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Team dArt Showdown! - Win almost 4,000 Points!Presenting the 2012 Team dArt Showdown!
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About
The dArt Showdown is a deviantART centered, team competition that will last the next number of weeks on deviantART. Hosted by `TimberClipse and `IceXDragon in conjunction with #DevNews it is likely the first major team competition on deviantART with thousands of points and other prizes up for grabs!
`TimberClipse posted a few days ago suggestions for a project you would want to host, `IceXDragon came up with the idea of a Art Showdown. The two members then worked together in order to present a new and great contest.
Prizes
The 4 members of the winning team will each receive:

3,850

deviantART Points Each
(Donation Thanks: 200 from =dienutza, 1,000 from =SoulFighty, 200 from `Emerald-Depths, 6,000 :devjamminjo

7th Annual Coloring Contest:...........ClosedCommission Me
#manic-goose-admirers
Update:
Final count: 74 great entries:
Little Red and Wolf: 16 entries
Cyber Works: 14 entries
Elegant: 13 entries
Beauty and the Beast: 12 entries
Butterfly Dragonfly: 12 entries
The Six Swans: 7 entries
Click Here for Popular Voting
The Lines!

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Venus's Birthday Bash Contest (CLOSED)Venus's Birthday Bash Contest - The Theme
YOU HAVE UNTIL THE END OF THE DAY TODAY TO GET YOUR ENTRIES IN!
Of course, this is according to my timezone which is US Eastern Standard Time (same as New York)

YOU GUYS VOTED AND SAID YOU WANTED A CONTEST~ SO HERE YOU GO!

THEME: One of your Original Characters paired with one of my Original Characters! They can be paired as friends, as enemies battling, romantically involved, etc. Use your imagination!

Below is a list of all of my characters with a little bit of info and lots of pictures! If you have any questions at all about any of them, feel free to ask!

Sanguem Deus Character List: http://touchedvenus.deviantart.com/journal/Sanguem-Deus-Character-List-283723854

Sanguem Deus Character Galleries: http://sanguem-deus.deviantart.com/gallery/
Venus's Birthday Bash Contest - The Rules

Your entry must contain at least o

Request a Free Prize! - OctoberOctober's Budget - 500 points
Send me a note using the below instructions while the points last!
October's Remaining Budget: 0 points
Request a Prize
I'd love to support your community activities! Sometimes I have more money than time, so this is a great way to spread the love without cutting back on things like sleep.

If you'd like for me to contribute a prize to your project / activity / event /contest, send me a note.
In your note, please tell me about your activity, especially if it hasn't kicked off yet. If it has already started, include a link to the announcement. It is perfectly fine to ask for a prize donation before the start, but you'll need to tell me some details about it.
Examples of what I like to see: Community and/or literature related activities that deviants can participate in. Chat events. Contests. Participation prizes! :

PE DD Week: A DD is not an award, but a feature.
A DD is not an award but an art feature.
There. I said it. A DD is not a prestigious award that will change your life drastically, it's just a 24h feature.
But why is it so important to make this distinction?
It's just a way of naming something and therefore should not be of great importance, yet it makes all the difference in how people perceive a DD.

On the importance of terminology
As mentioned in the intro, the biggest problem when it comes to Daily Deviations arises with the choice of words used to describe what a Daily Deviaton is. When you call it an award, people will automatically assume that the Daily Deviation is the cream of the crop of every deviation posted ever on this site and that no art featured after it should be able to be perceived as "worse". However, when you call it a feature, most people are fine with the picked deviations and don't even hold them to the high standards of living up and

Feature for Angelo Sotira's Birthday!Tomorrow, February 14, 2013, is +spyed's birthday for those of you who may not know. Angelo is most likely the most dedicated deviant out there, after all, he keeps this place going. However, he is also a very kind deviant who often asks towards giving to others rather than giving to himself.
This year, I wanted to feature a few amazing artists I have found as a dedication to Angelo as well as to those artists. Angelo, happy birthday, we appreciate all the work you have done for this amazing community.

I hope you all enjoy this.

HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE SYMBOL OF PEACE -2 FESTS

Please be aware the times have changed slightly!
Hello Everyone!
The Symbol of Peace, a short documentary that I have worked on for the last year was accepted into film festivals earlier this year including the Peace River Film Festival where it will be screening this weekend on September 23, at 2:00PM, and the MovingMedia Film Festival at Wayne State University.
Although it was a great honor for me to have the film screened at these two festivals they were two of the smaller festivals we were accepted into.
The Symbol of Peace, Directed and filmed by Zev Vel, will share the inspiring stories and dreams of the people who love the peace sign and have created their own peace signs to display on their homes and businesses.
WFF
I was recently contacted and told that my film had made it into the Woodstock Film Festival. I am so excited as the Hudson Va

5 Weeks in Europe | Experience of a Lifetime!Bonjour Deviants!
Wow. What a trip. And it's still going!! Headed back tomorrow morning.
So for those of you who didn't know, I spent the last five weeks in Ireland and France first with an NYU Tisch Program and then with a friend for a week in France.
The NYU Tisch program I took in Ireland was absolutely fantastic. Not only did we complete some challenging films we also met some amazing people. The course was taught by the graduate film professor at NYU. For those of you who don't get what that means... It means this wasn't summer camp. The first day he told us:
"Sleep is for the weak... AFTER my class"
That held true with days starting at 6:30 or 7am and going until 9 or 10 at night.
It was a group of 9 students for filmmakers and 12 actresses (all girls around my age). These actresses did their own separate program and are not the actors seen in the films below. Those actors are all professionals in Ireland. Within the first week we were down to 8 filmmakers when one had to go home

Winners of Team dArt Showdown! - Generous Winners

I received this note today:
"First of all, thank you very much for organizing the contest! It was amazing to find out we won! Within our team, we agreed that the 2nd team, DieWildPixieDragon, deserves a prize as well, not only for getting so far in the contest but also for their team spirit. We would like to give 1000 points from our prize to each member of that team. I guess it would be easier if you do that when you are sending the points. Can you please send 1000 points to each of them, and divide the rest between us? "
So both finalists will receive prizes!
After a long wait for all the games... We have our winning team!
Team 3!
=MirachRavaia
*DragonRider3
*jankolas
~SnowBerenika
The 4 members of the winning team will each receive:

3,850

deviantART Points Each(Donation Thanks: 200 from =dienutza, 1,000 from =SoulFighty, 200 from `Emerald-Depths, 6,000 `JamminJo)1 month sub each from :devEmerald-De

PE: Muro Challenge ResultsHello there,
As part of #projecteducate, I had a little challenge for +forum people. In the DrawPLZ Forum, I posted a thread on Tuesday.
The task was to continue building the skyscraper I started in the comments. Here is the finished building:

deviantART's Birthday Hunt!Update! I know that a few of you are having problems, so I'll give a few clues:

Everyone involved in the Hunt here is a Community Volunteer.

One of the letters has something to do with their name.

Every thread should lead to the next thread, except the last and final thread which has no clue!
Though there is one currently going on in the chatrooms here, the +chats go hand in hand with the +forums, which means there is another hunt taking place to celebrate deviantART's 12th birthday!
This particular hunt focuses on just two letters only, in which one letter will lead you to a particular forum, and the other to a particular deviant. As each clue leads you to another forum, a new deviant, we are asking you to...

Jot the names of these people down.

Take down the name of the forum they posted in.
:

Team dArt Showdown - Round 3

Hello everyone,
So this time around we had a very very close game with a tie! Because of that we had to break the tie, once again resulting in us falling behind schedule

Not our fault that you guys are so damn awesome!

This round will go until June 15 at 11:59:59 PM PDT
Here are the scores for the last round.
Team Totals:
DieWildPixieDragon: 140
Team 3: 124
Team 11: 124
Team 13: 75
Sound Four: 115
Teams moving on
So after this tie, all judges were asked to vote between the two. Below, we have those moving on to the next round.
1.) DieWildPixieDragon
2.) Team 3
the new theme is
The new theme is "A Bugs Eye View"
As always you may interpret this however you would like. Good luck to the top 2!
All other teams, thank you for playing!
All entries MUST be sent to `IceXDragon via note. They will then appear in this:

PE Week: Ask Me Anything!!* * * * * * * * *
One of the activities for Project Educate, Photomanipulations, was for the community to ask questions for The Experts. "Ask Me Anything", came up with ten excellent questions for ten Experts to answer. Having had time to peruse and consider the questions asked, The Experts kindly returned the answers to be included in this news article. Many thanks to the deviants asking, as well as a huge thank you to The Experts for taking the time to come up with such succinct, detailed and helpful answers.
* * * * * * * * *

To start, a question pertaining to the darker aspects of Photomanipulation: ~iAmoret asked, "How do you get that dark, dreary, foggy effect that makes it look like it's all from the same image, like ~Dash-th3me did in 'Dead Marshes'?

Answered by =nitchwarmer :iconnitchwarmer:
~iAmoret,
There are many brushes and stock images you can use here on dA, you

Fanfic Groups!There's plenty of cool and some rather novel groups for the fan fiction community. Here's a few of them!
:iconliteraryfanfiction: A collection of quality stories.
:iconillustrated-fanfic: If someone has ever illustrated one of your stories, this is the place to show it off.
:iconArda-Inspired: A collaborative group between writers and artists for the Lord of the Rings fandom.
:iconfanfic-exchange: Like the above, but for all fan fiction!
And some general groups:
:iconfan-fiction-writers: :iconfanfiction-authors: :iconfanfiction-fc: :iconfanfiction-galore: :iconfanfiction-for-fans:
If you know of any more cool groups, let me know!

Thursday: Limerick Contest!Hey, hey Premium Members!
It's October, and exciting times are ahead! In fact, in the coming week, we'll have a special new Premium Member only feature for you to enjoy. Be on the lookout for the announcement soon!

Until then, we've got a brand new contest and the winners from last week's contest to announce!

Our top three Premium Members from last week are:

*MirrorandImage

=DarthRose

=tearsofbreakingglass
Congratulations! You will be contacted about your prizes within the next 24 hours.
For this week, we're having a limerick creation contest! This poetic device challenges you to create a story using five lines only, and rhyming in the style of AABBA. So, the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme, while the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other. As Wikipedia describes, a limer

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Winners of One Word Story

Fri May 18, 2012, 4:16 PM

Hey Guys,

I always enjoy a good story, and in the mood to start one up!

So, using just 1 word in your comment, with no consecutive comments... Make a story.

I will give a few points away to participants between now and Sunday at 8 AM EST, nothing major but something to add to the fun.

Rules:

Be nice.
You may comment more then once, but not in a row.
Words that you want to reply to someone else may be in brackets or parentheses [comment] or (comment)
Words like and, is, the, etc. all count as a word.

TO BEGIN:

Zev
_{[this is a bad idea...]}

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