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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
NEW: Boost your art! by team, journal
NEW: Boost your art!
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 on the Home feed 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 feature?
From the deviation page: Click the rocket icon beneath the artwork to boost that deviation.
From the Studio: In the Published tab, click “Boost” next to the deviation you want to boost. (If you’re on a smaller screen, click the three-dot menu on the deviation you want to boost and select “Boost deviation” from that menu.)
On a Subscription Tier: Visit
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
The icon next to group names has a new look! Viewers are now able to better distinguish group profiles from individual deviants’ profiles with a symbol that now matches the groups icon present in DeviantArt’s left sidebar for some time. Visit your favorite group to see it in action!
More Like This pages have returned!
More Like This helps you discover deviations that are closely related to the one you’re looking at, whether you want to see whales soaring through clouds or photographs of spiral staircases.
This feature has been seen as a grid of thumbnails on deviation sidebars, but now the full experience of browsing pages of results has been restored.
To browse More Like This pages, click the icon next to the More Like This section on a deviation you like.
(Featured above: More Like This results for redhead by )
You’ll find this icon on thumbnails as well, so you can explore More Like This pages endlessly!
(Featured above: Epic Rock Landscape by )
Celebrating Deviousness - November 2024 by team, journal
Celebrating Deviousness - November 2024
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 DeviantArt’s early years. is the recipient of November 2024’s Deviousness Award, so please join us in congratulating them
A contributor to the DeviantArt community for over 20 years, has been a consistent bright spot and inspiration to others. She's a multidisciplinary artist whose work can be recognized at a glance no matter the medium used, and in addition to her skill as an artist, she brings a positive energy, good cheer, and helpful tips and feedback to other artists on DeviantArt. It is for these reasons and many more that is the recipient of the Deviousness Award for November 2024!
Hi, I’m Christina from SixthLeafClover Studios! I’ve been drawing pretty much my entire life. It all started when I got a hold of Prismacolor pencils and discovered my love of art and coloring. I was doodling
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:
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
DeviantArt's 24K Gold Birthday
LGBTQ+ Pride Month 2024: Empower
May the 4th Be With You: Kyber-netic Enhancements
DevianTART - Lets get bready to crumble
Women'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
Coming Soon: An upgraded Sta.sh with new features! by team, journal
Coming Soon: An upgraded Sta.sh with new features!
Update (October 8, 2024): The Sta.sh folder redesign is now launched!
Sta.sh is receiving some much-needed love in the near future! Deviants have been asking for more Sta.sh features, including for Sta.sh items to be accessible in the Studio, and those features are on the way.
Rest assured — your Sta.sh content is safe and all your existing files and folders will be transferred as part of these updates and will also remain private.
Now Available: Sta.sh Folder Redesign
When viewing another deviant's Sta.sh folders, you’ll soon see a new look that brings them in line with the rest of DeviantArt’s design, alongside the updated look of individual Sta.sh items that was released earlier this year. Sta.sh folders are now available in dark, light, and green themes!
💡 Tip: If you'd like to see how the redesign looks on your Sta.sh folders, visit your Sta.sh folder's URL while logged out or use your browser's private browsing mode.
Coming Soon: Sta.sh in Studio
In the coming weeks, this
The Jolson Maneuver by master-ninjabear, literature
Literature
The Jolson Maneuver
The hotel restaurant’s dining room had an outstanding view of the city and spaceport. Bill set a table for breakfast, while Theo and Uncle Ted brought down everything they’d need to make breakfast in the hotel kitchen. There were already some essentials, but they brought some of what Dad had intended to trade as well.
They also brought some fresh meat for the refrigeration unit. Those reindeer had been brought to Osir as a food source, but had not been culled for quite some time. Bill was also an unapologetic omnivore, and liked the idea of bringing some reindeer meat to the table.
Bill Flynn had no idea how long they would be camped out on the galactic rim, but he intended to make himself at home. He’d done a five klick run through the city, and saw enough during his PT to make life there interesting. Most important at the moment was the hospital he’d passed.
After breakfast he’d pick out a car from the dealership he’d run by, and take the
Chainsmoker by HoaxDreams, literature
Literature
Chainsmoker
You're birthday party wishes; the first time I danced in the rain, the flavour of vanilla, on the tongue, from Ginsberg's poetry, your kiss tastes of ocean foam hitting the beach's sand, like a force of nature... Doesn't even know it. Its own strength -It can't acclaim.
Would you be afraid? If I said, that if you'd tell me you donned me my first breath... I'd believe it. And on the pews, you're a force like the mass; the priest, the bible and leader.
Because I was alone In The Dark, until your eyes pierced through. I was hungry for everything, cold to everything and I cried, for midnight became my noon. You painted my walls with your flames and made me come out where all around was alive. You are all that is living, all that is beautiful, all that can bloom and breathe.
And when it was needed to thrive, to birth the warmth and light, when it was absolutely necessary to revive -fire was the prayer,
The boy is not the God