dA love for everyone! #42 Happy New Year! I send you my love and best wishes! As the title suggests, this news article's goal is to spread the dA love into everyone's heart! You will find here a little bit of everything, from awesome interviews with talented artists, art features, group promotion to random deviants' features. I hope you will find this informative and entertaining!Interviewed artist: ~SoulOfDavid :iconSoulOfDavid: Tell us what defines you as a person.I'm a silent person but very resourceful in terms of knowledge, especially in art. I want to learn alone. I like to discover something new. It's some kind of a challenge for me. I want my artworks to speak for me. How di
dA love for everyone! #39 As the title suggests, this news article's goal is to spread the dA love into everyone's heart! You will find here a little bit of everything, from awesome interviews with talented artists, art features, group promotion to random deviants' features. I hope you will find this informative and entertaining!Interviewed artist: *ShannonValentine :iconshannonvalentine: Tell us what defines you as a person.I'm a dreamer. This caused me a bit of trouble growing up – I had my head in the clouds and a very difficult time concentrating on schoolwork (doodling was occurring as well). I always had a penchant for all things 'fantasy'. Fairy tales, ghost stories, sci-fi, mythology and cartoons helped shape me. I'm pretty
10 things to ask before you draw a Children's BookArtwork copyright © Wilson Williams, Jr.With the growth in popularity of the e-book many authors are seeing a glimmer of hope and realizing that they can get their work out there without having to break into the velvet roped publishing house exclusive party. This means that you will begin to get even more solicitations from those authors looking for artists to bring visuals to their words.If you have a website or have done any degree of online advertising of your artwork, you have probably gotten an e-mail with a similar message as the title. If not, you will at some point. It's best to be prepared now. For those who have gotten it, nine times out of ten you aren’t sure how to respond to it, what should you ask, how do you respond?I was tired of retyping essentially the same letter over and over again. I finally saved a template of the letter I use in this situation
Thursday: Become a superhero!Awesome job on the What Do You See contest from last week! Beautiful interpretations of the mundane marks in the walls at HQ. We'll never look at that wall the same way!Here are our top winners:by ^rydi1689by =medli20by *pur1nHonorable mention to:by =SimplySilentCongratulations! You will be contacted about your prizes within the next 24 hours. Calling all superheroes -- there's a crisis afoot! The world's supply of tangerines is dangerously low, and we need a superhero to come and save us. That's where you come in! Your task this week is to become a superhero and save the world -- in this case, solving the problem of too few tangerines. How would you go about doing this? Would you be Sunshine Man and part the clouds so tangerine trees can get much needed sunlight? Or would you choose to be the Masked Miracle Grow and sprinkle your special fast growing powder? It's completely up to you!All entries must