Create your exclusive Winter Wonderland! by team, journal
Create your exclusive Winter Wonderland!
Create a winter-themed masterpiece to earn a Profile badge. Offer your art as an Exclusive for a chance to get fragments or have your art featured! Celebrate the arrival of winter and create a one-of-a-kind artwork based on the idea of a winter wonderland. Design a snow bunny ready for the slopes, an adoptable playing in flurries, a custom outfit celebrating summer in the Southern Hemisphere, or whatever inspires you to create! How to Participate ❄️ Create art centered around the concept of “winter wonderland.” Traditionally, winter-themed artworks feature a lot of blue and white colors, but you can use any medium to create your artwork, and you can use whatever colors feel right to you. Upload and submit your creation with the tag #WinterWonderland2023 by 11: 59 PM Pacific on December 19th to earn a seasonal Profile badge! Get Inspiration ❄ Curious how other artists have depicted the winter of their hearts' content? Look through these winter wonderlands in a wide range of
Become a Beta Tester on DeviantArt! by team, journal
Become a Beta Tester on DeviantArt!
Join the beta testing program to help test and improve future DeviantArt features! Beta testing is a cornerstone of DeviantArt’s history, and beta testers benefit the community by providing feedback and usage data. Through bug reports and insight shared during the testing stages, beta testers can help shape and improve site features. Any deviant can become a beta tester by adding this journal to their favourites. :+fav: New Beta Testers are added daily; once you favorite this journal, you'll gain access the following day. If you decide later that you want to opt-out, you can do so by removing this journal from your favorites and you'll be removed the following day. :sherlock: How It Works Beta testers are among the first to see new features introduced to DeviantArt. This early access is provided so deviants can test new features and provide feedback for the DeviantArt team through comments, bug reports, and user engagement metrics before it's released sitewide. When there’s an
Dress up for the Adoptables Party! by team, journal
Dress up for the Adoptables Party!
Create an adoptable with a specific palette and submit it with the tag #AdoptableParty to attend, and get a party favor in the form of a Profile badge! To add to the fun of the beta launch of Adoptables, DeviantArt is hosting a party for custom creations, and you’re invited to the colorful celebration! If you’re not familiar, adoptables are one-of-a-kind works of art that interested buyers can adopt from artists. In most cases, these are character designs (often human, anthropomorphic, mystical creatures, otherworldly beings, or entirely new species), outfits, or accessories. Get on the guest list! To join the festivities, create an adoptable using the following color palette: #9EFC36, #FF83EB, #6B6FFF Once you’ve created your attendee, submit it as a deviation with the tag #AdoptableParty by June 7th to get a brand new badge for your Profile! Want some inspiration on what to wear to the party? Check out these styles from early attendees: Digital Dragon by @Sindonic
Presenting Adoptables: Interview with Astralseed by team, journal
Presenting Adoptables: Interview with Astralseed
@Astralseed, a pioneer in DeviantArt's adoptables community and long-standing Community Volunteer, shares her knowledge around the history of creating and designing characters for sale and insights on how you can get started. Introducing @Astralseed A United Stated-based fantasy artist who works in both digital and traditional media, @Astralseed's artistic hallmarks include equines with flowing hair and an expressive, yet harmonic, use of color. Art has always been a constant in her life; though, it wasn't until her adult years when she began to take it more seriously and expanded her skills to find her own style. These days, most of her artistic endeavors involve ARPGs (art role-playing games), but she still enjoys painting her sighthounds and their friends in her downtime. What are adoptables? In their simplest form, adoptables are designs or characters people create with the intention of giving to another person – whether through sale, trade, gift, or any other means of
Opt-In and Test New Notifications by team, journal
Opt-In and Test New Notifications
The opt-In period is official closed. The future of notifications on DeviantArt has arrived! Here’s why you should be excited: User-friendly interface makes it easy to organize and manage all your notifications Notifications are now intuitively grouped together See and reply to comment threads directly from your Notification Center Group notifications and individual notifications are separated so you can easily sort through one or the other with no confusion Promotes engagement within the community Note: Notifications is currently in the quality assurance phase. If you opt-in to early testing, keep in mind that you might run into bugs as we continue to develop it. We are excited to launch this to the rest of the community soon, but first we would love your feedback and suggestions. Early Access to the New Notification Center You have the option to opt-in to gain early access to the new Notification Center and test out the new feature, however, opt-in is permanent. Once you switch