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The Beginning of American ComicsI am sure this is a topic a lot of you would be interested in! As with my article on the Beginning of Manga. I'm only going to touch on the root of it for now as I have other articles planned to tie them together! The American comic book, is really quite new in comparison with past narrative art forms. In fact we haven't had a century yet of the modern American comic as we know it.
Let us begin by looking at The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck by Swiss artist Rudolphe Töpffer. It is considered to be the oldest known comic book and started in Europe and was printed in several languages all the way back in 1837, but it was reprinted in 1842 in New York, the first printed comic book in America. There were no word balloons as you would imagine comics today, however there was text in the book to describe what was going on. This was produced in a period of comic book histor
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People & Portraits Exposed #4 People, Portraits & The Olympics
The Olympics 2012 officially opens today in London and with it the knowledge that hundreds of thousands of moments are going to be captured across the next two weeks. Sports Photography can belong in several categories across deviantART and it's often difficult to know precisely which one. And guess what - I've got no real answers for you! My only tip is that you need to keep in mind that sports documentation is more likely to be Photo-Journalism than anything else. Unless your sports shots are posed to be creative, emotive and so on - they don't technically belong in the people and portraits galleries. Utilize Photo-journalism as much as you can over the coming weeks, whether you're at the Olympics or you're shooting some summer sports!









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Photography Weekly: Edition Forty FourPhotography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD
"Creativity, like human life itself - begins in Darkness "
-Julia Cameron."
I read a very interesting article this week debating Photography Vs Literature and which one of the two tells us more. Of course there is always the element that a picture could be accompanied by words but neither aspect is enough to tell a whole story. But as the article says, Photography has become a universal constant in the world today and is accessible to nearly everybody. Yet many still believe that only pure narration can truly tell a story. What are your thoughts? As Photographers we can choose to limit what we tell or show with a photograph, we can even mislead. Can we convey more with words? Or more with an image? You could describe a person with words but never truly give an accurate picture of who they are visually without a photograph...

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ProjectPorkchop Vol163#ProjectPorkchop is all about bringing more exposure to the many talented yet under appreciated artists going unseen on deviantART daily. The artists chosen truly deserve more attention based on low counts of favorites, comments, and watchers, added to their incredible artistic talent.
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Hot off the Press - Our Vector CV is in Print!In case you haven't heard already, `ChewedKandi - our dedicated and definitely awesome Vector Community Volunteer has been working hard with Adobe! The result? Her book has JUST been published!
But that's not all - the book involves 30 emerging artists within the Vector Community and most of them are from deviantART! The book explores their work, their inspirations and some tutorial projects that will help those looking to learn a bit more. Whether or not you're seriously into Vector doesn't actually matter, because this beautiful showcase of works has something for everybody.
 Huge congratulations to *shiropanda ~TraceLandVectorie03 =Asher-Bee `CrisVector ~Helbetico *BreeLeman ~Zzanthia *CQcat ~ivan-bliznak `j3concepts ~dimary ~lounge-acting *ChasingArtwork *grelin-machin ~roberlan ~FlowisKing ~Ryannzha ~cronobreaker ~lanitta ~rafahu ~shoelesspeacock *ssst *NaBHaN ~crowded-teeth :devlim
Infrared Photography Gallery: Your Thoughts?For some time now there have been calls from the community for an Infrared Gallery as it's becoming a popular technique and often there is confusion over where the work actually belongs. The powers that be have been listening and have decided that it would be really useful to have your feedback as to where this Gallery should go. At the moment, Infrared Photographs are spread across the Photography Galleries from Animals, Plants and Nature to Miscellaneous.
What is Infrared Photography?
`gilad explained it quite succinctly over seven years ago now in this journal. Infrared Photography (or IR) shows a magical, thermal type effect of a world that, without specific filters or applications, appears quite normal. It can be achieved using a filter on specific D-SLR cameras or it can be achieved with special films in Analog. This clear technique divis
Everyday we're CV'ingAs a Community Volunteer - I do as much or as little within the community that I feel comfortable doing. We're not pressured to do this and that, we don't even have to give a Daily Deviation every day, we choose how we promote our selected galleries/chats and forums and we're not fixed to any specific rule on how much or how little we do. But I do believe that it's important to share with you just what the community volunteers do and why we do it. More importantly it's so easy to get lost on this site full of many people - and miss out on the awesome that's going on. So I'm going to share with you exactly what the latest awesome is...
Project Educate
Almost every week since October last year the Community Volunteers have been working hard both independently and as part of small teams to bring You Project Educate.
Project Educate is about bringing forward art forms whether they are popular or overlooked and giving
People & Portraits Exposed #5 Getting your Emotive on!
It's often quite difficult to define emotion in an image. However the Emotive People & Portraits Gallery is all about that. Whether or not you have captured emotion accidentally or on purpose - your work could have a place within the gallery.
 




Emotive puts a lot of thought and emphasis on the emotion captured in a shot which is quite obvious given the name. However it's not all about being able to see a face with extra focus on eyes, mouth and expression. Sometimes you can capture emotively without that focus.



So to create your emotive shots, your intention must be to delve into your subjects very soul and pull out the emotion through their posture, their expressions and their stance and surroundings to convey what is usually hidden away carefully.
People + Portraits Exposed #17 Emotive...

By ~Hart-Worx
Self Portraits...

By =OlgaAthens
Classic...

By ~ShamAnn366
Expressive...

By =vishstudio
Infants & Children...

By ~AndreasWelt
Weddings...

By ~lightsoutwordsgone
Spontaneous...

By ~TheRealLittleMermaid
Not So Traditional Tuesdays #4My plan is to keep the features fresh for me(and you) and maybe open a few eyes to all the different kinds of artwork that is available while browsing the deviantArt galleries. The things that make one piece of art great applies, for the most part, to other genres. A painter can learn how light and shadow fall from photography, photo-manipulators can learn about composition from a great Manga drawing, and literature can give you the inspiration to try something new or take your work to the next step. You may never try all art forms you see! You can however take what you learn from them and incorporate that into your own work. It could be the difference between stagnating and that breakthrough every artist wants to find!
**WARNING:Viewing these works of art may cause giddiness, elevated heart rates, and happiness in the pants(which could lead to blindness)! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!**


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People + Portraits Exposed #9This week the People and Portraits community has some exciting news! ~PeopleAndPortraits - a hub for all things portrait and people - has been created! Head over and join, submit your work or just browse our galleries. Additionally don't forget the Seasonal Portraiture Contest!
 
Emotive...

By =popoks
Self Portraits...

By *Slawa
Classic...

By ~JaneGod
Expressive...

By ~andreaxe
Infants & Children...

By ~iheartslb
Weddings...

By ~LoveInMist
Spontaneous...

By *InfuzedMedia

Traditional Tuesdays #41Hi, and welcome to the 41st edition of Traditional Tuesdays. This week, like all  of the other weeks, I'll be featuring fifteen works of art from the Traditional Gallery. Any more than that might and you might loss interest or it could cause your monitor to fail in an explosion of awesomeness.  I would feel guilty if that were to happen, so I'm keeping it at fifteen! The Traditional gallery is a vast storeroom of work that covers many mediums and genres. I've tried to show a diverse array of artwork, but I don't have room for them all. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show!
**WARNING:Viewing these works of art may cause giddiness, elevated heart rates, and
happiness in the pants(which could lead to blindness)! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!**


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Top 50 Portraits Submitted to deviantART This Week

Sat Sep 15, 2012, 5:21 PM


Here are my top 50 favourite portraits that were submitted to deviantART this week.

Iluvia by `nikosalpha

Luminous by ~xKimJoanne      By your light is cold and scratchy... for you to.. by ~Nodvikoff

shiver by *michellis13

Henriette by *TheyCallMeQuietGirl      :niece: by =Enigma-Fotos

Break my scales by *blackfantastix

Plague's Solitude by *MonsterBrand    Prestigious Plague by *MonsterBrand

Scream by ~imthinkinspiffy
Don't Be Shy, Honey Pie by *maureeza
A2. by ~zbuchlak
fairy tale.... by ~BlackCocktail
forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest by ~justina-m

Melancholy by ~ksushiks      If there's no tomorrow by ~FairyLady19007

self-hatred by =NikolasBrummer
strange by ~LisbethPhotography

thunderbird by =NikolasBrummer      Nature's own by *la-esmeralda

Lost by ~SweetPeaPhototc

Remember Me by ~EdgarBerg      Little home by ~AshtrayheartRomina

reflections by *michellis13

The seeker by *starg691      redredrose by ~burnjoeburn

The Sea Goddess and The Raven by *EmilySoto
Elegance III by *KayleighJune

Last flower by ~Snowfall-lullaby      early autumn by ~ultramaryna

Future by ~Hart-Worx
Blind Escape by ~Zeit-Bild-PhotoArt
Net of Wonder by *PatriciaVazquez

_Ida K. by *Bloddroppe       RHCP by *JulijaJan

Twirl by ~Elizabeth-May
as the lavender catches fire by ~vampire-zombie
flowers by ~SolMay
Through The Red by *CrowsReign

D089 by *miobi       

_anatomic bomb. by *Bloddroppe
D088 by *miobi
snow yak by *NatalieShau
Fighter by =Ophelia-Overdose
Enigma by *Ryoko-demon

SIN by ~keroseneDeluxe       Millennium Robot by =Ophelia-Overdose

born to die by ~krowka7
Last Days Of Summer by *xeneras




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^SaTaNiA Sep 17, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
A really awesome collection Dan !
Thanks for this article :hug:
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^ClefairyKid Sep 16, 2012
Brilliant and inspiring collection :clap: *goes on fav rampage* :lmao:
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Amazing feature! Thanks for sharing!
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$namenotrequired Sep 16, 2012  Student Interface Designer
Beautiful collection!:D I linked to your art feature on #communityrelations in What's Going On?? :)
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~justina-m Sep 16, 2012  Student
Thank you! Honored.
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Love it!
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=conniekidd Sep 16, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
So many stunning pieces! Thanks for sharing! <3 :deviation:
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*blackfantastix Sep 16, 2012
thank you SOOO MUCH!
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Mood: Wow! *CrowsReign Sep 16, 2012  Professional Photographer
wow!!!!thanx so much for including my work in this amazing feature!!!!It's a great honor!!!!
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*michellis13 Sep 15, 2012  Student Photographer
I'm honored to have my photographs included in such a feature! amazing pieces! thank you :)
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