Skin by Dan Leveille
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Honest Artist Challenge
Copy and paste these 20 questions about being an artist... and answer them honestly! Title your journal "Honest Artist Challenge".
A genre or style I've tried and decided isn't for me: Digital painting. I dabbled with it in high school and college, but I just don't have the bandwidth to learn, and I don't want to be mediocre at it.
A common art advice I find hard to follow: Don't take criticism personally
My biggest art-related fear: Creating something that ends up being a huge waste of my time.
A project I've been putting off: I've always wanted to create a simple video game, but just don't have the time
A subject I feel like I'll never master: People & anatomy
On a scale of 1 to 10, I would rate my skills as an artist as a: 6
A subject or theme I avoid in my art: I've thought about this a lot, and I don't think there's any subjects or themes I actively avoid.
The most challenging project I've ever worked on and why: Dododex. It's consumed my life, and from a design perspective, it's
Creating a User Style For The New DeviantArt
The cool thing about DeviantArt's new design is that it's super easy to make user style skins for. Our code uses CSS variables, so you can pretty much skin the entire site in just a few dozen lines of CSS. (If you're not familiar with CSS variables -- it's super simple.) It'll take some tweaking to make it look perfect on all pages, but it's super simple to make a skin that works across most of the site.
You can use a browser extension like Stylish.
For example, this code will replace the background color and top nav across the whole site on the DARK theme:
:root {
--D1:#202035;
}
Background color and top nav on the LIGHT theme:
:root {
--L1:#d0cde4;
}
The other cool thing is that there are variables for the light, dark, and green theme. So you could create a skin that has three variants, that will automatically switch when you use DeviantArt's theme toggle.
I just threw together a purple skin in <20 lines of CSS and 90% of the site is customized. It took less than half
Eclipse Change Log: June 26, 2019
In this week’s change log, we've implemented muted tags, saved folders from the old site, and a number of bug fixes and smaller improvements. Stay tuned for more, and keep the bug reports and feature requests coming!
Muted Tags
We’re excited to announce that the ability to mute tags is now live in Eclipse. Learn more about curating the content you want to see!
The Next Phase of DeviantArt Eclipse
In case you missed it, here’s a glimpse into what we’re working on next with DeviantArt Eclipse:
Change Log
When on the old site, a new “Saved in Eclipse” notifications folder will appear. This folder lets you migrate any saved notifications to Eclipse.
Adjusted contrast of the text on journals and Literature. This is the first of several theme-related color changes.
When clicking the “X” on Feedback notifications, the notification is now removed immediately rather than lagging for a second.
The Feedback message indicator on the top navigation now shows up to 999 notifications rather
Eclipse Change Log: June 20, 2019
In this week’s change log, we've implemented a number of bug fixes and smaller improvements. Stay tuned for more, and keep the bug reports and feature requests coming!
Change Log
Updated watch recommendations to exclude deviants who have not been active recently.
Fixed various issues around the site related to longer usernames being cut off.
Added the ability to manually flip through hot topic notifications in Feedback.
Buy button is now disabled on closed commissions, rather than just giving an error when clicking it.
Text on status update thumbnails were cut off.
The back button would not work properly on collection pages unless it was clicked twice.
While editing Collections, the 22nd Collection would appear as the "All" Collection.
Added icon to drafts tab in Journals to indicate that they are only visible to you.
Keep Sharing Your Feedback!
In addition to these updates and bug fixes are smaller improvements we’ve made as we continue to develop larger features in Eclipse.
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Dan, you probably did not get notified, but we featured your stunning journal here 
Earth Day - T 28
Happy Earth Day, where ever you are!
Let us make this world a better place!Verschmolzen by Bildmalerin
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