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Coming Soon: An upgraded Sta.sh with new features! by team, journal
Coming Soon: An upgraded Sta.sh with new features!
Update (November 18, 2024): The Sta.sh migration has been pushed to early 2025. While the main functionality is currently ready, including key features like grid view prior to launch, rather than soon after, will ensure a smoother transition for deviants. A later launch date also allows for inclusion of a new Shortcuts feature, allowing for easier access and better organization of frequently used folders.
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
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
The pre-selected tags feature for suggesting tags on your art has received several accuracy improvements over the past few months. However, some deviants voiced a preference for complete control over their tags.
Now you can opt-out of pre-selected tags when you have your own preset tags. Simply go to your Studio, select “Presets,” and toggle off “Automatically add tags suggested by the system.” This option will appear when you have your own preset tags selected. Deviants with multiple presets can configure each one individually depending on their needs.
Suggested tags will still show up on the interface — with improved accuracy -- but they won’t be automatically applied.
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
Seller Tips for Winter 2024 by team, journal
Seller Tips for Winter 2024
Winter is coming soon, and buyers are always looking for the perfect gifts for friends and loved ones for the holidays, as well as things for themselves, like cards, templates, artwork, and more. If you’re an artist looking to sell your work this winter, use this journal as a guide to get started!
Are you ready to jingle your bells?
Learn what your audience wants:
Are your potential buyers looking for traditional winter art featuring snowflakes and polar bears, or are they looking for works that are more unconventional?
Are there ways you can weave in winter themes to your normal art style? If you’re having a hard time coming up with ideas, create a post or poll to ask your audience what they’d like to see most.
Get in the seasonal spirit:
Decorate your profile for visitors, so they know you’re ready for the season and can easily find the winter art you have for sale. There are some easy ways to do so:
Use a holiday-themed Profile Skin
Add Custom Sections with winter
Celebrating Deviousness - December 2024 by team, journal
Celebrating Deviousness - December 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 December 2024’s Deviousness Award, so please join us in congratulating her!
is a beloved, instantly recognizable member of the DeviantArt community. A familiar face among members of the adoptables community in particular, she has a distinct art style and a positive attitude that has drawn fans in over the years. Her contributions to the community are matched by the care and kindness she shares with other deviants, as those who have interacted with her can attest. It's with great pleasure that we name the recipient of the Deviousness Award for December 2024!
Hi everyone! I‘m Sara, the 25-year-old artist behind lemonscribs‘ illustrations. My art journey started the moment I could hold a pencil, but it really began when I first started posting on CocoPPa at
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
By popular request, you can now choose a preset before you upload a file to your Studio. If you have two or more presets, you’ll see a new “Preset” dropdown on the upload screen, which will apply any of your preset tags, descriptions, and other settings to the deviation.
The presets feature lets you easily set defaults for each deviation you submit, saving time when uploading and submitting files. Set up different presets for when you submit photography, traditional art, adoptables, and more.
Visit your Studio
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...
Unlikely allies by BreathOfTheWind, literature
Literature
Unlikely allies
The chamber fell silent, save for the heartbeat of the sinister heart that pulsed with an eerie rhythm. Mephisto and Auriel faced each other, a stillness descending upon them like a heavy shroud. The air was thick with tension, every breath charged with the possibility of violence. Auriel’s mind raced with possible outcomes should she fight him.
But what if… it was possible. Gazing at her weapon, her grip tightened.
Feeling her intent, Mephisto’s eyes, like the ancient burning coals, narrowed. His tail swinging side to side, aura around him becoming darker.
“Think carefully.” His voice cutting through the silence like a blade.
Auriel felt a tremendous chill. Like it was cutting through very soul. She looked at Mephisto, his energy a black abyss. A warning. She knew he had already calculated his first, second, tenth move. How he predicted her reactions.
Always few steps ahead of her.
Without her brethren, she had no chance.
No… this won’t work. It’s too risky.
Auriel's grip on her
An ocean of love by Iviwrites, literature
Literature
An ocean of love
Swimming through pools of regret.
Seas even.
An ocean?
Ocean of regret.
Am I a horrible woman for loving a man like you or are you the horrible one because you made a woman like me turn into a monster, turn into you?
We are the terrible ones for loving
the right souls,
in a very wrong time,
we both knew,
right from the start,
it didn't stop us from falling,
it won't save us,
it won't stop us from drowning
in the ocean of sorrow and despair,
in the ocean where our souls first met,
the same ocean which used to be full of uncertainty.
Now it is certain-no amount of love can save the drowned-there is no luck for the fallen ones-no compassion for the heartbroken ones-there is no safety for the lovers.
You knew there was a risk.
You never knew how risky it was.
How can you predict the depth of an ocean?
How can you predict the depth of a person?
You can never know until you start swimming.
You can never know until you start loving.
An ocean of regret for the times I've spent drowning for