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
Celebrating Deviousness - March 2021 by team, journal
Celebrating Deviousness - March 2021
In Recognition of Exemplary Membership and an Outstanding Spirit of helpfulness and mentoring within the DeviantArt community March 2021's Deviousness Award Recipient: @Pascua-Tanya @Pascua-Tanya has been an inspirational presence on DeviantArt for over a decade. Not only has she grown as an artist, she has spent a considerable amount of time bettering the DeviantArt community. She is an active Daily Deviation suggester and a member of a number of key community groups. Her legacy however will be her tireless work to bridge a language gap with her group @Ayu-dA, which focuses on translating content on DeviantArt to Spanish. We are blessed to have her represent our community and thrilled to award her with Deviousness for March 2021. Hi everyone! My name is Genesis, also known as @Pascua-Tanya or Pascua. I am a self-taught and Spanish-speaking artist focused on Traditional Painting semi-professionally (I obtained a college degree in December 2019) and Digital Art, including Fan Art
Welcome Back to the Thursday Prompt! by CoreLounge, journal
Welcome Back to the Thursday Prompt!
It’s been a while, but the Thursday Prompt, our regular Thursday contest for Core Members, is back! Since the Thursday Prompt first began in August of 2018, it’s been our goal to ensure each prompt is fun, engaging, interesting and cool for all Core Members. Every Thursday, a prompt is announced with a new theme, a new celebration, or a new subject to make art out of, all for a chance to earn some great prizes. From celebrating the ones who count to writing in a flash, making people feel good to pushing the boundaries of art, it has been an insightful experience to see everyone's artistic skill tested, and witness regular participants improve! Now that we’ve settled in our new home at the Core Lounge, we have the opportunity to bring you a more exciting and more elevated Thursday Prompt experience, as well as helping us shape what our new, exclusive contests for Core Members would look like. We want your help! Shape the future of our contests! The Thursday Prompt and our other
Update on the 2020 Holiday Card Project by team, journal
Update on the 2020 Holiday Card Project
DeviantArt has hosted the Holiday Card Project since 2004, bringing artists together to create holiday greeting cards for hospital patients. In 12 years, we’ve delivered over 32,000 holiday cards – including 2,000 last year – to hospitals and health facilities in over 60 countries worldwide. This year would have marked the Holiday Card Project’s 13th year, but in the interest of promoting public health and safety in the wake of COVID-19, DeviantArt will temporarily pause the Holiday Card Project this year. In its stead, DeviantArt will make a donation to COVID-19 relief funds. Donating to COVID-19 Relief In keeping with the spirit of the Holiday Card Project to offer support to hospital patients during the holidays, DeviantArt will donate $5,000 to the United Nations Foundation’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund. Proceeds from the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund are used to help vulnerable communities, fund research and development of treatments and vaccines, ensure worldwide
Attention all Arknights fans! Enter the Arknights first anniversary contest, Operation: Fan Art, with over $18,000 USD in prizes to be won. 1st place wins a Wacom Cintiq 22, a professional tablet, and more! #ArknightsFanArtDA
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Fan Art Contest
Contest Closed December 26, 2020
In celebration of the game's first anniversary, Arknights teamed up with DeviantArt for a classic fan art competition. Deviants created fan art of one or more existing Operators from Arknights Global Game for the chance to be a winner — there was over $18,000 USD worth of prizes!
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Unlock More Benefits with Core Membership by team, journal
Unlock More Benefits with Core Membership
We’ve lowered the price of Core, added new benefits, and introduced two new packages for deviants who want to get even more from their DeviantArt experience. Core Membership has always provided an exclusive experience with added benefits to the DeviantArt community. The goal when creating these new packages was to offer a series of features and enhancements that not only provide added benefits, but also create more opportunities for artists to grow and earn from their work. The Core Membership packages are designed to fulfill the diverse needs of artists across the community. See which package is right for you! Packages Core $3.95 USD/month (or $39.95/year) An all-access pass to DeviantArt. Gain access to exclusive content, more personalization tools, badges, and advanced Stats & Insights. Benefits include: 20% fee on digital sales (commissions, Premium Galleries, and Premium downloads) $100 maximum digital sale price per item 25 weekly fragments to award badges 20 GB of Sta.sh
Recognizing Deviations And Comments with Badges by team, journal
Recognizing Deviations And Comments with Badges
Introducing a new way to recognize art and deviants across the community! Badges can now be awarded to deviations and comments when you want to go the extra mile to show your appreciation. Give a badge to an awe-inspiring deviation, a thoughtful, in-depth critique, or a comment that made your day! Share Your Appreciation by Awarding a Badge When you want to do more to express your appreciation, you can now award a badge to deviations and comments. When you award a badge, it’ll appear on that deviation or comment as well as on the deviant’s Profile — just like llama badges and other community event badges. You Can Award Badges To: Deviations that inspire Helpful resources or tutorials Thoughtful and thorough critiques Heartfelt replies to something you shared Clever, witty comments that made you laugh To award a badge, simply click the diamond icon underneath a deviation or on a comment. Choose Between Three Different Badges Three types of badges can be awarded: Quartz, Emerald, and
Today is World Mental Health Day, a day to focus on mental wellness and combat stigma against mental health issues. Even during an average year, World Mental Health Day is a significant and valuable undertaking, but in the wake of 2020, an especially challenging year for many, we want to provide a spotlight on this important day, as well as resources and insights from professionals in the mental health field. What is World Mental Health Day? World Mental Health Day is observed each year on October 10th, as an opportunity to bring to light the importance of mental well-being, and to draw attention to mental health issues around the world. It was first observed in 1992, and has since become a significant opportunity for individuals to openly discuss their mental health and challenges they face, as well as a chance for professionals in the mental health field to talk about their work and what needs to be done to make mental health needs attainable for people around the world. This year
Even though the pandemic means we can’t be together at comic and art conventions, like San Diego Comic-Con and LightBox, we didn’t want to miss an opportunity to help artists grow and connect with one another! We jumped at the chance to participate in the “at home” versions of those conventions to showcase insight and expertise from some excellent artists. With the below panels, you can take part in a warmup for artists, learn the history of DeviantArt, discover how personal projects can lead to paid gigs, and find out tricks to using social media as an artist. Social Media for Artists @loish, @Picolo-kun, and @kianamai connect for a panel navigating the challenges of social media for contemporary artists. From asserting your artistic voice, how to gain followers and engagement, and balancing your life with responsibilities to the art community, they cover it all. Hosted by DeviantArt’s Head of Social Media, @ggMattB. Personal Work to Paid Work You never know when the fun project you
Chadwick Boseman, an actor well-known and well-loved around the world, passed away last week. There have been many posts around the Internet about his passing, and we want to pay tribute to him as well by sharing works in honor of him from artists within the community. Chadwick Boseman’s first leading role in a feature film was Jackie Robinson in 42, portraying the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball. This was one of several instances where he portrayed a historical figure on screen, and he never shied away from that, having been quoted as saying, “People have said, 'You don't need to do any more biopics. You don't need to play any more real people.' I don't agree with that.” He took the importance of depicting African-American historical figures in film and theatre seriously, and he gave each and every role he played the knowledge and understanding that person deserved. Whether he was on the field as Jackie Robinson, dancing on stage as James Brown, or standing