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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
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
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:
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!
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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!
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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
Site Updates by team, journal
Site Updates
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.
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2024
October 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 - Another update to Studio: the “scheduled” tab!
July 8th, 2024 - New preset tools: templates, watermarks, and more! June 19th, 2024 - Manage your published deviations in the Studio!June 13th, 2024 - New look for the help centerJune 3rd, 2024 - Enhance your DreamUp Images with UpscalingMarch 4th, 2024 - A new look for items in your Sta.sh!
February 28, 2024 - Try out
Seller Tips for Halloween by team, journal
Seller Tips for Halloween
The spooky season is still some time away, but when it comes to selling your art and reaching your audience, it’s worth it to plan ahead. Deviants look for Halloween-related art as early as September, so if you’re looking for ideas for what to sell, add this journal to your favorites and get started!
General Tips
Decorate your profile:
Prepare your profile for Halloween with festive Profile Skins and Custom Sections, and be sure to highlight your Halloween-related art for sale front and center so deviants see them when visiting your page.
# Use relevant tags:
Include the tag “halloween” on your deviations when selling your art, as it helps with discovery!
Be sure to add specific, relevant tags based on what you’re selling. Depending on what your art features, you can include tags like adopt, base, spider, candy, monster. witch, werewolf, ghost, vampire, blood, or zombie.
Collaborate with other artists:
Working with another artist is a great way to connect creatively, and it’s
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
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.
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
Ballad of a Broken Heart by Music-Lover-Izzy, literature
Literature
Ballad of a Broken Heart
Ballad of a Broken Heart
Written By: Izzy S.
I wanna bare my soul
In a way no one can
In the hope that someday you
Might understand how it feels
To be so alone.
I carry on as best I can
Not shining as brightly
As before.
I feel more lost than ever;
It's been so dark
Since she’s been gone.
I’m lost in these memories,
And I’m on my knees, without shame
Begging to believe
But I feel so far from heaven.
My parents yell and scream
They always say
“It gets easier that this
I swear.”
Well, I can’t see it
From here
They eventually gave up on me too.
At this point
I hope they hear these words:
“Don’t cry to me;
If you loved me, you would
Be here with me.
You'd be here for me.
I’ll burn it all to the ground
Before I let you in.
Please forgive me,
I can’t forgive you now.
Do you remember when Mary
Died, and you said you wished it was me?
Well, I am dead:
Dead to you as can be.”
I met a guy
Who eventually hurt me
Nobody knows me
But he took something
I couldn't save.
Maybe a