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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 TUTORIALS ADVANCED TUTORIALS MONETIZATION 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
Sellers Guide for Winter and the Holidays by team, journal
Sellers Guide for Winter and the Holidays
Buyers are always looking for special, unique gifts and treats for the holidays. Use this journal as a guide to decorate your shop for the holiday season and offer art for sale that buyers on DeviantArt are likely to want this winter! Evergreen Favorites โ To get into wintery vibes, buyers love to see polar bears, snowflakes, candy canes, reindeer, calendars, cookies, gifts, and holiday lights. Use these concepts and let your inspiration lead you to create what best fits with your style! Premium Downloads ๐ Premium Downloads are a great way to offer perfect holiday-themed designs to several buyers at once. Help buyers ring in the season by selling items like: Holiday cards Digital holiday icons and stickers Wallpapers Profile Skins Digital craft patterns, and more! Submit a Premium Download Premium Galleries ๐ Offer a collection of multiple holiday-themed Premium Downloads by creating a new seasonal Premium Gallery, or you can add holiday-themed artwork to an existing Premium
Tutorial: Draw a Snowflake with KovoWolf by team, journal
Tutorial: Draw a Snowflake with KovoWolf
Chill out with this cool tutorial from kovowolf to earn a shimmering new badge for your Profile! Prepare to turn your artwork into a winter wonderland with fun and easy steps to create a perfect snowflake! Read through the tutorial below to learn how itโs done, then create your own version, and submit it with the tag #DATutorialSnowflake to get a one-of-a-kind badge for your Profile! To participate, follow these steps: Read: Follow along with the written tutorial below as @KovoWolf breaks down the steps to draw a snowflake. Create: Using the tutorial steps, illustrate your own version of the snowflake, or apply what youโve learned to a new artwork. Upload: Submit your work as a deviation with the tag #DATutorialSnowflake to get the Profile badge. Not sure how to add a tag? Click the button beneath the tutorial section to have it added automatically! The Tutorial Grab whatever tools you like to use to draw, because thatโs what youโll need to create a unique snowflake! Are you
The Great Snowball Fest Strikes Back! by team, journal
The Great Snowball Fest Strikes Back!
Grab your mittens and duck for cover, because the Great Snowball Fest has returned! Throw Snowball badges at deviants and art you like to rack up points and secure a spot on the Snowball Leaderboard! How to Play Throw snowballs by giving seasonal Snowball badges to deviations and comments. Each Snowball badge costs 3 fragments, and the recipient of your snowball will receive 2 fragments, so they can gather snow to make their own! Act fast, though, because the snow will melt away after December 31st! The Snowball Leaderboard Do you have what it takes to top the leaderboard? Check back periodically to see if you rank in the top 25, as the leaderboard will update a few times each week! Total Snowballs Thrown 116,933 Top Snowball Throwers @hglocksm โ 8826 @LeonardGr โ 3580 @ROArtUSA โ 2573 @Jadago-Art โ 1612 @nervoushorse โ 1389 @Roxalew โ 1203 @EmeraldParrot โ 1198 @HotNCuteBoxing โ 1060 @Xenocanid โ 1032 @Lobotomised โ 972 @BeckyKidus โ 939 @death-tribble โ 902 @Deltara โ
Support by team, journal
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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.
United in #PeaceForIsrael by team, journal
United in #PeaceForIsrael
In recent days, the world has been shaken by an act of sheer evil against the people of Israel. Israel was attacked by the terrorist organization Hamas, whose stated purpose for being is to kill the Jewish people. Over 1,000 civilians were slaughtered and assaulted in ways too terrible to describe here. Hundreds of young people were massacred while attending a musical festival to celebrate peace, including dozens of people around the world from the United States, Germany, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Australia, France, and more. In Israeli towns and villages, entire families were wiped out. Parents were killed while trying to protect their children. Babies and children were murdered. Thousands more people were injured and remain in critical condition. Many people, including babies, children, elderly, women, and men were taken hostage by Hamas. Their families are left devastated and unsure of the fate or safety of their loved ones. Alongside the people of Israel, the Palestinian
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. 2023 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. Patrick's! Show your devotion for Valentines Day! Celebrating Black History Month 2023 2022 Happy Holidays from DeviantArt! Get festive with holiday-themed community events! Get cozy with limited-edition winter Profile Skins The Great Snowball Fest is on! Inktober 2022 Wrap-Up! World Mental Health Day 2022 Inktober 2022: Draw every day in
Celebrating Deviousness - December 2023 by team, journal
Celebrating Deviousness - December 2023
The Deviousness Award is given to one deviant each month in recognition of their exemplary contributions to DeviantArt and its community and has been a long-standing tradition since DeviantArtโs early years. WhimsicalBlue is the recipient of December 2023โs Deviousness Award, so please join us in congratulating her! To say WhimsicalBlue has been an impactful member of the DeviantArt community would be a great understatement. A deviant for 11 years whose constant activity and positive energy are matched by her many artistic interests and willingness to try a variety of different creative styles and techniques, she consistently brings artists together in many ways. From providing prizes for community contests to leaving encouraging comments, she brings artists together, and because of her continued efforts, WhimsicalBlue is the recipient of the Deviousness Award for December 2023! Hello everybody! My name is Nazia, and Iโm a self taught artist based in Dubai. I'm mostly known as
Art Feature: Tattoos -- Identity in Indelible Ink by team, journal
Art Feature: Tattoos -- Identity in Indelible Ink
This curated feature is brought to you by @AlexanderPaupoff. The word tattoo has its origins in the Polynesian tatau (or tatu), which means โto puncture or mark the skin.โ Tattooing involves inscribing the skin by inserting dyes or pigments under the dermis to form patterns or designs. This ancient practice of body decoration has evolved into a significant form of self-expression. Tattoos are more than just ink on skinโthey reflect a personโs identity, beliefs, and experiences. They visually chronicle a journey, represent values and aspirations, and capture victories and tributes, allowing us to use our skin to construct our identities in deeply personal and profound ways. Typically, thereโs an idea of permanence attached to tattoos. However, much like people, theyโre quite changeable. Throughout our lives, tattoos transform in appearance and intensity, the same way we do as we age. They might be voluntarily changed, extended, covered up, or removed, and when we die, they