appears on the Deviants You Watch page, and it is also being rolled out to deviation page sidebars in the coming months.
In Deviants You Watch, only boosted content from deviants you watch will appear.
Increase the visibility of your art and reach a wider audience with the new Boost feature!
How does the Boost feature work?
Boosted content will receive increased exposure for 48 hours, and will appear for deviants who are most likely to enjoy your work.
After the boost ends, you’ll receive an email and a notification detailing the impact of your boost.
Public deviations (including literature, Premium Downloads, and Exclusives) and Subscription tiers can be boosted.
You can boost multiple items simultaneously, and you can also boost the same item multiple times back-to-back.
How do I use the Boost
Support by team, journal
Support
Check out the links below to get help from the DeviantArt Team or request new features! Got some feedback? We've got links for that, too! (There are no comments on this journal because it's not a monitored space get help or give feedback. Instead, let us know on one of the following links!) CONTACT SUPPORT The Help Desk is here for you! Get help from our mods and admin staff. GIVE FEEDBACK OR REQUEST NEW FEATURES Y'all have some great ideas. Let us know what you think so we can continue to evolve DeviantArt. Leaving your feedback through this link gets it seen. See the features currently being voted on ! CORE Need more informati...
Artist Interviews by team, journal
Artist Interviews
Get to know talented artists from the community and their work by reading featured interview journals!
Fan Art Unleased: October 2023
Art Feature: A Guided Tour of Dark Academia
Adoptable Creator Showcase: October 2023
Fan Art Unleashed: September 2023
Feature: Shading, Color Theory, and More
Adoptable Creator Showcase: September 2023
Art Feature: Vaporwave - A Visual Journey
Fan Art Unleashed: August 2023
Fan Art Unleased: July 2023
Art Feature: Inspire and Empower Resilience with AlexanderPaupoff
Bringing new worlds and characters to life with Grimlai
Feature: Drawing Humans and Undiscovered Art with BeckyKidus
Creating the covers of Battle Dragons with Era7
Creating custom art for the voice of Goku
Weekly Artist Interview: Nuhanotion
Weekly Artist Interview: mercuryferns
Weekly Artist Interview: vonnesaur
Weekly Artist Interview: RHADS
Weekly Artist Interview: Laovaan
Weekly Artist Interview: Kyutsiii
Weekly Artist Interview: burningmonk
Weekly Artist Interview:
Creative Challenges by team, journal
Creative Challenges
Artists in the community are always ready to show off their artistic skills. This is a list of past contests and challenges.
A Beginners Guide to Customizing Your Profile by team, journal
A Beginners Guide to Customizing Your Profile
Learn easy ways to customize your profile!
Do you want to customize your profile on DeviantArt? Whether you’re trying to personalize your space for the first time or have been decorating your profile for years, here are some tips and tricks to make your profile feel like home.
Theme Is Everything
To start personalizing your Profile, first come up with an idea for the overall vibe you want it to have. This can range from simply selecting a color palette based on colors you like (or artwork in your Gallery) to deciding what backgrounds you want to use to add interesting elements to your Profile. Go with whatever suits your vision!
How to Customize
Add a Cover Image
Adding a Profile cover image is a great starting point for all deviants, and it’s easy to do!
When creating a cover image for your Profile, the recommended dimensions are 1600 pixels by 800 pixels and 1920x1080 resolution at minimum, so the image fits well and appears clearly for all viewers.
To get
Extend your creativity with multi-image deviations by team, journal
Extend your creativity with multi-image deviations
By very (very) popular request, multi-image deviations are finally here!
Deviants have been asking for multi-image deviations for a long time, and after upgrading the submission process with Studio, the team was able to introduce the tools needed to make it a reality.
How to Submit a Multi-Image Deviation
When submitting, click the + button below the preview to add an extra image.
You can add a short caption to each image in a deviation to provide any extra context you want.
How to Use Multi-Image Deviations
Share your art in a variety of ways:
Photo sets
Multi-panel comics
Progress shots
Before and after comparisons
Zoomed-in segments or multiple different angles of a finished work
Sequential art
Step-by-step tutorials
Finished artwork alongside its initial concept art
Merge Existing Drafts into One Deviation
You can merge any unpublished images in your Studio (such as images from your drafts, Sta.sh, or DreamUp) into a multi-image deviation, you can merge them in
Down the River by LivelyDreamer13, literature
Literature
Down the River
She plunges her foot into the current
Cold, swift—the perfect condition for her
Her next foot follows suit in the current
She falls back, letting the river take her
The scenery slowly passes by her
As her gaze is locked to the clear blue sky
The water churns and bubbles around her
As she’s lost in that tranquility
Everything she once found familiar
Is now but an afterthought in the stream
She’s swept away by that cold water
Going down the river on her own terms
She dares not dwell on what she left behind,
As she has finally found her lost peace
No longer lost in that maddening noise
No longer lost in that hectic lifestyle
She continues to go down the river
Leaving behind what she once knew in life
For a more peaceful venture down the stream
Carried away into the unknown depths