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Creating the covers of Battle Dragons by team, journal
Creating the covers of Battle Dragons
Digital artist @ERA7 has found industry success over the years creating the cover images for a traditionally published book series, as well as 3D animation and more. Learn what inspires her, how she became a professional artist, and discover what tips, tricks, and advice she has for artists! An Interview with @ERA7 How would you describe your art style to someone who has never seen your art before? I would describe it as a mixture of digital oil painting with 3D technologies, photobashing, matte painting, and overpainting. I work in different styles from cartoonish-comic to realism. When did you first start making art, and what inspired you to do it? According to my parents, I created my first drawing when I was 3 and have continued nonstop. My main inspiration has always been to show people things that don't exist: fantastic worlds, technology, and characters. I was greatly impressed by cinema, especially Disney films from the '90s. I realized I wanted to create something similar
Search in favourites is back! by team, journal
Search in favourites is back!
Search through your most-loved deviations with ease! Search in favourites is back by popular demand! Click on the magnifying glass at the top right of your favourites page (or someone else’s) to search for specific artwork you love. DeviantArt’s search systems were upgraded in 2022, at which point the difficult decision was made to phase out search in favourites, which was dependent on a legacy search system that was prohibitively costly to maintain considering its usage rate. Although search in favourites was used by just 0.5% of the active community, it was well-liked and used often by the most active deviants. Seeing the passionate response from the community in the wake of its removal, the DeviantArt team worked to upgrade the system that powers search in favourites to improve its efficiency and make it less costly to maintain, and now it’s ready for you to use. Happy searching! Search Your Favourites
LGBTQ+ Pride Month: All Out With Pride by team, journal
LGBTQ+ Pride Month: All Out With Pride
Color line art by @Thiefoworld and submit it with the tag #AllOutWithPride to go all out with pride and get a Profile badge! June is recognized internationally as LGBTQ+ Pride Month, an observation of the accomplishments of and advocacy for LGBTQ+ people. This year, DeviantArt is following Los Angeles Pride’s theme, “All Out With Pride,” which celebrates the LGBTQ+ community’s diversity, resilience, and joy. Go All Out With Pride! Show your pride and share your support for the LGBTQ+ community by coloring in line art created by @Thiefoworld to commemorate the month! Submit your colored line art with the tag #AllOutWithPride by 11:59 PM Pacific Time on June 30th to receive a Profile badge for the festivities! Download the PNG version Want some inspiration before you start? Learn about the progress pride flag and what its colors represent, then see how these artists have shared their pride! Looking for more ways to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month? Add
Creative Challenges by team, journal
Creative Challenges
Artists in the community are always ready to show off their artistic skills. This is a list of past contests and challenges.
Support by team, journal
Support
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Feature: Drawing Humans and Undiscovered Art by team, journal
Feature: Drawing Humans and Undiscovered Art
This curated feature is brought to you by @BeckyKidus It’s May, and people who follow me know I’m in the middle of a feature series showcasing tutorials and undiscovered artwork. The first part of this feature includes tutorials related to drawing human figures, and the second part is a selection of artwork I’ve discovered recently with fewer than 50 favourites. I post a feature like this once a month, on or around the 15th. If you’d like to see more features like this, previous features I’ve put together are linked at the bottom of this journal. I hope you're able to make use of these great tutorials and enjoy beautiful art you may not have seen! Tutorials: How to Draw Humans Drawing humans can be complex, so to keep things simple, I’ve broken this tutorial feature down into sections. The first section covers general body proportions, and the sections that follow will cover heads, faces, hands, and feet. Proportions To start, @Anastasia-berry created references covering basic
Honing Your Skills by team, journal
Honing Your Skills
Looking to broaden your horizons as an artist? Want to start selling your art on DeviantArt? Here's a list of tools, tips, tutorials, site features, and more that can help you on your way! BEGINNER TUTORIALS ADVANCED TUTORIALS MONETIZATION Be the Shop Hero! Tips and Tricks for Holiday Art Sales Buy and Sell Profile Skins in the DeviantArt Shop Promote Commissions on Deviations and Profile Carve out a customized Profile Skin New Buyers for your Old Commissions An Artist's Guide to DeviantArt Subscriptions What to Offer Your DeviantArt Subscribers How to Give Your Subscribers the Best Value How to Gain Subscribers Promote Subscriptions on Deviations and Profile Best Practices for Successful Subscriptions Expand Your Reach with Commissions Boost Your Art: A Guide for Tags New on Stats: Benchmark Yourself Stats and Insights for Your Art, Profile, Audience
Celebrating Deviousness - June 2023 by team, journal
Celebrating Deviousness - June 2023
The Deviousness Award is given to one deviant each month in recognition of their exemplary contributions to DeviantArt and its community and has been a long-standing tradition since DeviantArt’s early years. @LualaDy is the recipient of June 2023’s Deviousness Award, so please join us in congratulating her! @LualaDy has been a community rockstar for a very long time, and her long-standing work to promote other artists and ensure their work gets seen by a wider audience is near-unmatched. She has posted art features on a daily basis for multiple years—some days posting more than one feature at a time—while also running groups that feature even more artwork. For her continuous dedication to the artists of the DeviantArt community, we are proud to name @LualaDy the recipient of the Deviousness Award for June 2023. Hi! Hello, it's me. I do stuff. Sometimes. Sometimes I don't. I draw, paint, crochet, knit, write, and take photos. And I do maths! I'm pretty good at maths. Oh, and I sew
Artist Interviews by team, journal
Artist Interviews
Get to know talented artists from the community and their work by reading featured interview journals! Feature: Drawing Humans and Undiscovered Art with BeckyKidus Creating the covers of Battle Dragons with Era7 Creating custom art for the voice of Goku Weekly Artist Interview: Nuhanotion Weekly Artist Interview: mercuryferns Weekly Artist Interview: vonnesaur Weekly Artist Interview: RHADS Weekly Artist Interview: Laovaan Weekly Artist Interview: Kyutsiii Weekly Artist Interview: burningmonk Weekly Artist Interview: Ubermonster Adoptables Interview with CherrysDesigns Meet the DeviantArt Collective: CalvinSimsArt Weekly Artist Interview: AdorkaStock Weekly Artist Interview: Ry-Spirit Weekly Artist Interview: BisBiswas Weekly Artist Interview: Galder Weekly Artist Interview: da-phil Presenting Adoptables: Interview with Astralseed Meet the DeviantArt Collective: VulpsieArt Weekly Artist Interview: TobiasRoetsch Weekly Artist Interview: Meisan Focus Interview: mikiko-art Weekly
Dress up for the Adoptables Party! by team, journal
Dress up for the Adoptables Party!
Create an adoptable with a specific palette and submit it with the tag #AdoptableParty to attend, and get a party favor in the form of a Profile badge! To add to the fun of the beta launch of Adoptables, DeviantArt is hosting a party for custom creations, and you’re invited to the colorful celebration! If you’re not familiar, adoptables are one-of-a-kind works of art that interested buyers can adopt from artists. In most cases, these are character designs (often human, anthropomorphic, mystical creatures, otherworldly beings, or entirely new species), outfits, or accessories. Get on the guest list! To join the festivities, create an adoptable using the following color palette: #9EFC36, #FF83EB, #6B6FFF Once you’ve created your attendee, submit it as a deviation with the tag #AdoptableParty by June 7th to get a brand new badge for your Profile! Want some inspiration on what to wear to the party? Check out these styles from early attendees: Digital Dragon by @Sindonic
Aus Den Augen, Aus Dem Sinn by MCAppetizer, literature
Literature
Aus Den Augen, Aus Dem Sinn
Es gibt nicht wirklich einen Grund,
Und doch denk ich mich an dir wund;
Schon klar, du bist ja meine
Vergangenheit; ich deine –
Doch ich bin schwarz und weiß; du bunt
Du weißt wohl nicht mehr, wer ich bin,
Tja, aus den Augen, aus dem Sinn
Wär schön, dich zu vergessen
Nur schaff ich’s nicht, stattdessen
Krieg ich nicht mal Verdrängen hin
Ich bin die aus dem Trümmerhaufen
Und grade am Zusammenraufen;
Hast nichts kaputt gemacht
und nichts zu Fall gebracht
Nein, du bist einfach weggelaufen
Zu glauben, es wird alles gut,
Tat ich aus Traurigkeit, nicht Mut;
Ich werd’s dabei belassen;
Ist leicht, wa