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Content Prelude Fantastic Equipment and Where To Find It Be PrePAAAAAAAAAAAARED Location Location Location! Digivolution - Make your Rookie a Champion! Final Words I‘ve come across a bunch of #tutorials on #howto #digitize #traditional #artwork in order to #publish them and their first steps looks ever so often like this: Get a small loan of a million dollars. Get yourself some decent equipment with it. This should do as first time setup: But in my guide I want to show that this isn‘t necessary if you know where to look and which steps to take. Well, that sounds just like I‘m about to give advice to Pocarrontas while scratching my bork-beard. Let me rephrase: I‘m happy to show how I prepare my pieces of paper before spamming groups on DA ᵒʳ ʷᵃᵗᶜʰᵉʳˢ ᵒʳ ᵘⁿˢᵘˢᵖᵉᶜᵗᶦⁿᵍ ᴰᶦˢᶜᵒʳᵈ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡˢ ᵒʳ ᴵⁿˢᵗʳᵃᵍʳᵃᵐ with it. 2. Fantastic Equipment and Where To Find It Yea sure you can use your #DLSR (or whatever gibber jabber order those letters come in) but I‘m not. I have a dated #Smartphone

NEW COLLECTION: RESOURCES - BRUSHES Explore the Core Lounge - Resources: Brushes We’re pleased to announce the launch of one of our new collections—Resources: Brushes. Make the most of your digital artist tool belt with a curated collection of over 400+ brush resources for your favorite painting software! In addition, there are separate curated collections sorted by art program. These programs include: Photoshop, GIMP, Krita, Paint Tool SAI, Procreate, and Clip Studio Paint/Manga Studio. Where To Find The Collection Navigate to the Favourites section of the Core Lounge. Scroll through the Collections carousel at the top of the page to find the Resources - Brushes collection for the program you use. Start browsing! @CoreLounge - Resource Brushes List Click on the button below to explore the brush set that’s applicable to your favorite painting software! @CoreLounge Collections - Suggestions & Feedback If you have any suggestions or feedback in regards to

Hello folks, I hope you're all well and sound today :) As long as I remember, we all enjoyed customizing our desktops they way we like it to make more "you" so here is a collection and goodies to do just that!! I've picked the best skinners in the business to get you what you need so just take a look at those awesome creations............. Windows Themes Rainmeter suites and skins Blackbox Themes Windowblinds Themes Docks Icon Packs Wallpapers Alright folks, I hope you enjoyed this collection and remember to give these artists what they deserve!! Take care, Chris

Hello folks, here are some more goodies to pimp your screen with I've just found......... Windows Themes Blackbox Themes Rainmeter Cursors Alright folks, just remember to give these artists what they deserve!! Take care, Chris

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

Eclipse is here and until bugs are fixed and new features are released, we need to try to make something out of this... situation. When other sites has a ton of usefully annoying hints to teach us the novelties, here we are left with an incomplete, unfriendly and sometimes inaccurate Knowledge Base... and the DA community. I've decided to create the Surviving Eclipse series to advertise news and tutorials about Eclipse from the community and the staff in hope that we can all survive the DeviantArt overhaul. I will myself continue to write tutorials. I'm grateful for all the feedback, ways to do things I haven't mentioned of notice, bugs you've encountered, etc. Since I'm a member of the @AdvisoryBoard, I can relay the bugs to the team, but I encourage you to use the help desk as well. You still need thumbnails for your group but they have disappeared? @TokyoMoonlight has the solution: https://www.deviantart.com/tokyomoonlight/status-update/20734412 You want to manage the

The contest is now closed. Our winner will be announced on or around Friday, May 21st! ___________________________________________________________________________________ Introducing the New DeviantArt Podcast! The DeviantArt podcast is re-launching with a new format and a new co-host! Join @ggMattB and @HeartsUnlocked for fun conversations with artists who have taken the time to share advice and stories about their careers. This month, the hosts are joined by @CoranKizerStone, who was one of the first artists to be hired based on work seen online. Watch the video below to discover the power of confidence and the importance of creating with whatever tools you have available. Contest Details Ready to win a Wacom One drawing tablet and 3,000 fragments? Create a new illustration of any subject you choose — while only using your mouse or trackpad — and submit your deviation using the tag #DAMouseDraw. The deadline to enter is May 12, 2021 at 11:59:59 PM Pacific Time. By submitting with

Each week, we interview a different artist and share their art and featured answers on our official Facebook page. This week's featured artist is @senes! If you had to describe your style to someone who had never seen your art, how would you describe it? The inspiration of manga when I was a teenager and the later fascination with European comics caused me to develop a style that combines them. To keep it simple, I usually say I just draw in a manga style. That’s actually funny because I used to be ashamed of that manga influence in my art for years; I don't know why! Maybe because of people's misconception that manga is for children? Fortunately, it doesn’t bother me anymore, and I proudly say to everyone that I draw European manga! What are your art goals? What do you hope to accomplish with your art? I have a couple of defined art goals. I try to pursue them, taking at least one small step ahead every day that will bring me closer to them. I'd like to focus more on dynamics and

Welcome to the newest volume my Literature series, The Ladies of Lit! :bulletblue: The premise here is simple. Below you will find an assortment of Literature features from a selection of female deviants here on DeviantART, all of them suggested by you. In this article, you will also find a variety of other things of interest, including: :bulletblue: This article’s deviant spotlight: featuring the lovely @Roesavlon. She has offered to answer a few questions as well, to tell us a bit about what inspires her writing and which piece in particular she favors. :bulletblue: Additional information about our upcoming events, and we also have a selection of other interesting Literature news links to share with you. :bulletblue: Our “meet our contributors” section. Be sure to note me if you would like to volunteer your services or offer additional suggestions as to how to improve this series. :bulletblue: Please do note: this will now be a bi-monthly

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Each week, we interview a different artist and share their art and featured answers on our official Facebook page. This week's featured artist is @Owlyjules! If you had to describe your style to someone who had never seen your art, how would you describe it? If I was asked to describe my art style, I would describe it as “soft fairytale”. Old vintage storybooks have really influenced my aesthetic choices along with more modern works, like Studio Ghibli and The Last Unicorn. What feelings do you most enjoy evoking with your art? How do you endeavor to do this? I always try to evoke a feeling of comfort and softness in my art, mixed with a little bit of mystery. I want everything I draw to tell a little story! Especially in my full illustrations, I want the viewer to feel as if they stumbled into the middle of a story! You've created a series of rooms. What does this series grant you? In your mind, are these all part of the same estate? My room series is probably one of my

APRIL 2021 ANGELS WITHOUT WINGS Who Are Angels Without Wings? They Are Those Fellow Deviants: Who act Unselfishly and are Humble by Nature Who more or less Regularly Feature Other Deviants Who Willingly Offer Tips, Hints and Helpful Comments Who Answer a Fair Amount of the Comments They Receive Who Give Kind and/or Uplifting Words When and Where it is Needed Who Feature and Promote Projects, as well as Contests and Challenges Encourage or Otherwise Assist Deviants Who Need Support/Help Who Give Fair and Helpful Critiques (whether official or not) As Well As Doing Whatever Else is Helpful, Kind and Supportive Each Edition of Angels Without Wings will Honor Very Special Deviants with a Pair of Wings in a Feature Journal by @RTNightmare and her Gangstas of love (in alphabetical order): @BonzaiRen @Dieffi @Felizias @MEPArtz @shutterkittyy @Stygma @TheStockWarehouse @Tigles1Artistry @WDWParksGal On Hiatus: @PaMonk April 2021 Recipients @BeatryczeNowicka ~

Each week, we interview a different artist and share their art and featured answers on our official Facebook page. This week's featured artist is @GeniusFetus! If you had to describe your style to someone who had never seen your art, how would you describe it? I have what I think can be described as a gothic kind of biomechanical art style with some more vibrant colors on occasion. What do you enjoy about creating concept art? When did you know it's what you wanted to do? I enjoy designing things to hopefully be cool but also functional for various purposes, and the search for inspirational things to go into the "visual Library" necessary. Making art and designing things is something that I have been doing since before I can remember. Much of your art could be classified as science-fiction, what pulls you to that genre? A lot of my art work seems to be based on science fiction, I think this may be because I feel the compulsion to make even fictional things have at least some kind

Each week, we interview a different artist and share their art and featured answers on our official Facebook page. This week's featured artist is @MattArtistJeevas! If you had to describe your style to someone who had never seen your art, how would you describe it? If I had to describe my style, I would describe it as a place for escaping the real world to experience unique worlds. What are your art goals? What do you hope to accomplish with your art? My goal in art is to become a concept artist for video games. By doing that, I could share and show uniquely styled worlds. What's a piece of art advice you've received in the past that has always stuck with you? A piece of advice I had received in the past was to always find ways to make things easier. You create amazingly atmospheric scenes. What feeling do you enjoy portraying in them? Why? I like creating atmospheric scenes. The feeling of playing a game in such spaces or just simply walking around there. It's the same as if you

Each week, we interview a different artist and share their art and featured answers on our official Facebook page. This week's featured artist is @Peter-v-Nguyen! If you had to describe your style to someone who had never seen your art, how would you describe it? I personally haven't thought how I would describe my art style. I would say it's definitely comic book and animation influenced. The motivation behind art style is just kind of a thing that happens over time, and is not always intentional; like you absorb all these people you like, but how it comes out is up to you. One thing I do try to include in every piece is the thought and function of flow; the flow of the piece. How can I keep the energy up for this piece, even if they are standing still? Also. I think color wise I lean towards more saturated hues. Do you remember when you decided you wanted to pursue art as a career? What went into that decision? When I think about how and why I wanted to pursue art, I don’t think

The Heartists - #1 Episode: In October, 2020, we finally announced Maya’s second pregnancy to the world. Unlike most illustrations, however, the creation process for this particular comic took a serious toll on us, both creatively and emotionally. After endless brainstorming sessions and dozens of sketches, we finally realized why we weren’t getting it: We wouldn’t nail the visual until we figured out the emotion we wanted to convey with this piece. Our journey wasn’t physical, but rather an emotional one. Sitting down to brainstorm about what exactly we would want the artwork to convey in this special comic, Yehuda recalls how he felt after Ariel (our first child) was born. We didn’t know it then, but he went through a dark, lengthy battle with postpartum depression. Not a man of many words, he dealt with it the way he deals with most of his emotions - through his art. The decision to expose my postpartum depression after Ariel's birth was not an easy one for me. I think this