Over the course of 20 years, DeviantArt has been home to many artists from different walks of life, serving as the first institution for art of its kind. In that time, the abundance of artists who have called DeviantArt home—many having grown from budding creators to industry influencers—have shared lasting, memorable art. In honor of 20 years of impact in the online art world, our curator, @KovoWolf, has compiled a collection of some of the most popular, important, and high-quality deviations from the past. This special 20th Birthday Curated Collection showcases artistic talent and growth, historic moments in art or internet culture, and creative expression that has contributed to DeviantArt being known around the world as a tastemaker. View the Collection Throughout the years, DeviantArt has played home to many artists who have transformed from budding students or hobbyists to skilled industry professionals. It would be impossible to make a full list of creators who started off

As a Core Member, you’ve gained access to the new @CoreLounge! This dedicated space for Core Members provides the chance to interact and engage with other Core deviants, and offers learning opportunities with exclusive, curated digital content and tutorials from a diverse range of professional artists. Explore a variety of features and events: Creative Crates Digital content including resource packs, brush sets, HD wallpapers, and more. Livestreams Educational and entertaining live events featuring artists of all genres. Guided Curations Hand-selected collections of high-quality art. Resources and Tutorials Improvement tools for elevating your art. Exclusive Activities  Core Member-only challenges and events with elevated prizing. To get started, visit the @CoreLounge! Your Thoughts As a Core Member, what features or functions would you like to see highlighted in the Core Lounge? What do you feel would help you make the most of your Core Lounge experience?

In Recognition of Exemplary Membership and an Outstanding Spirit of helpfulness and mentoring within the DeviantArt community INTRODUCING DRACHENMAGIER Hello and good morning world! I'm a traditional artist from the Northern Hemisphere and generally go by the name Dra. I'm also not quite sure what I could write about myself: my normal approach is to let my drawings do the talking while I watch from the background. Drawing has always been a centre point in my life, no matter how topsy turvy everything went and things went topsy turvy often. The main lesson I learned from trying to plan out life is that I can plan for every possible outcome I can think of, and the one thing that will happen in the end is the one thing I did not consider. To my great surprise that did not always mean these outcomes had to be atrocious, I stumbled into amazing things along the way. Who would have thought that a lonely 4.30am up-because-of-weird-dreams-decision made years ago, to upload a scribble

Hi everyone! I'm putting on a FREE online workshop all about Background / Environmental art for Animation taking place August 9th at https://www.youtube.com/c/devinellekurtzart Portfolio review submissions will be opening on MY TWITTER: https://twitter.com/DevinElleKurtz but will be taken via EMAIL so you do not need to have a Twitter account to submit. Just head over to my Twitter at 10am PST on August 5th for instructions if you want to be considered for a review. This will be recorded and uploaded to Youtube for anyone who can't make it live! Feel free to ask any additional questions below.

UPDATE: Prizes (see below) Nothing is without a reason Coming weekend will be a great milestone in dA's (DeviantArt's) history. This extraordinary art-website will celebrate its 20th birthday on 7th August 2020. So, our literature community would like to contribute with a writing contest, including some lucrative prizes. This contest will be hosted by and me . Hope that we can share our joy with all of you! Contest Theme(s) There will be 3 different themes for the contest: - Community, Celebration and Connectivity - The last 20 years on dA (DeviantArt) - Just something about dA (DeviantArt) - either about your feelings, thoughts, ideas, experience, adventures, friendships You can either pick one of the three themes or try a combination of all three into one. It is up to you! Contest Tasks Write either a prose piece with exactly 20 sentences or Write poetry at exactly 20 syllables Winners All

Hello Photographers and Photography Lovers, Welcome to @CRPhotography's newsletter for August! This month, we've got another eclectic collection of features, contests, projects and more for you to dive into. As always, this newsletter prominently features the stunning Daily Deviations hand-picked by our community volunteers and any link with a fella icon (:fella: ) represents an official @CRPhotography article. Enjoy! Want to be a part of the @CRPhotography team? We'd love to hear from you! CV Articles These three features curated by @ElyneNoir feature a satisfying combination of fantastical worlds, mesmerizing bokeh and colours that are simply pretty. And, while we're talking about bokeh, here's last month's Abstract and Surreal Macro Photography Wonderland from @JustACapharnaum. (:fella: ) Community Features The 18th instalment of CRP Features is here, wherein community volunteers and @CRPhotography members share some of their favourite photographs. (:fella: ) In

WALLPAPERS COMMUNITY DD's FEATURED BY ME MY DD GUIDELINES We want the wallpapers gallery alive, with good vibes and energies, we want to give you the best keys to improve and connect to each other !! You are the actors of this marvelous community, and we want you to know it !! So stay tuned about news, contests, features of the best wallpapers, Wallpapers community group fresh info, etc. Also, each month, we spotlight artists (one per month) who catch our attention, in order to show you different styles, universes, and to discover their artistic stories/journeys. We will make a feature of the best entries every month too, in order for you to meet other talents, and melt with other artists.  The plurality makes a powerful singularity, together the wallpaper community is rich in different colors, and that is precious. Just one word: ENJOY !!!! THE BEST WALLPAPER OF THE MONTH Chosen by me @Ellysiumn MEET THE ARTIST Interview by @stellartcorsica Images selection by

:la: :eager: :love: :squee: HAPPY WORLD EMOJI DAY!! To help celebrate this @TheGalleryOfEve and I have prepared a couple fun activities you can participate in! THE RE-INTERPRETATION CHALLENGE WORLD EMOJI DAY - ORACLE CHALLENGE Know someone who would have doing this challenge? TAG THEM NOW :stare: #emoji, #emote, #worldemojiday

DeviantArt is announcing a more proactive approach to moderation. For more information, read below. Fostering a community where artists are able to share their work, express themselves, and grow and learn has always been a cornerstone of DeviantArt. Our Terms of Service and Etiquette Policy were crafted with protecting artists first and foremost, and that remains the case. That said, we want to improve the way we enact and take action with regard to these policies, which is why we’re announcing a change to how we intend to handle deviation moderation. Proactive Moderation DeviantArt has historically used a reactive moderation system for deviations. This means that on many occasions, action against a deviation in violation of our policies would only take place after receiving a report from the community. For many years, this process served the community’s needs, but as the Internet has evolved and as our community has grown, we’ve come to realize this process isn’t enough. Internally