Colours Vol. One:iconwildrune11: This skin was deeply inspired by the skins $marioluevanos creates. I like the ways he uses colour and line in his designs. I made and discarded three journal skins while I was trying to come up with a design for this series, and when I had the idea to create a simple but attractive skin like his, I started work on a fourth skin (not knowing yet if I would use it or not). The first thing I did was create a colour palette at colorschemedesigner.com - a simple but powerful colour palette creation tool I recently discovered. As I started creating my skin and applying the colours I had selected, I realised what I would call my feature series - "Colours". The word "colours" can mean many things, and some of these meanings are things I want to achieve in my features.So, "Colours" will be a journal feature series run by me! Every article will include an interview, a spotlight artist and group, and some selecti
Contests - Win Premium Memberships| Browse & search for more contests | Tips to hosting a contest |Many people would like to make use of the Premium Membership features of dA, but of course not everyone is able to reserve some bucks for this, or to use them online. Thankfully, deviantART has a wonderful community where many people are willing to help each other out. One way to get a Premium Membership eventhough you cannot pay, is to participate in contests where you can win premium memberships, or points to pay for them - this list will hopefully help you find some to enter. (Note that in this journal I will include contests with chosen winners only. There are also 'contests' around where the winners are in some way randomly assigned - perhaps you
Community Week Wrap UpHello everyone! The Community Week scheduled for April 1st to April 7th is now over! We would like to help everyone involved for their effort and dedication they put into these inspiring articles that are a great addition to our community Here is the recap of this Community Week:How to design a typeface by *MartinSilvertantGroups Directory Update by `Infinite-HeartHistory of April Fool's dAy! by ^bradleysaysInner Artist by =Serinji
Displaying JournalsOn your page you can have the Featured Deviation Widgets where you can display your favourite Deviations from your Gallery.Also you can use them to display your Journals. Here is how to do that:#1 All you have to do is edit the Widget by clicking on the little Pencil icon Normally you would get the following:#2 Here you have to click on the Choose A Deviation button.#3 In the Search field you should type in one of your Journal's title and your Features, Interviews or other.Of course at first your deviations are showing up and you can select one, but if you type in anything elso to the field, everything related to it comes up.Pick the one you would like to be displayed.Important: You have to change to Normal View (if you have Premium Membership) b
Fan Art Fridays - Spice and WolfHello and welcome to the 10th edition of Fan Art Fridays I'll be featuring 10-15 pieces of fan art, by fandom each week. This week will feature fanart from the series Spice and Wolf as suggested by ^Astralseed If you want to suggest a book/game/anime/cartoon/movie/etc to feature fan art of, please comment here: http://lyricanna.deviantart.com/journal/poll/3431990/Past featuresPokemonHarry PotterBakumanThe Hunger GamesFire Emblem
Project Educate: Interview with ^kingmanchengPassionate animator, dedicated Community Volunteer: today, we'll be looking into the thoughts of ^kingmancheng! Please tell us a little bit about yourself.I graduated from university with a BA honour in illustration and animation, having worked at a different university for a few years, I am now a fulltime freelance illustrator and animator.When did you start animating?When I was a young teen I reckon! During that time of my life gif animations really took off all over the Internet and so many young animators at that age got ahold of free gif animation compilers, so although I can't give an exact age, I was pretty young at the time! When/how did you discover deviantART?When I was about 15/16 years old, one of my friends from school did graphics design work in his own time and uploaded it here. He w
dA Artist Designs Binocular Google Glass ConceptGerman artist Jonas Daehnert (~jonas-daehnert) has designed a concept for a binocular version of Google Glass. The 3D concept images were published to t3n Magazine after the artist posted an initial image his deviantART Gallery.Cross-posted to my Google Glass Quora blog, Dat Glass.
Week 3, 2013 at #deviant365!Hey y'all! The lucky winner of last week's task is `IceXDragon! He won a Llama plushie. Congratulations, Travis!This week's task pertains to groups! Visit the official group listing, +Groups, and use the search tool to find some groups you're interested in! For example, search "stained glass" and find all the groups related to the art style! Leave a comment on this task explaining which group(s) you've joined while executing this task. Three (3) lucky deviants that do will receive a dA Icon Keychain!Good luck! The winners and next task will be announced on Monday!
Calendar Project 2012 - WinnersI hope you are having a great time with family and friends so far! Some of you might have opened their gifts already, some still have to do it. But for now it is my turn to make a few more people happy and give them extra gifts!Below we have the lucky winners of the single tasks. Congratulations everyone Task 1See the task here: http://sta.sh/01ghnh7y30ppAnd the winner is: *a-kid-at-heart!The prize: 1 dA Keychain + features. Task 2See the task here: http://sta.sh/06tydosjlp9And the winner is: =cillanoodle!The prize: a custom Journal and Gallery Skin from `ginkgografix + features. Task 3See the task here: http://sta.sh/0ti0pii3gp6And the winner is `Arichy!The prize: 3 Months Premium Membership from #communityrelations + features. Task 4See the task here: http://sta.sh/01cv2lcz2zimAnd the winner is :devradio
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Green Christmas - Dec 24thCalendar ProjectToday is the last day of the Calendar Project and while i am a bit dissappointd over the interested (or lack of) at the tasks, i hope that you enjoyed it though and like the free skins that have been created for you!Below at the feature area i have placed all again for you, in case you have missed one.All winners will be announced/noted tomorrow.Happy HolidaysWishing all of you a great holiday season and hope that you are able to spent the time with family and friends. Enjoy the yummy food and the gifts (in case you have been a good person )!I want to thank you all for your support, for your help and those of you i can call friends for the great persons you are.Stay awesome and all the best for the next year May the glitter be with you!:iconcssfairyplz:Feature :thumb34242
Nyiana's 12 days of Giveaways: Day 1- CLOSED And it begins!This contest is now closed. Thanks to everyone who participated!Welcome to the first day of the giveaways! I hope that everyone is able to enjoy these tasks, especially since they come with some really awesome prizes!Today's prize is: a 3 month premium membership. To kick it off, I want you to do a small bit of writing.Task 1: Write a holiday themed haiku.If you are unsure what a haiku is, here is a sample;Christmas tree shiningDecorations on displayMilk and cookies outHaiku follows a 5-7-5 format. Five syllables in the first one, seven in the second, and five in the third. For everyone who completes this task, you will be assigned a number then tomorrow morning you will be put into a random drawing for the three month premium membership. Winners will be announced tomorrow.
November 2012 Daily deviation round up Street art.The daily deviations for November 2012 in the street art category. PaKoBcKa by ~ForbiddenArtSquad Lutchalibre e El Muerto by =ChurusSavioli ALi Fjone + BL!ND (ELF crew) by ~Alifj RANS and RIOT by ~OROL1 ruhe and zuawe by ~aierayne letters by ~speedgoblin Dosk and Meak by ~meak-one Anonymous StreetArt Vendetta Mural in Bamberg by ~OpGraffiti The Revenge of Nature by ~zabou Angel of Color - soft pastels by =DavidSerret Geisha Spraypaint by ~angotti81 graffiti by ~Fel3000ft TWOBEK by ~twobeafe reptilian by ~enoe1Please don't hesitate to send me DD suggestions via note
Dictionary Entry: 32We're definately back in business now. Everything's lined up and hopefully (though I've said this before) we'll only be missing a week here and there.You may notice something, that's right, I'm a CV now, for the Chats and Forums, feel free to message me regarding them. There are a BUNCH of new CVs too, so check out the updated Community Relations Team post to see who's looking after what. If you want to see this article regularly, please be sure you're watching #dA-Dictionary as I'm not the only one who posts the article. See you around!`lost-angleConcernsThere were no major concerns addressed this weekBeta TestingAll Beta Testing bugs should be reported to #devBUGthrough their "Report a Beta Bug" tab. If a feature has gone site-wideand you find a bu
Seasonal Portraiture Contest: The Results!The Seasonal Portraiture contest that launched as part of the group launch of ~PeopleAndPortraits had some FANTASTIC entries. The judges have finished selecting their choices and we've colloborated them all together to determine the final winners. But huge congratulations to everybody who entered, your entries were fabulous. You can read about the contest here and browse the entries here. Without further ado - here are the winners! The Results 1st Place *Swamptiki 2nd Place =del-rae 3rd Place =Miguel-SantosHonourable Mentions ~KeepOnSingingMySong:bigthum
5 Hours of Jet Flyovers Overlapped in 30 Seconds(via reddit)