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Thursday: Tree, Olive, Bottle Art Contest!I hope you all had a fantastic Valentine's Day last week! Well done spreading the love to all.

This week, we're continuing the love trend.

We're doing an art creation contest. However, there's a twist -- you must use three pre-determined items in your piece!
We want you to create a deviation including three specific items that revolves around our theme of love:
Your deviation must contain these images:

Bottle
How you incorporate these items around the theme of love is up to you!
Of course, you may use more than the objects above, but all three of those objects must appear. Feel free to create whatever inspires you! Maybe someone is creating a model tree with olive-colored leaves in a bottle to give to his love. Or, maybe two olives are sitting in a tree, sipping wine from a bottle. Whatever your mind creates, we want to see it!
You can draw, take a photograph, write a story, use

The Super-Fun Mega Games SheetEveryone enjoys a good puzzle to crack, right? Especially when there are prizes involved... So for Vexel Art Project Educate week, I decided to make a games sheet with loads of fun puzzles and games for you to solve and enjoy

Of course, this games sheet is open to everyone

First prize - The first person to return this games sheet completed correctly will win a deviantART hoodie of their choice (subject to availability) & 1 year premium membership to deviantART, or the points equivilent!

The two runner's up, who will be the next two to return it completed correctly, will each win a 6 month premium membership to deviantART, or the points equivalent

To win the main prizes, all the answers must be 100% correct, if you get even just 1 wrong, you will not win... although if you're the first to return it and you've got most of them right, I'm pretty sure I can give you some points for your efforts

If you need to print it out to

Muro For *Membership .05 is CLOSED!

Hello everyone, and welcome to the fifth Muro for *Membership contest! Here you have the chance to win one of two one month premium memberships by making a Muro drawing either in the journal comments or by linking one that's based off of two or more provided themes each month. What makes this contest unique? That no matter what your skill level is as an artist, as long as you meet the minimum requirements of each months contest, you are eligible to randomly win a premium membership. After the end of each contest's submission period, each qualifying deviant will receive a number starting at one and go up as high as it needs to, and after each person gets a number they are entered into a random number generator and the middle and last numbers that represent the people will win a one month premium membership.
Please check out this journal if you

Thursday: Halloween Acronyms!Welcome back to Thursday!
A really great outpouring of bear and rabbit love! Awesome job one and all. In fact, thanks to a generous donation from $Heidi, everyone who submitted an entry will be receiving a one-month Premium Membership!

Our top three deviants, who will be receiving a deviantART Hoodie/Jacket, are listed below!

Forest's Lullaby by =TrollGirl

Rabbit And Bear by *chrisravensar

Will Power- Diet by *gerakun87

Honorable mention to:

Photography: Your Thoughts?Within this article we (myself and ^3wyl) are looking for your feedback on specific areas of the Photography Galleries and in particular what you'd like to see happening with regards to the following..
Daily Deviations
As you know, ^3wyl and myself are your General Photography Community Volunteers. That means we take Daily Deviation suggestions for all the Photography Galleries that don't have a volunteer looking over them. My Guidelines for suggesting daily deviations can be found here and ^3wyl's here. As we cover a lot of galleries, we would like to know whether or not we are neglecting anything. What do you want to see more of, or indeed less, or something in particular, perhaps? In essence, are we covering what you like to see? Let us know

Thursday: Haiku Contest!The Random Phrase contest has ended and the winners have been chosen! Our judges found it a tough decision with so many incredibly random deviations submitted. Well done to everyone who entered!
Our top three winners are:

Deterrent Acceptance by *slugette

Cold Digit by *LifeIsZealous

Advanced citizen by =Dererne

Honorable mentions to:

Coral Erosion by *Kiara2811

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Four Line Long Poems -Contest ending SOON!Contest Update
Just a few days left to go! Get your entries in NOW!
A recent discovery of the very innovative idea from Alex Valentine on Four Line Long Poems has prompted a mini-revolution here on deviantART as ^3wyl and I plotted and schemed to create something not dissimilar to #SixWordStories. Thus, ~FourLinePoems was born! It's a group that's completely open to everyone and anyone who would like to join and the exciting news is that, with its launch, we are announcing the first Four Line Poem Competition!
Dates
Contest Open: 15th December 2012, Midnight PST.
Contest Close: 15th January 2013, Midnight PST.
Winners Announcement: After 1st February
Rules & Examples
Four Line Poems are exactly that - just four lines long!

One entry per person.

Entries must be newly submitted to deviantART, in Literature Format:

Merrell Diorama Contest Semi-FinalistsIn the Merrell Diorama Contest, we challenged you to depict your favorite fall memory in a shoebox diorama. Your visions were brought to life, and beautifully so! Thank you for sharing your memories with us. The following Semi-Finalists have been chosen by our judges and will now be sent to Merrell's Vice President of Global Marketing, who will choose the top three Finalists.
The 22 Semi-Finalists will each receive:

$50 USD iTunes Gift Card

DeviantART Gear T-Shirt of Winner's choice (subject to availability)

800 deviantART Points

Three-month Premium Membership to deviantART
Congratulations to all!
Read Contest Article

REMINDER: December Challenge: Coping MechanismsHello, #Arts-and-Health!!
Welcome to your December Challenge!
Your theme for this month is:
Coping Mechanisms
"Coping mechanisms" refers to how we cope with illness, whether in positive ways (practicing religion, exercising, writing, hanging out with loved ones, meditating, etc.) or ways that are not so good for us (smoking, etc.). Show us what you personally use to cope with your condition (or if you do not have a health condition, show us what others you know do to cope).
In your artist's comments, please make it clear that you have created your piece for our group. (If we can't tell that it is relevant to coping, we will not accept your piece into the Challenge.) Also, it should be a new deviation (made on or after December 1, 2012).
All media are accepted.
Submit your deviation(s) to the December Challenge - Coping folder in the group's gallery.
You can enter as many times as you wish.
At the end of the month, the group will choose one wi

Thursday: Change of Letter Contest!Thank you for inviting us to your hometowns in last week's contest! We saw a wide variety of scenery and got a glimpse into what makes your home special to you. Well done!
The top four winners are:

Typical Bergen Weather by =ChimeraDragonfang

Dillsburg Pickle Drop Truck BW by =TemariAtaje

breathe by =rhynwilliams

A Rodeo of Balloon Shapes by *tmulcahy

You will be contacted about your prizes in the next 24 hours.

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"Really liked the different perspective/point of view, made it stand out from the rest of the entries. Very unique idea that was well thought out. The various layers and colors of the fall trees captures how close a harvest moon appears to be just within reach."
$2,500 USD6,000 deviantART PointsA trip to attend a deviantMEET in either Portland, OR, or Seattle, WA, USA on March 16, 2013dA PRO Digital Artist BackpackA Print of your choice from

Welcome to the 2012 dASAW! [Updated]Welcome to the 2012 deviantART Staff Appreciation Week!

Hello everyone, and welcome to our second annual deviantART Staff Appreciation Week! We hope that you're as excited as we are to kick off a 7-day-long celebration of deviantART and the people who make it run smoothly for us!
For this week of contests, projects, love, points, prizes, more love, and devious shenanigans, our team of volunteers has worked very hard to organize many ways of telling the staff of deviantART, rather simply, "THANK YOU!"
So, without further ado, let's take a look at our schedule of events! If you are interested in seeing what's happening during the dASAW, you can refer to this journal! We will link to all of our pertinent news articles and post the dates of our contests and projects here!
Don't forget to wish the deviantART staff a happy dASAW! :iconeeeeeplz:

CR Halloween Chat Event!Join your Community Volunteers on Halloween for a fun-filled event!

Details
Here are all the details you need to know.

Time: October 31st, 2012 at 2PM PST
Check your local time here!
It is difficult to host an event that is at an appropriate time for everyone, so apologies to anyone who will not be able to attend because of the time.
Activities we've planned:
General Halloween Trivia!deviantART Trivia!A Q&A session with your Community Volunteers. Ask us questions about Halloween, or any Community Volunteer related questions!A Halloween themed Muro contest!
Prizes will be given out on the day!
Can't wait until then? Check out the dAMonsters chat game run by

Sketchmatch rulesWhat is Sketchmatch?
The original Sketchmatch actually was originated on Twitter by idea of ~eL-HiNO, ~toonfed and ~Tebin-Art and later transfered to deviantArt via dAmn
The rules and way to participate has changed slightly since then but the main rules remain the same; the idea is to create a quick jam, a group of deviations with a theme which is set at the moment by the people currently participating.
The catch is that you only get 10 minutes to do your entry!
Here are a couple of examples:

Yes! Each one of these was created in just 10 minutes!
So how will this work?
We gather over :#communityrelations: The theme will be set at the moment by the participants currently in there. The theme could be literally anything; french maids, steampunk ponies, how would you look if you were a superhero, the most craz

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Thursday: Random Phrase Art Contest!

Thu Nov 29, 2012, 1:27 PM

Happy Thursday!

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving last week, and are rested up and ready for an art contest this week! Using a random phrase generator, your task is to make a piece of art depicting your random phrase!

Here's how to participate:

Use this random phrase generator to get a random two-word phrase. It's best to use the first one that comes up, but you may choose another.

Draw this phrase, depict it in a photograph, or write about it! Any medium is accepted. However this phrase inspires you, we want to see it!

Be sure to include your random phrase in the description of your piece! Without this, we won't be able to properly judge your piece. It's also helpful to indicate that your entry is for #PremiumMembers.

Submit it to the Random Phrase folder in the Gallery.

All entries must be submitted to the Random Phrase Contest folder by Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 11:59 PM Los Angeles, CA, time. We'll pick 3 winners who will be chosen based on creativity, inclusion of the random phrase, and artistic interpretation. Feel free to enter as many times as you wish!

Our three winners will receive the dA Cursive Headphone Hoodie and 500 Points! (Like the design behind this hoodie? Check out its creation story here!)

Get a random phrase and put on your random thinking hat! Then, make a gorgeous piece of art based on that phrase and submit it to the contest gallery!

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*Mkemaster Dec 11, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

I just submitted mine!

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~trazor29 Dec 3, 2012

Can we submit more than one entry?

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$Ayame-Kenoshi Dec 3, 2012

Sure!

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~trazor29 Dec 4, 2012

I have submitted mine.
"Bitten scare"

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Mood: dA Love

`elicoronel16 Dec 2, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

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=Strawboo Dec 2, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I got the best phrase

Dotted Stomach

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*Gunnut51 Dec 2, 2012 Hobbyist Artist

Woogie woogie woggie woooo!

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Mood: Sickened

*Armando-Huerta Dec 2, 2012 Professional Traditional Artist

I Have your two words right here:

FUCK DA

How about that!?

FAGS!

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=raiGfx08 Dec 2, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

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~franny123 Dec 2, 2012 Student Writer

"Sensitive rear." What? AGAIN.

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