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Thursday: A day for winners!Welcome to Thursday, Premium Members! And a very special Thursday it is, because we're announcing the winners of not one, but two contests!

First, from our Create a Poll contest:

Who are you on deviantART? by ~MariahEAM

How did you come to receive your Premium Membership by `lost-angle

How did you get interested in art? by *Tifa22
Look for these polls in a Message Center near you!

Second, from the Symbolize Your Year contest:
For m

Thursday: Improbable Mission!Welcome to another beautiful Thursday! I hope you've been having a great week so far.

We have the winners from our Reverse Jeopardy contest! Awesome puns and use of words. We enjoyed reading through all the entries!
The top winners are:

Category: Olympic Sports
Answer: Badminton
Question: Which sport is constantly making a racket?
by ~aczi16

Category: Aquatic Life
Answer: Red Snapper
Question: What was an accurate description of the photographer when told to get a real job?
by *TheBlueAvenger

Category: School Subjects
Answer: Algebra
Question: In which subject do we study the subject of zebra and algae breeding?
by `miontre

Category: Villains
Answer: Darth Maul
Question: What tool does a Sith Lord user to split firewood?
by *jkrolak
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Thursday: ABC Stories!Happy Thursday, Premium Members!
We first want to announce the winners of the Mother Nature contest! These were the entries that best represented the concept, with the creativity and visual impact to make an impression. Well done to the winners!

Serenity by *MaximeDaviron

Cradle of Life by *SYoshiko

Miss Mother Nature by =TheLadyJ

Mother Nature by *Steamstrike

Congratulations! You will be contacted about your prizes within the next 24 hours.
For this we

Thursday: Acronym Contest!

It's another Thursday! Or as we call it,
Tomorrow's
Holiday
Usually
Really
Saddens
Dogs
Across
Yemen
Why am I bringing up sad dogs in the Middle East, you ask? It's all part of this week's contest!

This week, we're having an acronym contest! Your task is to spell out one or more of these words, and use each letter as the first letter to create a sentence. Your words should, generally, make a full sentence instead of a string of nonsense.

The three words are:

Winner
Take my example above as inspiration for how these should be set up. You may choose to spell out one, two, or all three acronyms!
We'll choose six winners, two for each acronym, who will receive a mystery deviantWEAR t-shirt and deviantART stickers. These are shirts that are no longer available in the store!

Thursday: Mother Nature Art Contest!Class is in session! Awesome suggestions and entries last week. If only those classes could exist, school would be much more fun.

Our top three winners are:

*sleepyowlet with Keeping in touch with your inner child

=Dorktron with Extreme Archaeology

~TeamMinato with Time Traveling Ed
Congratulations! You will be contacted about your prizes within the next 24 hours.

For this week, we're having an art creation contest! All mediums are welcomed and all Premium Members are encouraged to join!
The theme for this contest is:

Mother Nature

What comes to your mind when you think about Mother Nature? Do you think of green forests brimming with exotic wildlife? Or bulldozers and factories polluting our

Bring Your Type to Life - A Typography ContestIt is time for another Typography contest! The theme of this contest will be…
Bring your Type to Life
This may sound abstract at first, but to keep the theme as open as possible, I choose a rather abstract title. There are many directions in which you can go. You could choose an anthropomorphic direction, where you breathe life into letters and give them human or other animate characteristics. Another route would be to create the letters out of living objects, such as plants or animals.
Which direction you choose, maybe even a third or fourth one, does not matter. What matters is that your letters are brought to life!
What kind of letters you bring to life, words, glyphs or sentences, is 100% up to you. This contest has a more visual approach, so you will not be judged on the creativity of the meaning you choose to give to the letters. However, don't rush it! Even one letter can appear completely different than another. Be wise with the letters, word

Project Educate: Interview with ^kingmanchengPassionate animator, dedicated Community Volunteer: today, we'll be looking into the thoughts of ^kingmancheng!
Please tell us a little bit about yourself.
I graduated from university with a BA honour in illustration and animation, having worked at a different university for a few years, I am now a fulltime freelance illustrator and animator.
When did you start animating?
When I was a young teen I reckon! During that time of my life gif animations really took off all over the Internet and so many young animators at that age got ahold of free gif animation compilers, so although I can't give an exact age, I was pretty young at the time!

When/how did you discover deviantART?
When I was about 15/16 years old, one of my friends from school did graphics design work in his own time and uploaded it here. He w

Not So Traditional Tuesdays #8The 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 that breakthrough every artist wants to find! Now on with the show!
**WARNING:Viewing these works of art may cause giddiness, elevated heart rates, and happiness in the pants(which could lead to blindness)! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!**

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Not So Traditional Tuesdays #7The 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 that breakthrough every artist wants to find! Now on with the show!
**WARNING:Viewing these works of art may cause giddiness, elevated heart rates, and happiness in the pants(which could lead to blindness)! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!**

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Traditional Tuesdays #42***WARNING: Viewing these works of art may cause giddiness, elevated heart rates, and happiness in the pants(which could lead to blindness)! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!***
Now with the warming out of the way, Hi, and welcome to the 42nd edition of Traditional Tuesdays. This week, like all of the other weeks, I'll be featuring fifteen works of art from the Traditional Gallery. Any more than that might and you might loss interest or it could cause your monitor to fail in an explosion of awesomeness. I would feel guilty if that were to happen, so I'm keeping it at fifteen! The Traditional gallery is a vast storeroom of work that covers many mediums and genres. I've tried to show a diverse array of artwork, but I don't have room for them all. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show!

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Not So Traditional Tuesdays #4My plan is to keep the features fresh for me(and you) and maybe open a few eyes to all the different kinds of artwork that is available while browsing the deviantArt galleries. 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 that breakthrough every artist wants to find!
**WARNING:Viewing these works of art may cause giddiness, elevated heart rates, and happiness in the pants(which could lead to blindness)! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!**

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Not So Traditional Tuesdays #3I'm staying with my plan to will keep the features fresh for me(and you) and maybe open a few eyes to all the different kinds of artwork that is available while browsing the deviantArt galleries. 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 that breakthrough every artist wants to find!

It's not late this time!
Mainly because I wasn't asleep!

**WARNING:Viewing these works of art may cause giddiness, elevated heart rates, and happiness in the pants(which could lead to blindness)! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!**
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Digital Art DDs August 2012 - Part 1

Palace by ~MagusVerus
Palace by ~MagusVerus. A uniquely designed painting done in beautiful rich gold tones.
(Featured by `alicexz, suggested by *Christa-Kinde)

Tranquil by ~2wenty
Tranquil by ~2wenty
(Featured by `Hyazintha, suggested by ~SophieBrigitteXD)

Fallens by *NikYeliseyev
Fallens, magnificent detailing in this exquisite, imaginative painting by ~

September DD round UpHi peeps, I now I haven't been around as much as I sould, lot on my plate... Anyway, here the DD round up!
Frist off, check out this wonderful artical by Talty Tolerance Towards Daily Deviations
DD I featured in the month of August, ether picked by me or suggest by members of Deviant Art

Traditional Tuesdays #33Howdy peeps? Welcome to the edition 33 of Traditional Tuesdays . This week, like all of the other weeks, I'll be featuring fifteen works of art from the Traditional Gallery. Any more than that might and you might loss interest or it could cause your monitor to fail in an explosion of awesomeness. I would feel guilty if that were to happen, so I'm keeping it at fifteen! The Traditional gallery is a vast storeroom of work that covers many mediums and genres. I've tried to show a good mix of artwork, but I don't have room for them all. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show!
**WARNING:
Viewing these works of art may cause giddiness, elevated heart rates, and happiness in the pants(which could lead to blindness)! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!**

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Thursday: Short Story Illustrations!

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Why, I'm no neurosurgeon, ever really! But it doesn't take a brain surgeon to see how amazing your acronyms were during last week's contest! They were humorous, contemplative, and all around awesome. Nice work, everyone!

These were the top commenters who took the prize. Congratulations, one and all!

Premium

Please

Remember

Even

Monsters

Invade

Uganda

Monthly

Poptarts

Recent

Explosive

Marketing

Idea

Unites

Mothers

by *CamishaKelley

Thursday

Time

Has

Undiscovered

Rhythms,

Stored

Delicately,

Awaiting

You

by ~weshallbeWild

Three

Hot-dogs

Under

Rainbows

Shout,

"Die

All

Yetis!"

by ~Zachamation

Winner

Wow,

I'm

Never

Near

Elephant

Rears!

Whenever

I

Nap,

Neverland

Enters

Reality.

by =SleepingInTheShadows

Congratulations! You will be contacted about your prizes within the next 24 hours.

Your challenge this week? Make these stories come to life!

Your task is to illustrate one or more of these super short stories. What does a monster invasion in Uganda look like? Why do the three hotdogs hate Yetis so much? What is that moment of realization like when you notice you're never near elephant rears? Show us in a drawing!

Draw a representation of one of these stories! You can use a dA muro comment to this journal, or use whatever means you'd like to express your story. Link us to your entry in the comments below!

Illustrate your entries either as a dA muro comments, or link us to your deviation in the comments to this journal by Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at 11:59 PM Los Angeles, CA, time. At that time, we'll go through the entries and pick three winners, who will be chosen based on artistic interpretation, accuracy to the theme, and creativity. Feel free to enter as many times as you'd like!

These three winners will receive 2000 Points each!

These are fantastic stories, but they need illustrations! Show us a scene from one of the above stories and you could win!

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~Kissobelle Aug 1, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Seriously? No one's drawn Nyan Cat for the Poptarts one, yet?!

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=Strawboo Aug 1, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

When are the results coming out?

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=Madokah Aug 1, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

_{my doodle is so stupid, but it's finished |D

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*silverrose99 Jul 31, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

yay for last minute entries~ [link]

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~MariahEAM Jul 31, 2012 Photographer

Please Remember Even Monsters Invade Uganda Monthly [link]

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=Strawboo Jul 31, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Whenever
I
Nap,
Neverland
Enters
Reality.

and in there:

Poptarts
Recent
Explosive
Marketing
Idea
Unites
Mothers

Oh remember that:

Please
Remember
Even
Monsters
Invade
Uganda
Monthly

And:

Wow,
I'm
Never
Near
Elephant
Rears!

[link]

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Mood: Sentimental

=jesterry Jul 29, 2012

Undiscovered rhythms, delicately awaiting for you here

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~MariahEAM Jul 31, 2012 Photographer

I really love this! I hope you win!

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~Tambergal Jul 28, 2012 Student Digital Artist

Wow, I'm never near elephant rears!
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~VegetasLittleSister Jul 27, 2012 Hobbyist

Do we have to make the illustrations on muro? Also, what is the prize (just curious)?

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