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Artist Interviews
Get to know talented artists from the community and their work by reading featured interview journals! 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: Ubermonster Adoptables Interview with CherrysDesigns Meet the DeviantArt Collective: CalvinSimsArt Weekly Artist Interview: AdorkaStock Weekly Artist Interview: Ry-Spirit Weekly Artist Interview: BisBiswas Weekly Artist Interview: Galder Weekly Artist Interview: da-phil Presenting Adoptables: Interview with Astralseed Meet the DeviantArt Collective:
Seller tips: What buyers are looking for this fall by team, journal
Seller tips: What buyers are looking for this fall
Art appreciators are always looking for seasonal work to buy, either to keep for themselves or give as gifts to others. Based on seasonal searches and site trends, here are some ideas to create and sell items buyers are likely to want this fall. Premium Downloads Premium Downloads are a great way to offer artwork for sale themed around fall and Halloween. Because multiple people can buy them, it’s easy to sell items like spooky party invitations, holiday cards, seasonal digital wallpapers, brush packs, and more. Some common concepts buyers look for during fall include werewolves, vampires, monster girls, witches, and zombies. Submit a Premium Download Commissions If you want to offer more custom seasonal creations for buyers, try offering themed commissions! Custom Halloween character designs and portraits of people as witches, werewolves, vampires, or other supernatural creatures are popular options. For artists taking part in Inktober, you can also offer one-day drawing
Award a Nice Shot badge to your favorite photos! by team, journal
Award a Nice Shot badge to your favorite photos!
Celebrate excellent photography with the Nice Shot badge! Show your appreciation for excellent photography posted to DeviantArt by giving it a limited-time Nice Shot badge! This camera badge is the perfect award for a skilled work from a photographer and can be given to a deviation in a flash. The Nice Shot badge will be available until September 30th at 11:59 PM Pacific Time. It costs 10 fragments to give the badge, and the recipient will receive 2 fragments along with their badge! If you give at least 10 Nice Shot badges to other deviations, you’ll also receive a Picture Perfect badge for your Profile! Find picture-perfect favorites and start granting badges! Browse Photography Have you given a Nice Shot badge to a photo you think is great? Do you have a photo in your Gallery that you think deserves the badge? Share them in the comments on this journal!
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.
Support by team, journal
Support
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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. 2023 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 St. Patrick's! Show your devotion for Valentines Day! Celebrating Black History Month 2023 2022 Happy Holidays from DeviantArt! Get festive with holiday-themed community events! Get cozy with limited-edition winter Profile Skins The Great Snowball Fest is on! Inktober 2022 Wrap-Up! World Mental Health Day 2022 Inktober 2022: Draw every day in October Hispanic Heritage Month: Celebrate History and Art Protecting Art IRL: Protect Pop-Up Art Gallery Let's Party: Celebrate
September Community Art Challenges by team, journal
September Community Art Challenges
Want to improve your creative skills and connect with other deviants? Artists on DeviantArt have you covered! Here’s an assortment of challenges, contests, and events being run by community members in September. Take part in a creative challenge that suits your style and improves your skills! @CRAdoptables’ Adopt Contest 📅 Running until September 24 In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, create an adoptable design inspired by pirates. Three winners will receive fragments. @Alka-Di-Kijarr’s Smaugtember 📅 Running until September 28 Create a tarot card-themed artwork featuring a draconic creature design. Five of the participants will receive a surprise gift. @Charity-Guild's Pokémon/Digimon Rainforest Collab 📅 Running until September 30 Contribute to the Nature Conservancy of Canada by creating artwork of a Pokémon or Digimon in a jungle or rainforest. @Zebracorn-chan’s Cuteptember 📅 Daily challenges until September 30 Create a cute-themed artwork each day based
Feature: Shading, Color Theory, and More by team, journal
Feature: Shading, Color Theory, and More
This curated feature is brought to you by @BeckyKidus, who posts monthly features like this one to their Profile. It’s September, and people who watch me know I’m in the middle of a series showcasing tutorials and undiscovered artwork. The first part of this feature includes tutorials related to shading and color theory, and the second part is a selection of artwork I’ve discovered recently with fewer than 50 favourites. If you’d like to see more features like this, previous features I’ve put together are linked at the bottom of this journal. I hope you're able to make use of these great tutorials and enjoy beautiful art you may not have seen! Tutorials: Shading and Color Theory Shading and color theory are important in all kinds of artwork and are considered fundamentals for a reason—and, like most fundamentals, they can be quite tricky. However, there are a lot of tutorials, tips, and tricks which can make things a bit easier. Shading We'll start with shading. @ARVEN92 has two
Adoptable Creator Showcase - September 2023 by team, journal
Adoptable Creator Showcase - September 2023
This monthly series highlights artists from the Adoptables community. Learn more about these artists, the art they make, and what inspires them to create. You’ll love this handpicked collection of adoptables, so consider buying some of their work! @MagicalEGirl “Hello, I’m MagicalEGirl, and I design adoptable outfits. My love for design started at a young age, and discovering DeviantArt later on gave me a platform to showcase my art. I started posting my original characters and designs, and as many people gave support and showed interest in them, I decided to become MagicalEGirl and dedicate this account to adoptables! “My purpose is to design outfits that inspire people and make their imagination flow—outfits that tell a story just by looking at them!” See more in @MagicalEGirl's Shop @Amepan “The DA community has helped me over the years to grow as a self-taught artist and to be free and confident with the variety of my art style. Even as a shy person, it has allowed me to
Share your community projects! by team, journal
Share your community projects!
Do you have a community project or journal series you've been working on or considered starting? If so, now's your chance to have it featured on the @team Profile! Share your project in the comments below, and include information about what your project is—be it artist features, highlighting recent favourites, running a themed art campaign, or celebrating a cultural event. Feel free to share as much about your project as you'd like. The more details, the better! Your project’s name: A summary of your project: Link to your project (current or previous): Where you post your project (deviations, journals, etc.): Duration of your project: Project goals (no goal is too lofty!):
Mad Frogs and Garbagemen by MensjeDeZeemeermin, literature
Literature
Mad Frogs and Garbagemen
Only mad frogs and garbagemen go in the noonday sun. Joined only by the rest of us who need to get things done. Those empty-eyeballed sorts in shorts who wander in a daze, Half-walking and half-swimming through the moisture laden haze. To wake up in the mornings when you're swimming in your sheets Is not so quite as wretched as the kind of day that greets The early riser with the news "You ain't seen nothing yet! Today we'll all discover just how rotten it can get!" When the drinking fountain water starts to come out nearly boiled, A seat close to a window leaves one half of you near-broiled, When fish outside the window are sharing the trees with birds, You know the weather for today will leave you whey and curds. The waterfall of perspiration trickling down your sides, That leaves a dark enormous stain no pattern can disguise Upon your shirt, is joined by grease oozing down from your hair And sweat in other places (though I don't dare mention where). To hear the grinning





















