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Featured DeviantArt Events
The DeviantArt community comes together for special occasions! Here is a list of previous community and cultural events.
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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
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.
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
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 in Studio is coming on October 28.
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 October
Terror Tales: Bring spooky stories to life! by team, journal
Terror Tales: Bring spooky stories to life!
Use one of these commissioned short stories as inspiration to create your own spooky work and earn a profile badge!
DeviantArt commissioned , , , and to write spooky short stories to put deviants in the Halloween mood! Select one of them (listed below) to serve as inspiration for a creative work of your own. You can create any type of art to participate, even a different literary take on one of the originals!
Submit your new creation as a deviation with the tag #TerrorTales by 11:59 PM Pacific Time on October 31, 2024 to earn a Terrifying Tome badge for your profile!
Scary Stories to Take Inspiration From (in the Dark)
Going Up? by
No More Time by
Survivor's Guilt by
Pig Farm by
Community Volunteers and DeviantArt team members
will also be awarding points to some of the hair-raising creations submitted with the tag, and some favorite artworks will be featured in a future journal, so be sure to take part while the spooky season is here! If you want to
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
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 SUPPORTThe Help Desk is here for you! Get help from our mods and admin staff.
GIVE FEEDBACK OR REQUEST NEW FEATURESY'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!
CORENeed more information on Core? Wa
Seniority Announcement: October 2024 by team, journal
Seniority Announcement: October 2024
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!
A long-time deviant who has been a forum regular on DeviantArt for many years, can routinely be found helping other deviants out, being supportive when people need it, and connecting artists to one another over shared interests and topics.
has contributed to the photomanipulation and photography communities for
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:
Celebrating Deviousness - October 2024 by team, journal
Celebrating Deviousness - October 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 October 2024’s Deviousness Award, so please join us in congratulating her!
has been an integral part of the photomanipulation community on DeviantArt for over a decade. Her skill in creating dramatic, eye-catching portraits and scenes is matched by her care for and dedication to the community. From running groups for many years to regularly posting art features promoting the works of other artists, her contributions to DeviantArt are too numerous to count. It is with immense gratitude that is named the recipient of the Deviousness Award for October 2024!
Hello! My name is Olga, and I live in Norway. It’s a very beautiful and peaceful country with lots of breathtaking landscapes, so if you like to make art of nature, you can find lots of inspiration
Resilient by B0dah, literature
Literature
Resilient
Contrarian by nature
Fragile above the surface
I draw my strength from the deepest
They sever me and
Lay me on my death bed
Where I scatter my remains
To feed the superficial their unknown
They absorb me
Flourish around my grave
I stay resilient in the inbetween
Holding a lifeline in the darkness
A slender thread of patience
As long as the water glows
And the moon drips on my pillow
My rebirth will curse the rigid
I am societies weed
My death is never final
I only knew him offscreen by Emmaessence, literature
Literature
I only knew him offscreen
He tried to speak, I only knew him offscreen
where he could not be seen
a dream seen from the perspective of a decrepit room
he hidden somewhere behind electively obsessive cobwebs
All of his laboured speech
translated into mere electrical static
that couldn't even fully keep the lights on
frightful it is to say
the buzzes and the bzzzts
all that came out of him
dead communication human
that's the subconscious meeting I had last night
I understood his struggle
yet not a word of what he was saying
that he had been cast aside
by someone or those that had left
I thought to leave him
for I felt nothing would get through
he was scarcely man now
mechanized in his vocal chords
not even a local character
just a left there, in that room being
unable to come out
a voice unheard
the dream ended with the doors rotting and squeaking
coming off and undone
It never stayed on long enough for me to know
whether I ended up staying
or going...
The Second Exodus Prophecy by EliyahuShual, literature
Literature
The Second Exodus Prophecy
The long-prophesied Second Exodus is drawing near—a powerful promise from Yahweh that echoes the miraculous deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt. This time, however, it will be on a global scale, not confined to Egypt, but encompassing the entire world. Just as Yahweh awakened the dry bones in the vision given to Ezekiel (Ezekiel 37:1-14), He is about to awaken the "dry bones" of His people in America and throughout the nations. This will be a literal and physical supernatural event, gathering His people from every corner of the earth back to Him.
It is crucial to recognize that many so-called black people in America and other parts of the world are, in fact, the lost descendants of Israel—the scattered tribes of Yahweh’s chosen people. The Bible prophesies the scattering of Israel due to disobedience, but it also promises their eventual return. Deuteronomy 28:64 foretells, “The Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other.” This scattering led to