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11 Things I Love About dAdeviantART has served us for 11 years already and, no matter when we joined, it definitely changed something for every one of us. Some of us have found friends, others received inspiration to create or improve their skills, or experienced changes in many different personal aspects as well.
So why don't we take a moment for dA's 11th birthday to write a list of 11 things we love about dA? How did it help us? Did it make us grow as artists? Is it fun? What did it get you addicted to?
Your entry can be sincere and profound, as well as silly and fun - it's up to you!
You can only submit one entry, and you have an entire week to submit your list to Contests > 2011 > 11th Birthday Contests > 11 Things I Love about dA. This gallery will be closed on the 7th of August 2011 11:59pm (PDT) and we'll be rewarding the best entries in the after-party!
Even though the main goal of the project is th

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deviantART's 11th BirthdAy: Let's Celebrate! Tweet

August 7th, 2011 marks deviantART's 11th birthdAy, but in true devious style, we're taking a whole week to celebrate! Our original plans for Deviants Appreciation Day were so huge that there was no possible way to express our love for the community in a mere 24 hours. Instead, we've created Deviants Appreciation Week, and what better time to host a week's worth of community-oriented events than in the days leading up to our birthdAy?

Each day this week, we have something special organized for you to participate in! Check out the schedule of events below to come party with us!

In Skribble, our latest community contest, we challenge

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Seniority Announcement - December 2011This article marks the latest announcements detailing the latest additions to the dizzy height of Senior members in our community. With just over 800 deviants holding the highly saught after ` -- it's clearly a moment that deserves recognition.
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So what does it take to become a Senior? That's a question many have asked and have never really been able to get a straight answer on. Some have gained Seniority as a thank you for their time spent as a Volunteer, or to recognise their contribution to a particular project or collaborative action. Some have gained Seniority because of their community spirit, providing help and assistance to many other deviants and taking time out to promote the work of others in the community.
Some people have received Seniority because of their artistic endevours, having a positive influence on their peers by sharing resources, providing constructive criticism and by being a voice that stands out above the many others who deviate to be recognised

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Presenting: Community Volunteers

Cutting Edge Prints, Week 30/11

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deviantART Artists Represented at Comic-con!

South Park features work created by deviants!

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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

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Seniority Announcement - 11th Birthday EditionThis article celebrates our latest additions of Senior members in our community.
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So what does it take to become a Senior? That's a question many have asked and have never really been able to get a straight answer on. Some have gained Seniority as a thank you for their time spent as a Volunteer, or to recognise their contribution to a particular project or collaborative action. Some have gained Seniority because of their community spirit, providing help and assistance to many other deviants and taking time out to promote the work of others in the community.
Some people have received Seniority because of their artistic endevours, having a positive influence on their peers by sharing resources, providing constructive criticism and by being a voice that stands out above the many others who deviate to be recognised in the crowd.
Today, we present to you the following deviants who have all been awarded Seniority as part of our 11th birthday celebrations. They have all been nominated

Skribble Contest: Let's Get Creative! Tweet

A mere eleven years ago, deviantART met its humble beginnings. Since that time, we've grown to be the world's largest online art community, but even a site as massive and established as deviantART had to start somewhere. We never forget those few small sparks that launched deviantART to be where it is today, and that's what we're celebrating during our birthday season.

For this year's community event, we're embracing the idea of starting small and creating something amazing from just a few quick sketches. We've started this work for you and challenge you to finish it with the pizzazz that only the best art community in the world co

Seniority Announcement - June 2012

This article marks the latest announcements detailing the latest additions to the dizzy height of Senior members in our community. With just over 900 deviants holding the highly saught after ` -- it's clearly a moment that deserves recognition.
:faq29:
So what does it take to become a Senior? That's a question many have asked and have never really been able to get a straight answer on. Some have gained Seniority as a thank you for their time spent as a Volunteer, or to recognise their contribution to a particular project or collaborative action. Some have gained Seniority because of their community spirit, providing help and assistance to many other deviants and taking time out to promote the work of others in the community.
Some people have received Seniority because of their artistic endevours, having a positive influence on their peers by sharing resources, providing constructive criticism and by being a voice t

Presenting: Community VolunteersA BRIEF OVERVIEW
Over the years, we've been proud to offer the opportunity to volunteer with deviantART. We believe that our volunteers play a crucial role in helping our community develop and grow in positive ways.
The Gallery Moderator (previously known as Gallery Director) and Message Network Admin (MN@) teams have become a much loved and appreciated role, with many volunteers proudly detailing their experience in applications to enter into successful careers with companies who all recognise the value of volunteering in such a vibrant and eclectic community. Did you know that some of our now full time Staff were once volunteers? $fourteenthstar, $Moonbeam13, $pachunka, $aunjuli, $y2jenn, $damphyr, `Tachy-on, $dxd and $Ikue all volunteered in various roles -- and we are all very proud of that fact!
Over the past few months, we've been taking a close look at the volunteer experience -- what's worked, what hasn't worked a

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by `TickedOffTeam, Jun 12, 2011, 2:12:03 PM
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On behalf of #dAseniors, `TickedOffTeam is the base of operations for

and News of Senior members, defined as those users who have a ` or a ° as their symbol on deviantART.

This is a news article, posted once every two weeks, choc-a-block full of Senior happenings and initiatives, stunning visual features, an awesome mini-interview and much, much more!

Even though this is mainly Senior orientated, if you have something you want to promote or are just looking for something generally, senior or not, we invite you all to take a gander.

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The Senior Photo Album

By `cypher-neo

Welcome to the Senior Photo Album. Our goal each issue is to expose you to new, incredible artists and art. In between each section of news in this issue of The Senior 'Stache, you'll get to see 3 pages of the Senior Photo Album as we highlight some amazing artists on deviantART. In this issue, ALL of the featured deviants responded to our requests for interview, and in this jam-packed feature article we'll bring you some of their thoughts as well as our favorite pictures from their galleries!

The Senior Photo Album would like your ideas! Please send us your suggestions, deviations, and theme ideas so we can make them part of a future feature article. Send a note to `cypher-neo with the Subject "Senior Photo Album Suggestion". All notes will be responded to.

The first deviant we're featuring is *Helen-Stifler. You might recognize her from around dA from her amazing blue hair avatar!

^{*Helen-Stifler describes herself as a spontaneous artist who gets inspiration from lots of sources, including "films, music, drawings, sometimes even in the nature." She has a "considerable quantity of ideas that I can't sometimes remember all of them." Her path towards art is a continuous adventure for her since she says: "inspiration comes to me unexpectedly as though in a spark in my head suddenly lights up!"}

^{*Helen-Stifler's favorite deviation is the first image on the top row. Why? She doesn't know. She just likes it all: the color, the composition, her hair... and the burning butterfly!}

^{*Helen-Stifler's last words of advice to everyone? "Never refuse to be creative only because someone has written the negative comment on your work. Try to correct the defects and to be improved... Don't be sensitive to criticism."}

News

$fourteenthstar's Celebrating Deviousness - June 2011

`lost-angle's Make Your Social Resume Work for you

`Lilyas' Copyright and the reason why we are here

`phoenixleo's HTML5 App Muro Animates Super Stick-Figure Videos

`AshleyxBrooke's -- Photographers Wanted! --

^JCROXAS' 29 WAYS TO STAY CREATIVE

`isoldel's Multi-Ethnic Doll Month? Proposal

`kkart's Ego vs. Learning in photography

`conzpiracy's Lighting in Photo Manipulation, Shadow Tutorial!

`Mistress-Jaeden's For Stu (animal rights)

`JunkbyJen's You Can Be Saved / 6/8/11 Psalm 53

`raine-angel's Happy World Oceans Day 2011

^Thiefoworld's Mmm... deliciously useless

`SeanDietrich's 10,000 mile U.S. Tour and New Kids Book!

`TimTownsend's Jim Shooter: The inking rant ~ Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief

`wynnesome's June Events at the (photography) studio!

`synconi and ~moth-owl have posted a recent update on their 1000 deviants, 1000 cranes Project. You can now enter five entries of one crane each, so go make more and boost your chances of winning some prizes too!

`briannacherrygarcia has a sketchbook sale to help their finance.

Contests

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`Damaged927's Manga/Anime Repeating Contest JUNE 2011 ~ Ends June 29th

`zeiva's X-note Art Contest ~ Ends June 30th

#color-me-club's May 'Hair' Coloring Contest ~ Ends July 1st

`LadyLincoln's The Spectacular Cheap Thrills Romance Contest ~ Ends July 1st

`PainInTheAssimilated's Get Your Pokemanz On Contest 2 ~ Ends July 22nd

`MzzAzn's Pokehoodie Contest ~ Ends July 31st

`Rogue-Of-The-Night's Collaborative Red Contest ~ Ends December 12th

`TouchedVenus' SD Contest 15: Angelic and Holy Contest ~ Ends January 13th

`EmberRoseArt's Manipulate This Winners

`meikahidenori's Vespa Contest Winners

Interviews

`PurpelBlur's

^Thiefoworld's An Absurd Interview with Naked Ell Wry

*Topicality's dARenaissance: *Loonaki

`Gwendolyn12's Manga/Anime Beauty #3 - *hachiyuki

Welcome back to the Senior Photo Album!

Please remember to suggest your favorite deviations for the Senior Photo Album to feature. It's as easy as sending a note to `cypher-neo with your suggestions!

Our second featured deviant is =Lord-Kevinz! His gallery represents many wonderful galleries here on dA including Horror & Macabre, Classic Portraits, Glamour, and many others!

^{During his interview, =Lord-Kevinz described himself as a "creative artist" and his art as "emotive thought, not really any definition of art, just thoughts in his head that he lets the pictures speak." He gets his inspiration "from surfing the internet and from movies." He believes that there's lots of inspiration to be tapped into everyday.}

^{His favorite deviation is . i'll never see you again featured in the top row of his pictures. "It's unique from what other artists did on deviantART, and I'm kinda proud of the blood work."}

^{Last thoughts from =Lord-Kevinz? "I believe that everyone has the skill to improve their work. My suggestions is to continue working on your art. Be different; it doesn't matter if you don't have a good camera to take a picture, if you're still created something new."}

Art News

Artisan Crafts: `MyntKat's Craft Feature 82 - Firefly/Serenity

Customization:

Digital Art: ^Aeirmid's #Color-Our-Dreams - Photomanipulations with flair!

Literature:

Photography: ^Pixel-Spotlight posting on behalf of #projecteducate

Features

^{IN NEWS}

`Mishelangello's Candy Rain

#ProjectPorkchop's Vol24, Vol25, Vol26, Vol27

#Unique-Equines' UotU Vol09, UotU Vol10

`photofairy's Liquid Spring Spotlight & Woman's World in Black and White

`ginkgografix's dA Related Daily Deviations - May 2011

*Topicality's Topical Feature 4: Divas and Hungry Kittens & They Need Some Lovin'

`stuck-in-suburbia's Weekly Stamp Feature - The 35th Instalment & Weekly Stamp Feature - The 36th Instalment

`Rogue-Of-The-Night's Featured Deviations - June 2nd

`phoenixleo's The F Word # 8

`petrova's Fairy tale feature

^{IN JOURNALS}

`FarDareisMai's From my watchlist

`oh-my-goat's Weekly Feature

`Sophquest's Start of Summer ~ Features!

!bitchinblack's Friday Fotomanip Features #53: May 28th - June 3rd

=JillAuville' Features

Welcome back to the Senior Photo Album!

Do you know a good artist who deserves more credit on dA? Suggest them to `cypher-neo to be featured in an upcoming article of the Senior Photo Album. Send a note to `cypher-neo with the Subject "Senior Photo Album Suggestion". All notes will be responded to.

The third deviant featured and interviewed in our issue is ~RaBBiTKa!

^{Describing her gallery as a whole ~RaBBiTKa says it is "very, very colorful. I always try to combine different hues of colors and simply experiment with them. Many times it happens that there's cuteness involved too..."}

^{Her favorite picture is the first picture in the top row of her pictures. "Detail" is unique among waterdrop pictures because the interaction between the focus and depth of field is stunning.}

^{Get to know your camera, it will help you reach better effects. With knowing your camera, you'll also know how to set the proper settings without being obliged to put it on the auto mode. Play around with Photoshop a bit and spice up your photos!}

Announcements

^{CONGRATULATIONS!}

`vacuumslayer's birth to her son two weeks ago.

`Artgerm's Imaginary Friends Studio for collaborating with world renowned magazine Heavy Metal in which you can pre-order the issue here.

`cooley for being interviewed in I Came, I dAmned, I Founded.

`Gashu-Monsata for having a fanart of theirs sent to Insomniac Games in a company email.

^rydi1689 for passing her exams! Wish her luck for the last two in July!

^{HELP WANTED}

`destroyinc is looking for some thoughts and ideas for affordable products in aid of expanding his BigCartel store!

`IanStruckhoff is looking for an Inker.

`Rubycored is looking for an artist to commission.

Give support, luck and well wishes to `meago who has started her pre-surgery treatment on a full surgery of her facial bones.

`UnicornReality is looking for some more support in terms of funding a charity involved in people with mobility issues/brain injuries.

`Gashu-Monsata will only have £14 a week to live off of in University and is trying to save up some money beforehand! Support, order a commission and help if you can!

To those that are now one year older...

`gorjuss, `vevrca, `Leopreston, !TheSprunk, `SigurdHosenfeld, `nokari, `MzzAzn, `robert, `lazybutt, `Pyritie, `FractalEyes, `flashmind

...and to those yet to be: Happy Birthday!

^{JUNE 12TH}
`BenHeine, `CRAZYQUESADILLA

^{JUNE 13TH}
`isoldel, `gucken, `wolfsax

^{JUNE 15TH}
`mirrorkills

^{JUNE 16TH}
`jbensch

^{JUNE 17TH}
`DigitalPhenom

^{JUNE 19TH}
!micdt

^{JUNE 25TH}
`Tepara

Lulz

By *Topicality

To end this article we would like to get you giggly with some quotes from dAmnIT!, deviantART's center for finding funny quotes reported and said by people in dAmn +chat. If you have any favourites yourself, please don't hesitate to send a note to *Topicality with the Subject "Lulz for Senior 'Stache".

<Lyesmith> sine-out: But... when would a man lactate?
<Lyesmith> ...
<Lyesmith> I can't believe I just typed that.

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<SnapShotDicer> RUN RUN RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN >8U
<SnapShotDicer> YOU CAN'T CATCH ME >8U
<SnapShotDicer> I'M MEXICAN >8UUUUUU

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06:16:01 PM <SUNSHINE1309> i need new icons
06:16:09 PM <SteveO526> SUNSHINE1309: Here, you can have this one.

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09:44:30 PM <i-haet-mushrooms> I should start roleplaying as Godzilla.
09:44:35 PM <XMDMxIBZxDarkcideX> lol
09:44:39 PM <XMDMxIBZxDarkcideX> That'd be hilarious
09:44:43 PM <XMDMxIBZxDarkcideX> i-haet-mushrooms: Just don't eat me >.>
09:44:59 PM <i-haet-mushrooms> You can ride me.
09:45:01 PM <i-haet-mushrooms> ...
09:45:15 PM <XMDMxIBZxDarkcideX> Yea
09:45:17 PM <XMDMxIBZxDarkcideX> Moving right along.

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04:01:48 AM <spartan2447> And it's 4am in New York City, this is "DA at Late Night" and I'm your host Spartan2447. I'm gonna put on some smooth jazz for those of you out there and I'll be taking calls about your problems *puts on music and sits back with coffee*
04:01:55 AM <spartan2447> Hello Caller, what's your problem?
04:02:01 AM <Topicality> I HAZ A LLAMA
04:02:08 AM <Topicality> WHAT DU I DOZ WITHS IT?
04:02:30 AM <Topicality> IT HAS A CAPE AND IS WHIET AND HAS RED EYES!!!11
04:02:47 AM <Topicality> spartan2447: WHAT DU I DUS?
04:03:16 AM <spartan2447> Topicality: You take it and you shove it up your arse *sips coffee* Next caller
04:03:38 AM * Topicality takes llama and shoves it up ~your's arse

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