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Sylessae DTIYS Challenge by sylessae, journal

Sylessae DTIYS Challenge

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We had a blast with last month's redraw challenge (I'm still shocked from all the amazing entries!) but now that Sylessae has been redrawn I figure we ought to continue with the bi-annual tradition... Just like the last time I redrew my beloved OC, I'm going to be hosting another Draw This In Your Style Challenge! Big thanks to Deviantart for sponsoring us and another amazing event! What is a DTIYS Challenge? If the Draw This In Your Style (also known as DTIYS) concept is new to you, it's essentially a challenge to draw another person's character in your unique art style! The design is entirely up to you as long as you follow some of the design points of the original illustration such as character features, colors, etc - be creative! In this particular case, I would love to showcase everyone's entries on this journal, share some love & promote some amazing artists! This challenge will involve drawing Sylessae (the image above) and uploading to DA for a chance to win some prizes!

Today we're happy to announce the addition of four new members to the DeviantArt Collective! Welcome, @Cnotbusch, @kloir, @Quelfabulous, and @TheOneWithBear!

Jun 7, 2021

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Create With Pride! by team, journal

Create With Pride!

Jun 1, 2021

Celebrate Pride Month on DeviantArt! Learn how LGBTQ+ professional artists Create With Pride and join the festivities to get a new profile badge! :createwithpride: In many places around the world, June is recognized as LGBTQ+ Pride Month. While the specific days of celebration may vary, Pride is an opportunity to embrace and highlight the diverse backgrounds and accomplishments of LGBTQ+ people, especially in the world of art. This year, DeviantArt connected with recognizable LGBTQ+ artists in professional creative fields to share what Pride means to them, and how their identity inspires them to create. Each week we’ll share a new journal and new prompt on how to Create With Pride, featuring the creative and talented Fortune Feimster, Alyssa Wong, Allegra Clark, GlitchxCity, and this week’s featured artist, Dax ExclamationPoint! Meet Dax! :wave: You may know Dax ExclamationPoint from season 8 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, but this cosplaying queen has had a long history with art in

DeviantArt Podcast with 'Love, Death and Robots' by team, journal

DeviantArt Podcast with 'Love, Death and Robots'

May 26, 2021

The contest is now closed. Our winner will be announced on or around June 18, 2021. ___________________________________________________________________________________ DeviantArt Podcast! This month, hosts @ggMattB and @HeartsUnlocked are joined by Love, Death & Robots’ Executive Producer Tim Miller and Supervising Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson! Learn about their journey from college illustration majors to sought-after filmmakers. They talk about the freedom granted with anthology storytelling and everything they read while working on the new volume of Love, Death & Robots. From priceless career advice and tales from the early days of computer animation, this is an episode you won’t want to miss. Check out a few episode highlights below: 02:19 - Jennifer’s move from family-friendly Kung Fu Panda 2 to darker content 09:36 - How Ryan Reynolds showed Tim that traditional art requires being “on your A game” 39:06 - Exclusive storyboards from episodes “Drowned Giant” and “Pop Squad” from

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Weekly Artist Feature: larienne by team, journal

Weekly Artist Feature: larienne

May 11, 2021

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 @larienne! Across the majority of your art, vivid colors play an important role. What draws you to them? I have always liked vivid colors, perhaps because I feel they don’t exist in reality. By creating images with strong colors I think it helps them stand out as well. My favorite colors are purple, pink and blue; I love this combination and I often include it in my art. As many of my pieces have a melancholic atmosphere, over the years it has also become a challenge to show sadness with colorfulness. You create. a lot of fantastical, magical pieces. What do you enjoy about those themes? I've always loved fantasy, I played World of Warcraft back in the day and I love Lord of the Rings. I am also fascinated with Wiccanism, so witches became an important part of my art. Dark woods hiding spooky secrets and silent cities at night visited by

Let's Paint a Background Challenge by TsaoShin, journal

Let's Paint a Background Challenge

May 15, 2021

Ever look at someone's drawing and think "Hey! Nice background" and then wondered how to tackle doing the same? WONDER NO MORE! I'm launching the #heynicebackground challenge where I'll be running workshops and providing brushes, PSDs, and other assets to help creators make their own backgrounds for their artwork! I often get questions on how I make the backgrounds in my paintings and I love helping other artists make environments so I'm excited to bring you this challenge. Schedule of Events I'll be running all of these workshops on my Twitch streams. This is the perfect opportunity to ask questions since the streams are live! However, I know attending streams can be difficult for folks so check back on this journal because I'll update it with the recorded videos so you can watch the streams even if we're offline! (videos will be available shortly after each stream concludes) Streams start 7PM ET - 10PM ET at http://www.twitch.tv/tsaoshin Tuesday May 18, 2021: Woods and

Tutorial: Draw a Hand with schmoedraws! by team, journal

Tutorial: Draw a Hand with schmoedraws!

May 10, 2021

Learn How to Draw a Hand! Follow along with visual development artist @schmoedraws as she breaks down how to draw a hand in three easy steps! Illustrate your own version of a hand and submit the work as a deviation to get a new profile badge. To Participate, Follow These Steps: Watch: View the video tutorial below to learn @schmoedraws’s technique for drawing hands. Create: Use the steps in the video to practice illustrating a hand, or incorporate the techniques into a new piece. Upload: Submit your work as a deviation with the tag #DATutorialHand to get the profile badge! Prefer to read-through each step? Click here. Examples to Get You Started Looking for more simple steps to create works of art? Check out the Eye Tutorial! Your Thoughts Share your hand drawing in the comments below! Tag a friend who needs a hand. ;) Aside from hands, what is something that's difficult to draw?

Celebrating AAPI Heritage Month by team, journal

Celebrating AAPI Heritage Month

May 3, 2021

Each May, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month is celebrated in the United States, recognizing the many contributions the peoples of Asia and the Pacific Islands have made to the richness of our cultural, historical, and social fabric. Art and artistic traditions from Asia and the Pacific deserve particular attention given how these cultures have left an indelible mark on our shared human experience, both then and now. Although we can’t explore the full depths of Asian American and Pacific Islander history and culture in this journal alone, we invite you to join us as we explore the origins of AAPI Heritage Month, how Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders continue to impact and influence art and culture, and browse resources to help better put AAPI history into its proper context. Whether you're celebrating for the first time, or have been part of the community many times over, we look forward to you joining this moment of celebration and learning. The History

The DeviantArt Collective by team, journal

The DeviantArt Collective

May 3, 2021

What is it? DeviantArt wants to give artists the ability to continue doing what they love; being creative! That’s why we created the DeviantArt Collective, a program that sponsors exciting and uplifting artists. We’ll be working closely with these artists to engage and inspire the art community on DeviantArt through contests, challenges, and more. We hope that you find inspiration — as we did — from this unique group and join in as we delve deeper into the art community and what makes it so special. We’ll be featuring interviews with the artists on DeviantArt, as well as sharing some of the Collective’s newest works and community initiatives. In coming months, we'll also be opening this opportunity up for more and more deviants; hope to see you there! Who's in it? We're so excited to announce the current and past members of the DeviantArt Collective. These deviants have shown real joy in enriching the art community, and we can't wait to see what they do next on DeviantArt and on

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The DeviantArt Podcast

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DeviantArt Podcast with 'Love, Death and Robots' by team, journal

DeviantArt Podcast with 'Love, Death and Robots'

May 26, 2021

DeviantArt Podcast with CoranKizerStone by team, journal

DeviantArt Podcast with CoranKizerStone

Apr 28, 2021

The contest is now closed. Congratulations to @FUNNERdesigns for winning a Wacom One drawing tablet and 3,000 fragments! View the winning deviation below. Check out more episodes of the DeviantArt Podcast and don't forget to subscribe! ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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

Podcast LIVE: Caption Contest with yehudadevir by team, journal

Podcast LIVE: Caption Contest with yehudadevir

Feb 18, 2021

The contest is now closed. Congratulations to @KingKinu for winning a signed copy of @yehudadevir's book, a Wacom One drawing tablet, and 3,000 fragments! Check out the winning caption in the deviation, or read it below! “M: Morning, babe Y: Don't. Move. It senses fear...” -@KingKinu Don’t forget to subscribe to the DeviantArt Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts! ___________________________________________________________________________________ Caption Contest! Think of a clever and creative caption for this deviation created by artist and guest judge, @yehudadevir! Leave it as a comment on this journal by 11:59:59 PM Pacific - Los Angeles time on February 25, 2020 for a chance to win a signed copy of Maya & Yehuda’s book, a Wacom One drawing tablet, and 3,000 fragments! By leaving a comment, you are entering the contest and agree to the Official Rules. In case you weren’t able to tune in, check out @yehudadevir and @ggMattB on the DeviantArt Podcast below!

DeviantArt Podcast with Artgerm by team, journal

Podcast LIVE: Caption Contest with kelogsloops by team, journal

Podcast LIVE: Caption Contest with kelogsloops

Jan 22, 2021

The contest is now closed. Congratulations to @BridgetteAnnalyse for winning a Wacom One drawing tablet and 3,000 fragments! Check out the winning caption in the deviation, or read it below! “One day, when the world ends, we'll have nothing but our dreams. So continue to meet me here where the water and sky meet, counting rabbits as you sing me to sleep.” -@BridgetteAnnalyse Don’t forget to subscribe to the DeviantArt Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts! ___________________________________________________________________________________ Caption Contest! Think of a clever and creative caption for this deviation created by artist and guest judge, @kelogsloops! Leave it as a comment on this journal by 11:59:59 PM Pacific - Los Angeles time on January 28, 2020 for a chance to win a Wacom One drawing tablet and 3,000 fragments! By leaving a comment, you are entering the contest and agree to the Official Rules. In case you weren’t able to tune in, check out @kelogsloops and

Podcast LIVE: Caption Contest with Picolo-kun by team, journal

Podcast LIVE: Caption Contest with Picolo-kun

Nov 13, 2020

The contest is now closed. Congratulations to @Wreaux for winning a Wacom One drawing tablet and 3,000 fragments! Check out the winning caption in the deviation, or read it below! “Who is this ‘Marco Polo’ they are speaking of?” - @Wreaux Don’t forget to subscribe to the DeviantArt Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts! ___________________________________________________________________________________ Caption Contest! Come up with a clever and creative caption for this deviation by our guest judge, @Picolo-kun, and leave it in a comment here by 11:59:59 PM Pacific on November 19, 2020 for a chance to win a Wacom One drawing tablet and 3,000 fragments! By leaving a comment, you are entering the contest and agree to the Official Rules. Watch Now! In case you weren’t able to tune in, check out @Picolo-kun and @ggMattB on the DeviantArt Podcast below!

Podcast LIVE: Caption Contest with Elentori by team, journal

Podcast LIVE: Caption Contest with Elentori

Jan 8, 2021

The contest is now closed. Congratulations to @DegeneRita for winning a Wacom One drawing tablet and 3,000 fragments! Check out the winning caption in the deviation, or read it below! “They called me cute. I called them an ambulance.” -@DegeneRita Don’t forget to subscribe to the DeviantArt Podcast! ___________________________________________________________________________________ Caption Contest! Think of clever and creative caption for this deviation created by artist and guest judge, @Elentori! Leave it as a comment on this journal by 11:59:59 PM Pacific - Los Angeles time on January 14, 2021 for a chance to win a Wacom One drawing tablet and 3,000 fragments! By leaving a comment, you are entering the contest and agree to the Official Rules. In case you weren’t able to tune in, check out @Elentori and @ggMattB on the DeviantArt Podcast below!

Podcast LIVE: Caption Contest with neimykanani by team, journal

Podcast LIVE: Caption Contest with neimykanani

Dec 4, 2020

The contest is now closed. Congratulations to @dogman0 for winning a Wacom One drawing tablet and 3,000 fragments! Check out the winning caption in the deviation, or read it below! “...On second thought, nature is freaky, I wanna go back inside...” -@dogman0 Don’t forget to subscribe to the DeviantArt Podcast! ___________________________________________________________________________________ Caption Contest! Think of clever and creative caption for this deviation created by artist and guest judge, @neimykanani! Leave it as a comment on this journal by 11:59:59 PM Pacific - Los Angeles time on December 10, 2020 for a chance to win a Wacom One drawing tablet and 3,000 fragments! By leaving a comment, you are entering the contest and agree to the Official Rules. In case you weren’t able to tune in, check out @neimykanani and @ggMattB on the DeviantArt Podcast below!

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Sylessae DTIYS Challenge by sylessae, journal

Sylessae DTIYS Challenge

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CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF DOODLES CHALLENGE by stumpyfongo, journal

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF DOODLES CHALLENGE

6 days ago

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF DOODLES Community Challenge Hello fellow Deviants! I’m super excited to announce our next community challenge! Do you remember when you were younger, playing a game with friends or family where you would lie down and look up at the clouds and imagine shapes coming to life? I still play that game sometimes with my kids. Well, we are going to take that game and push it even further! This month I want you to be on the lookout for neat or inspiring cloud formations. My family and I just drove cross country for our move, and I cannot tell you how many amazing clouds we saw on the way! Once you have a photo to work from you are going to take that and…. well… do whatever you want with it! The sky is the limit! Are you going to take that cloud and turn it into a dragon, a fortress in the sky, or a fancy dress for one of your OCs? That’s up to you! Part of the challenge is to see where your creativity takes you! WHEN IS IT DUE? Entries are due June 26, 11:59PM

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Tutorial: Draw a Landscape with HarrisonHow by team, journal

Tutorial: Draw a Landscape with HarrisonHow

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Learn How to Draw a Landscape! Follow along with Adventure Illustrator and Graphic Designer @HarrisonHow as he breaks down how to draw a landscape in three easy steps. Create your own version of a landscape and submit the work as a deviation this month to get a new profile badge! To Participate, Follow These Steps: Watch: View the tutorial below to learn @HarrisonHow's technique for drawing landscapes. Create: Use the steps in the video to practice illustrating a landscape, or incorporate the techniques into a new piece. Upload: Submit your work as a deviation with the tag #DATutorialLandscape to get the profile badge! Prefer to read-through each step? Click here. Examples to Get You Started Check out these examples below and browse other submissions. Do you want to keep practicing and collect more badges to display on your profile? Check out more quick tutorials: How to Draw an Eye How to Draw a Hand Your Thoughts Share your landscape drawing in the comments below! Which

Tutorial: Draw a Hand with schmoedraws! by team, journal

Tutorial: Draw a Hand with schmoedraws!

May 10, 2021

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Weekly Artist Feature: deviantdash by team, journal

Weekly Artist Feature: deviantdash

Feb 5, 2020

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 @deviantdash! When did you start getting into art? Did you have any schooling for it? As cliche as it sounds - I’ve been drawing ever since I remember. I kept a tape recording of myself as a 3 year old, DRAWING a “letter” to my father and “live commenting” on it. Later, at the age of 13, I went to a school of arts where I studied fine art painting, sculpture, theory of colour, art history, photography and a whole bunch of other subjects that gave me everything I needed to grow as an artist. There's a great sense of play in your artwork. What emotions do you try to make the viewer have with your art? One of my favourite things to draw are the odd combinations of elements or topics. And even though the results may vary in terms of their look and feel, somehow the humour usually prevails. I guess I just need to entertain people. My art is

Weekly Artist Feature: KahlaPaints by team, journal

Weekly Artist Feature: KahlaPaints

Mar 10, 2020

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 @KahlaPaints! When did you start getting into art? Did you have any schooling for it? Art classes of any type were my favorite up through high school, but I always considered it a hobby until the final stretch of senior year when it started to seem like a viable career. I did end up getting a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design, but art education is so accessible online these days that I don't think it's worth going into any kind of debt over. Your art focuses a lot on nature. What draws you to creatures? I have a strong attraction to the weird and wonderful parts of nature. Some creatures are just so beautifully absurd that I have to paint them, and others have a spark of personality that I put into my own little stories. I don't ever want to paint diagrams - I want the viewer to know that this penguin is a jerk and this cat is

Weekly Artist Feature: rubenslp by team, journal

Weekly Artist Feature: rubenslp

Jun 9, 2020

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 @rubenslp! When did you start getting into art? Did you have any schooling for it? I started to draw very young like every child, but I never stopped (or never grew up hehe). I was always encouraged by family and friends and it helped me to continue. I have a degree in Industrial design and I also studied drawing and painting as a kid. I started my career working as a web designer in 1999 until doing illustrations as a freelancer for friends and small companies. In 2007 I quit my full time job and started my full time freelancer career working mainly with illustration. What emotions or reaction do you hope viewers get when looking at your art? My art is light, fluid and sensual. I really would like to make people feel good. I like to explore colors to bring joy to people. I see art as a way of bringing pleasure, well-being and a certain

Weekly Artist Feature: MaxD-Art by team, journal

Weekly Artist Feature: MaxD-Art

May 20, 2020

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 @MaxD-Art! You design a lot of landscapes. What challenges/freedoms do you find creating them? Designing mostly landscapes gives me the freedom to virtually visit worlds I'd like to travel to. So, even when I was a beginner, the result didn't matter much, because it was exciting and fun to mentally explore the world I was trying to depict. The challenges of working on environments though, on the technical side, is that when you start caring about the result it can become overwhelming. You need to take care of several aspects like the overall composition, the perspective, the lighting, color, and depth, ... and all of this needs to match. A lot of your illustrations tell stories. How do you fit so much story into a single image? We all know that storytelling is important when working on an illustration, but how does one add a background

Weekly Artist Feature: sirallon by team, journal

Weekly Artist Feature: sirallon

Mar 24, 2020

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 @sirallon! When did you start getting into art? Did you have any schooling for it? I think I started to get into art when I was around 16 years old, I was finishing my high school and at a loss for what I wanted to do but I always enjoyed drawing. So I decided to apply to an art school close to where I live, and I was lucky enough to get in! What do you enjoy most creating with your art? Why? The thing I love the most in creating art is getting to that one sketch that has the energy and shapes you are looking for. It usually takes a couple of tries but when you get there the whole illustration or character design kind of comes together. What do you feel makes an interesting or memorable character design? When it comes to good character design I'm still learning of course, but I always try to look for an interesting silhouette and a pose

Weekly Artist Feature: GeunBrush by team, journal

Weekly Artist Feature: GeunBrush

Jan 22, 2020

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 @GeunBrush! When did you start getting into art? Did you have any schooling for it? I started getting into art when I was 17 years old. My major at university has to do with painting, but it is not as helpful to me as you may imagine. The art you see of mine on DeviantArt are my daily practice pieces. These are quickly drawn paintings. When you sit down to create, do you have to have a certain environment to get you in the right mood? I don’t have any specific environment or mood I need to be in to create. Sometimes, I’ll listen to music. Currently, the Frozen 2 OST is one I listen to. Usually, my goal is to try to inspire artists to draw or paint something. What do you feel makes an interesting character design? I think design details and silhouette make an interesting character design, however, that’s just my opinion. I also really

Weekly Artist Feature: Zary-CZ by team, journal

Weekly Artist Feature: Zary-CZ

May 12, 2020

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 @Zary-CZ! Why does art speak to you? Why do you create? I have always been a huge fan of storytelling and fiction, and since I’ve never had a way with words, creating illustrations and doing art was my outlet for that. I am motivated to keep creating because I want to get better so I can execute my ideas more freely. Plus, sharing art with people that seem to like what I do is honestly very rewarding and I feel incredibly grateful to be able to do that. Besides I always thought that drawing was probably the coolest skill you can learn — except for maybe a backflip. How would you describe your style? It is hard for me to describe my style, because it is constantly changing. It is dependent on what kind of mood or emotion I want to convey and what/who inspires me at that moment. Sometimes things end up looking more realistic, sometimes I go

Weekly Artist Feature: CuddlyVeedles by team, journal

Weekly Artist Feature: CuddlyVeedles

Mar 17, 2020

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 @CuddlyVeedles! When did you start getting into art? Did you have any schooling for it? When I was a child, most people were focused on anime and manga-style art. However, I adored Disney animations and shows on Cartoon Network. I was also obsessed with comics from Marvel and DC. When I watched and read these things, I thought to myself, "I want to make something like this." So, I picked up my pencil and paper and started to draw. I started as a self-taught illustrator, without access to an art academy, but now I'm studying as an animation student at the college. They don’t focus on preaching to us how to draw, but instead teach us how to make animations on software. That was my first beginning with digital art. What are your art goals? What do you hope to do with your art? I want to stay passionate about making art, and I'm happy about

Weekly Artist Feature: Norma2D by team, journal

Weekly Artist Feature: Norma2D

Mar 3, 2020

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 @Norma2D! Why does art speak to you? Why do you create? I make art and create things because I feel the need to express myself in some way. For me, making art is a great way to convey emotions and get thoughts and ideas out of my head. Pixel art is one of my favorite ways to do that, but I also like to write and make music sometimes, as I like to try out different things and immerse myself in different projects. How would you describe your style? I think my style is still evolving, as I am trying to put all the influences I have into one and I always find new things that inspire me and that I'd like to incorporate into my art style. However, I would say that my style is a bit painterly and I don't care too much about certain pixel art rules or anything like that - I just like to do whatever I feel like. What challenges do you find

Weekly Artist Feature: TsaoShin by team, journal

Weekly Artist Feature: TsaoShin

Feb 26, 2020

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 February's Artist in Residence, @TsaoShin! When did you start getting into art? Did you have any schooling for it? Art has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. It was one of those things that I always found myself doing through my childhood despite whatever I had going on. Unfortunately, even though they were well intentioned, my parents did not want me to pursue art professionally. They were worried that the field would be too hard and I wouldn’t find work so they did a lot to divert my interest in art rather than nurture it. They thought going into medicine would be a solid career path for me so I ended up going to college for biology. I gave it my all but the call to art was too strong to fight. I changed my major half way through school and never looked back. It was a scary choice but I knew it would ultimately lead

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Tutorial: Draw a Landscape with HarrisonHow

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Three challenges from the DeviantArt Collective are now live! Click on this status to find out more on how you can join in with @stumpyfongo, @ChrissaBug, and @sylessae! #CloudyWithAChanceOfDoodles #ElfMyself #SylessaeDTIYS

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Create Every Day - Pareidolia

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Jump-start your creativity and get ready for a quick timed art challenge! The prompt today is a photography challenge, but you don’t need a fancy camera or to be a pro photographer to participate. Take a photo of something that makes you perceive it as something it’s not. Basically, something “you can’t unsee.” This type of illusion is called “pareidolia,” and it can be as simple as an electrical socket that looks like a shocked face, a heart shape on a cat’s fur, a rock that looks like the profile of an old man, or a cloud formation that looks like a sheep. Examples Submit your deviation with the tag #Pareidolia. Deviations submitted before June 17, 2021 at 11:59PM PDT will be awarded 50 fragments soon after the deadline. Use fragments to award badges to deviations and comments — a way to recognize your fellow deviants with some extra appreciation!

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Weekly Artist Feature: TheOneWithBear

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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 @TheOneWithBear! What pulls you to create art? I’m pulled towards art for the torturous lifestyle, of course (*evil laughs*). Joke aside, art is my form of communication. It is a way for me to connect with others emotionally, as I often don't feel like words can express much of how I feel. Through art, I've been able to bond with others who share the same interest in manga, anime, video games and self reflection. I create to get to know myself. Were you always creative growing up? Has any part of that art stayed with you throughout your journey? I grew up in Taiwan and we had heavy anime/manga influences from Japan. I used to fill sketchbooks with wide eyed anime girls and fanart of Naruto (Gaara...to be specific). Anime and manga are still a part of my life to this day. If you had to describe your style in 5 words or less, how would you

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Create With Pride with Fortune Feimster!

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Celebrate Pride Month on DeviantArt! Learn how LGBTQ+ professional artists Create With Pride and join the festivities to get a new profile badge! :createwithpride: For LGBTQ+ Pride Month this year, DeviantArt connected with recognizable LGBTQ+ artists in professional creative fields to share what Pride means to them, and how their identity inspires them to create. Each week we’ll share a new journal and new prompt on how to Create With Pride, featuring the creative and talented Dax ExclamationPoint, Alyssa Wong, Allegra Clark, GlitchxCity, and this week’s featured artist, Fortune Feimster! Meet Fortune! :wave: Stand-up comedian, writer, and actor, Fortune Feimster first made a name for herself on Chelsea Lately. She was a series regular on The Mindy Project for Hulu, Champions for NBC, and has made many television and film guest appearances including Tales of the City, Glee, Dear White People, Claws, Office Christmas Party, Chick Fight, and a recurring role on CBS’s Life In

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Jun 7, 2021

Today we're happy to announce the addition of four new members to the DeviantArt Collective! Welcome, @Cnotbusch, @kloir, @Quelfabulous, and @TheOneWithBear!

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Jun 1, 2021

Celebrating Deviousness - June 2021

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In Recognition of Exemplary Membership and an Outstanding Spirit of helpfulness and mentoring within the DeviantArt community June 2021's Deviousness Award Recipient: @KizukiTamura @KizukiTamura is a familiar name to anyone who has ventured into the photography community.Highly active in sharing his own work, collaborating with other artists, and offering feedback on art each day, @KizukiTamura is a shining star of the community. He spends his time forming connections within the community and encouraging others to do the same. Cyril is a brilliant example of what it means to be truly Devious and we are excited to award him with Deviousness for June 2021. My name is Cyril, I am French and I have lived in Brussels for a few years. My pseudonym is @KizukiTamura which is the name of a character from a Haruki Murakami novel — who is my favorite writer. Literature, poetry in general, and especially the haikus that I sometimes write myself are important in my life. I have been

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Jun 1, 2021

Meet the DeviantArt Collective: Ccayco

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Throughout the month, we'll be sharing quick interviews with artists from the DeviantArt Collective; a group of streaming artists on DeviantArt who have been creating positive and creative spaces. Today's featured artist is @ccayco! A master of freehand inking, watching Ccayco's streams is always impressive. How do you set goals for your art? I work backwards from macro goals, breaking those down into micro goals. Then I do my best to time everything out, and just keep crossing things off the list until I'm done. Stagnation is the worst fate for any artist, so my study livestreams keep me on my toes, with my community always pointing out the things I need work on. What's one piece of advice you would give to someone wanting to dive into art? Be ready for a long, slow, repetitive grind. Lack of patience will burn you out of the art game. And never ever equate how many Likes your art gets online to your value as an artist or the level of your skill. Has there been a

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May 25, 2021

Meet the DeviantArt Collective: ChrissaBug

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Throughout the month, we'll be sharing quick interviews with artists from the DeviantArt Collective; a group of streaming artists on DeviantArt who have been creating positive and creative spaces. Today's featured artist is @ChrissaBug! We think you'll really enjoy the bright colors and brilliant glow in their art! What's a memory you have from your time on DA? After University I was extremely burnt out from drawing or creating any art. After 2 years of not drawing at all, I finally came back to digital art and started posting my work on DeviantArt again. I didn't consider myself good enough to even think about offering commissions, but one day on DeviantArt someone messaged me asking for my prices! It was a huge boost of confidence that someone thought my work was worth paying for! It's really moments like that on Deviantart, where someone in that community, showed their support that helped start my professional illustration journey. If you had to describe your art in 5

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SuperRobloxBros

8 hours ago

So I sent a ticket about cuddlesnam evading a ban and the admin said that they will review that information, it's been 2 weeks and nothing happened. So what does that mean if they said they will review the information and how long does it take for them to review it?

MysticD

Edited 7 hours ago

They're also busy trying to work on the site, review thousands of other tickets/reports daily, reply to comments on their journeys, contests / events to host, and cooperating with people working with them.

SuperRobloxBros

7 hours ago

So that means I have to wait a little longer.

Pretty much.

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