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Welcome to Earth!Welcome to Earth!

The
Earth would die
If the sun stopped kissing her.
― Hafez, The Gift

"I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world."

The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky

The F Word 11
The F Works

Welcome to the 11th in the series of The F Word. Recently I asked my watchers in a poll about their one favourite work by an artist in deviantART, with a reason as to why they chose it, even if it wasn't mandatory. I also have a few more wonderful works to feature as well along with some other information around dA including contests!
Enjoy

~oblivionhaze suggested :

by =rockgem
"I love the whole sense of motion in this picture, along with the concept. I can envision fate holding the key to my life and twirling it in his long fingers."
~NeaLumina suggested :

by *PaperCutIllustration
`Hyazintha suggested :

by *jeffsimpsonkh
~Pyro-Cumulus suggested :

by ~Debi-Chiru
"Cause it's just so CUTE! I love how the nurse is nomming PH in the last one~ This

Dancing Business Cat - Race to End Animal Cruelty
:icontopicalityancing Business Feline:icontopicality:

A bandwagon that has been turned to a charity!
What started as innocent fun to use *Topicality's avatar, quickly spread into other deviants to use her avatar :icontopicality: as their own.
Now, *Topicality has made this bandwagon to a charity!
For every deviant that uses her Dancing Business Feline *Topicality as their own avatar, she will donate 50 cents to the ASPCA, The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Everyone is free to join!
To use her icon:

Right click on her avatar :icontopicality: and save the image (gif file) in your computer.
Or click this thumb

and hit download!

Go to your profile page and hover over your avatar. A 'change your avatar' and pencil mode appears. Click on it! (You can also change it through your settings page)

In the 'Upload Avatar' window, select the feline image that you

Resources For Artists: Colour Scheme ToolsColour Scheme Tools
So I have been thinking of doing a few articles apart from feature articles to link some useful resources for artists and this is the first one of these. While this is a mini one, it's helped me a lot on several occassions.
Sometimes it gets confusing to decide which colours to choose. "'Should I go with a turquoise and a gold for the face? What about the room? I was going for a chic cool modern palette which is minimalistic!" Surely, a lot of us have gone through those decisive moments. Below are some colour scheme tools that would help you with your colour scheme choices. Click the titles or the links in asterisk to go to the following sites.

COLOURlovers

A big resource community for colour palettes*, user named

Ballistic Publishing: EXPOSE 11 Call For EntriesEXPOSÉ 11: Call For Entries
About | Committee | Awards | Guidelines | FAQs

Ballistic Publishing is proud to announce EXPOSÉ 11, the eleventh edition of the premier annual artbook, which celebrates the creative talents of digital artists worldwide. These books sit in the collections of many top Game and Film studios - your next employer may

deviantART - Let's Extend the Spirit Day 2011
deviantART - Let's Extend the Spirit Day 2011!
:iconlaspiritplz: :iconlaspiritplz:

Those of you who have been here for more than a year or heard from others, may have seen deviantART going purple on October 20th, 2010 which marks the Spirit Day - an event to honor teens who have lost their lives to anti-LGBT bullying as well as to show support for them and others around the world.
However, deviantART had extended it to encompass all sorts of bullying, since bullying of all sorts happen to everyone, everywhere whether we notice it or not regardless of age, sexual orientation, gender, race, religion, profession, physical and/or mental ability, etc.

Here was last year's message to deviantART community by +spyed in the news article, deviantART Honors Spirit Day.

The F Word # 10
The F Works

Welcome to the 10th in the series of The F Word. Recently I asked my watchers in a poll about their one favourite work by an artist in deviantART, with a reason as to why they chose it, even if it wasn't mandatory. I also have a few more wonderful works to feature as well along with some other information around dA including contests!
Enjoy

^JCROXAS suggested :

by `Whimsical-Dreams
"The image is soooo sweet

I love their fun and full of love emotions and the wackiness of the image

truly magical and lovely!

"
^KasumiCR suggested :

by ~ailah
"I think this is an absolutely brilliant concept, with a very cute and detailed execution.

"
=elementalgirl14 suggested :

by ~reality-must-die
"It really makes you think, like how death is trying to grab you but you h

Improving your Art – what dA news can teach youWhat dA +news can teach you about:
Improving your Art
Issue One!

The dA +news platform is a great way to adress the community and teach them things about a wide range of topics, and of course to find information that you didn't even know you were looking for!

Over time I've collected many great articles. This series will bring them together per topic so it's easy to find what you're looking for!

Besides helping people find information they need, the aim of this series is also to promote quality on the news platform.
For this issue, I chose articles about Improving your Art. There may be more issues on this topic in the future

Articles may overlap on some areas, and may contain outdated info though I've tried to avoid this.

(For all you beta testers I included thumbs too!

they're invisible to non-beta testers.)

Learning Experience #1: 10 Ways

For the Love of Long Haired Men...:DAn article featuring handsome long-haired men, because they need more love!

And because we all know how sexy they are :iconloveloveplz:
I know you will like it!

Photography

Drawings & Paintings

:thumb13

Plans Gone Wrong Contest Tweet

Chaos Panda by $chix0r

We're throwing one panda, one light, one pie up against the incredibly successful Fotolia One Cat, One Fruit, and One Clock Contest. Let's see if our new completely crazed random selection can pull in more than the 10,000 entries we received last time.

Here's the big twist: This time, we're challenging you to use the theme of "plans gone wrong" in
your image.

You must use one each of the specific pandas, lights, and pies provided in the asset pack and create an image showing "plans gone wrong." Your entry can originate in any medium! These are stock pictures. You can trace them, draw them, photomanipu

deviantPOINTS: An updateOver the past few months we’ve been keeping a watchful eye on the way that members in our community have been offering points as payment for certain types of services within deviantART. We’ve seen all sorts of creative uses, from offering to critique your work for a few points, journal features for a few more points and my personal fav -- avatars, journal skins and any other sort of art commission for points. It’s been great to see deviants use their experience and skills to fund their super group upgrades, prints purchases and even treating their friends and families to their very first item of deviantWEAR.
As time rolled on, we noticed a new trend creeping in. People were not just offering a small number of points for a task that they’d normally do as part of their daily deviating -- people were offering thousands of page views for hundreds of points, and there seemed to be no limit to the amount that could be purchased, or offered. It didn

Complaint Challenge Contest - Extended!Update: Deadline Extension
New deadline: February 10th at 11:59 PM EST!
I could use an extra week before judging, and my poll suggested people could use a little more time than that. I've decided to extend the deadline by 10 days.
Don't forget you must note me your entry to be eligible for prizes. I know I saw some floating around. I do need an official entry note! You may find these other reminders helpful: http://fav.me/d4mk8a6
If your entry is not in this folder, you are not confirmed and should contact me: http://thorns.deviantart.com/favourites/47897505
If you have questions, or needed help, and I haven't fully helped yet, NOTE ME ASAP. If I haven't responded I misplaced your messages. (I know there is definitely one I cannot find.) I apologize and would be appreciate a reminder.
`thorns
We got our complaints out in 2011. Now, 2012 is about doing something productive with them. I am not going to sit and grumble a

Male NUDE Photography - TMS:iconthemalesoul:
In response to our most recent poll which asked which gallery members enjoyed most. I have put together this spectacular News Article to showcase the truly sublime NUDE photography in our galleries. Hope you enjoy it!!!
This Article is especially dedicated to all our members and particularly those that participated in the poll - thank you

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The purpose of this group is to showcase Male beauty (mind, body and soul) through photography. To promote and showcase artworks that explore Male beauty in all its forms.
If you have photographs of men in your gallery, whether portraits or artistic nudes etc. you are welcome. Please join and submit your work to the group, we would love you to share it with us. If you are just an admirer of the male form, please feel free to join or watch the group!!
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NUDE MONOCHROME

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Oh, boy #2Randomly featuring some photos of males

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Vivid

by `phoenixleo, May 4, 2010, 9:55:50 AM
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Vivid

_{- For Heart, Mind and Soul
= clear, detailed, powerful, bright, intense ...}

Featuring a collection of recent favourites of watchers and their gallery as well as recent ones that portray the word "vivid" in one way or the other.

Watchers' favourites and some from their gallery:

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:thumb136616862:

:thumb133691667:

=> :thumb130197056:

Some of my favourites:

:thumb162081372: :thumb127177394: :thumb138876338: :thumb160472762: :thumb161816946: :thumb153481591: :thumb161488831: :thumb112776182:
:thumb60728797: :thumb155674264: :thumb108386626: :thumb102781546: :thumb156840410: :thumb91343030: :thumb154384185: