Celebrating Deviousness - August 2023 by team, journal
Celebrating Deviousness - August 2023
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. @JenFruzz is the recipient of August 2023’s Deviousness Award, so please join us in congratulating her! @JenFruzz’s many contributions to the DeviantArt community over the years are nearly impossible to summarize or overstate. A photographer who spent the greater part of 10 years as a dedicated Community Volunteer, she has coordinated and run countless projects and events to bring artists together. Beyond running projects, she is a constant cheerful and helpful presence on DeviantArt, always offering deviants help, guidance, and good cheer. It is with tremendous pleasure that we name @JenFruzz the recipient of the Deviousness Award for August 2023! HELLO. I’m Jen! I’m not the best at introducing myself so I’ll start with a few fun facts about me. I’m a banker with a geology
Search through your most-loved deviations with ease! Search in favourites is back by popular demand! Click on the magnifying glass at the top right of your favourites page (or someone else’s) to search for specific artwork you love. DeviantArt’s search systems were upgraded in 2022, at which point the difficult decision was made to phase out search in favourites, which was dependent on a legacy search system that was prohibitively costly to maintain considering its usage rate. Although search in favourites was used by just 0.5% of the active community, it was well-liked and used often by the most active deviants. Seeing the passionate response from the community in the wake of its removal, the DeviantArt team worked to upgrade the system that powers search in favourites to improve its efficiency and make it less costly to maintain, and now it’s ready for you to use. Happy searching! Search Your Favourites
Give deviations a Totally Normal badge! by team, journal
Give deviations a Totally Normal badge!
For a limited time, give deviations and comments a Totally Normal badge and nothing weird will happen! Have you ever wanted to give a friend on DeviantArt a badge, but wanted it to be less exciting and more…normal? Now’s your chance! Here's a badge whose expression conveys a feeling we've all definitely had at one point or another. With the brand-new Totally Normal badge, you can give a deviant a standard badge that perfectly embodies that classic expression, and whose generosity has no other strings attached! The Totally Normal badge can be given to deviations and comments and only costs 2 fragments to grant! The recipient of a Totally Normal badge will also get 1 fragment along with their ordinary badge. When you're the recipient of a Totally Normal badge from someone else, be sure to visit your Profile to see it in all its average glory! Do you and your friends make this expression constantly? Of course you do! Who doesn't? They'll make the perfect recipients of a
Get ready for a flurry of fun never before seen on DeviantArt! Use the seasonal Snowball badge to throw snowballs at deviants and art you like, and rack up points to conquer the snowball leaderboard! How to Play Deviants can throw snowballs by giving seasonal Snowball badges to deviations and comments. It costs 3 fragments, and the recipient of your snowball will receive 2 fragments, so they can gather snow to make their own! Act fast, though, because the snow will melt away after December 21st! Snowball Badge Mania! The snow may be seasonal, but if you throw 25 snowballs, you’ll get perennial snow in the form of a Shimmering Snowball badge for your Profile! The Snowball Leaderboard Do you have what it takes to rise above the other snowball throwers? Check back daily to see if you rank in the top 25! 371,227 TOTAL SNOWBALLS THROWN (FINAL SEASON COUNT) Top Snowball Throwers @savagebinn — 8024 snowballs thrown @BeckyKidus — 7069 @recycledrelatives — 6516 @ThomasGreiner-Mai —
Reorder to showcase your most prized badges by team, journal
Reorder to showcase your most prized badges
Earning badges is a longtime source of pride for many deviants. There are many ways to collect -- whether by participating in a Tutorial, submitting to a community campaign, or earning enough of a certain badge to evolve it into a new badge -- each has a hard-won story and memory of achievement attached to it. And to top it off: they’re adorable! While it’s always a thrill to add a new one to your Profile, the About Section previously displayed only the last five earned, and the more meaningful badges could skootch out of visibility. Many deviants asked for it, and now you have it. Rearrange your first 5 badges to show off your favorites in your About Section! Display the top five that mean the most to you, and best of all: it’s completely free! Why reorder? Highlight badges you worked the hardest to achieve. That Fancy Llama didn’t come to your farm by accident. It came from fur, sweat, and tears (of fancy joy)! Feature rare badges from limited-time events! Did you earn the Heart
Carve out a customized Profile Skin by team, journal
Carve out a customized Profile Skin
Deviants like you requested the ability to apply your own images to Profile Skins, so say “trick-or-treat” and you shall receive. To keep the graveyard smash going, your candy bags are also getting filled with five new, limited-edition Halloween Profile Skins and two spooky Custom Section templates. Whether you make your own or use the templates, your Profile is sure to be as cool as the house that hands out full-sized candy bars! Limited-edition Halloween Custom Sections and Profile Skins This bountiful harvest season, grab two limited-time Custom Section templates and five autumnal Profile Skins to truly lean into those 🍂 fall vibes 🍂. With three available Custom Sections on both the left and right sides, and three more in the strip across the top of your Profile, your space will be more decorated than an orange seasonal gourd! And even though they’re available for a limited-time, you can opt to keep them for the season alone, or have a hauntingly beautiful Profile all year round
More Profile personalization: MEGA Custom Sections by team, journal
More Profile personalization: MEGA Custom Sections
Reach peak personalization with three new Custom Sections placed in a MEGA strip across the top of your Profile. Show your audience who you are above the fold by selecting one, two, or three separate sections, fixed-width or stretched, to highlight what means most right from the top. Take it from the Top Already imagining how you could transform your Profile? Here’s some inspiration for how you could use these top-notch Custom Sections: Add a short bio, punctuated with deviations from your Gallery or your favourites. Display your top-selling Commissions alongside completed commissions you’ve made for your customers. Feature quotes that speak to your soul. Promote a teaser to entice new fans into subscribing to one of your monthly tiers or Premium Galleries. Showcase unique image compilations that encapsulate your aesthetic. Start Customizing Design at your Core Personalization is just one of the many exclusive benefits of Core. Not a Core Member yet? If you’re already bursting with
Profile Showcase: Up Close and Personalized by team, journal
Profile Showcase: Up Close and Personalized
New customization options recently landed on Profiles across DeviantArt in the form of all-new Profile Skins and templated Custom Sections available in more areas than ever before. Once those personalization gears started spinning in our community, inspiration struck, and there was no limit to the ways deviants discovered to enhance their space with their artistic essence. We challenged the community to get creative with Custom Sections and Profile Skins. Winners were chosen based on: Creativity and originality Quality of composition and design Overall artistic impression Creative Customizations It's easy to see why these five talented winners will be awarded 500 fragments each, to be used to pay the creativity forward. The fragments they've won can be spent awarding badges to exceptional deviations and comments to others – maybe you! Honorable Mentions The creativity keeps flowing. Check out some more of the most original and inventive Profiles that have been created
NEW! Fully Customize Your Profile by team, journal
NEW! Fully Customize Your Profile
Even before Eclipse ushered in DeviantArt’s new look, Profile customization was one of the most popular requests from the DeviantArt community. Well, we heard you, and we’re excited to announce: it’s time to get personalized. Customization is here with more ways than ever to infuse your Profile with your personal flair. Now you can personalize your DeviantArt Profile to make it uniquely yours with our new customization options. Show off your art, tell your story, promote your hustle, or just do you. Profile Skins Choose a colorful Skin to make your Profile pop with personality. Once installed, viewers will experience your profile's palette the same, no matter which sitewide theme they use -- dark, light, or green. Custom Sections Now you can add up to six Custom Sections to your profile – on both the right and left sides – to craft the Profile you want your fans to experience. Select from a bevy of inspirational premade templates and then completely customize them to make them your
We’re aware of an increase in deviants receiving password reset emails, and we’ve launched a temporary fix while working on a longer-term solution. The excessive emails are a nuisance, but we want to assure you that your accounts are safe as long as no one else can log into your email. We appreciate your patience as we deal with this issue.