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Vexel Week Winners!After a wonderful week, and lots of participation in the events, I can happily announce the winners from Vexel Week!

Trivia Chat
First was the trivia chat event held on Friday 11th, with 20 questions all somehow relating to vexel art around dA

Thanks to everyone who came along, and also a special thanks to `dekorAdum who kept the chat topic updated for me, for I am not really chat-savvy yet

After all was done, the winner - with a fantastic 9 points - was =Eitvys200, who wins 800

Congratulations! And the two runners-up, with 4 and 3 wins respectively, were *dully101 and =James--Steele, who win 400

Also competing were =DarkJazmin11, `IceXDragon and `Dan-Heffer, who will win 100

each as a thank you for their participation and for helping to make it a fun time

Great event there - thank you for joining us!

PE: The Importance of Community SupportFrom the Desk of =Requiemachina
The Importance of Community Support: What is a Community?
When one thinks of a community, some words might come into play...maybe these: caring, supportive, familiarity, safe, helpful, united to promote a common interest or idea....that stuff. But, a community does not fit into a nice neat package. We use the word a lot, but it is important to ask more seriously what the term "community" is. A community is a sort of "construct"; We can't see a community, nor touch it, or directly experience it. Just like a snowflake, no two communities are exactly alike. They may share the same ideals, but the personal experiences will always be different. A community is not only the people in it-- but what was already established long ago, and which would continue to grow through the ages. Take DeviantART for example. This site I believe when it first started up, wasn't as big as it is now. But due to

A Week in dA Related - #035Welcome!
Welcome to the next installment of A Week in dA Related!
A Week in dA Related is a weekly news article series that aims to bring you the most important and fun deviantART and dA Related news from the previous week. It also includes a handful of features from the gallery that were submitted in the last 7 days.

If you have any deviantART Related news you'd like to share, shoot a note to ^ladygagz.
This issue covers March 19th to March 25th, 2012

ID Me by *mnrART
dA Related > deviantID

journal by =roserika
dA Related > Skins & Scripts > Journal & Gallery Skins > Complete Journal & Gallery CSS
Official deviantART News
Site Update: New Thumbs, Comment Business Cards<

Seniority Announcements - January 2013

This article marks the latest additions to the dizzy height of Senior members in our community. With just over 1000 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 that stands out above the many other

Photography Troubleshooting: What Digital Camera?Courtesy of `sine-out and his fantastic knowledge, we now bring you the fourth in this series of articles. `sine-out has answered all the questions that have come up so far. Do you have one? Is there something you need help with? Drop us a comment and we'll see what we can do! And as always, if you have information that could help someone out, let us know!
"How do I select a new camera?"
~=Eitvys200

"One of the most often asked questions I've seen regarding photography, above how to do something, is 'what is the best camera?', or 'what camera should I get?'.
Or something along those lines. The critical thing to note is that there is no such thing as the best camera.
Sure there are cameras that are technically better at certain things, for example, some cameras have very high resolutions, other are very good at low light photography, some are very small, and so on, but there's no su

PE: dA help - in English or Other LanguagesOn a big site like deviantART you're no doubt going to come across something you have a question about or just don't quite understand. There are many channels you can use to find the answers to various types of questions - such as the +faq, the *welcome tour, the deviantART Tutorials category and the :#help: chatroom. How do you know which to use?
The best point to start with any question or problem related to dA is the official Need Help? thread. It lists all official help channels and what they can be used for. In this article we focus on the +faq - as well as places to find dA information in many other languages! Let's start with English.
English - The FAQ
The FAQ (a common abbreviation for Frequently Asked Questions) c

Points - Get Some, Give Some

Welcome to this special issue of What's Going On?? focussing specifically on events related to deviantART Points!

There are some wonderful causes to donate points to! And if you don't have any points to donate, this issue will help you with that too

(Also see: :faq234

Good Causes
You can support all of these good causes by donating points!
Outside deviantART
Warm Winter Project - help 50 homeless people survive the winter
Artists in the Making Project - help Volunteer Eco Students Abroad buy t-shirts for South-African children in need

PE: Community Week PLZ AccountsCommunity Week - PLZ Accounts

Can you spot the difference between

and :icongladlikeplz

If you hover your mouse over it, you’ll see that the first is a link to a deviation (http://fav.me/d5judp5), while the second is an icon for a special type of account called a PLZ account.
PLZ accounts are deviantART accounts made for the sole reason of being an emoticon. Anyone can make these accounts. (For more information on making PLZ accounts, see this previous Project Educate journal http://fav.me/d3jjwiv.) The deviant chooses an account name that represents the image he/she wishes to display, and usually adds the phrase ‘PLZ’ at the end, so other deviants are aware that that account exists to be an emote (in the example above, the account name is “gladlikeplz”).
To use the PLZ account, you merely

Everyday we're CV'ingAs a Community Volunteer - I do as much or as little within the community that I feel comfortable doing. We're not pressured to do this and that, we don't even have to give a Daily Deviation every day, we choose how we promote our selected galleries/chats and forums and we're not fixed to any specific rule on how much or how little we do. But I do believe that it's important to share with you just what the community volunteers do and why we do it. More importantly it's so easy to get lost on this site full of many people - and miss out on the awesome that's going on. So I'm going to share with you exactly what the latest awesome is...
Project Educate
Almost every week since October last year the Community Volunteers have been working hard both independently and as part of small teams to bring You Project Educate.
Project Educate is about bringing forward art forms whether they are popular or overlooked and giving

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

Photography Troubleshooting: The Watermark FAQ"How do I protect my photography and art in general?"
~=Eitvys200
"As =Eitvys200 pointed out, at least 1 journal per month makes it to the top of the list and is about stealing art. Sometimes this is something small such as posting a piece to facebook, other times you see hoards of pieces on a website selling wallpapers or something similar. Regardless of how it happens, or where, it can hurt just as much to see your hard work disregarded and especially someone else profiting or taking credit.
Protecting work is a huge deal for some people, and not for others. It depends entirely on your outlook - how you view your work and indeed whether or not there needs to be some constrictions on it due to the content being a child, or family member. But how do we protect our work properly from art theft and wrongful use? The simple answer is you can't provide for every eventuality. Even if you upload your work to a website where right click -> copy is disabled,

PE Interview with ~ScorpionEntityIulian is an inspiring photographer that i had the honour of meeting in real life. He's on deviantART for more than 6 years now and i got him to answer us a few questions, so you can meet him too!

You are a very successful artist, what do you believe are your most important features that made you pop out of the crowd?
I don't consider myself talented, I practice a lot and still try to improve. First of all, I started photography by doing lots and lots of shot, and those got the attention of the public I might say. In time, I've perfected the concepts, editing, composition etc, but the idea still stands.
I try to do something different with all shots, and the photo sessions to be different from one another.

What do you look for in your models? What qualities do you appreciate the most in them?
Expression is the key to success. Also, the eyes. I believe the eyes are the d

Muro and chat eventThe artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...
Pablo Picasso
Let's make a big portrait of our community!
Rules:

Entries must be made in Muro (ONLY MURO!)

1 entry per person, must be created on or after start date

Should be made for #projecteducate drawing event

You can draw 1 deviant (for example, `Quolia, $fourteenthstar, ^Kaz-D, etc.)

It will be a very big Portrait, so, please make your entries in 450x340 resolution with: NO background, only Portrait of *deviant

Please send a NOTE to `Arichy with your entry, and don't forget to tell whom and why you've drawn

Start date: november 19, end date: november 23

DeviantART'S 12th Birthday Gameshow: Starting soonDeviantART Birthday Gameshow is starting in just FIFTEEN MINUTES!
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We'll have pre-judged the least popular and most popular answers by asking a panel of CVs beforehand for their responses. Want an example?
Name a Film Starring Tom Cruise

Okay so Mission Impossible is a really high answer and if you said that one, you'd get lots of points. Which isn't good! If you said Rain Man - you'd possibly be getting less points. But if you said something like Endless Love or Taps, then you'd be hitting on an answer tha

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Thank you! Our chat event was awesome!

Sat Nov 24, 2012, 5:18 PM

We did it and it was awesome! Thanks to ALL deviants who was in our chat event! Also, thanks to ^ValaSedai and `dekorAdum for your help with trivia and muro contest!

We need to announce our results of Muro Event:

And we have 3 winners:

~DeaconStrucktor: 3 month premium
*AJ333: 1 month premium and dA Icon Keychain
*AnyLuck: 1 month premium and dA lanyard

Prizes were kindly donated by $Moonbeam13, `Arichy

Points for Chat Event were kindly donated by *rainylake, =jane-beata, ~IYIaglin, #ArtBIT, ~seapuppy, ~PONYGIRL4, `WhenPigsFry, ~Felicity-MadHatter, =Detective-May, =IcedWingsArt, `Reaper-X, *AnyLuck, `JamminJo, `TiaVon and `Arichy

DeviantGear was donated by `Arichy

Also, after chat event we have a lot of winners! They are:

`miontre got 150

, *AnyLuck got 100

, =Shiilus, =James--Steele, *AJ333 and `JoseFelipeM got 50

=Shiilus also won 3month Premium Membership and kindly donated it to *HERRRW

=Eitvys200 won LLama keychan and deviantART cursive T-shirt

=James--Steele won MUG with Art of `alexiuss [link]

=EpicStormMage and `Milotic1406 got their 1month premium memberships!

Also, ^ValaSedai and `dekorAdum got their Cake badges for help hosting chat event! Thanks a lot again!

Congratulations to all winners! Stay devious, stay awesome!

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Thank you! Our chat event was awesome!by `Arichy

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`miontre Nov 30, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

Yay! Thank you.

I had a great time.

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`Arichy Dec 1, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

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`Infinite-Heart Nov 28, 2012 General Artist

it was amazing!

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`Arichy Nov 28, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Thank you so much!

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`Infinite-Heart Nov 28, 2012 General Artist

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~KollapsMaster Nov 25, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Здорово

В следующий раз я тоже постараюсь поучаствовать

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`Arichy Nov 25, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Постараюсь сделать в следующий раз что-нибудь похожее, но получше)

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=Requiemachina Nov 25, 2012

aww...I wish I could have participated...but I was too busy...may I help host one sometime?

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`Arichy Nov 25, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Hi! Sure, when i'll host next chat event, i'll send a note to you (if i'll not forget about it)

Thanks!

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=Requiemachina Nov 25, 2012

alrighty then!

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