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September is packed with reasons to create, connect, and explore. Jump into seasonal badge challenges, level up your skills with a brand-new tutorial, or take part in group-led contests happening across the community. [DEVIATION] [EMOTE] Community Highlights [EMOTE]Celebrating Deviousness: September 2026 Join us in celebrating this month's Deviousness recipient, @BitterBeanJuicer, and the lasting impact they've made on the community through their creativity, generosity, and passion. [DEVIATION] How to Draw a Hamster with Alicante-Design Learn how to draw an adorable hamster step-by-step with Alicante-Design, and submit your artwork to earn a cute new badge for your profile! [EMOTE] Group-Led Events [EMOTE] [EMOTE] Europa Gothic Contest Bring dark elegance to life in this month's themed coloring contest. [EMOTE] Earn the September 2026 Group Profile Badge Color the featured line art to collect the group's profile badge for September. [EMOTE] WATN: The Invisible Man Take

[DEVIATION] This October, spread some spooky sweetness: "hand out" Trick-or-Treat badges by awarding them to deviations and comments that deserve a Halloween surprise. And dress up your Profile in its own costume: the Neon Ghostie skin, limited to add for the season. (But you can keep it on year-round, if the spirits allow.) [DEVIATION] [DEVIATION] How to give a Trick-or-Treat badge  Find a deviation or comment that deserves a Halloween surprise. Click the Badge icon. Choose the Trick-or-Treat badge. Select Award Badge.  Cost: 0 gems  [DEVIATION] [DEVIATION] An additional treat Receive a Trick-or-Treat badge on a deviation or comment, and it'll also be added to your profile badge collection! [DEVIATION] 🎨 Install a Neon Ghostie Profile Skin Core Members, dress your profile up in the Neon Ghostie profile skin.  (Read this next part in a very spooky voice.) Install yours today while you still caaaaaaaan! (But also, though you can keep it installed all year, it's only

[EMOTE] [GIF] To celebrate the spirit of Halloween this year, @Fan-Art-World welcomes you to its new... [EMOTE] Trick or Treat Fan Art Challenge [EMOTE] One of the most popular and fun Halloween traditions is trick-or-treating—an activity where children dress up as witches, wizards, goblins, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, zombies, mummies, and other terrifying creatures (or their favorite fictional characters), go door-to-door asking for candy, and play pranks on those who don't share their treats. For this month's challenge, we want you to depict your favorite characters dressed up for Halloween and going trick-or-treating! [EMOTE] [EMOTE] [EMOTE] [EMOTE] Rules Create fan art of your favorite character from any franchise dressed up and trick-or-treating for Halloween. You can draw multiple characters in a scene and dress them up as any Halloween monster, another character, a Pokémon, etc. The possibilities are endless. Only Fan-Art accepted. No Original

In half of the world, this time of year marks the moment when shorts and t-shirts are packed away, making space for sweaters, cozy blankets and fuzzy socks. Can you tell autumn is actually my favorite time of year? With days getting shorter and nights getting longer, so does the amount of natural light we see every day. This month's challenge is all about low lighting and a gloomy atmosphere befitting of the start of Autumn and of course: Halloween at the end of the month [EMOTE] The challenge In essence, the challenge is simple: Capture a subject of your choice in low lighting or a single light source, using a slow shutter speed. Get creative! For example, you can: Photograph the sea at sunset or sunrise, captung the movement of water using a slow shutter speed. Ask your partner/ friend/ sibling/ parent to head outside with you, find a streetlight and capture them walking beneath it using a slow shutter speed. Turn off all the lights in your home, light a candle, and

Please join me in giving a warm welcome to a new group of community volunteers joining our team. Each of them brings something a little different, and I’m genuinely excited to have them here supporting the community in their own ways. @artelaria Anime/Manga • Digital Art • Fan Art • Traditional Art artelaria’s work is full of expressive characters and beautiful attention to detail. Whether working digitally or traditionally, there’s a strong sense of personality in everything she creates. @EyeOfTheKat Photography Eyeofthekat has a great eye for capturing mood and moment. Her photography feels thoughtful and grounded, with a natural sense of composition that really draws you in. @Markotxe Photography Markotxe brings a strong photographic perspective to the team, with work that highlights both environment and emotion. There’s a quiet storytelling element in his shots that makes you want to linger a little longer. @PurpelBlur Digital Art • Photography • Pixel Art •

[EMOTE] There's a lot going on this Halloween on DeviantArt, so consider this your hub for discovering official fall campaigns running this month. [DEVIATION] [DEVIATION] Tutorial: How to Draw Stitches with Vitani4000  Learn to draw stitched-together characters with @Vitani4000. Follow the steps, then earn a badge for submitting what you've learned. [DEVIATION] Treat Yourself to a Trick-or-Treat Badge Hand out this year's Trick-or-Treat badge to deviations and comments that deserve a Halloween surprise. While you're there, dress your profile in the limited-time Neon Ghostie skin! [DEVIATION] ArtTober 2026: Daily Challenge Giveaways All month long, three deviations are picked daily from submissions to the Daily Challenges to win 100 Points, a Quartz badge, and the seasonal Trick-or-Treat badge. Submit to every single tag in October for a shot at an exclusive "Stay Devious" hat. [DEVIATION] Monster Market Create a Halloween product and tag it #MonsterMarket2026, whether it's

[GIF] [EMOTE] [EMOTE] [EMOTE] My name is Genesis, but I'm better known as @Pascua-Tanya or simply Pascua [EMOTE]. You can call me whatever you like. I live in Venezuela [EMOTE] and specialize in traditional painting (semi-professionally), digital art, and fan art. Currently, I'm a Fan Art Community Volunteer and Ambassador for @Fan-Art-World, @CRAnime-Manga, and @DevNews [EMOTE] [EMOTE]. I got my CV role in October 2024 (it’s already been two years—time flies!). Since then, I've been actively highlighting Daily Deviations and running challenges in my groups to promote the talent, creativity, and effort of all the amazing artists in the fan art community [EMOTE]. I've been a member on DeviantArt for almost 17 years, having joined when the platform began its upgrade to its classic Version 7, and I've watched it grow into what it is today. My username comes from Pascua and Tanya, my first original female characters, created between 2006 and 2009 when I started writing

Welcome to another exciting installment of Suddenly Super! In this challenge, we use the power of AI to explore the incredible, marvelous, remarkable world of comics and science fiction and create some amazing superhero and sci-fi art. Join us for some spectacular prompting fun and a chance to earn some rewards 🏅 [EMOTE] A "SUPER-SIZED" HALLOWEEN EDITION For the Halloween season, we're taking our usual weekly activity & expanding it until the end of the month- October 31! Your goal, my creepy creators & master monster makers, is to bring forth original supernatural heroes & villains! For example, you could generate a 'Monster Protector' (in the mold of Swamp Thing or Spawn) or Occult Detective (ala John Constantine) taking on their arcane archnemesis. Create character names, a brief list of their powers, & maybe a bit of backstory. You could even try your hand at creating your own spooky squad, like this: [DEVIATION] [DEVIATION]

I woke up today to the sound of rain hitting the windows. I peeked through the blind - wow, a vertical wall of water! It felt like salvation after weeks of relentless heatwave. I don't particularly like summer; here in the UK, the heat is worse than in many places, because the humidity makes every step feel like waddling in soup. But now, the air is finally crisp and fresh, and I can breathe again. The light changes too; the sun is lower in the sky, casting dramatic shadows that make everything look like a painting. What's that? Sweaters? Well, duh! Sweaters are the best! I love the texture of wool, and my cardigans still carry a faint smell of the laundry detergent from when I retired them. (Also, thick socks. Also flat caps!) Fall just seems to be the most comfortable time of year for me - cozying up with books, drinking hot chocolate, and watching the leaves turn from green to yellow and then to orange. And the food! Pumpkin spice everything! Extra cinnamon, warm soups

October is packed with reasons to create, connect, and explore! Jump into spooky seasonal badge challenges, level up your skills with a brand-new tutorial, or take part in group-led contests happening across the community. [EMOTE] Community Highlights [EMOTE]Celebrating Deviousness: October 2026 Join us in celebrating this month's Deviousness recipient, @Sa-Dui, and the lasting impact they've made on the community through their dynamic digital illustrations, vibrant worldbuilding, and passion. [EMOTE] Seniority Announcement: October 2026 Congratulations to the newest recipients of Seniority! Thank you for your incredible contributions and positivity across DeviantArt. [EMOTE] Join ArtTober 2026 Carve out time for creativity every day this month! Take on 31 daily tag challenges for chances to win Points, Quartz badges, Trick-or-Treat badges, and an exclusive "Eternal Deviant" T-shirt. [EMOTE] Treat friends to a Trick-or-Treat Badge Spread some spooky sweetness by handing