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Celebrating Diversity #13In this issue of Celebrating Diversity, I would like to remind you of an amazing feeling...when you see a piece of art created in a medium or genre that you have little or no experience of working in, and it feels like you're witnessing something magical, something beyond your comprehension.
It's wonderful to revel in the joy of How do they do that? and find inspiration in the creations of other artists. So I challenge you to take a step outside of the galleries that you regularly browse and immerse yourself in the experience of indulging in something new.

How do you celebrate diversity?

Do you regularly browse, comment on and collect art that's wildly different from what you create?

Do you watch artists who use mediums that you don't use in your own

Traditionalists 02Welcome to our #Traditionalists Article where we feature Traditional art news for the community by the community! These articles aim to promote, educate, and bring awareness to various events, projects and or deviants within the Traditional community. Anyone is welcome to add to future articles, please visit our group for further details on how to get involved.
*Devynn Interviews *AmandaDrage:
Bio: written by *Devynn
Amanda Drage was born and lives in Northamptonshire, England. Amanda began her art career as an equine artist, drawing horses from a very young age. She has been on deviantART for eight years in which she rose to prominance among the equine art community, her attention for detail, varied mediums, and intimate style catching attention with every piece she posted. In recent years, she began to branch out from equine art, trying her hand at wildlife art, where she excelled. Today, she continues to balance w

Celebrating Diversity #15I enjoyed doing my last Celebrating Diversity article so much I decided to do another one!!! Have you looked at another gallery than your usual today????

Celebrating Diversity #1-14 found here:
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CR Newsletter - November/December 2012 Director of Community Relations :iconmoonbeam13: :
Table of Contents
1. Happy Holidays and Merry New Year
2. Volunteer Openings in Community Relations
3. Community Projects
4. Official Contests
5 Project Educate 2011/2012
6. Art History Project
7. News from the Chats and Forums
8. News from the Galleries
1. Happy Holidays and Merry New Year
As the old year begins to fade into the sunset, it is customary to reflect on the passing year and make plans for the upcoming one. Some do this in the form of resolutions, some people make action plans, some people just swing into the new year the same way they swung out of the old one

Whatever way you intend to welcome in 2013, I hope you're surrounded by love and that you do it safely!
I've been reflecting on the year and like many, with some focus on the unimaginable events of the last few weeks. Specifically, the shooting in Newtown. I know that it's "human nature" to want to find

Celebrating Diversity #14What is art? Probably one of those questions that will remain without a definite and universal answer. However I think we all can identify art when we see it, even if we don't know to explain why.

Art has a very personal definition and there are no rights or wrongs. For me, art is to find beauty and something worth taking the time to pay close attention to, in everything that surrounds us.

Some people say everything is art. Some agree and some don't. Regardless of your position in this debate I think is safe to say that maybe not everything is art, but everything has the potential to be art, if we know where to look.

In a world as diverse as ours, there is an infinite plethora of things which are beautiful in their own way, it's just a matter o

Celebrating Diversity #7Writing this article will prompt me to go on a journey into the deviantART galleries I have rarely explored. I've chosen to feature some deviations from the Film & Animation, Traditional Art and People and Portraits Photography galleries!
Film & Animation

Traditional Art

People & Portraits Photography

Previous Articles
Here are previous Celebrating Diversity articles for your viewing pleasure:
#1

ProjectPorkchop Vol210#ProjectPorkchop is all about bringing more exposure to the many talented yet under appreciated artists going unseen on deviantART daily. The artists chosen truly deserve more attention based on low counts of favorites, comments, and watchers, added to their incredible artistic talent.
:iconkevin-roque:

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:iconxondaime:

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:iconsergvandreef:

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:iconnewfka:

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Digitally Delicious: Jan. 17th
Mother of Dragons by *me-illuminated

Spirit of Forest Larder by ~TopotoonPun

Hopes and Dreams: Illusion by *entwinedfate

Lady Wasp by ~Whiteparasite

Terra: Solace by *shideh

03 by ~joinjump

arcade legend by ~TheGreyNinja

Midgar Master of

To Be Seen .16A weekly article featuring five photographers from all areas in the deviantART community. Spare a bit of time to take a gander at the photographs and their respective galleries showcased below!
!Deadly-Tea-Party

~LoveInMist

~natucya

*snolover

~katelynrphotography

If you have any suggestions for (improving) the Photography Gallery, anything photography related in #communityrelations that you would like/w

Not So Traditional Tuesdays #11Sorry about this being a day late! I was out half of the day yesterday, and lost track of time while painting for the rest of it.
This little feature is now into the double digits of editions . This wasn't something I that had I planned on doing. Originally this was just a one off article because I was bored one day, and started typing in random search words. It is still fun to do though, so I think it will keep going until it no longer is.
I like to think that the things that make one piece of art great applies, for the most part, to other genres. A painter can learn how light and shadow fall from photography, photo-manipulators can learn about composition from a great Manga drawing, and literature can give you the inspiration to try something new or take your work to the next step. You may never try all art forms you see! You can however take what you learn from them and incorporate that into your own work. It could be the difference between stagnating and tha

Pimps and Whoas - March 12, 2013Pimps
Official dA News

The Enduring Enigma of Collage

Site Update: Survey

Join us for a deviantMEET in Seattle WA

Site Update: Bug Fixes and Discussion

Site Update March 7

Selling on the Premium Con

Gallery Makeover ProjectHello everyone

Recently my team and I worked tirelessly on a project to help improve the gallery descriptions and thumbnail examples. While that project was indeed tedious with almost 4,000 categories in our system, it was also educational. What I learned from sorting through thousands and thousands of categories was that we have a lot of redundancy and a lot of categories that seem to have been created on a whim that are now simply homes for junk.
Over the years, the desire to appease niche communities and people who just wanted a specific area has led to some categories that go up to 4 levels deep, and it's really no wonder it's so confusing for people to figure out where to submit their artwork.
The conclusion I've come to is simplicity. While I'm not about to rip apart everything and make 6 stand alone categories, I do believe that there is a lot we can do to simplify the category tree. That includes some of the following:
1. Merging categories that ma

Pimps and Whoas - April 5, 2013Pimps
Official dA News

Introducing Motion Books to deviantART

How to Subscribe to the deviantART Status Forum

Celebrating Deviousness - April 2013

Give a Warm Welcome to the New Alpha Testers

Legacy of the Lens

Make a Difference #185Artists join deviantART to share their art and appreciate others. Due to the many artists out there, it's easy to get towed under and generally obscured from the public.
Make a Difference aims to do exactly that. This series of articles will hopefully make a difference to you as well as the artists featured weekly. Just by giving one minute of your time to write constructive comments, favourites and even watches will make a difference to these artists.
:iconxeeshan-ch: captures the moment exceptionally well, many of his pieces filled with colour to really draw you into the piece in question. It is clear that, through patience, ~xeeshan-ch captures those photographs in which time is wonderfully suspended.

~xeeshan-ch's Gallery
:iconancientpoet: poetry has awesome rhythm and rhyme, the flow

To Be Seen .12A weekly article featuring five photographers from all areas in the deviantART community. Spare a bit of time to take a gander at the photographs and their respective galleries showcased below!
~Sssssergiu

~GZB

*BootlessInWonderland

*NataliaCiobanu

~simsalabima

If you have any suggestions for (improving) the Photography Gallery, anything photography related in #communityrelations that you would like/we

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Celebrating Diversity #17

Thu Jan 17, 2013, 5:55 PM

This is my second Celebrating Diversity article, so I've chosen different galleries to feature!

Writing this article will prompt me to go on a journey into the deviantART galleries I have rarely explored. I've chosen to feature some deviations from the Game Development Art, Designs & Interfaces and Cartoons & Comics galleries!

Game Development Art

Designs & Interfaces

Cartoons & Comics

Here are previous Celebrating Diversity articles for your viewing pleasure:

#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16

"You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way."

- Lady Gaga

Why we are Celebrating DIVERSITY!

This ongoing series of Art Features has been created to celebrate the huge diversity of submissions to dA. No gallery on dA is better than the other, they are only different.

Differences are good and healthy, they make our world colorful and enjoyable. It is good that we all have different und unique tastes and we should celebrate that! Instead of scorning something that is different, we have to accept, tolerate and appreciate it and the fact that it enrichens the world with yet another thing

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=Lion6255 Jan 18, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Very nice feature and wonderful works.......My favorite part is the saying written up at the very bottom

"Differences are good and healthy, they make our world colorful and enjoyable. It is good that we all have different and unique tastes and we should celebrate that! Instead of scorning something that is different, we have to accept, tolerate and appreciate it and the fact that it enrichens the world with yet another thing "