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Fan Art Newsletter: March - April 2013

Sun May 5, 2013, 12:39 PM

Another two months have passed and it's time to recap what's happened during this time in the Fan Art Dom! Let's being with our Daily Deviation round-ups for March and April:

March Fan Art and Fanfiction DDsFan fiction featured by ^JZLobo

Fan art featured by ^KasumiCR

Fan art featured by ^Lyricanna

April Fan Art and Fan Fic DDsHere's this month's fan art and fan fiction DD round up

Fan Fiction + one Fan Comic Featured by ^JZLobo

Fan Art Featured by ^KasumiCR

Fan Art + 2 Digital Dolls Featured by ^Lyricanna
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^Lyricanna has been providing us with some delicious fan art every friday with her Fan Art Fridays series. Here's a list of the articles from the past 2 months:

I'm also holding a series of articles with Fan Art themed features. March and April editions are the following:

^JZLobo has announced the winners of his Illustration Contest 2013.

Speaking of contests, our official contest "Redesign a Character" has come to an end and the winners have been announced in this article.

See you guys in 2 months time for the next newsletter!

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Contest Reminder!

Thu Apr 18, 2013, 12:56 PM

Hello everyone!

Just a quick entry to remind you our Fan Art Contest: Redesign a Character is due next week on April 26. We have few entries and would love to see more!

Redesign a character contest!If there's something we love about fan art is how artists take artistic liberties and portray characters in their own style and different scenarios we wouldn't see otherwise. Some people will say that fan art is unoriginal, but from experience there's a lot of creativity involved when it comes to depicting your favourite characters in a different light, deviating from the way they were designed by their creators.
This is why, inspired by the Pokedesign Challenge by *CrazyRatty on Tumblr, your friendly neighborhood Fan Art CVs decided to host a fun little contest for you!
How it works:
Pick a character from any fandom you like.
Come up with at least 3 different re-designs for them and put them in a single image.
Upload to deviantART's Fan Art Gallery

Spreading the word is also appreciated.

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And now for something completely different #5

Journal Entry: Mon Apr 15, 2013, 11:42 AM

Welcome to the fifth edition of our themed Fan Art features. Our theme this week is "LUNCH".

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Back

Journal Entry: Thu Apr 11, 2013, 6:22 PM

Hello everyone.

I'm finally back from my hiatus. I'll get back to posting "And now for something completely different" features next week and you can send me your DD suggestions again.

There's also a couple of things I want you to check:

Transformers OCs Battle Collaboration ProjectTake a look at `WildCharmander’s past two massive (and frankly impressive) collaboration projects:

Inspirational, no? Okay so, this isn't fanficcy, but it is something I've always wanted to do--for Transformers. But we all know how the Transformers fandom loves their OCs. So that’s what we’re going to do! Transformers from any continuity are welcome!
But I don’t want just an image of characters standing around. Transformers needs excitement. It needs violence. :iconmegatronyesplz: So! If you’re interested, post:

The name of your OC, and a picture if you have one.

Their faction

What continuity they hail from

How you can best contribute artistically--line art, colors, etc.
I'll make a list of every participant and pair you off. The two partners will work together to create a match-off between their Autobots, Decep

The CR Stamp Project

Stamps are a great way to show your support for a project, a person or a group of people, spread awareness for a cause or promote a contest. It is also valid to do them just for fun, with just a funny image and/or message.
Since their introduction to the deviantArt galleries, millions of stamps have been created with a great variety of messages, both silly and serious, and you can see them all over the place, from journals to profile widgets.
The Community Relations department exists to encourage, facilitate and develop the relationship with our deviantART community. Our goal is to nurture our community by encouraging, stimulating artists to create, collaborate, and participate in a friendly, safe, and supportive artistic environment.
It's now time t

And... let's all give ^FionaCreates a warm welcome (back) to the CR team!

How are all you doing?

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Not entirely here for a while

by ^KasumiCR, Mar 12, 2013, 12:49:59 PM
Journals / Personal

Hello everyone,

Due to personal circumstances, I may not be around and in condition to help with any Community Volunteer related things. Please send all your inquiries and DD suggestions to ^Lyricanna, she'll gladly help you out.

Thank you very much for understanding,

Alex.

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Themed features, anyone?

Journal Entry: Sun Feb 3, 2013, 4:01 AM

Hello guys!

I've been trying to think of a series of Fan Art features. As some of you know, my partner in crime ^Lyricanna is doing her Fan Art Fridays, where she features a specific fandom every week. I also want to do something on a weekly basis, but to spice things up, I'll do my features with a theme as a base. That's where you guys enter the scene! Leave me some theme suggestions in the comments. I'd love to hear your ideas.

On another Fan Art related things, I'm also coming up with a contest idea. Stay tuned!

Things you should check out!

[CLOSED] The Alternate Universe Contestthis contest is now closed.
do NOT note me!
I will have to tell you it's not valid, and that'll make me sad.

With a tip of the hat to all the people who came up with alternate universes as a way to explore awesome, impossible ideas...I bring you the alternate universe contest for original literature!
This contest is open from January 18-February 18 (PST, aka dA time). No extensions.
The process is simple.
Start with one of your own stories. It doesn't have to be super-fleshed out, but it does need to be written down in some form, even if it's as simple as a series of character sketches and the world they live in.Change something important. There's a lot of options. Ask yourself 'what if X had happened differently' and go from there. Aside from changing key plot points, you may want to significantly alter a character (yes, genderbending is acceptable).
Write it down! Not completely willy-nilly; there will be guidelines, of course. Oh my stars and gart

Introducing Film, Animation and Flash!Happy shortest month of the year deviants, filmmakers and animators! We have 4 weeks to spend to cover the areas of film, animation and flash so I'm sure this month will be jam packed with enlightment!

^kingmancheng
"In recent years creativity as a whole has taken some exciting steps forward. The film, animation, video games industry and more have been shaken up because of factors such as trouble with money. Even the James Bond franchise was in trouble a few years back because of MGM's financial troubles.
It wasn't all doom and gloom though new ones were born, and there has been a rapid rise of independent filmmakers and developers. As a result we've seen a 'new age' of freelancers and indie groups who have been producing some really exciting work and it is certainly an amazing time for film and animation!"
^SqueakyToybox
"Flash can be seen as an outdated piece of software to some, but there is still mu

Film, Animation and Flash Mini-Contest!Hello folks! So this month is Flash, Animation and Flash month for the #ArtHistoryProject.
So me and ^SqueakyToybox have been discussing about the idea of having a joint contest! We struggled for a while to find a good theme that would apply well across these mediums. So then we thought deviantART is full of members across the world. Even myself I'm from the UK and ^SqueakyToybox is from Australia so we're literally halfway across the world from each other.
So we thought a good theme to set you all is:
Connecting People
We would like you to create a piece of work using animation, video or Flash and we will award prizes for each gallery! So we will have a prize for a winner and runner up for film/animation and the same for Flash.
You have until the end of this month, February 28th to send all your work in and we'll announce winners shortly after! Now we appreciate that's not exactly a lot of production time for this sort of wor

Celebrating Deviousness - February 2013

Deviousness Award





Congratulations to `Krissi001



     Project get connected
Project Animal Emotes 3
Apple Alien
What is this Awesome Achievement?
The Deviousness

Fan Art Fridays - Baten KaitosHello and welcome to the 3rd 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 Baten Kaitos as suggested to me by $wreckling

Past Features
Wheel of Time
Phantom of the Opera

Tomb Raider Reborn ContestTomb Raider Reborn
Your work may originate in any visual medium but must be submitted as a single JPG or PNG file, at least 3,000 pixels in the shortest length, and should be suitable to be adapted for use in a print.
Download the asset pack and watch the trailer above for inspiration and ideas.

Read the Official Rules & create your interpretation of Lara Croft in Tomb Raider.

Enter your unique Lara Croft image into the contest by using the SUBMIT ENTRY button below.

Last call! Manga/Anime Repeating Contest!Monthly Repeating Manga & Anime contest!
Edit: Last call for entries! Judging will be done in 18hours from now! Get your entries in asap! Winners and New theme for the Contest will be announced tomorrow! Hurry up!

Hello there again my darling snowflakes!
I'm very excited to announce that from now on, every month we will be hosting our Monthly Repeating Manga and Anime contest! I hope you'll have lots of fun with them! And if you have any idea for a contest theme, feel free to leave a comment here!

A little F.A.Q before we get started :iconjumpingla-plz:
How does this work?
Every month I'll give you a theme and you'll have to create a Manga/Anime styled entry according to it

Is Fan Art or Fan Characters allowed?
I'm afraid not

Only Original Characters and universes are allowed. Your Naruto based OC, for example, isn't elligible to enter or win.
Can we submit pre-existing works that fit the theme?
Nope. All entries must be made specifically fo

Fuck you. Pay me. -- A masterpost for artists.As an artist, you probably will be approached by various people over time. Some may be looking for commissions, others will most likely be looking for free art.
Here are some handy resources concerning the "free art"-people. First of all, there's this handy flowchart called "Should I Work For Free?.
If they say they'll pay you with:
-Exposure
-Eventual cut of the profit when profits are made
-No pay, since artists "shouldn't be sell-outs, but draw for fun"
Then run for the hills and get away as fast as you can.
Because if it's for a game, a comic or another for-profit project, the most normal response should be "Fuck you. Pay me." (worded politer, though that goes without saying).
Spec-work? -- Fuck you. Pay me.
"We don't have the budget for 20 sprite-sheets, but we'll sell this game and your name will be in the credits!" -- Fuck you. Pay me.
"We need 10 sprites / full paintings by tomorrow,

Texture Your World ContestTell us the story of your world in textures!
We are surrounded 24 hours a day by objects that have texture, they may be smooth or bobbly, old or new, bold, bright, shiny or dull. You might see a texture every day and never notice it until you start looking. Do you sit at a desk that's textured, or pass an interesting tree on the way to work or school?
We want you, in the form of a triptych (thats 3 images forming a larger image see example here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triptych ) to tell us the story of your textured world. Each individual texture should stand on its own, both as a useful resource and as a cohesive part of the whole story. What story you tell through your texture triptych is up to you - but they must be textures that tell a story of your world in some way.
There are 3 categories for this contest, each of which you can submit to twice.
Digital stock
These are textures created digitally by

Features

deviously yours,
^KasumiCR

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Art History - Flash Features

Sun Feb 3, 2013, 1:59 AM

Animations

Games

Humor

Interactive

Interfaces

Intros

Movies

Utilities

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2013

Tue Jan 1, 2013, 4:02 AM

Happy new year, you guys!

What are your plans for 2013?
Mine are to improve on my art, draw more original art and not only fan art, experiment more, try new things and get out of my comfort zones.

Patterns by Subtle Patterns | Fonts by Google Web Fonts
Layout & Code by ^pica-ae | Copyright 2012

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Feliz Navidad! Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays!

Tue Dec 25, 2012, 3:45 AM

A short journal entry to wish you all Happy Holidays! It doesn't matter what you celebrate, don't celebrate, believe or don't believe: I hope you all stay safe and enjoy the last few days of this year with your loved ones.

This is how I prepared my house for Santa's arrival:

And before I go, I'd like to let you know there's a contest going on called the 12 days of Critmas organized by ^Beccalicious. Check it out!

Now back to your regular holiday programming:

Patterns by Subtle Patterns | Fonts by Google Web Fonts
Layout & Code by ^pica-ae | Copyright 2012

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BRB Adelaide.

Thu Nov 29, 2012, 4:14 AM

Hello kids!

As the title says, tomorrow I'm heading to Adelaide with my husband. We'll be there for a week and I'm not sure if I'll have any internet connection or if I do, if I'll have time to be on deviantART as often as I usually am. So this is a heads-up that I wont be around to read your notes, comments, replies and check your deviations for about 7 days.

Also, go to #communityrelations and check all the new Community Volunteers! They're amazing and I'm especially happy about having ^rydi1689 back on the team. She's amazeballs.

On another note, Movember is about to end, if you haven't donated yet, please read this news article by the amazing $Moonbeam13 and help the cause!

Love the Stache!Hi everyone

Movember is quickly coming to a close and the shave-off events are eagerly awaited by our Mo'Bros who have suffered through all sorts of mo-mishaps over the last 28 days. For those of you that have participated, I thank you and ask you to make the last two days really count and reach out to your friends and families for those last minute donations.
For the rest of you, I am making this final push on behalf of all of the deviantART Sta.sh teams to request that you reach into your pockets and make a donation, regardless of how big or small, to the Movember effort. I realize how hard this may be considering you're likely broke after Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but should you find a dollar or two - we would greatly appreciate your donation

The amount isn’t important, every little bit helps Movember continue its funding of world-class programs. If you want to know more about what you’ll be helping to fund, you can visit

See you all in a week's time!

Mo Donate (US)
Mo Donate (Canada)

Mo Donate (Mexico)
Mo Donate (Australia)

About Movember

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Supanova Brisbane 2012!

Journal Entry: Tue Nov 6, 2012, 2:54 AM

Hey, guys!

This weekend I'll be attending my first convention as part of Artist's Alley at Supanova Brisbane. I'll be selling my Pokémon fan art on the Bulbagarden table along with *Haychel (who unfortunately can't be there), *Foxeaf and *Ry-Spirit!

Speaking of *Ry-Spirit, I'm sharing the table next to Bulbagarden's with him, where we'll be selling our non-pokémon prints! If you're in Brisbane Australia make sure to visit us! We'll be waiting for you in tables r and s. Hope to see you aussie deviants there!

Some of the prints I'll be selling:

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Fan Art DD Summary - October 2012

Thu Nov 1, 2012, 5:46 PM

Features by ^JZLobo

TF: Entomophobia - Halloween TradeTitle: Entomophobia
Pairings: None
Rating: PG
Warnings: Disturbing imagery
Author's Note: This is my submission for the TF-SecretSanta Halloween Trade for xDeadlyxxxDesirex. This is a Halloween story, so I tried for scary. It's not as lighthearted as my normal fics, although it has its humorous moments (I couldn't help myself). I pulled on two personal fears of mine when I wrote this, to try and add some real creepiness to it. I hope it works. Time conversions: Klik 1.2 minutes, Nanoklik approximately 1 second. Comm transmissions are marked with colons – ::like this.::

The Rust Sea spread across Cybertron's equator, an immense red s

Features by ^KasumiCR

Features by ^Lyricanna

FAQ #61: What is a Daily Deviation?
FAQ #18: Who selects Daily Deviations and how are they chosen?
FAQ #873: What do I do when I disapprove of a Daily Deviation feature?
FAQ #313: How can I find out if someone already has a Daily Deviation?

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Chat event next weekend!

Sun Sep 23, 2012, 7:01 PM

September 29th:
Trivia and Games night with ^ladygagz, `miontre and yours truly in #CommunityRelations at 3pm PST. (On the 28th unless you're in Aus/NZ!)
Check your local time here.
Join us for some trivia and more, including Muro challenges! - all are welcome to attend but especially Australian deviants as this is an Aus/NZ friendly time of day!

In other news, ^JZLobo is lacking Fan Fic DD suggestions! If you happen to know an amazing fic, go recommend it to him!

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A small update

Journal Entry: Fri Sep 7, 2012, 8:28 PM

Hello everyone!

Just a small journal entry to let you all know I'm taking care of the Cartoons & Comics Gallery once again while $Moonbeam13 picks a new Community Volunteer to oversee it. Send me your DD suggestions with C&C deviations so long as they follow my suggestion guidelines.

Speaking of which, I've updated my limit of favourites from 1,200 to 2,000. That means a deviation with 2,001 favourites at the time I check the suggestion, will not be featured.

Thanks for reading and have a great weekend, everybody!

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So... I got this in the mail today

Wed Aug 29, 2012, 2:40 AM

Adventure Time merchandise with a Thank You note!

Back in June, I was contacted by Cartoon Network about a show they were setting up with Adventure Time Fan Art for San Diego ComicCon and asked me to contribute. This is the illustration I had the honor to create for the event:

Receiving this package in the mail today made me smile a lot. It's always good when your art is appreciated.

649 Monsters

If you happen to live near the Milwaukee area and are a Pokémon fan, don't miss the 649 Monsters Art Show that will happen this Friday and Saturday!

From their Facebook Event Page:
_{SBJ and an amazing community built from PKMNcast.com is coming together to debut a Milwaukee Art Show to celebrate the culture of Pocket Monsters - aka - Pokémon. 649 Monsters will feature over 90 different artists with their own rendition of Pokémon. The event is free and open to the public. A silent auction will take place both nights on all the pieces in the gallery to help raise money for Child's Play (a children's charity). Refreshment will be served. Join us Friday from 6PM to 11PM and Saturday from 12PM to 10PM.
All the art is donated and will be sold for charity!
It's FREE to attend!}

I had the pleasure to illustrate Oshawott for the event, but I wont be posting the art online until the show is over.

If you're not able to attend, spread the word and let other PokéFans know!

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Mood: Big Grin

dA's 12 years Premium Membership winners

Thu Aug 9, 2012, 9:19 PM

Hello everyone!

I hope you guys had a blast with the 12th birthday celebrations. Now it's time to announce the winners of my Premium Memberships giveaway!

Muro winners:

I pretty much only got 5 Muro drawings and someone who had Muro die on them so this was pretty easy to judge.

Here they are:

`Arichy

~Kakura-GV

~Mayu-Hikaru

~artbunnie

~KeiTheDolphin

~k-hots

Suggested deviant winners

Winners were chosen by a random number generator.

*Precious-Destiny

~RedTyphlo

*Pixacious

~EmpressTuiLa

~xxtoongirlfanxx

~MilliLawliet

Congrats and thanks all for taking part!

Note: please be patient as these are Community Relations prizes and may take a while to be processed.

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12 years of deviousness! Win Premium Memberships!

Tue Aug 7, 2012, 3:24 AM by ^KasumiCR

Happy birthday, dA!

deviantART's 12th birthday has arrived and there will be celebrations all over the place!

To check the list of events, ^ladygagz has put together a journal for easier access.

12th BirthdAy ShenanigansA compiled list of any current (or upcoming) deviantART 12th Birthday activities.

If you are holding and event or know someone who is, leave a comment below!
Official 12th Birthday Announcement
Read all about deviantART's Birthday here!
Giveaways
deviantART Birthday Subscription (run by ^Katara-Alchemist)
Win yourself a Premium Membership!
7-Day deviantART BirthdAy Giveaway! (run by ^ladygagz and =lightpurge)
The draw to win prizes is closed, but winners will be drawn all week!
:bul

Besides that, I'm gonna give out 12 1 month Premium Memberships today. What do you have to do? Draw some Muro comments in this journal showing how your favourite character (or characters) would celebrate deviantART's birthday.

Who will receive prizes?

Top 3 funniest.
Top 3 skillful.

Alternatively, suggest people who you think deserve a premium membership! I'll choose 6 people out of the suggested ones so long as they don't correctly have one. Suggestions will only be received via comments in this journal.

I'll announce the winners the day after our birthday celebrations.

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Help a fellow artist!

Journal Entry: Mon Jul 30, 2012, 12:14 AM

Hey everyone!

It's been a while since I last posted a journal, hasn't it? I've been a bit quiet on dA mostly due to offline life things keeping me busy, but I hope to get back into the groove from now on!

Anyway, *Haychel is a fellow Pokémon artist who is in a bit of a bad economical situation and is offering commission work in order to pay for his studies.

For more details you can read his journal here:

Please help…

>>Please refer to the updated commish page

As usual, if you can't commission him, spreading the word is highly appreciated!

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dAnniversary!

Journal Entry: Sun Jun 24, 2012, 6:35 PM

Today marks the 9th year I have been on deviantART. Wow... it's been so long? Almost a decade of my life spent in this wonderful place...

I cannot imagine my life without dA, this site is like my second home and I wouldn't have progressed in my art if it wasn't for the inspiration and feedback I found here.

Time to celebrate!

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Fan Art Newsletter - May/June 2012 (UPDATED)

Fri Jun 22, 2012, 1:57 AM

Hello, everyone!

Welcome to another edition of our Fan Art Community Newsletter. Let's see what the months of May and June had in store for us:

^JZLobo joined the Community Relations Team as the first Fan Fiction Community Volunteer! All of your Fan Fiction DD suggestions should go to him, but make sure to read his guidelines before sending him a note.

Speaking of Community Volunteers, the following deviants joined the team along ^JZLobo:

^ladygagz - dA Related
^IsacGoulart - General Photography
^RockstarVanity - Darkroom Photography
^laserbeast - Chat & Forums
^Athos-of-Light - Chat & Forums
^SylwiaTelari - Traditional Art
^DaPineapple - Chat & Forums
^dekorAdum - Chat & Forums
^Talty - Artisan Crafts
^princepal - Design & Interfaces
^Salvador-Rudy - Traditional Art
^krazykel - Chats & Forums
^yashachan - Chat & Forums
^sTiViA - Chat & Forums
^alltheoriginalnames - Sci-Fi and Space Art
^kiwi-pdd - Street Art & Graffiti
^ClefairyKid - Pixel Art

May 9 marked our Fan Art Gallery's 5th anniversary. `CreativeJenn posted a little tribute to celebrate this happy occasion.

A Whole New World Contest finished and the winners were announced by `CreativeJenn.

On the same token, the Freaky Friday Fan Fiction Contest also ended. You can see the winners announcement here.

And if you missed it, here's May's Fan Art DD Summary.

`AwsumZ is hosting an interesting contest for custom My Little Pony fans. The details can be found in his journal.

The amazing ^Thiefoworld has posted two great articles featuring Fan Art. The first one is called Original Fan Arts where he talks about how fanartists aren't necessarily unoriginal for expressing their love for a TV show, book or movie. It's a must read for everyone! As Thiefo says:

"There are still a lot of stigmas against Fan Art, one of them being the belief that you're giving up your originality and creativity as artist by making fanart, a debate that will go on forever.

However I believe, as shown with these features, that you can still create Fan Art without compromising your creativeness and originality. Just like with any other subject, you are free to present the idea in your own way."

The second article is Feature: The Legend of Korra, showcasing a wide arrange of amazing Fan Art of the long awaited sequel to Avatar: the last Airbender.

Thanks for reading!