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Writing this journal, I feel I prematurely posted it. The goal was to get others talking about the writing process and how they approach it, but the emphasis became my work, which is a no-no! So with that in mind, here are some questions to take into consideration (and a silly one, because why not).
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New Critique Group for Comics and CartoonsHi all!
I just created this new group for critiques specifically in the Cartoons & Comics gallery.
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I created the group because I failing my personal commitment to write 2 critiques each month... the reason is that it was difficult for me to find the kind of art I wanted to critique, since I usually don't critique outside of the Cartoons & Comics gallery and because DA's critiqueable page won't let me filter down to that gallery. So this group gives me a place where I can go to find just C&C deviations from artists who'd like some critique.
For now both membership applications and deviations are automatically approved. We'll change that later if necessary, we're just trying to get the group seeded and going! 
You don't have to be a premium member to sign up - we can critique in comments! We recommend (though not required) that each member write 2 critiques per month. It's a small enough number that iTHE GROUP WILL OPEN!
Hello!
I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and are enjoying, perhaps, the last few days of your break. I myself begin work again on the 9th. But for now I'm enjoying the company of my friends and sometimes the company of my family haha!
I've been on the fence about opening this group because in the past journals some felt waiting for more members would be better, but as it's been 5 months since this group was founded, I think we've all waited enough. So I decided today to set the official open date.
No matter how many people join, regardless if it's all 18 members or not, this group will open. I have no maximum on how many can join and nobody will be turned away. However, I do ask that you put work into your bio and your character drawing. A character sheet with no effort and a bare bio is the only way your application can be denied. If that does happen, you are encouraged to edit your applicadA Wishing WellThere once was a well who had a great wish... to be the biggest well that ever did exist. But so tiny was he that he never was seen until some kind soul heard his plea. A penny a day and a hug and a wave, this tiny little well did grow up in a huge way! The well's wish was granted and so happy was he that he declared he would forever grant your wishes at top speed!
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#dAWishingWell is a NEW group here on deviantART focused on granting a series of wishes each month to its group members! Members can leave a single wish on The Wishlist, and a few times a month, the wishing well will randomly select a few good deviants to have their wishes come true! Even our affiliate groups can make wishes for their groups!
Membership couldn't be easier! Just click JOIN! Click... Wish... Receive!
Affiliation is super easy too! Just click and announce us to your members so they can benefit too!
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Group Adverts
1.) To start off, what is your favorite medium and tools to use?
Do you have some spare time to help us out?^3wyl here. I, on behalf of #dAseniors, am calling for any potential successors to #dAseniors as 'The Mou'. If you are interested at all, please read the rest of this blog and send us a note once you've done so!
I have actually already left the group and transferred ownership to `TickedOffTeam, which is the 'place holder' for 'The Mou' at the moment. Reason why is that if there are no successors, then things will still be running as smoothly here as ever, but TOT will be getting a shake-up.
We would like a senior to oversee the activities of this group, and help push things forward such as contests, chat events, etc. The Weekly Hunt and everything else are already sorted out, but it's just the big things that need a firm(er) guide.
Ideally, that senior would also take over The Senior 'Stache over at `TickedOffTeam. You will be getting help if you do decide
#dAseniors
Artisan Craft Themed Challenge 'Dreams' The December Artisan Craft challenge "winter days" is closed! Sorry for being three days later, the holidays got on top of me.
(and no, I did not stay up to will see the year change.) Anyway, January is challenge is "Dreams"
the same rules as before.
and to top it off, here are lovely entries from last month's content, I'll be announcing a winner in a few days. 
Welcome to the Artisan Craft Themed Challenges. Every month the Artisan Craft volunteers will announce a “theme” for the month, and any deviation that fits in that will be listed in a News article and the AC Community Volunteers will feature them in their blogs.
At the end of each moth a winner will be chosen by ^FrockTarts and ^Hanratty-Stock .The winner will get 2000 points
Do you have an idea for a monthly themed challenge? note me your suggestionWinter ProjectWinter Project
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Give the Group A Llama!Click Here
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Hi guys, long time no speak!
I have come up with a Winter project to get us all in the holiday mood!
Your Task
To create one of the following items and submit it to our Current Project Folder :
Create a winter/Christmas themed journal skin
Create a stamp supporting Christmas/ winter
Create a winter/Christmas 'created by' badge
Any one who enters will be featured wh52 Week Six Word Story Challenge! - In Conclusion#SixWordStories has teamed up with #theWrittenRevolution to present to the literature community a project that will question what it really means to be a writer.
We have reached both the end of the project and the year after 52 intense weeks of 52 challenges that we hope have been effective in spurring on writers' creativity and imagination with the creation of these six word stories.
For the last and final time, this is what the community has come up with for last week's six word story challenge:
Write a six word story about writing a six word story. Describe to us how it has been this year!
~ Suggested by ~Zophirus
:thumb277289200: :thumb27701234552 Week Challenge (final feature)Last year, #theWrittenRevolution and #SixWordStories joined together to offer writers a unique challenge: writing a six word story complying with the prompt given by #SixWordStories every week.
The challenge itself is much more than it might have seemed during the first weeks; putting together a story, using such a limited amount of words is as intriguing at first as it's difficult when actually working on it. And we can say that many of the prompts were definitely challenging!
It's been interesting to see each different interpretation for the prompts and the participation being higher or lower depending on the nature of the prompt, too. Each was something we'd have never thought about, and that reminded us how writing is totally subjective and amazing – from the same hat, each participant took out a different animal, like any skilled magician should be able to.
We can say little apart from asking you to congratulate all the participants and their effor
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2011 As Seen Through Art2011 was full of emotional events the world around, and our community responded at unprecedented levels. From natural disasters to historical celebrations, entertainment milestones to tearful goodbyes, our community spoke out like no other community can — artistically, creatively, and emotionally. In many ways, last year marked the final chapter of a few eras, opening the door to new beginnings for 2012. Let's take a look...
How Malware Works Via Banner Ads by $Heidi
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How Malware Works Via Banner Ads
As many deviants know, deviantART has been working hard to combat malicious banner ads that infiltrate
our advertising network, and we've previously addressed this issue in
April 2011
and August 2011.
In our ongoing effort to keep the deviantART community safe, we wanted to share the following
USA Today-produced
video that explains how malicious ads inundate the Web.
How Malicous Ads Inundate the Web
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Protect Yourself
Malware advertising is an Internet-wide problem that affects many of the Net's top sites.
KeepRetro Future: deviantWEAR Design Challenge!
The future is now! And with deviantWEAR’s newest Design Challenge, the past is now, too! Don't let the present slip away from you. Zoom over to deviantWEAR to enter your creation into Retro Future: The Future That Never Was. Participation is easy!
You come up with potential designs for our deviantWEAR t-shirts.
Deviants vote on their favorite designs.
Judges choose based on the highest-voted submissions.
Artists of the winning submissions get cash and their designs printed on t-shirts for all to see!
This time around, step back into the Retro Future and design a t-shirt that captures the essence of idealistic imagery of the future as imagined in the pre-1970s era. Skyscrapers that round to a bulb at their top, ringed with futuristic bands for extra supOdyssey Into 2012: In RetrospectFor ~marioluevanos and I It was one of those interesting ideas that once let loose to run free in our heads was impossible to force back into the “notions for another time” box. Deadlined chapters and artworks to open mystic gates to safeguard the coming of the New Year 2012!
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For ~marioluevanos and I It was one of those interesting ideas that once let loose to run free
in our heads was impossible to force back into the “notions for another time” box. Deadlined chapters
and artworks to open mystic gates to safeguard the coming of the New Year 2012! One more way to show
the world what the talents and imaginations of our worldwide community of deviants are capable of when
challenged with only minimal time and direction! But of course the actual execution of this creative
experiment would require fardA Related Feature
As the dA Related Community Volunteer, I am blessed to receive some wonderful DD suggestions sent to me by note! Of course I cannot feature them all as Daily Deviations, but I still like many of these that I don't feature. So here's the first of some feature journals with "the best of the rest"! Please enjoy 
Of course, the fact that I chose not to feature them yet as DDs doesn't exclude them from still being featured as such in the future
Skins & Scripts
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Let me start with a side note today - I'd planned two articles yesterday about dA suggestions, but due to a small bug I couldn't get them to work. I'll either have to wait for the bug to be fixed or to think of a way to restructure them, and I will not get the chance to do that this week
So those articles will come later, after Project Educate week has ended. However, following my own Project Educate week, ^Beccalicious will hold a Project Educate week regarding Critique - I may just chip in there and write something about critiquing dA Related art
On to the features!
As the dA Related Community Volunteer, I am blessed to receive some wonderful DD suggestions sent to me by note! Of course I cannot feature them all as Daily Deviations, but I still like many of these that I don't feature. So here's the first of some feature journals with "the best of the
deviantART Spotlight
Prints Payments Q4 2011Hello, Prints Community!
It’s that time again. Time to pay out the next round of prints profits!
In order to avoid any delay in receiving your profits (which would be very sad!), please make sure that your address information and preferred payment method is up to date. Your payment information can be accessed in your account settings.
In order to ensure you receive your payment for Q4 2011, please update your Prints Account information before Jan 15th, 2012!
Keep this handy guide around!
1st Quarter ends March 31st (paid on or before April 30th)
2nd Quarter ends June 30th (paid on or before July 31st)
3rd Quarter ends September 30th (paid on or before October 31st)
4th Quarter ends December 31st (paid on or before January 31st)
We will not issue replacement checks or alternative payment methods for any changes that are made after this cut-off point, so please double-check your settings! We want you to geCutting Edge Prints, Week 01/12 Tweet
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The Cutting Edge is a weekly article showcasing recently sold or newly uploaded high-quality wall art products.
Since we approve each and every print that gets sold, we discover amazing gems every day, and we just can't keep them to ourselves! Check out these amazing prints submitted by deviants just like you!
New Prints That Left Their Mark
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Art History in Groups:iconcommunityrelations:
^DistortedSmile, `ScENeYmE and the rest of the #communityrelations Team bring you ART HISTORY, a series of articles about the entire History of Art.
The articles have been written by various Community Volunteers, Senior Members, Groups and the Community itself.
FULL LINE UP
#Death-Chicks, #Death-Guys and #TaintedArt will be contributing to the information about Photography.
IMPORTANT - If you feel you would be able to assist or create articles based on ANY of the following, please leave a comment on this Journal…
PINUP PHOTOGRAPHY FETISH PHOTOGRAPHY ROPE WORK ART NUDE
:bulletpink: GLAMOUR PHOTOGRAPHY
:bulletpink: PORTRAITURE
:bulletpink: LIGHTING TECHNIQUES
:bulletpink: MODELLING
:bulletpink: FASION PHOTOGRAPHY
:bulletpink: HORROR AND MACABRE
:bulletpink: SFX MAKEUP
Many thanks!!
January Holidays, Events and Awareness
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JANUARY HOLIDAYS, EVENTS AND AWARENESS 2012
Well, it is leap year! So that can mean only one thing to those living in the US and its territories; there will be a presidential election later this year. Every leap year is the election then the following January the president-elect is then sworn into office during the Inauguration on the third Sunday of the month. It also means this is an Olympic year. It used to be both the summer and winter Olympics were held in the same year, always a leap year, but now they are every two-years alternating between summer and winter athletics. This year London, England will be host to the Summer Olympics July 27, 2012 through August 12, 2012. My eyes will be glued to the TVPimps and Whoas - January 12, 2012Pimps
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How Malware Works via Banner Ads Prints Payments Q4 The Timeless Code of the Eternal Outsider 2011 As Seen Through Art deviantART is Hiring Odyssey Into 2012 - In Retrospect Celebrating DeviThe dA Related Categories| Join #deviantART-Related | Browse ~darelated | Chat in :#dArelated: |
Last year's round of Project Educate hit dA Related as well! This year, rather than reinventing the wheel and simply rephrasing all that was said last time, I will collect them here so that we can focus on some new subjects for the rest of the week. Even outside Project Educate, former volunteers for this gallery such as `ginkgografix have left us many useful articles that can still be used today. Before going into the categories of dA Related, let's have a look at some articles that apply to all of the category;
dA Related: What is it?deviantART Related FAQABC of deviantART ReladeviantART Related - is it ART?
This is a common question from the Community, sometimes phrased as that question, sometimes phrased as a blunt opinion! This article, written for Project Educate - dA Related, aims to shed a light on this topic. And it's not gonna be brief 
Because, no one can simply answer this for other people. This journal will not attempt to do that. Instead I have tried to gather a variety of opinions on this subject, so you can read several views and decide for yourself!
Some of the views below were shared with me through note, others in comments to the poll here. Feel free to chip in there too! there's also more responses left to be enjoyed there - I only selected some from the comments there to pick as manyThe Art of Code
As written by `ginkgografix in the Guide to the deviantART Related Gallery, The browser scripts and extensions category is for scripts that add new functions to (or modify current functions of) deviantART.com. Commonly these scripts are installed through Greasemonkey, but some are designed to install through web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox. Keep in mind that this category is for functioning scripts, not just ideas for scripts.
This is perhaps one of the most resourceful types of dA Related deviations
But, how do you create these? In order to find out, I interviewed a couple of creators of scripts, user styles and apps. 
Please tell me briefly about yourself andThe Community Relations TeamThe Community Relations Team is made up of Community Volunteers who liaise with Director of Community Relations $Moonbeam13
Community Volunteers help the community out by providing you -- the community -- with a specific contact point in relation to galleries, chat and forums. You’ll find them doing the following; Helping run community challenges and educational projects Supporting community events Helping moderate forums Being part of the #help team Being part of the team that moderate #devart and other official chatrooms Liaising with $Moonbeam13 and $fourteenthstar on community matters Bringing rockstar deviants to your attention via features, articles and Daily DeviationsPlease read :faq85: before applying for a Community Volunteer positionNote that you must be 18 years of age or older to qualifyPlease do NOT send notes
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