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=seya88:iconseya88: reports, 2d 13h ago
These are my thoughts about the influence that comments have on the rating system used on DeviantART. If you also ask for hits, comments and suggestions everytime you uplode a deviations please, read.

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The low-down on the dArama around deviantART V6 and how we should look at it.

How to SELL your Work: tips from who’s doing it!

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Ever wondered how they do it? Don't know how to start? Have doubts relating to pricing issues and model's compensations? This and more gets answered by: =Pelicanh :iconscottchurch: and =UniqueNudes with a brief participation of `SeaFairy
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The self in portrait. Or is it more?

=SLPdomain:iconSLPdomain: reports, 2d 10h ago
What is the drive that compels a self-portrait?
Why does the documentation of ones self seem universal?
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Project Educate: Shooting first time nude models

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Did You Know: Artistic Nudes

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Tips & Tricks :: Portfolios & Job Interviews

=Princess-of-Shadows:iconPrincess-of-Shadows: reports, July 16
You might even be one hell of a profesional, but if you don't SHOW it and PROVE it, how will everyone know? These facts are important not only when you are looking for a job, but in any situation when you wish to showcase your work. I decided to share a few guidelines that might help you give the best of yourself and help you be a better profesional.

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=mom-the-bomb:iconmom-the-bomb: reports, July 12
We all desire to showcase what we have created even if it is not of the quality that pleases others.

Political Comments on Photojournalism DDs

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Current trend on placing personal political comments in Political or Military Photojournalism Daily Deviations is making many others uncomfortably worried. What's going on and what can be done about it?

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What is a Citizen?

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Do you do your share to make your school, your community, and the world a better place? Do you take responsibility for what goes on around you, participate in community service, help take care of the environment, be a good neighbor, treat other people with respect and dignity, follow the rules of your family, your school, and your society? Are you politically knowledgeable and active? What does it mean to you to be a citizen?
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Tips & Tricks :: Portfolios & Job Interviews

=Princess-of-Shadows:iconPrincess-of-Shadows: reports, July 16
You might even be one hell of a profesional, but if you don't SHOW it and PROVE it, how will everyone know? These facts are important not only when you are looking for a job, but in any situation when you wish to showcase your work. I decided to share a few guidelines that might help you give the best of yourself and help you be a better profesional.

The self in portrait. Or is it more?

=SLPdomain:iconSLPdomain: reports, 2d 10h ago
What is the drive that compels a self-portrait?
Why does the documentation of ones self seem universal?
30 comments   Editorials  Last +fav: ~Kaarmen

How to SELL your Work: tips from who’s doing it!

^Helewidis:iconHelewidis: reports, 2d 4h ago
Ever wondered how they do it? Don't know how to start? Have doubts relating to pricing issues and model's compensations? This and more gets answered by: =Pelicanh :iconscottchurch: and =UniqueNudes with a brief participation of `SeaFairy
22 comments   Editorials  Last +fav: ^Myana

Did You Know: Artistic Nudes

^Helewidis:iconHelewidis: reports, 2d 17h ago
A short compilation of Did You knows related to the Artistic Nude Gallery and Community - with features too! :aww:

Today there'll be a Surprise Trivia at #artnudes. Join Us!!!

Project Educate: Shooting first time nude models

*Halohid:iconHalohid: reports, 2d 12h ago
As part of Project Educate Artistic Nudes Segment Week, here is a guide for shooting first time nude models from the perspective of both photographer and model.

The dArama Around V6 and Subscribers

=failingjune:iconfailingjune: reports, 2d 3h ago
The low-down on the dArama around deviantART V6 and how we should look at it.

About comments and popularity

=seya88:iconseya88: reports, 2d 13h ago
These are my thoughts about the influence that comments have on the rating system used on DeviantART. If you also ask for hits, comments and suggestions everytime you uplode a deviations please, read.

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Clubs and Community awareness. List of clubs that need boosting.

Criticism and You

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While it’s not uncommon to not want critique, no matter the circumstance it does not give the artist the right to harass, taunt, report, or insult the other person.

deviantART and Tracing - A Ramble - Part Q

~MaruHatesGravity:iconMaruHatesGravity: reports, July 15
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Creativity and the infinity of the logosphere

=Talescaper:iconTalescaper: reports, September 21, 2006
When we look through a creative community as immense as DeviantArt, we cannot help being overwhelmed by the incredible amount of products being submitted daily. When we look closer at these submissions, we see that a lot of these artworks look alike. Similar themes, similar techniques. It could raise the question if a single artist will ever be able to create something that is truly unique.

Some things will always be unique in their own right. The light on a beach that is never the same, the uniqueness of a fractal based on random variables, yes, those things can be called unique in their own right. But when we look at their artistic value, they are very far from unique. Most sunsets radiate the same feelings of romantic melancholy and fractals are always inspired by chaos. True uniqueness is rare when you are able to compare your work of art with 25,815,552 others.

Perhaps we should take a look at earlier periods of art. Artists have formed collectives and groups for a long time. Like-minded spirits huddled together to break through the conventional and be the avant-garde of their time. But none of these collectives ever exceeded a hundred members or so. Only now, in this day and age where millions of people can be connected and drawn to the same place, we see the results of a true collective mind. The similarity of submissions in this collective can be caused by two reasons: Either an inside or an outside influence.

By an inside influence, I mean the power of the collective subconsciousness that compels us to understand the same values and symbols. This has often been a way to explain the similarities in cultures before the Internet and logosphere existed. Cultures had similar symbols or ideas simply because they were embedded in their mind.

An outside influence would be the best way to describe the sociological dynamics of inspiration. When you see something, you'll be influenced by it. Seeing a cloud will make you think of a cloud. If then asked to draw something, you'll probably draw a cloud.

So can you break loose from the collective inspiration and create something new? Not here. You'll have to turn yourself away from what you see. Turn inwards and look there for inspiration. You may find out, when you come back into the community to show your work, that others have seen the same thing. But that is not really so bad. In fact, I am often thrilled to see when people had the same idea as me. I can talk to them, review our work and sharpen our minds on each other. That is what the community is for: no longer to create something new, but to find answers about ourselves and our works. To find understanding.

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~KinkyDoomHobbit:iconKinkyDoomHobbit: Sep 21, 2006, 10:55:58 AM
Thats a nice idea. Truely turnng away from other art, DA, for a while and looking only within yourself. It would be interesting to see what someone with no influance from other artists, just from themselves and the world around them, might produce. I suppose at least in an artistic environment outside of either workor school you can choose what you like, what you are influanced by, what you click on. So at least you're choosing for yourself what you absorb, admire, perhaps eventualy become.
... I'm pratteling on here about thoughts that just pop into my head.
And you have me thinking about stepping away from DA for a while. Just to see what happens.

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=Talescaper:iconTalescaper: Sep 21, 2006, 12:52:56 PM
Well... :D I wasn't talking about leaving dA, but about the advantages and caveats of a large international art collective. As it says in the article, while shutting other influences out might produce new insights, we also need the community to discuss our work and enlarge our world. Hope that makes it a bit clearer for you...

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~KinkyDoomHobbit:iconKinkyDoomHobbit: Sep 21, 2006, 1:23:11 PM
XD oh I didn't think you meant leaving DA at all. The article just made me think about taking a break from it, as I 'stalk' so many wonderful artists, that really do influance me daily, it would be nterestng to see what kind of turn my work might take without it.

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`bellchild:iconbellchild: Sep 21, 2006, 2:04:33 PM
Interesting, thoughtful article there... Mmm...

Though I'm not sure anything anyone could create could be considered fully 'unique' anyway. Art seems to be more about interpretation in many ways than creation...

Still, enough to make one think, eh! :salute: <3

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=Talescaper:iconTalescaper: Sep 21, 2006, 4:33:49 PM
Yeah, that's the point. Through the immensity of the internet, we are forced to shed the belief that our art is unique. What we get in return, is a community of artists that understand each other, who share the same goals. :D

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=vietkatthroughlense:iconvietkatthroughlense: Oct 16, 2006, 5:18:42 PM
you need to write more...this is nearly touching the surface of the question. ;) it seems like in the post-modern age people are looking back rather than looking forward...they are afraid of how advance we're going to get and the idea of such unknown entity will be explored and that is to some of us a scary thought. It's not about how technological advance we're going to get but it's about how advance our thinking process is going to get. The issue you're proposing is not new to the question of revolution. You're looking back...you're afraid of asking new questions. But then what would the new questions be asking? It seemed all of the questions that have to deal with this world or even to the unknown world are already asked. Some answered, some unanswered and some left untouched for some special reasons. I guess what i'm trying to say here is it is not a matter of looking inward or outward...it is the ability to look at both and question ourselves 'am i moving?'

haha that was a load of crap...;)

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=Talescaper:iconTalescaper: Oct 17, 2006, 10:50:24 AM Mood: Dazed
I am the walrus?

(I'm sorry... I'm not entirely sure I get what you're talking about in relation to what I wrote)

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=vietkatthroughlense:iconvietkatthroughlense: Oct 17, 2006, 11:45:43 AM
yah i don't know what i wrote neither..:o oh maybe it has to do something about you writing more on the subject...o.O

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