GrayOblivion

THIS RAFFLE IS NOW CLOSED! THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR PARTICIPATING! Hello everyone! First of all I would like to thank all of my watchers [old and new] for the support!! I would also like to apologize for replying so slow, but I really appreciate all of your comments! Right now I have reached 4k+ watchers, so I decided to have a raffle event as gratitude! Thanks guys! <3 ✂- - - - - - WINNERS FOR THE POINTS & ART RAFFLE ★ 1st Place (via random.org) 500 pointsFree (1) full body colored artwork of any (1) OC (semi-realistic style) ~wintry-chan (https://www.deviantart.com/wintry-chan) ★ 2nd Place (via random.org) 300 pointsFree (1) half body colored artwor

Although, as an active member of the community, it's nearly impossible to have missed this huge issue, I think it's very important to warn people for this. What happened is a large case fraud in which apparently one user (under multiple names) scammed several members of DeviantArt community. Leaving some people as much as $3000 in debt!!! Money they, most likely, never see back. Even though the user is banned by DeviantArt now, there's no reason why it won't happen again. After all, the problem is caused by a loophole in PayPal's rules. So basically everybody that's using PayPal for its business (and that's a lot of us) is at risk. That in

This journal is for artists who want to get more commissions, or want to open commissions and never had so they don't know how best to present their art, or even for those artists who took commissions before but would appreciate some more tips :D There are a few pretty important things to consider before publicly announcing you're  opening commissions: 1. payment method. The deviantart commission widget takes 20% of your profit, but then again more deviants have points so you're likely to get 20% more customers like that. But don't forget there are people who have paypal and don't feel like dealing with points so if you decide to open commi

Our of curiosity, I wrote this script that makes a graph of a deviant's watcher gain over time, starting with the day the deviant gained his/her first watch. My graph spans about two years and looks like this: Interestingly enough, it turns out that the largest peaks correlate not with the days when I received a DD, but with the days when I wrote PE articles and landed in the footer. The DD's led to small peaks, but they are surprisingly hardly noticeable in the graph. Anyways, thought I'd share since it's pretty interesting to see what your graph comes out to be. :la: All you have to do is go to the page linked above and enter your userna

Rules and info This event is FOR WATCHERS Only ;//v//; new or old :heart: You can create ONE SINGLE ( NOT one per species TvT ) Character from one of our species ç///v///ç The event starts on August 7th and ends on September 7th :heart: ;v; after this date you can't participate in this event anymore ;u; :heart: You have to credit me in your description ;v; and link this journal please ;///v///; :heart: ( to allow more people to know this Journal \;//v//;/ ) You can't create a character for your friend , it's only a personal character \;v;/ You can't trade , gift or sell your character , because it' a limited time event and

Update: I have added some of my latest artworks that fit into the themes. Some commissions are included as well. The goal now is to have this list full. I might re-draw some of the works here in a later time. ----------- What is the 100 themes challenge? Learn more here I've been wanting to try it since ages, and I have finally decided to start! It will take long time to finish, or I may never finish it. But that doesn't matter, I just want to try it, because I see it as a great path for improvement :la:! + 100 Themes Challenge + 1. Introduction: 2. Love 3. Light 4. Dark 5. Seeking Solace 6. Break Away 7. Heaven 8. Innocence 9

Being an artist is hard. But being an novice at art is even harder too if you are seeking your own style and development. I have read some journals that are discussing the issue over this, and one artist 'coping/heavily influencing' another. It's a problem that we face on a regular basis on this website. But, one thing I do find upsetting, and that is not the case of people being blamed for coping and so on, it's the manner of it being addressed. Now, don't get me wrong, tracing and coping another artists work for means other than learning or helping them to improve ( either by tutorials for example ) is perfectly okay in my book! But not

Over the past month or so I have noticed an influx in the new species popping up from different artists. So I thought it might be fun to host a contest where we create a couple open species for our group. They can be anything your imaginations come up with and you can enter as many species sheets as you wish. I will select "X" winners ("X" depends on how many entries we get . I may select 1 winner, I may select 10). Winners will receive either 2000:points: or $20 cash. (More if anyone wants to volunteer some prizes). What this means: A) The species will be OPEN, but only to Spellbound Realms members and Artists. B) The original creator can