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Current week: December 10th - December 16th - Community Week 

What is #projecteducate and Community Week?

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Articles which were made specially for projecteducate 

PE: 9 ways to overcome (artistic) Frustration.9 ways to overcome (artistic) Frustration Everyone has heard of it, everyone fears the very sight of it, but if you are an artist, there is a good chance it creeps at you regularly, more often than a flu, in various forms and intensity; in psychology, Frustration is a common emotional response to opposition / obstacle, is related to anger and disappointment and its strength depends on the size of the established challenge. When Frustration calls you more often than your mother does, it's time to take an action! 1. - TAKE A WALK Try to get your feelings straight by walking it out of your system. Is it raining or snowing? Even better, get...  :thumb342413738:   PE: How to Make a Large EmoticonHow to Make a Large Emoticon :thumb119660549::thumb156525333::thumb120370410: I have been asked many times how I make my big emoticons. How I shade it, dither it, etc, so I am going to make a step by step tutorial on how I make large emoticons.:D Even if you already know how to, you might find something useful in this.;) Be aware that I am using photoshop elements 3.0, so this technique can be preformed in almost any program that has layers and custom pencil brush sizes and or a hollow and filled circle tool. If your program doesn't have layers or adjustable circles of any kind (whether it be the pencil tool or the circle tool), you sho...

PE: Getting Noticed in dAGetting noticed within dA Everyday, millions of users from all over the world use deviantART, and  it is really hard for new users to get themselves noticed. Oh yes, it is HARD. It can actually be a really disappointing experience for some of us. But, if you show some patience and work for it, you may just be able to crack through that wall standing between you and exposure to the community. Remember, all it take is patience. Lots and lots of patience. Oh, and you also need to trust yourself. Just because you couldn't get a huge fan base in several weeks or months doesn't mean that you will never get them. But, there are some really impor...   The dA commUNIty and You The dA commUNIty and You When first stumbling upon deviantArt, whether 5 months or 5 years ago, we decided to join because we wanted to share our art. We wanted our work to be seen, to be appreciated, to be understood. However, it can be a long and difficult journey from obscurity into the spotlight. Many newcomers and even long-time deviants are sometimes overwhelmed and discouraged by a seeming lack of interest and/or exposure for their work. After all, that's what dA is for, right? Not necessarily - the answer to that question is a bit more involved than a simple "yes" or "no". Society in general has become used to instant gratificat...   PE: 10 tips and tricks not very known about PS10 useful and not very known Photoshop tricks 1. Saving your .psd with all layers hidden makes a smaller file compared to saving it with all layers visible.2. You can use the Crop Tool to quickly increase the canvas size of an image by holding down Ctrl + Alt whilst dragging the Crop Tool outside the current canvas.3. If you want to see only one of your layers at a time, hold down Alt whilst clicking the eye icon of the layer. (do it again to show all layers again)4. Holding down Alt while in a dialog box turns the Cancel button into a Reset button, so you can reset the values back to default.5. If you want to just quickly check a very hea...

The Reason I Do ArtThe Reason I Do Art Ask anyone in the community why they do art. I’m sure that you’re going to find a variety of answers, but that they’ll come back to the same things: because they love it, it helps them express themselves. Art is awesome, because it does allow us to do these things. It’s certainly a part of the reason why I do art. Other reasons? Because I like pretty things, and want to create  them. Because I get so excited every time I have a photoshoot or every time I pull up those images onto my computer. Because that moment when you go to pick up your film after waiting for 24+ hours to see how they turned out is just so, ...   PE: The A, B, C's of Cosplay 2!:iconprojecteducate: Project Educate: A, B, C's of Cosplay 2: C osplay, short for costume play, is a type of performance art in which participants don costumes and accessories to represent a specific character, or idea. Characters are often drawn from popular fiction in Japan, but recent trends have included American cartoons and science fiction.Favorite sources include manga, anime, tokusatsu, comic books, graphic novels, video games, hentai and fantasy movies, as well as anthropomorphic manifestations.Cosplayers often interact to create a subculture centered around role play. A broader use of the term cosplay applies to any costumed rol...   Project Educate Interviews: Porcelainpoet:iconprojecteducate: Project Educate Interviews: :devporcelainpoet: : :devporcelainpoet: is a well recognized photographer around the halls of deviantART; her stunning, and sometimes shocking images are meticulously crafted and brought to life, then shared with us here for all of us to enjoy as well.She was gracious enough to offer me the opportunity to ask her a few questions on her craft. 1) What was your first camera, and what did you foresee yourself doing with it? Did you imagine that you would be a nature photographer, or a portrait photographer, or was it an easy transition to creating darker work for you? :devporcelainpoet: - I t...

:thumb321449184:   PE: Pixel Artist Interview with ValaSedai:bigthumb291286115: Apologies for the delay with this article, this time I bring you an up and coming pixel artist called :devvalasedai: :iconclefairykid: How did you get started in Pixel Art? Was it your first medium or did you work with something different before discovering it? :iconvalasedai: Pixel Art was the third medium I explored, after traditional and then digital drawing and painting. Even though I have played a broad selection of games whose graphics are made mainly from pixel art ever since I can think it took dA to really introduce me to creating it myself. After stumbling across more and more wonderful pixel artists on here ...   PE Daily Deviation Week RoundupHello all, this week has been absolutely amazing!  Just WOW! It has been a beautiful sight to see the community so engaged and I sincerely hope that this week has been educational for the community at large. With that said I'd like to give a huge thank you to everyone who helped make this week possible as well as to anyone who got involved in any shape form or fashion, be it by leaving comments, giving feedback, or even just reading the articles and taking all the information in.  This has been a wonderful experience and it couldn't have happened without all of YOU!  Thank you!  :blowkiss:   Roundup Welcome to DD Week - :devastralsee...