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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

Start 2025 strong and let your creativity flourish by sharing your artwork with others! 5 Steps to Kickstart Your Artistic Sales Step 1: Nail Your Niche 🎨 Becoming an expert seller in your niche isn’t as tricky as you think. You probably already have a good idea what your strongest area of creation is! Here are some pointers to help you decide on the perfect angle to nail your niche: Review the most popular pieces you produced through 2024.  Can you group them into a theme? On DeviantArt, diversity is the name of the game. Top tip: check out the comments on your artwork. Was there an aspect that stood out? Tap into what makes you unique to find your like-minded community! Step 2: Get Closer to Your Audience The following are tried-and-true ways to better interact with your audience. Talk to Your Fans When people interact with your artwork, reply back to gather inspiration for your next move.  Create Polls Polls are a rapid way to get some information about your fans'

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:

Artists in the community are always ready to show off their artistic skills. This is a list of past contests and challenges.

At the start of a new year, the community celebrates their art from the past year with the #SummaryOfArt2024 tag. It's easy to get in on the fun, whether showcasing a month-to-month progression or collage of your favorite pieces from last year!DeviantArt’s new multi-image deviation feature can display your most prized art of last year in one submission. You can submit one from each month or simply highlight your favorites! There are also community-made templates you can use to submit a collage!  Try one of these:  2024 SUMMARY OF ART template by 2024 ART Summary Template 2 by 2024 Art Summary by Submit yours!

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 January 2025’s Deviousness Award, so please join us in congratulating them! Brenda, better known as , is a beloved and instantly recognizable member of the DeviantArt community. Over her remarkable 14-year journey, Brenda has dedicated herself to fostering positivity and generosity through her iconic charity project. Known for her tireless efforts to distribute points, host engaging events, and promote artists across the platform, Brenda has become a source of inspiration for countless deviants. Her dedication, kindness, and unwavering support have created a welcoming space where connections flourish and creativity thrives. It’s with great pleasure that we name the recipient of the Deviousness Award for January 2025! Hi everyone! I’m Brenda, , and I’m

So much is always changing at DeviantArt. This is a comprehensive list of product updates, site changes, and news related specifically to the DeviantArt website and its features. 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 2025 January 22nd, 2025 - Stash in Studio launches January 14th, 2025 - Manage and Schedule Journal Drafts in Studio 2024 December 17th, 2024 - Bulk selling now available in studio! December 9th, 2024 - New! Multi-image Deviations for submit! October 15th, 2024 - New! Boost your art! October 10th, 2024 - More like this returns October 8th: Stash Folder RedesignOctober 2nd, 2024 - Pre-slected tags update September 12th, 2024 - Group icons receive a new look! September 3rd, 2024 - Upgrade to st.ash September 1st, 2024 - Gem's launch August 9th, 2024 - Try the new cross-platform DeviantArt app! July 31st, 2024 - Rolling out a more reliable rich text editor July 29th, 2024 - Clarification around the sharing etiquette on DeviantArt July 16th, 2024 -

Journal drafts are joining the party in the Studio! Previously, unfinished drafts of journals could only be found in the Posts tab on your Profile, but with this and a few other quality-of-life improvements, Studio is the one-stop place to manage needs of both your visual and written deviation drafts! Manage Journal Drafts In the Drafts section of your Studio, navigate to the "Journals" tab at the top, right next to "Media" and "Literature," and make any edits you need. Journal drafts are still available in their previous home in Profile > Posts > and selecting "Drafts" from the dropdown. Schedule Journals As with other types of content, you can now schedule journal drafts through your Studio. Simply go to Drafts > Journals > Click the “...” on the far right of the draft > Select "Schedule," and set your preferred publish time. You can also bulk schedule by checking the boxes to the left of each item and selecting from the "Edit" menu.  Use Shift to Multi-Select Save time selecting

Seniority has been a cornerstone of DeviantArt since its early years and is an award given to those who have made their mark on the community. These outstanding deviants have been recognized for their level of interaction, helpfulness with others, kindness, sincerity, and many other notable traits. These deviants can be recognized by the medal icon that appears next to their username, and in 24 years, fewer than 2,000 deviants have received Seniority.  The following deviants, having shown a kindred spirit that has led to continued positive community interaction and involvement, are the most recent recipients of Seniority. Please join us in congratulating them! Known for her generosity and dedication, Anastasia-berry shares an impressive number of tutorials and resources to help fellow artists hone their skills. While she offers exclusive content through subscriptions, she ensures a portion of each pack is freely available to the community, empowering artists to improve and