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CR Newsletter - November + December 2011
Table of Contents
1. Reflections
2. Volunteer Openings
3. Share Your Opinions
4. Community Projects
5. Official Contests
6 Project Educate 2011/2012
7. News from the Chats and Forums
8. News from the Galleries
1. Reflections
It never ceases to amaze me how quickly a year can fly by. I've made it a practice over the years to sit back and reflect on the year, what went well, what didn't and where I'd like to see the new year go. A year can bring a lot of lessons and without reflection it's hard to ensure that you've taken away everything important from it. I apply this personally and to deviantART and it's that time again

A couple of fun highlights:

I got to sit next to Felicia Day and help conduct our interview with her at SXSW. I'm a pretty big fan so this was very cool. Our presence at SXSW was also a v

Pimps and Whoas - December 7, 2011Pimps
Official dA News

Odyssey Into 2012

Sta.sh Updates Released! More to Come

The Traditional Through a Cracked Prism

deviantART Holiday Headquarters 2011

The Cutting Edge Prints Week 49

dA Logo T-Shirt Design Challenge Winners!

Community Relations News - January + February 2012>
Table of Contents
1. Daily Deviations
2. Bi-weekly Critique Nights
3. Volunteer Openings
4. Share Your Opinions
5. Community Projects
6. Official Contests
7 Project Educate 2011/2012
8. Art History
9. News from the Galleries
1. Daily Deviations
Recently, I announced changes to Daily Deviations in this journal and I'm happy to say that the response has been favorable. To review, we have made the following changes:
a> The "3-month rule" is now the "6-month rule" meaning an artist cannot receive another DD if they have had one in the last 6 months.
b> Daily Deviation selectors are limited to a maximum of one selection per day. This has been put in place to focus on quality vs quantity.
The hard-coding of these new guidelines is now in place (special thanks to $ZombieCoder for that

).
These changes are part of an ongoing initiative to better our Dai

Gallery Description ProjectMost of you probably are aware that deviantART has a lot of categories. As you've seen over the past few months, we volunteers, in coordination with $Moonbeam13, often help to orchestrate various changes in category structure in order to make the submission and browsing experiences simpler and more advantageous for the community.
That said, there's another aspect of categories which, sadly, often have been overlooked. I'm referring to the Gallery Descriptions. Over time, gallery descriptions have fallen into disarray, leaving many categories with old and outdated descriptions, others with incorrect descriptions, and yet others without a description at all.
At the moment, gallery descriptions are most prominent when submitting new deviations. However, as part of this project, we hope that they will become more evident as you browse the site. One of our goals is to make a simple, navigable category structure focusing on descriptions that are clear, concise, and consistent.

Deviants are thankful for... part 1This year, 90 people participated in the Thanksgiving Note Project 2011! Here is the first news article (part 1 of 3) featuring your responses, anonymous because that's how $wreckling, the one who usually hosts the project, rocks.
Deviants are thankful for:
I am thankful for currently having heat, hot water and a roof over my head. I have come too close to losing my home and have spent two weeks without heat and hot water this past month, and just having that is enough right now.
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I'm thankful for the internet because without it I would be incredibly lonely.
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I am thankful for my family, who support me through good times and bad, and my friends, who've put up with me all these years and have helped me when I needed it most.
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I am thankful for so much this time around, but none of what I am thankful for would have been possible if it weren't for one pers

Halloween dA muro Contest Winners!Hello guys! Hope everyone had a spooky Halloween!

We got pretty interesting and beautiful entries in the halloween dA muro contest in the past 4 days. And now it's time to announce the winners!

I honestly had a hard time choosing the 2 winners, you all guys did a great job and thank you so much for participating in my halloween contest

you rock!
However!
The first winner is
*drumroll*
=medli20

=medli20 Painted belle from Beauty and the Best with great details and colour palette! Such a beauty...
Congratulation =medli20 for the 3 months dA premium membership

Spread some love for =medli20!

The second winner is
*drumroll*
*Contraltissimo

Jean Giraud (Moebius)

Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (also known as Moebius) was a French comics artist, working in the French tradition of bandes dessinées (bandes dessinées is derived from the original description of the comics art form as "drawn strips").

Many artists from around the world have cited Giraud as an influence on their work. Giraud was longtime friends with manga author and anime filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. Giraud even named his daughter Nausicaä after the character in Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Asked by Giraud in an interview how he first discovered his work, Miyazaki replied:
"Through Arzach, which dates from 1975, I believe. I only read it in 1980, and it was a big shock. Not only for me. All manga authors were shaken by this work. Unfortunately, when I discovered it, I already had a consolidated style so I couldn't use its inf

Project Educate: Typography - Wrap UpProject Educate: Typography – Wrap Up
Thanks to everyone who faved the articles, commented and supported this week of #projecteducate!
I had lots of fun putting it all together, finding beautiful artworks and interviewing amazing artists

I will, of course, continue posting articles, feature and interviews

If you have suggestions for that, you are very welcome to note me about it

This is the official overview of the events taking place this week in #projecteducate during Typography Week! That's right, a whole week all about Typography

I am your friendly neighbourhood Community Volunteer for Text & Typography and hope to spread some of the love for Typography in all its shape and forms all over deviantART!
Btw, you can send me Daily Deviation Suggestions and always ask me whenever you hav

Untitled DraftPimps
Official dA News

Humans Becoming Robots, Robots Becoming Human

Resource Roundup 8

Join us for a deviantMEET in Paris France

The Muse Abides

Site Update - Username Changes, Journal Widget

Putting the ART in devART Vol. 36This is a continuation of the Putting the ART in #devart
project that the Community Volunteers work on monthly. The purpose of
this article is to bring to light the artistic community within the dA's
Official Featured Chat room #devart. With the great reception our last installment had we will continue with featuring new and unknown members of #devart bimonthly.
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:iconprincessrachie: ~CrimsonRachie is a traditional artist interested in manga and anime and occasionally writing.

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:iconqlow: ~qlow is a multi-talented artist whose gallery is filled with these "psychedelic" works of art.

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:iconzaydenfm: !daitakumi is a traditional artist that has a thing for fan fiction.
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Celebrating Deviousness - May 2012 Deviousness Award
Deviousness Award

Congratulations to `TimberClipse

Black and Blue

Playing Hard

Macro Rainbow Flower

What is this Awesome Achievement?

The Deviousness Award is an accolade which is traditionally handed out on the 1st of every month to one truly outstanding deviant.

We are delighted to announce `TimberClipse as the Deviousness recipient for May 2012.

Zev's dedication to our community is without question. From developing helpful tutorials, to being a community leader in groups such as #Fella and #deviant365, you can always find him connecting with all areas of our community in order to spread hi

"Street": The origins - Defining StreetStreet Photography: The Origins

As we all know from the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding everything was invented by the Greeks.
Well, ok we left some trivial things to be invented by the Chinese as well.
What you may not know is that Street photography was also invented by the Greeks before Photography itself was even invented.
Seriously now:
Kairos is an ancient Greek word meaning the right or opportune moment or "the supreme moment". The Greeks believed the concept of Kairos is achieved when such a moment is grasped for otherwise the moment is gone and cannot be re-captured. According to ancient Greeks, Kairos was the god of the “fleeting moment.”
Interestingly the ancient Greeks had two words for time, chronos and kairos. Whi

Chinese Horoscope Contest Finale

鼠 TEAM RAT
1.=ValeNyan (full text) 2.~CratyChick16 (full text) 3.~Kryschenn 4.~Sonic156 5.!arianam411 6.~xXoriigamiXx 7.~ShinigamiinPeru 8.~Orangelargh 9.!arianam411 10.~YouWouldntLikeMe 11.*animetoonation 12.~InkHeart4568 13.~AskFemFeliciaItaly 14.~onypiegirlz 15.*AnimaMundi113 16.~Katyrbee 17.~izzy1213
牛 TEAM OX
18.~ArizonaJackal 19.*cakeskin 20.~Manaliabrid 21.~enocods1 22.~Hilegard 23.~Akimi-Chan15 24.~homeworkhater (full text) 25.~nyancat1997 26.~Orchid-Bud 27.~Chovyle 28.~InkHeart4568
虎 TEAM TIGER
29.~cwp1999 30.~PATCHWORX 31.`LineBirgitte 32.`UnicornReality 33.:devxSwirl

Awesome Artisan Crafts XVHello!

Hello and welcome to Awesome Artisan Crafts!
I will be regularly featuring the awesome creations I find in the Artisan Crafts Gallery.
Project Educate
We are interested to see what you'd like covered in Artisan Crafts Project Educate, so please let us know. Currently I am doing some interviews and I will be making newsletters, also we will try a mini contest or two but we really need input.

Artisan Craft Monthy Challenge
This month's challenge is Fool so have a go at it and you might win 2000 points!

#Amigurumi-Challenge
The current challenge is Pokemon!So get out your hooks and make a jigglypuff or a wigglymon or whatever they are called!

Submissions
A look at some submissions to the Artisan Crafts Gallery.

Awesome Artisan Crafts XIHello!

Hello and welcome to Awesome Artisan Crafts!
I will be regularly featuring the awesome creations I find in the Artisan Crafts Gallery!
New Categories
We were lucky enough to get the awesome new Miniatures category added recently, and it is filling up nicely I must say - and now we are blessed with another new category! This time it is Anthro! This is the place for costumes, masks, props and accessories and clothing! So get submitting to there and get some DD suggestions sent!

Bits and Pieces

This months Artisan Craft Themed Challenge is hearts so have a go at that, 2000 are up for

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©2012-2013 `SRaffa

What are Tales Of The Devious?

True stories of artists using their innovation and creativity to thrive and survive in the real world, told in comic strip form!

Got a Tale Of The Devious to tell?

Drop us a note at The ~Tangentialists page for guidelines, advice, and support; turn the story into a comic strip, written and drawn by yourself or with a team of artists you've recruited; we'll post the story here, complete with your credit and the credits of anyone who worked with you, and you and your cohorts will win a deviantWEAR t-shirt and the love of a grateful deviant nation…

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~AliBlackWolf Aug 1, 2012

That's pretty damn awesome, ya'know!!

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`SRaffa Aug 1, 2012 General Artist

Aw, thanks so much!

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~AliBlackWolf Aug 2, 2012

^^ No problem!

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*Menagra Jul 20, 2012

So awesome

want more

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`SRaffa Jul 20, 2012 General Artist

Do one for us, do one for us!!!

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`snowmask May 7, 2012 Professional Traditional Artist

Fuckikng genius.

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`SRaffa May 8, 2012 General Artist

Pshaw!

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~cecilliahidayat Apr 23, 2012

moreeee

and as usual, your inking never failed to amaze me!!

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`SRaffa Apr 23, 2012 General Artist

You should make one of these!

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`oilsoaked Apr 12, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

LOVE this.

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