°°Best viewed when clicking on the journal°° What is @DeviantLounge? DeviantLounge is a brand new DeviantArt group that promotes the DeviantArt community in all its aspects. We are also on Discord under the same name. Today is DeviantArt's 20th birthday! In order to celebrate it, in collaboration with @Artistle, @communityrelations & @TheArtistLounge, @DeviantLounge is launching its very first contest! For this contest, you will have to create an Art Feature Journal on DA. :bulletpurple: :bulletpurple: :bulletpurple: RULES:bulletpurple: :bulletpurple: :bulletpurple: Please read carefully. Tag at least one person with who you think would be interested in participating in the comment section of this journal! Pick one of the following cover images: Link to the blue bubble banner by @Acerbical here. L Link to the green bubble banner by @Acerbical here. Link to the pink bubble banner by @Acerbical here. Build your feature around the cover image you picked

Even though the pandemic means we can’t be together at comic and art conventions, like San Diego Comic-Con and LightBox, we didn’t want to miss an opportunity to help artists grow and connect with one another! We jumped at the chance to participate in the “at home” versions of those conventions to showcase insight and expertise from some excellent artists. With the below panels, you can take part in a warmup for artists, learn the history of DeviantArt, discover how personal projects can lead to paid gigs, and find out tricks to using social media as an artist. Social Media for Artists @loish, @Picolo-kun, and @kianamai connect for a panel navigating the challenges of social media for contemporary artists. From asserting your artistic voice, how to gain followers and engagement, and balancing your life with responsibilities to the art community, they cover it all. Hosted by DeviantArt’s Head of Social Media, @ggMattB. Personal Work to Paid Work You never know when the fun project you

About DeviantArt: We believe that art is for everyone, and we're creating the cultural context for how it is created, discovered, and shared. Founded in August 2000, DeviantArt is the largest online social network for artists and art enthusiasts, and a platform for emerging and established artists to exhibit, promote, and share their works with an enthusiastic, art-centric community. We have over 48 million registered members and attract over 45 million unique visitors per month. Our members — known as deviants — upload tens of thousands of original pieces of art every day, everything from painting and sculpture to digital art, pixel art, films, and anime. Artists love us because we are an inclusive and supportive community. We help them find their identity through self-expression. We provide the tools, resources, and exposure to enable them to become better, more successful artists. We inspire people to create art by feeding their creativity. We can't help it — it runs through our

Hey folks. I hope you're all doing well in these unfortunate times. A watcher of mine has brought this to my attention and I felt it urgent to get the message out and across to as many as possible. The news come from a few sources. The following is from an article titled Hackers could use Windows 10 themes to steal passwords. Malicious theme packs can be used to execute a "pass-the-hash" attack which sends passwords to a remote server. The specially designed themes are easy to create, and the way the credential stealing attack works will fool many people -- but there are protective measures that can be put in place. If there were ever more reason to not trust sources outside of a site such as DA this would be it. Mine and others artworks here are being stolen and sold through ads or malware or cash. Why do this, well besides the money they can also use it to can access to valuable information. It's so important to remember when visiting sites outside of DA such as skinpacks.com

°°Best viewed when clicking on the journal°° What is @DeviantLounge? DeviantLounge is a brand new DeviantArt group that promotes the DeviantArt community in all its aspects. We are also on Discord under the same name. SO Once upon a time the very first contest happened here at @DeviantLounge! It was in collaboration with @Artistle, @communityrelations & @TheArtistLounge in order to celebrate DA's 20th birthday and it was called the Art Curation Contest! Since we had 14 entries, we don't have 3 winners BUT 7! Before announcing the winners, we would like to sincerely thank EVERYONE who helped make this contest a success by participating but also by making the different cover images, promoting the contest, donating, being positive, supporting us and demonstrating us that the DA community is far from being dead! So without further ado, here are our winners! @BeckyKidus with: @JhanLi with: @LualaDy with: @lifethroughjournals with:

°°Best viewed when clicking on the journal°° The winners from the Art Curation Contest have been announced! Check out the journal below and give it some love, please! Thank you! :heart: Cover image by @Acerbical

In Recognition of Exemplary Membership and an Outstanding Spirit of helpfulness and mentoring within the DeviantArt community INTRODUCING ALEXANDERPAUPOFF Hi, hello! I'm a thirty-something tutor in literature in English and I doodle in my free time. DeviantArt was my first experience of community. I accidentally discovered the site during high school, and wish I hadn't waited until six years after to make this account because I learnt so much here. Not just about art, but about people, about life and about myself too. I learnt that, much like being an artist, being a person too is a work in progress. It makes me happy to be here because DeviantArt has become my home online. I love it when I find art that I can't wait to feature and share with everyone I can reach. I love how alive and inclusive the community is and how there are so many ways to get involved. I think I even love it when I find people complaining about stuff here because it just shows their passion for the site.

There are many artists I come across through the groups I follow and through the time I spend browsing DA that I feel deserve so much more. This feature series will be my way of sharing them and some of my favourite works from their gallery with you. This month's HiddenSparks are... @SadSol A unique, surreal style imbued with fantasy and coupled with an almost geometric take on figures make their gallery a fascinating experience. @Mitsukiven There is a holistic sense to their artwork because of how beautifully the vast array of colours and the various, painstaking details work together each time. Some of their original works are absolutely magical in their conceptualisation and execution. @Xualwqy Their work is absolutely exquisite! I was completely floored by their dynamic compositions and sheer depth of detail. Definitely a must-watch! @vhalev New to the site, this artist has a novel pixel style that immediately catches the eye. Go on and

No, folks, we have not forgotten you! We have the super fabulous, ever amazing 2020 CAPTION CONTEST results from DeviantArt's birthday earlier this month. Thank you to everyone who participated... Now on to the winners! @TheGalleryOfEve chose "With this knife, I will penetrate ALL of the Nutella jars! None shall stop me! MUWAHAHAHA!" by @SavageFrog! @LaurenKitsune chose "And you thought 2020 was bad before the raptors broke through the fence!" by @Lugal! @Thiefoworld chose "So who is gonna tell them those are actually made of lightweight plastic?" by @RTNightmare! @KovoWolf chose "What people think Canadians are like." by @SavageFrog! @ArtBIT chose "Last Known Photo, Current Whereabouts Unknown." by @Lugal! @Cinestress chose "Animal crackers. Limited luxury edition." by @CapnDeek373! @pgorniak chose "'I feel free and liberated not too mention the cool refreshing breeze' do something amazing today and join 'The dotty blue girls brigade'." by @wolfwoofa! @Malintra-Shadowmoon

Chadwick Boseman, an actor well-known and well-loved around the world, passed away last week. There have been many posts around the Internet about his passing, and we want to pay tribute to him as well by sharing works in honor of him from artists within the community. Chadwick Boseman’s first leading role in a feature film was Jackie Robinson in 42, portraying the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball. This was one of several instances where he portrayed a historical figure on screen, and he never shied away from that, having been quoted as saying, “People have said, 'You don't need to do any more biopics. You don't need to play any more real people.' I don't agree with that.” He took the importance of depicting African-American historical figures in film and theatre seriously, and he gave each and every role he played the knowledge and understanding that person deserved. Whether he was on the field as Jackie Robinson, dancing on stage as James Brown, or standing