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A monthly selection of works deviants who deserve more attention. :heart:

Human Emotions and Human Behavior New Feature

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~tarasuchan:icontarasuchan: reports, 1d 9h ago
a collection of portraits

Care-Club Gallery Feature - September

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Featuring all the works that were submitted to the *Care-Club gallery in September.

Human Emotions and Human Behavior New Feature

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A collection of art expressing emotion or behavior

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Fast approaching is a day that advocates for mental health patients, bringing light in today's day and age with lack of education and awareness to something so plaguing.
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Wheel of the Year

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a collection of art that shows the wiccan sabbats

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C-R-I-T-I-Q-U-E-S__P-L-E-A-S-E!

=DragonElement11:iconDragonElement11: reports, March 21
This is a list of deviants who wish to have their art critiqued. They have chosen 3-4 pieces of their work as a sample of their gallery. Some of them have put what they would like to see in the comments and some background information. You may just want to critique the pictures that I have put up but I encourage everyone to critique some of the other pictures in their gallery. All I ask of the people who want to critique these is if you do not like one of their pictures please don’t flame/bash it. Just ignore it if you dislike it. It’s not worth the trouble to hurt someone’s feelings. Also, there is a big difference between critiquing and criticizing! These people only want your critiques.

Thank you to everyone who takes the time to read this and give advice to these artists :D

In alphabetical order:


Art by :iconarcea-drakkarre:
This is one of my best pictures, but it engenders hardly any interest from anyone, so I would like advice or suggestions on how to make art like this capture the eye.

My photographs gain hardly any interest, so I would like suggestions on what to photograph, and what kinds of photographs that would gain a person's interest.

My photo-manips don't gain a lot of interest either, so I would like suggestions on how to make them look professional, interesting, and eye-catching.

My pictures with backgrounds, like this one, tend to have more views and comments, but what can I do to improve even more? This isn't an art style I always use, but I would mostly like suggestions on the coloring.

The mediums I use the most are pencil and coloured pencil. I am starting to use more of Photoshop CS2, but only a little bit. I love to draw fantasy characters, but much of the time I become lazy during it, so I don't add backgrounds. I need to do that though, I think, in order to make the picture more interesting and have more views.
I mainly draw women, but I would like to know what type of pictures and characters are interesting to people and have suggestions on what I should draw.


Art by :icondatalore:
this is the angel thingy I did in colored pencils :3

This is the detective owl I did in acrylic paints.....

and this is the completely computer vectored roselia with the stupidest background grass effect ever


Art by :icongasket:

~Gasket says “I’m still trying to find my style and I color my artwork on Photoshop with a mouse.”


Art by :iconkchuu:

~kchuu says “I like critiques on my style, not so much on problems with specific pictures.... But I'll take anything!!” and “For all of these pictures, except for the first, I used Paint Shop Pro 9. I just got Photoshop 1 month ago, so... Ehheh, go easy on me!”


Art by :iconsabrew0lf:

~SabreW0LF says “As for critiques, I'm not really too fussed- I'd like to know what people think of my style, subject matter, methods, lineart, colouring……it's all welcome, it'll all help! Any tips for improving, anatomy, poses, expressions, lighting, shading would also be good.

As for background info…not an awful lot to say. All of it is done entirely on the computer, using MS Paint (yes, really!) and Adobe Photoshop. I don't use a tablet, just a mouse (which I actually prefer, believe it or not). Most of my stuff is anthro, and usually centres around my character "Fangs", but I do a fair amount of other anthro, too. I also do fan-art from time to time, usually centering around games or films. It's difficult to say what I'm inspired or influenced by, because I'm not, really. I just sit down and draw, in my own style, without any references (unless I'm doing a request or something I'm unfamiliar with), other than an art guide to help with anatomy and basic construction.”


Art by :icontwilight-sheik:

-give you're best critiques please! Don’t hold back, but please don't be mean.


~Thank you :)
and if anyone would want to see something like this again or if you want to be featured in another critique article like this one please tell me!

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~ImprovmanZero:iconImprovmanZero: Mar 22, 2008, 12:13:05 AM
Two things, first off is doing this type of thing subscribers only, and secondly I would like to be criticed.

Here are a few of my works:
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~SabreW0LF:iconSabreW0LF: Mar 22, 2008, 6:57:46 AM
Thanks a bunch for featuring me! A nice news article, I hope everyone who's in it gets what they wanted. :)
Just quickly, for anyone who liked what they saw of mine above, I have some new stuff and a new style that implemented after I sent those deviations in for this newsletter. I'd be very grateful for people's views on that, too. ^^

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=DragonElement11:iconDragonElement11: Mar 22, 2008, 12:15:12 PM
no problem! I'm glad you enjoyed it :3

I'm just trying to help.

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=DragonElement11:iconDragonElement11: Mar 22, 2008, 12:15:59 PM
wait. I don't understand what you are trying to say....

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~ImprovmanZero:iconImprovmanZero: Mar 22, 2008, 12:34:03 PM
Is making a news artical for subscribers only.

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The Anti-Boredom Seal, random acts of entertainment!
I reject your reality, and substitute my own!
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=DragonElement11:iconDragonElement11: Mar 22, 2008, 12:35:00 PM
no anyone can do it .

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~SabreW0LF:iconSabreW0LF: Mar 25, 2008, 2:37:00 AM
It's much appreciated! :thanks:

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~Mojofooka:iconMojofooka: Apr 1, 2008, 2:32:02 PM
Woo hoo, you did it! Hmm, I would go and critique their works, but I think I should probably get through the deviations and messages in my own MC first :XD: But I hope everyone will benefit from this ^_^

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