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Traditional Art Favorites of 20122011 • 2010 • 2009 • 2008
Another year is almost over and it's time for my annual traditional art feature of artworks submitted in the year of 2012!
This is my favorite, the most difficult and the most time consuming art feature to make, as well as the one I'm never really satisfied with: it's a real pain to decide which works to include in this little collection when, just from this small part of the most amazing works dA is filled with you have the luck to find and see each year, you have at least a few hundreds of top

Traditional Art Favorites of 2011!
Another year is over and it's time for my annual art feature of works submitted in 2011!
This is both my favorite and the most difficult art feature to make. After going through thousands and thousands of works you can imagine how hard it was to pick just some.
Artworks were chosen by different combination of the following "criteria":
general impression • emotion conveying • meaning of the artwork • pure awesomeness • idea/concept • originality • complexity • technique • quality • subject • incredible realism • great style • everything else I forgot to write

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Feature for YOUR favourite dA artists! :)EDIT:
more art added!

i asked you guys who 5 of your fave artists were and to give me a thumb from each of their galleries, so this is the result!

names in front of each section are the people who suggested this art

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WATCHERS FEATURE! pt. 23100+ works to enjoy this month.

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Feature For Contest Prize Donors & Judges!

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Gone for a while + Feature Hi all! :icontardwaveplz:
Finals are coming up soon. I have 3 cumulative finals, 3 papers, 1 that tests on the 2nd half of the semester (so 2nd midterm?

), and 1 online test.

Why I signed up for 8 classes is beyond me.

Good part is, I'll be done with my bachelors degree in August (1 year early).

Anyways, I really have to start studying so I won’t log on to dA for a few weeks. Every time I log on, I'm like "30 minutes only" then I spend a few hours on here. I'm on Thanksgiving break right now, so I might be logging on a few times in the next couple of days but after that I won't log on again until December 16th. Not sure if I'll be able to handle life without dA.

I also decided to do a giant feature. I figured if my profile page is going to remain the same for the next few weeks then it might as well serve a purpose so here’s some amazing art for you to look at and fav!

Take your time, it'll be here for a whi

big feature - great artwork from 2011I hope you've been enjoying the holiday season and I want to wish everybody a happy new year and hope 2012 will be a great year for you all!
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I've done an extra large feature showing some of the wonderful artwork that I've faved on DA this year.
I've grouped them together into the different months that each piece was submitted, starting with some of the most recent art that I have faved in December and going right back to January (Sorry I couldn't fit everyone and everything I wanted into the feature, and there's less art featured for the first few months of the year as I was not too active around then, I was running out of space to fit them on this journal too).
I have tried not to repeat works that I have featured in previous journals and I wanted to feature some the art I hadn't featured before, but I also wanted to feature some of my favourite artists and some of the great people I know on DA too.
There are some amazing artists and wonderful people here on deviantart and and

Fakers and LosersA while ago, :iconpbird12: a.k.a Paula wrote an article

which states clear cut facts so as to why the whole issue about someone faking their art creates rage waves through the art community!
The last week has been a riot which ended up in me getting blocked by two deviants here who clearly have something to hide!
I obviously care much less about the fact that there are many artists here on dA who get more famous than others considering the skill work. Some people get lucky and some don't. It's not easy getting known around this site.
But the fact that people would want to fake art to get accolades makes me angrier than ever.
Here are two examples on what happens when you try to confront artists whom you are suspicious about!
Example 1- The "awesome":iconnatmorley:

Now now Bratnorley) , you don't need to get all worked up for a single comment there do you?
You obviously think we are all stupid people here who don't really see what you are doing? The scr

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The Favourite Showcase Feature: Pretty In GraphiteHeads Up
I'm behind on my watchers feature, but that will be back next week by the latest, but for now:
The Favourite Showcase Feature: Pretty In Graphite - Females
All of the great art below can be found in the lovely group :iconTheFavouriteShowcase:.
If you find something you like in here (and you're bound to!), please visit the artist and leave a comment and/or a fav! If you're feeling especially enthusiastic of this feature, a fav for this journal would be great, so that more people may see it!

Treasures found in The FavouriteShowcase's galleryThese are some of the wonderful traditional (pencil or charcoal) works by talented members of :iconTheFavouriteShowcase:
Be sure to check out this great group full of amazing art and those artists' whole galleries

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The Then & Now Feature.

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The idea for this feature has developed over the past month or so, triggered by the comments we all get from time to time, like; "'I'll never be able to draw like that" or "I wish I could learn how to do that".
Also around a month ago I was asked a few questions by a very sweet, polite 16 year old girl on here who was extremely grateful that I took the time to answer her.
To cut a long story short, I've taken this girl under my wing in the hope of giving her the encouragement and feedback she lacks from those around her and also to develop her skills and knowledge to the point where she feels confident enough to experiment and grow on her own.
So, this feature is mainly for those just starting out in the world of graphite along with those doubting that they could ever improve beyond their current level and is just a very small selection of graphite artists I both admire and aspire to become as good as. All were chosen for this feature due

Fake art - why care and what to look forI posted this last week for anyone looking for help to spot fake art. This is not law, if you don't care, feel free to move on. But if you do care that there are fakers out there, then maybe this could be of some use to you too. We have a serial faker on the loose on dA today so it sparked this little lot once more.
So, the questions/scenarios asked are always the same and the responses/justifications are always the same, but give them a minute to sink in before replying and insulting.
(Q1) Why do you care if someone is cheating what does it have to do with you?
(A1) Well, this is a public ART site and if people are submitting art that is not actually what they claim it to be, then they are dishonest. This will annoy some people and not others. If your passionate about your work then the chances are you'll find it insulting to the artistic community as a whole. Additionally, a lot of admins of groups HAVE to deal with fakes as a daily occure

WATCHERS FEATURE! pt. 21

Previous WATCHERS FEATURES!:
pt. 20 http://diamond4girl.dev

FEATURE: 2011 Summary of Art memes!Less than a day to 2012! It's time to show our year of art and hope the next one will be even better! Enjoy your fellow deviants' and your own works and improvement achieved in 2011! With your support, I hope this to become my annual art feature.
Not even half of people who voted they'll make a meme made one. How very disappointing. Just kidding! But, not to worry, I also picked some great memes by myself making it at least a big feature if not huge.

Disclaimer: I don't answer for any feeling of dizziness after browsing through this feature.
Try not to

if possible.

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august feature-an im sorry feature

by ~BOYKINS, Aug 8, 2012, 8:17:01 AM
Journals / Culture / Art Features

yesterday was a free premium day where every one had pretty much premium membership for a day( i know self explanatory right) as you can see by my page i had added a few new things one being a section that was for permanent features well.. by accident i deleted when i was editing stuff around not remembering i did , only to > tell every one that i featured them> go to sleep> wake up > and have some one who i featured tell me its not there... you dont know how embarrassed i am!!..i'm lol'ing as we speak..... so i figured i matter as well do another BIGGER feature and this time feature a large amount of deviations of those who i had on the permanent feature.. there maybe others but the focus is on them . this feature will stay untill holiday times most likely november ....so there be mature content
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