deviantART News RoundUP! July

Hey, everyone
Time for the second edition of the RoundUP!

Many fun, informative articles get posted throughout deviantART and get overlooked because either they don't make the front page or quickly get bumped off. This monthly news article will attempt to keep you informed of all the great news and features being posted! Check out all the news categories throughout the month to keep yourself updated!

I'll be keeping the News and FAQ entries down there so you have an easy link to them each month for reference

Also, I've a contest running now for headers for this feature. Read this for more information! <3



Remember, ^MC denotes articles with mature content!

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Anime & Manga
Comics
Digital Art
Photography
Poetry & Prose
Wallpaper
Community Projects
Gallery Wide
Contest
deviantPrints
Announcements
Help & FAQ

Anime & Manga
- cartoonresource.com and Manga: CartoonResource.com is developing manga properties for newspaper distribution, and is launching the Manga Studio ... to prove manga style commercial art for clients in the advertising and toy industries.
- First Manga Convention in the United States: Introducing MangaNEXT, the first US manga convention.
- Seven Seas looking for Translators: Break into Manga via Translation

Comics
C&C Sunday: Welcome to a new feature that showcases work from the Cartoons and Comics community every week!
- 13th Edition
- 14th Edition^MC
- 15th Edition

Digital Art
Twenty and Under: Lost Art: Featuring digital art with under 20 comments!
- 07/04/06
- 07/10/06
- 07/18/06
- 07/25/06

Photomanips Weekly: Weekly hilights from the photomanipulation gallery.
- Edition 16
- Edition 17
- Edition 18
- Edition 19
- Edition 20

Unburied Treasures: Closing out the week with a diverse collection of digital treasures that had only ten or less faves when unburied.
- Edition 22
- Edition 23
- Edition 24
- Edition 26

Weekly Oekaki: A new weekly feature showcasing submissions to the Oekaki gallery.
- Edition 1
- Edition 2

The Misc Files: A new weekly feature showcasing submissions to the miscellaneous digital category.
- Edition 1
- Edition 2

Other Articles
- Vector Art mixed bag for July - Vehicles
- Face in the Crowd: Taking a look into the eyes of digital artwork
- Digital - June 06: A collection of favorites from June '06
- Future Glimpse 3: Three is a charm as we glimpse into what could be.
- World Creators - 7th Edition: Continuing the informative feature article on landscape and spacescape artists.
- Fantasy Realms 3: From the land of dragons and magic, we journey into the realms of fantasy with a third trip.
- Abstractions 3: Old school meets new styles in this collection of abstract.

Photography
the crop: Regular themed photography feature.
- Episode 65: people with their pets
- Episode 66: the guitar

Other Articles
- Children of the World: Looking into the face of a child.
- Male Artistic Nudes: June^MC: The fourth installment of a monthly focus on male artistic nude photography.
- 4x6 Releases High Fashion for June: The photography group 4x6's June release.
- Photography: June Edition: Some favorite submissions to the Photography gallery during the month of June.
- Million Word Artists Vol. 1: The first edition of this photography project focuses on nature.
- Photographers at Work II: Version 2 of the series.
- Fashion Photography: June: Fresh fashion photography from the month of June.
- Insects and Spiders: June: A monthly feature of submissions to the Insects and Spiders category.
- Photographing People Vol. 9: Photographing People is a monthly feature that does exactly what it says: concentrates on showcasing photography featuring people.
- Separated at Birth II - The Sequel: Deja vu all over again.

Poetry & Prose
- Calling All Lyricists: A call for applicants to work on a Song Lyrics feature article.
- English Spelling: Tu Damn Hard?: A look at the debate surrounding English spelling.
- Lit Supersized: Welcome two new hats.
- Shakespeare's First Folio sold for £2.8m: A copy of Shakespeare's First Folio was sold at Sotheby's for £2,808,000 on Thursday.
- WD Popular Fiction Awards: Writer's Digest announces their contest where you may win wonderful prizes!
- Grapejuice: A Place for New Writers: A new forum on Writer's Vineyard is offering workshopping and critique specifically focused on less experienced writers.
- Summer issue of Litera up: *burn-p0etry's newsletter, =Litera has a new issue available for reading.
- Literature Gallery Update #3: A review of what's new in lit.
- Ellipsis Magazine Seeks Serials: A literary magazine is accepting submissions of serialized fiction.
- Max Barry's Guide to the Better Novel: A couple of articles from Max Barry's (Jennifer Government, Syrup) website, maxbarry.com
- Want to Help Lit News?: The lit community needs deviants to help with writing news articles.
- The Story of Creation: A creative competition run by dA Prose.
- Original On the Road to be published: Viking Penguin will publish the original draft of Jack Kerouac's On the Road to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the novel's publication next year.

Wallpaper
Wallpaper Gallery: Featuring wallpapers submitted over the past 7 days
- Volume 45
- Volume 46
- Volume 47

Community Projects
- Weekly Challenges: ManipulateThis & InterpretThis: Two weekly challenge clubs open to all members on deviantART
- Deviousness Awards by You: Think there's a deviant who deserves a bit of community love? Read on to find out how this can happen!
- Faery Godmother Project: A wonderful project to help spread the dA community spirit
- Searching for perfectionists: Looking for somewhat experienced photomanipulators who strive to improve to join our club

Gallery-Wide
Gallery Directors in Disguise: Ever thought 'If I were the Gallery Director for that gallery, I'd pick this for a DD?' Well, so have we! After being confined to our own galleries for so long, we are lashing out!
- Edition One
- Edition Two^MC
- Edition Three

Contest
- Dark Butterfly/Moth Photomanip Contest: The new photomanip contest on the street. Ends 8/17/06
- surREAL Awareness Contest: Designed to give artists voice to their cause. Ends 9/11/06
- Quoterography Contest: Asks deviants to pick a quote of their own and insert it into a deviation. Ends 8/7/06
- The Dragon Wars contest: New The Dragon Wars contest announced. Ends 8/7/06
- Romance Competition from WritersdA: Romance is at its height in summer... Ends 8/18/06
- Exotica - Digital Scenery Contest: This summer is time to take a trip into exotic worlds. Ends 8/30/06
- Sisters Contest: Win features and subs with this contest to promote lesser known stock artists. Ends 8/22/06
- The Smoking Photography Contest: Cigarette. Fag. Ciggy. Smoke. Joint. Coffin Nail. Whatever you like to call it, it's always been blessing and curse. Ends 8/30/06
- Fruits of the Summer Contest: You can celebrate the wonderful world of fruits and in fact the whole summer by taking part in this contest. Ends 8/31/06
- Ultimate Texture Contest: Contest to make the texturing community more known and stress the many amazing textures people can make. Ends 9/29/06
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- One Fractal Summer Winners: Capturing the elements of summer with mathematical formulas, these artists came out smelling like a summer rose.
- Symmetrical Photography Results: Come and see the winners of our great symmetrical photography contest.

deviantPrints
100% QC APPROVED: Some of the best prints to come across the queue
- Weekend Edition 44
- 07/06/06
- Weekend Edition 45
- 07/12/06
- Weekend Edition 46
- 07/20/06^MC
- Weekend Edition 47
- 07/26/06
- Weekend Edition 48

GD5^MC: Every other week, Gallery Directors will select 5 of their favorite prints that meet a particular theme.
- Perpendicular Parallel
- Easy Being Green

Other Articles
- Featured Prints Artist interview with Precurser
- Unknown Prints, July 2006: Lesser known artist prints
- July Prints Artist Update: Useful, up to date information to make the most of your Prints Program experience.

Announcements
Weekly Community Development Update: A weekly interactive update on deviantART
- 07/05/06
- 07/12/06
- 07/19/06
- 07/26/06

- Artist Relations Newsletter - Edition #15: An update from the Gallery Directors to strengthen the community spirit and network with fellow artists.

Help & FAQ
How to: informative articles on how to complete specific tasks
- Submit a Help Desk Inquiry
- Properly Receive Help
- Submit a Harassment Report
- Submit a Bug Report
- Submit a Gallery Section Addition Request
- Submit a Site Suggestion

- Password Safety Concerns: Spoof emails and safety concerns

- Hey Hexe! How do I download brushes?: The first installment of 'Hey Hexe' focusing on how to download brushes.