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DJ Goh-Goh **ART CONTEST** ((1st Prize $200))

*Shwann:iconShwann: reports, 14h 44m ago
The Rules: Easy! Draw GOH-GOH: The Cyber Ninja DJ!
7 comments   Contests  Last +fav: *OutlawRave

indieVISUAL Journal Challenge

*Maddiox:iconMaddiox: reports, 11h 29m ago
A project in which a whole community create art journals for a year. One page per day or relevant scribbles. We'll share tips and inspirations to get us all through the year and showcase our work amongst the blogs. May be time for a few songs around the camp fire, if we're lucky.
7 comments   Projects  Last +fav: ~Max-CCCP

Show Them You Love Them Contest!

*Ruffian2001:iconRuffian2001: reports, 1d 14h ago
The Show Them You Love Them contest is to benefit and raise awareness for the abused and unwanted animals you find in shelters worldwide. We are trying to help show the DA community the love that we pet owners have for our animals, or to show the pain and desolation of those lonely few who roam the streets without love and affection. This contest is open to everyone, whether you have an animal or not, and has two divisions: Amateur and Professional. The Grand Prize is a 2 year subscription, free print, 3 news articles and 31 journal features!

This contest has received a fantastic amount of acclaim and has been sponsored by multiple clubs within the DA community! Please love this article if you support this contest and help spread the word by advertising in your journal! Even if you only get 3 or 4 page views per day, it can still make a difference in this contest!
2 comments   Contests  Last +fav: ~Max-CCCP

The Color-Me-Club introduces_New Submission System

*color-me-club:iconcolor-me-club: reports, 1d 1h ago
The new method the Color-Me-Club will be displaying artwork to its members. The steps to submitting line art, however, remains completely unchanged, so worry not line artists!

d i p t y c h o n

=yourownmind:iconyourownmind: reports, 1d 14h ago
two pieces = one story. :heart:

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Childrens Illustrator Presents: winiP!

*childrensillustrator:iconchildrensillustrator: reports, 1d 14h ago
Every month or so we talk with extremely talented illustrators with childish hearts full of imagination and whims.

This time we have the honour to present to you Augustinas Bacvinka aka *winiP, a young and very talented children illustrator from the beautiful Lithuania. He loves reading, painting and living a colourful life.

:heart:

Hedgehogs and cats ^^

=IngwellRitter:iconIngwellRitter: reports, 19h 15m ago
Cute and funny animals ^^
30 comments   Tributes  Last +fav: *polipotam

World AIDS Day 2009 - Cover Art Winners!

=druideye:icondruideye: reports, 1d 4m ago
The cover art winners for the World AIDS Day 2009 charity art book project hosted by =druideye.
9 comments   Contests  Last +fav: ~Max-CCCP

1,000 unknown artists: 76-100

=WorldWar-Tori:iconWorldWar-Tori: reports, 1d 2h ago
1,000 unknown artists, is exactly what it says... it's 25 artists with under 15,000 pageviews whom have some amazing art. I had originally started this under an old account, and when I opened this one, decided to start all over.

Loss of faith...

~DouglassDumas:iconDouglassDumas: reports, 1d 3h ago
DA policies and double standards.

Culture News This Week

Wacom: Bring Your Vision to Life - Dreams Contest

$Moonbeam13:iconMoonbeam13: reports, 1d 7h ago
DeviantART and Wacom are proud to present the second Intuos4 "Bring Your Vision To Life" contest! Open to all artists all over the world, we challenge you to show us your dreams and aspirations for the future. Get drawing!

Darksiders: Your Last Days Contest

$chix0r:iconchix0r: reports, December 4
Darksiders: Your Last Days Contest - Create a piece of artwork in any visual medium depicting a creative and personal interpretation of the last days of Earth during an ‘apocalypse’ and earn a chance to win amazing prizes!

Talented Artists Part 33

`hellobaby:iconhellobaby: reports, 1d 19h ago
This s an article which feature amazing artists but unpopular & have under 30k pageviews
They r totally great so plz share ur love with them:hug::love:

Portraits without face contest

~Dragonant:iconDragonant: reports, December 4
A contest for every on in DA :bulletgreen:1st 3month membership, news article, feature and interview:bulletgreen:2nd 1 month membership, news article

Darksiders Widget Installation

$Moonbeam13:iconMoonbeam13: reports, 2d 6h ago
Give props to your favorite Darksiders contest artists by sharing a streaming feed of their contest submissions with your friends outside of deviantART. Find out how...

Within Temptation Contest

=desideriasp:icondesideriasp: reports, 1d 18h ago
New contest "Within Temptation" is open. Please read the info and rules below and check out wonderful prizes list.

Known and Unknown Artists - Black And White

*rebeka-anne:iconrebeka-anne: reports, 2d 4h ago
This is a lot (A LOT!) of great pieces showing the great effect greyscale has on art.

Daily Literature Deviations- December 6, 2009

=DailyLitDeviations:iconDailyLitDeviations: reports, December 5
Daily Literature Deviations is a group that is dedicated to bringing literature to the forefront of the deviantArt community. We attempt to accomplish this by daily featuring Literature artists from around the community that deserve the recognition, but are not getting it.

Each day we will feature 5 deviations from the Literature categories in a News Article. In order to support the artists that we feature, we ask that you :+fav: the news article as well as check out the individual pieces. We understand that each day you may not be able to check out each and every one of the pieces, everyone has their own things going on. We just ask that you make an attempt to help support the growing Literature community.

Daily Literature Deviations- December 4, 2009

=DailyLitDeviations:iconDailyLitDeviations: reports, December 4
Daily Literature Deviations is a group that is dedicated to bringing literature to the forefront of the deviantArt community. We attempt to accomplish this by daily featuring Literature artists from around the community that deserve the recognition, but are not getting it.

Each day we will feature 5 deviations from the Literature categories in a News Article. In order to support the artists that we feature, we ask that you :+fav: the news article as well as check out the individual pieces. We understand that each day you may not be able to check out each and every one of the pieces, everyone has their own things going on. We just ask that you make an attempt to help support the growing Literature community.

Daily Literature Deviations - December 7, 2009

=DailyLitDeviations:iconDailyLitDeviations: reports, December 6
Daily Literature Deviations is a group that is dedicated to bringing literature to the forefront of the deviantArt community. We attempt to accomplish this by daily featuring Literature artists from around the community that deserve the recognition, but are not getting it. Each day we will feature 5 deviations from the Literature categories in a News Article.

In order to support the artists that we feature, we ask that you :+fav: the news article as well as check out the individual pieces. We understand that each day you may not be able to check out each and every one of the pieces, everyone has their own things going on. We just ask that you make an attempt to help support the growing Literature community.

Culture


dA News System

`dionyziz:icondionyziz: reports, August 10, 2006
What happened?
The deviantART News system in version 5 has been revised from the bottom-up. The old code has been removed and rewritten from scratch to include all the new features we were planning for. As most of you, v4 users, can see, it is in many ways different from the old system. We hope that you enjoy using the news system to find "what's up on art" as well as to submit your own news articles as much as we did developing it.

Decentralized
In v5 News, there's no news administration. Well, not in the same sense as v4, anyway. Any logged-in deviant can post news articles, which do no longer need to be reviewed by administrators before being posted. Just click on "Submit News", paste your article in, write a summary, fill-in the title and that's it. You can preview your news submission before publishing it, to make sure there are no mistakes (you won't be able to edit your article later). When you're ready, submit your article, and see it on "Newest" ( [link] ). It's there, read it, link your friends to it, write comments, and +love it.

Popular News
The part a lot of users find confusing is the "Popular News" tab. Well, this is where good news articles go, and this is what's displayed to deviants that click on the "News" tab (Popular is being defaulted). It's "frontpage news". Popular news are updated every now and then to reflect the popularity of our existing news articles. They aren't picked by administrators, but rather by a computer algorithm. Any article can become popular; not only admin articles -- even your own news article could go up there. Just make sure your article is well-written, clear, and informational, and it surely will.

+heart
Ratings is another cool thing with this new system. If you find a well-written article that you think is worth reading, click on the little +heart to love it. Loved articles have many more chances of becoming popular. You can love your own articles, your friends' articles, anyone's articles! One thing to remember, though -- you can love each article only once.

Submit!
So, go ahead and submit your own news article right now, see it take its position within the "Newest" articles, love it, have your friends read it and love it in their turn if they want, and, why not, watch it get into "Popular"!

Any suggestions on the new News system? Complaints? News ideas? Just leave a comment here! We'll make sure we read every single comment and consider it.

Happy news hunting!

--$dionyziz

Devious Comments

:iconabresas:
:cake:

nice! :-)

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:iconalchemism:
I think this system is truly a joke.
The seriousness of deviantART attempting to cover the arts as a whole just went to hell.

I just tagged 5 articles that were spam, 3 that weren't news, and 2 that were totally irrelevant. What's that say? Will DeviantART ever see listings as they had in the first 5 years?

DAv5 is without real arts news, how sad.

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:icondionyziz:
I'm sorry that you feel like that. We're still experimenting with the new news system; in a few days, hopefully there will be more +hearts and uh-oh votes from the community, sorting out which articles are truly worth being featured.

Thanks for your feedback :)

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Disce quasi semper victurus, vive quasi cras moriturus
:iconalchemism:
Well, I'm sure the voting system will certainly dig out the good from the bad, and the relevant from the completely unneccessary - in time... It's a strange way to develop the news on art, and anything other topic for that matter, to people who find it important to art development. I can see that this popular voting (especially when the page everyone sees on first click is the most popular) will definitely segregate news that should be noticed. Relevant news should still be implemented; the popular items can be voted, and categorized accordingly in my opinion.
You're still doing excellent work, there's no doubt. And you have my nod for everything completed thus far with dav5.

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:iconeldris:
I think perhaps there should be an official news page and a deviant news page. That way you can find the official ones more easilly, and ignor the spam ones easier too. Some articles that are being posted are relavent and helpful, so the system shouldn't be entirely reverted back to admin-news only. I think its a great idea :D Just need a way to find the official stuff (unless I'm completely blind and am missing something)

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:icondionyziz:
Thank you. We are planning to add the ability to view popular news within a specific category in a few days, so you'll be able to do that :)

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Disce quasi semper victurus, vive quasi cras moriturus
:icondionyziz:
"Official" and non-official but important news are going to "go up the pile" of Popular... Just as admin deviations are not featured more than users deviations, we thought that in the same way, admin news shouldn't be featured more than users news. The community now decides which news go up and which stay at the bottom :)

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Disce quasi semper victurus, vive quasi cras moriturus
:iconjmomma:
I do like the addition that users can now post news as it allows for important items to surface that admins may not know about it. However, the only problem I have is that all the irrelevant posts are appearing in the announcements section on my user page. I don't know if it is possible to have only admin news messages there, but I know I for one look there for important information about the site. One would still then be able to look through other news articles as well at their leisure.

I know the new news system is just in it's beginning phases and so these kinks with all the spam news may be worked out but for now it is very frustrating to sift through the multiple messages that are much more suited to the forums to find the ones that hold proper news information.

Thank you!
:iconbananaprincess:
So far, the "just in" and the "popular," for that matter, is mostly spam, as many users predicted before v5's launch. In order for there to be any quality, art-centered news, masses of dedicated individuals will have to plow through all the "new works in my gallery!" "i want friends!" etc. on a nearly hourly basis to plus-heart it. Surely a staff member in charge of monitoring news is in order. Maybe there can be, besides "popular" and "just in," a section of news articles picked daily by staff for their quaility and relevance to dA and the art world. 'Cause the art is why we're here, right?

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:iconimperfect:
It's still buggy, i know, but i'd like to give you my thoughts :)

I'm the literature GD and we've been using the literature gallery news really effectively for months. We have a team of news writers who share articles they've found while browsing that are lit related and decide whether or not to write their own articles, quoting and citing sources, to post to the lit gallery news. It's worked really well.

I envisaged the new system working slightly differently to how it is now.

Anyone would be able to post news, but to specific categories. The article would display in that category and in "just in" or "newest", until it wasn't new and/or it recieved enough love to be in popular, then it would appear on the main page. People would also be able to browse by category.

The "annoucements" category would be reserved for staff who needed to communicate with the community.

Gallery Directors would be able to manage the news posted in their galleries: if something was in there that wasn't related to their gallery they could just move it from appearing there. If there were duplications we could hide them.

Did you know there was a greasemonkey script that someone made for the lit community that allowed them to "watch" a specific gallery for news, and when a news item was posted they got a message in thier inbox? I think that rocks.

Perhaps this is how it'll work once the bugs are ironed out, it'd be nice to know your thoughts, though :)

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dAmn writers!
 

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