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It’s been just over a week since the full launch of the new DeviantArt and official sunset of the old version of the site. We wanted to provide a community update sharing additional insight and clarity regarding the new site and the realities of its existence and reception. CHANGES WE MADE One question we’ve received frequently is, “Why did you change the site at all?” The short answer is that the old version of DeviantArt wasn’t sustainable long-term. The longer, more thoughtful answer is twofold: one part code, and one part design. Code DeviantArt’s base code was built early, in Internet years. Every time we added a new feature, it had to be built on top of old code from the early 2000s, which meant more work in order for the site to scale to meet new technological advances. The decision was made to rebuild DeviantArt with a more modern framework, which makes it easier and faster to build new features without having to deal with cleaning up or rewriting old code. We reached the

Welcome to a showcase of my Daily Deviation selections for January 2026! If you find or create a piece you feel is DD worthy, please submit a suggestion!

...And it's time for the second installment of the "tutorial collection + recent undiscovered art" feature series :la: Again - the feature will have three parts - one with tutorials/resources related to a specific topic (do suggest topics you're interested in! I'd love to hear from you about this ), then a selection of great artwork I have discovered recently with less than 50 favorites, and finally interesting community news such as contests or similar. I'll post one feature once a month, around the 15th, and I plan to keep this going for a while. With that out of the way, let's take a look at how to draw fire and glow! Now, we'll first look at the very basics. @TakenFlyght has an excellent guide to just this - how fire works, how the different kinds of fire look, and even a bit about smoke -, and @wysoka has a great one about how to draw a single flame: Now - you can draw fire in a lot of different styles, in a lot of different programs, and use a variety of techniques. From