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[DEVIATION] Feathers are delicate and detailed, and after you follow this tutorial by @BeckyKidus , you'll have the building blocks you need to add details to feather drawings of your own. Submit your creation to get a Badge. Now that's a feather in your cap! [DEVIATION] Part I: The Basics  Step 1: Planning Start with a swoopy line for the feather shaft, showing the size and direction of your feather. Tip: A slight curve instantly makes your feather feel more natural. [DEVIATION] Step 2: Finishing the sketch Draw the vane around the shaft, tapering at each end as you see here. Tip: Asymmetrical sides make for a more interesting feather. [DEVIATION] Step 3: Inking Add lineart once you've gotten a shape you like.  [DEVIATION] Step 4: Finishing the lineart Add larger details: the afterfeather (the downy poof near the base) and any damage to the vane. A feather that isn't perfectly smooth is more interesting! [DEVIATION] Step 5: Detailing Add parallel lines across the vane

Ready to make your DeviantArt Profile uniquely you? Your Profile is your digital canvas and home on DeviantArt.  We’ve got three useful customization guides to help refresh your space and showcase your creativity and aesthetic. Read through all three, follow the steps below, and earn a shiny new Profile Glow Up badge to celebrate your creativity and stand out in the community! Beginners: Intro to customization Start simple. Learn the basics, like how to update your Profile Skin, cover image, and theme with easy-to-follow steps. Advanced: Take it up a notch Elevate your Profile even further. Get advanced tips for layouts, widgets, and visual elements to make it truly memorable. Sellers: Make your Shop shine Create a Profile that’s built to sell! Learn how the pros showcase art, bestsellers, and special offers to attract and leave a lasting impression on buyers. Note: Some Profile customization features are available for Core Members only. Upgrade to Core to

Discover a beautiful, curated collection of standout winter pieces, giving you the chance to explore art that captures the magic of the season — whether you’re hunting for the perfect gift or simply enjoying cozy, frost-kissed creations. Browse the gallery below and marvel at the community’s snowy and festive offerings! Winter art to inspire and delight Drop your favorite wintery artwork in the comments! It could be a piece you’ve purchased, one you’ve spotted here, or a creation of your own — share what inspires you. Happy Holidays! ☃️

Halloween has returned, and with it, ghosts begin to stir within your gallery… ✨                This year, reawaken the gentle art-spirits of yore. Forgotten OCs, dusty sketches, and faded masterpieces linger among past works in your gallery. Restless with unspent creative energy, they softly whisper: “Remember me?” Now’s your chance to answer their call and breathe eerie new life into them. What might they become, if they could haunt you just a little longer? 🕯️ Summon your sketchbook spirits Dust off a forgotten piece from your gallery and give it new (after)life. Get creative to earn this year’s eerie-sistible spectral profile badge! How do I take part in this resurrection? Pick an old deviation from your gallery. This can be one of your first-ever sketches, a WIP, or just a piece that deserves another moment in the moonlight. Reimagine it in ghostly form. Eerie, spectral, glowy, surreal, glitchy… whatever your vision of its afterlife may be! 📌 Tip: Use DeviantArt Draw

[ Updated July 16, 2025 ] On June 1st, 2025 BeckyKidus challenged deviants to to pick a piece of art they made about a year ago or less (June 2024 or after), and draw it again to show off their progress in a one-year window in "The Draw It Again Improvement Contest". The winners have been announced on July 9th, 2025. Congratulations to the winners: ▪︎ 1st Place: Pedro Pascal 4 Redraw, by Enlee-Jones 1500  + Hype badge + Quartz badge ▪︎ 2nd Place: Ink And Wine - Comparison, by ZjeroXytz 1000  + Hype badge + Quartz badge ▪︎ 3rd Place: Draw This Again Contest, by WitchiEaglesyn 500   Hype badge + Quartz badge Points by Community, Hype badges by BeckyKidus, Quartz badges by AlexanderPaupoff °°° :D° ° °°° And great job to all participants, with their wonderful artworks as shown below:

Hi everyone! I hope you're in the mood to draw a majestic horse portrait, because that is this month's tutorial theme, sponsored by DeviantArt! If you follow along and create your own horse portrait, make sure to submit your deviation with the hashtag #HorseHeadTutorial to earn the profile badge: Tools I'm drawing this horse portrait digitally in Photoshop, but I'm sure you can follow along with any digital art program you use. You can also draw traditionally, though maybe some improvisation is needed in some steps, but you got this! I used only three brushes for this artwork, starting with a simple hard brush for the sketch, and two textured brushes for the colouring and the background. However, you could really use any brush you're comfy with Step 1. Let's start this portrait with the simple shapes of the head (consisting of the cheek and nose area) and the shoulders and neck. It's good practice to work rather quickly in this first rough stage, so your view on it stays

Let your art skills take delicate flight under the instruction of BonnySnowdonAcademy, an award-winning animal artist who specializes in coloured-pencil tutorials for all levels. BonnySnowdonAcademy is an inspirational and informative hub for artists, complete with lessons on how to master realistic colored-pencil techniques, structured learning, expert guidance, and a supportive community. Through its signature Ignite Membership, live events like Coloured Pencil Week and the Great British Art Party, and its wide range of digital courses, the Academy helps aspiring and experienced artists alike to refine their skills.  Take a test flight from flower to flower by following along with the tutorial below to create a stunning butterfly as instructed by BonnySnowdonAcademy! WATCH THE VIDEO Watch the video | Template line art | Artists materials When you submit your butterfly with the tag #BonnySnowdonAcademy, you'll get an email with a code good for a free greyhound tutorial at

Yeti Tutorial - Q&A: December 10th at 6PM MNT - CLICK HERE #YetiTutorial  Step 1 - Initial sketch People say they can only draw a stickman. For me thats where I start. Just some basicshapes and lines as the foundation for what comes next. The pose I had in mind was sort of a boxing pose. Step 2 - Form Start figuring out the anatomy with blocky shapes. Thinking 3-dimensionally, adding thickness and heft. Simple shapes. Block out the form. Step 3 - Layering Just start filling details and mass be loose don't worry about mistakes. Hopefully for your own work you already know what you're going to draw so you don't have to worry about design. Follow your guidelines. This will reveal whether your initial sketch work. You'll see right away if there is anything that doesn't work. i work digitally. so I'll lower the opacity of my current layer and start redrawing. Adding detail, refining. You can also start to erase the guides as you see fit. I'd say my type of illustration is

September's theme is peacocks! This tutorial, sponsored by Deviantart,  will show you  how to draw a peacock's handsome head! The art here was done using Photoshop, with  a hard brush, set on black, for the first outlines. These steps can also be done using a plain ol' pencil and paper! Further real media steps will be shown at the end of this journal. First step: All birds start with an egg... Add a beak to the lumpy egg... The second illustration shows the shape of the lower jaw and wattles, but you will need to draw it in place, under the head. The lower jaw in place. Add the eye, lines to indicate eyelids, wrinkles, and neck. The topknot is fan-shaped and sprouts from the bump on the back of the head. Nostril  The illustration below shows the general position of the facial markings. Now you can add the basic colors, In Photoshop I created a new layer and set it to "multiply". This allows the lines of your drawing to show through the color. I painted the colors in with the