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PE: Walkthroughs, an alternative way to learn

Walkthroughs, alongside tutorials, are always an excellent way to learn. It's really helpful to get educated through a tutorial which tells exactly what to do in a detailed way step by step. However at times what is even more helpful is to actually see the artist in action, there are things you need to see get done by yourself and here is where walkthroughs come into play.

There's always something fascinating about seeing the different stages of the creation process of a piece, and you can always learn from the artists and adapt part of said process to your own.

Besides showing part of this process through images which show the different stages of a piece, and

TUTORIAL - Tips for All ArtistsHello everyone!
I have written a tutorial like this before here. But recently I have had more thoughts about it that I decided to share. As you may have noticed, I am not a professional artist, I am a hobbyist and self-taught, and what I will expose here is what I've learnt from my own experience. Even so, I hope this tutorial will be helpful to you!
Another note: English is not my first language, so I apologize if I commit any mistakes.
Feel free to correct my grammar any time, as well as make suggestions or asking questions!
This tutorial is for every kind of artist, but sometimes I will focus more on visual artists (since it's my speciality).
I believe that everyone can be an artist, and this tutorial has not only the purpose of providing advices and tips, but also motivation for all.
Contents
1. Your Image as an Artist on dA
2. Your Image as an Artist outside dA
3. Your Popularity
4. Your Art Process
5. Your Artistic Style
6. You

PE Getting the Most out of dA: SummaryGetting the Most out of dA - Summary
This week we set out to find the answer to the question; How to contribute to the community?
Here's what we learnt about:

Art Features & Daily Deviations

+ challenge winners

Organising Projects & Contests

PE: Importance of AnatomyThe importance of anatomy.
Understanding anatomy is crucial to many aspects of your art.
You'll notice that anatomy is essential for drawing. It becomes difficult to accurately draw a complex pose, or even a simple one, if you don't understand what's under all that skin or fur, or even bark. Knowing how everything fits together is important.
Once you notice where that certain muscle is, shading and form become much more accurate and more natural. Knowing why the nose and eyes fall where they do make it much easier to draw from memory, and nail that natural look you were going for.
Learning the anatomy of the subject you're going to draw is quite important, and will definitely help you on several levels.
It's also easier to drawing sequences of movement. One will know what connects to what, and how they move. What is possible, and what isn't. (Range of motion)
Drawing people and other animals can be intimidating. Once you have a solid foundation, it's much easier

PE: Power of PerspectivePE: Power of Perspective
Perspective is the angle and depth of a piece of art. Changing perspective allows for drastic differences. There is more than one kind of perspective, and all of them allow for more dynamic pieces of art if used correctly.
There are three common choices, and these are explained later.
Usually perspective deals with how close things appear, and correctly rendering perspective adds depth to an image and increases the impact of the composition.
One Point Perspective
One point perspective is where there is one vanishing point in a piece. . A vanishing point is essentially the in-the-distance-until-you-can'
t-see anymore point.
You see this perspective often, images of roads, or landscape often have one point perspective.

Examples of one point perspective:
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CSS Did You Know? - December 4th, 2012

Resources For Artists: Colour Scheme ToolsColour Scheme Tools
So I have been thinking of doing a few articles apart from feature articles to link some useful resources for artists and this is the first one of these. While this is a mini one, it's helped me a lot on several occassions.
Sometimes it gets confusing to decide which colours to choose. "'Should I go with a turquoise and a gold for the face? What about the room? I was going for a chic cool modern palette which is minimalistic!" Surely, a lot of us have gone through those decisive moments. Below are some colour scheme tools that would help you with your colour scheme choices. Click the titles or the links in asterisk to go to the following sites.

COLOURlovers

A big resource community for colour palettes*, user named

CSS Did You Know? - November 28th, 2012

Did You Know? - Browser Scripts, Notes Icons

Daily Deviation Suggestion Drive!Back By Popular Demand!
In January of 2012, the community was challenged by `thorns to do something about their complaints on dA. Thus was born this very group! But before the group, it was just a fledgling idea on `LiliWrites's account that began with a DD Suggestion Contest. The results of that contest were overwhelming. And so, under the prodding of quite a few Community Volunteers, we're going to do it again!

UPDATE: Less than 1 week in and we've already got 100 suggested DDs and 2 accepted suggestions!!

Keep up the great work guys and gals. Please remember that you need to leave a link to every deviation you suggest in this journa

A Sta.sh TutorialSta.sh can be quite daunting indeed.

Inception :icongrinstareplz:
I am writing this tutorial in st.ash..
Titles + Headers

You want to create some
Titles
Subtitles
Headers
Subheaders
Smaller Headers
Normal text
?

Well, you have options.
First, you're going to look at your tool bar that is near the top of your screen. Do you see it? Good.

Note: The red circled things are important.
Then you are going to click the tT Button there. It will hover this menu:

So that's nice. But you want want emphasis sometimes? Like: This kind of emphasis.

Emphasis

Pretty basic..
Since you're so busy shouting at people, you

PE Feedback: ...But I don't know what to say?Critiques: What to say when you don't know what to say
Hiya, everyone!

All of us have heard about feedback events during our time on deviantArt. Many of us have participated in them, while others have declined to do so for various reasons. Some of these reasons include fear of receiving critique on one's own work, fear of being attacked for critiquing someone's work, fear of not knowing what to say, and feeling inadequate to critique a deviation from someone who is perhaps more skilled than we are--especially if the deviation is created using a medium to which we are unaccustomed.
We especially want to focus on this last reason.
Here is a conversation that we had recently in a dA chat room (names have been changed):
Us: We are planning a cross-medium, dA-wide critique event for Project Educate!! Will you participate?
DeviantX: Hmm. I don't know.
Us: Why not?
DeviantX: I'm a photo

Community Voices: What is a Daily Deviation?DDs: The deviantART definition
So, as the title says, What in the world IS a Daily Deviation (DD), anyway?
You know what deviantART says about it, right? Under :faq61: it says:
A small assortment of submissions are chosen each day by a select group of staff/volunteer members who wish to showcase an image which they found impressive or otherwise interesting enough to deserve being brought to the attention of the community-at-large.
That says nothing about a DD being a perfect specimen of art-- in fact, it doesn't even use the word "art" at all.

Basically, as CVs, when we are giving a DD, we are doing so because we think the image is interesting and well-done and deserves your attention. It may be technically exquisite. It may be technically quite good but exceptionally thought-provoking. It may be exceedingly creative. It may be all of these things! Above all else, it should stand out in some way from others in that medium or gallery.

Need brushes?After references, textures and faces, the time comes for brushes. All inspirational, all useful!
GIMP BRUSHES

Gimp Anim. Grass Brushes Set by ~LJFHutch
PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES
13 Blending and Texturing Brushes by ~god-headFree PS Grass Brushes 2 by *s10889 Paint Splatter Brushes by =Miss-deviantEMy Brushes by ~imedarski
Bark brushes - Photoshop by *AutlawBlood Splatter Pack by ~nathradasVelvetcat's Brush Set_2 by ~velvetcat
Old Paper Brushes III by ~lailomeielOrnamental Shapes - Brush Pack by `SyaReal Media Mini Brush Set by =StalcryBrushes Set 01 by *Elsouille
Border Brush 3 by ~wantingtobreakfreeAntique Lace Brushes by ~Scully7491My watercolor brushes by *muttiy
Lace brushes by ~Myruso:thumb276107668:Grunge Corner Brush Pack by *midnightstouch

Traditional and Digital Mixed MediaFix That Miscat! is a series of articles aiming to help you distinguish between galleries that are commonly confused or abused in the category system here on deviantART. In this occasion we'll talk about Mixed Media, both Traditional and Digital.
Mixed Media
Mixed Media within deviantArt refers to artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed. For example, a drawing that combines color pencils, watercolors and inks in the same canvas.

To be considered as Mixed Media, an artwork needs to combine 2 or more traditional or digital mediums. However a big misconception is that Mixed Media refers only to artworks combining digital AND traditional and this is not entirely true. The combination can also be between traditional mediums only or digital mediums only and in fact, when you intend to submit to this category, you'll

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~foxterrier100 May 21, 2013

Thanks for the compilation. Very useful.

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`Infinite-Heart May 21, 2013 General Artist

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`WDWParksGal Apr 16, 2013

Anything you have that is group-related be sure to send me a link for #Group-Eaze, so I can invite it into the group's gallery, as well as #DevNews

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`Infinite-Heart Apr 17, 2013 General Artist

okies.

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~blanty Dec 29, 2012 Professional Interface Designer

nice

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`Infinite-Heart Dec 29, 2012 General Artist

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~blanty Dec 30, 2012 Professional Interface Designer

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~blanty Dec 29, 2012 Professional Interface Designer

nice

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`Crazy-Sparkles Dec 25, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Wow! What an unexpected Christmas surprise!

Thanks so, so much for featuring

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If I might ask, what made you decide to feature it?

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`Infinite-Heart Dec 26, 2012 General Artist

It caught my eye is all.

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