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Spotlight Features - Vol. 15A news series featuring art selected by me. There will be a wide range of themes and genres covered. In addition, there will be periodic interviews and artist spotlights.
If you like this article, please add it to your favorites to help spread the love for the art and artists within.
Daily Features
On my profile page, I feature a new deviation every day (or two or three). The piece is usually something that caught my eye. Could be an amazing digital painting, a fun stamp, a quick photograph that made me smile, perhaps a piece for a weekly theme, whatever. However, it moved me enough to share it with my visitors. Below is a list of the artists which I featured during October 2012. I am showcasing different pieces from their gallery in the hope of showing them a bit more love. If you would like to see the original piece I featured of each of these artists, please visit

Spotlight Features - Volume 12A news series featuring art selected by me. There will be a wide range of themes and genres covered. In addition, there will be periodic interviews and artist spotlights.
If you like this article, please add it to your favorites to help spread the love for the art and artists within.
Daily Features
On my profile page, I feature a new deviation every day (or two or three). The piece is usually something that caught my eye. Could be an amazing digital painting, a fun stamp, a quick photograph that made me smile, perhaps a piece for a weekly theme, whatever. However, it moved me enough to share it with my visitors. Below is a list of the artists which I featured during September 2012. I am showcasing different pieces from their gallery in the hope of showing them a bit more love. If you would like to see the original piece I featured of each of these artists, please visit

Spotlight Features - Volume 14A news series featuring art selected by me. There will be a wide range of themes and genres covered. In addition, there will be periodic interviews and artist spotlights.
If you like this article, please add it to your favorites to help spread the love for the art and artists within.
Poll Features
It is widely known that many famous artists, composer, and authors have had the frustration of having a work they felt was sub-par gain huge popularity while pieces they worked harder on and adore sat un-noticed. This is the same for everyday deviants. I recently ran a poll asking for deviants to share with me their thoughts on this and share their own art. Here is Part 2 of the answers--the first piece being the most faved and the second being the one they wished had more love. To see the original poll, click here.

:iconLeafbreeze7: *Leafbreeze7
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Spotlight Features - Volume 11A news series featuring art selected by me. There will be a wide range of themes and genres covered. In addition, there will be periodic interviews and artist spotlights.
If you like this article, please add it to your favorites to help spread the love for the art and artists within.
Daily Features
On my profile page, I feature a new deviation every day (or two or three). The piece is usually something that caught my eye. Could be an amazing digital painting, a fun stamp, a quick photograph that made me smile, perhaps a piece for a weekly theme, whatever. However, it moved me enough to share it with my visitors. Below is a list of the artists which I featured during August 2012. I am showcasing different pieces from their gallery in the hope of showing them a bit more love. If you would like to see the original piece I featured of each of these artists, please visit

Relativity Contest WinnersFinally...

`Ravenswd and I are happy to announce the winners of the 2nd annual Relativity contest. This year's theme was "Your OC as a hero or villain in the Relativity universe."

If you like this article, please consider faving it so that others can find these artists and their works.
It seems a common thing for contest hosts to complain about the difficulty in judging. That's because it's hard! And this contest was no exception. Lovely art, wonderful words, and great ideas. With so many diverse entries, we had to pick one criteria to use as the main judging point. That was story. More importantly: Who did we want to know more about. Which pieces piqued our interest and made us want to know what happened next. With that in mind, we announce the winners...
Pixel
As pixel artists, we opened this special category since pixels sometimes struggle against more trad

Literary Compass - Vol. 3Welcome
If one is looking for Literature, you don't need to go far on deviantART. There is a large community of writers and a plethora of work to peruse. Featuring genres such as fantasy, mystery, horror, and romance, one would be hard-pressed to find an area not covered. However, due to the nature of the site, shorter works tend to get more focus. It's easier to quickly read a poem or a short story, and thus many of the feature articles on dA showcase those works. However, there are many novelists and serial writers among the mix, oftentimes fighting an uphill battle to have their works seen and appreciated.
With that in mind, I have started an article to spotlight some of those artists and their literary-worlds. The works covered in this feature will exclusively be long-form fiction such as novels, trilogies, etc., or fiction serials.
Current Stop - Loreithia
Our third stop on our Literary journey is the lush fantasy world of Loreithia created

Literary Compass - Vol. 1Welcome
If one is looking for Literature, you don't need to go far on deviantART. There is a large community of writers and a plethora of work to peruse. Featuring genres such as fantasy, mystery, horror, and romance, one would be hard-pressed to find an area not covered. However, due to the nature of the site, shorter works tend to get more focus. It's easier to quickly read a poem or a short story, and thus many of the feature articles on dA showcase those works. However, there are many novelists and serial writers among the mix, oftentimes fighting an uphill battle to have their works seen and appreciated. With that in mind, I have started an article to spotlight some of those artists and their literary-worlds. The works covered in this feature will exclusively be long-form fiction such as novels, trilogies, etc., or fiction serials.

Current Stop - Deliverance
Our first stop on our Literary journey is Ciereth, a rich world create

Cannibal by ~mad-englishman
deviantART Related / deviantID
( Featured by ^ladygagz )

Self portrait by =nine9nine9
deviantART Related / deviantID
( Suggested by ~RottenRagamuffin and Featured by ^ladygagz )

Kingdom Hearts II - One Sky, One Destiny by ~TsukiyomiSayuri
deviantART Related / deviantID
( Featured by :d

Coffee and Features - Issue 1A periodic random feature article showcasing various stuff, including contest wins and other goodies. Published on an erratic schedule.
If you enjoy this article, please add this article to your favorites to help bring more exposure to the artists featured.
Thank You
I was recently low on funds and my premium on my `mirz-alt account was running out. `Endorell-Taelos and `JamminJo were kind enough to gift me subscriptions. Here is a thank-you feature. Be sure to check out these lovely artists.

:iconjamminjo: `JamminJo

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:iconEndorell-taelos: `Endorell-Taelos

Chat Feature
A small feature of some

Spotlight Features - Volume 10A news series featuring art selected by me. There will be a wide range of themes and genres covered. In addition, there will be periodic interviews and artist spotlights.
If you like this article, please add it to your favorites to help spread the love for the art and artists within.
Daily Features
On my profile page, I feature a new deviation every day (or two or three). The piece is usually something that caught my eye. Could be an amazing digital painting, a fun stamp, a quick photograph that made me smile, perhaps a piece for a weekly theme, whatever. However, it moved me enough to share it with my visitors. Below is a list of the artists which I featured during July 2012. I am showcasing different pieces from their gallery in the hope of showing them a bit more love. If you would like to see the original piece I featured of each of these artists, please visit

Literary Compass - Vol. 2Welcome
If one is looking for Literature, you don't need to go far on deviantART. There is a large community of writers and a plethora of work to peruse. Featuring genres such as fantasy, mystery, horror, and romance, one would be hard-pressed to find an area not covered. However, due to the nature of the site, shorter works tend to get more focus. It's easier to quickly read a poem or a short story, and thus many of the feature articles on dA showcase those works. However, there are many novelists and serial writers among the mix, oftentimes fighting an uphill battle to have their works seen and appreciated.
With that in mind, I have started an article to spotlight some of those artists and their literary-worlds. The works covered in this feature will exclusively be long-form fiction such as novels, trilogies, etc., or fiction serials.
Current Stop - Caelum Lex
Our first stop on our Literary journey is the "rustbucket" the Dionysian, part of the

Literary Compass - Vol. 4Welcome
If one is looking for Literature, you don't need to go far on deviantART. There is a large community of writers and a plethora of work to peruse. Featuring genres such as fantasy, mystery, horror, and romance, one would be hard-pressed to find an area not covered. However, due to the nature of the site, shorter works tend to get more focus. It's easier to quickly read a poem or a short story, and thus many of the feature articles on dA showcase those works. However, there are many novelists and serial writers among the mix, oftentimes fighting an uphill battle to have their works seen and appreciated.
With that in mind, I have started an article to spotlight some of those artists and their literary-worlds. The works covered in this feature will exclusively be long-form fiction such as novels, trilogies, etc., or fiction serials.
Current Stop - Silver City
Our fourth stop on our Literary journey is the modern day metropolis of Silver City,

Spotlight Features - Vol. 16A news series featuring art selected by me. There will be a wide range of themes and genres covered. In addition, there will be periodic interviews and artist spotlights.
If you like this article, please add it to your favorites to help spread the love for the art and artists within.
Daily Features
On my profile page, I feature a new deviation every day (or two or three). The piece is usually something that caught my eye. Could be an amazing digital painting, a fun stamp, a quick photograph that made me smile, perhaps a piece for a weekly theme, whatever. However, it moved me enough to share it with my visitors. Below is a list of the artists which I featured during November 2012. I am showcasing different pieces from their gallery in the hope of showing them a bit more love. If you would like to see the original piece I featured of each of these artists, please visit

Relativity Contest - Great Prizes!

`Ravenswd and I are proud to announce our 2nd annual Relativity contest!
The theme this year (overwhelmingly selected by our Watchers) is:
Your Original Character (OC) as a Hero or Villain in the Relativity Universe
Since this is a Relativity contest, simply drawing a picture of your OC as a superhero will not count. You must incorporate something from Relativity into the piece. Either another character from the universe or something that is a direct and obvious reference to the world.
ANY of the Relativity characters can be used. That includes the characters in or out of costume. Supporting characters or villains may also be used.
A full list of characters, profile sheets, and references can be found in the #RelativityComic Group here ---> http://relativitycomic.deviantart.com/gallery/
Your character can be, but doesn't have to be, a costumed hero or villain. Your OC could be a heroic cop on

Are You Super? - Vol. 1A new series which will feature superhero related art and literature. I don't have a planned schedule for updates, but hope to publish at least once a month.
As I had intended to do an article to feature Relativity art we received from a project which we're wrapping up, I thought it would be a good way to launch this series. Note that in the future, a wide range of superhero art and literature will be showcased, not just my stuff

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The Relativity Profile Project
Back in June of 2012, `Ravenswd and I planned a special project for our fiction series, Relativity. Looking at our group gallery, we noticed that we did not have a lot of good, full-figured pictures of our characters. This made creating profile sheets and other promotional items difficult. So we set up a little fund in order to purchase a few commissions of the main heroes. We were on a tight budget and looked for artists that would work wit

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Spotlight Features - Volume 13

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A news series featuring art selected by me. There will be a wide range of themes and genres covered. In addition, there will be periodic interviews and artist spotlights.

If you like this article, please add it to your favorites to help spread the love for the art and artists within.

Poll Features

_{It is widely known that many famous artists, composer, and authors have had the frustration of having a work they felt was sub-par gain huge popularity while pieces they worked harder on and adore sat un-noticed. This is the same for everyday deviants. I recently ran a poll asking for deviants to share with me their thoughts on this and share their own art. Here are some of the answers--the first piece being the most faved and the second being the one they wished had more love. More will be featured in future articles. To see the original poll (which is still open), click here.}

~H-E-L-L-O-W-O-R-L-D
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`Hyazintha

=RydiStorm

*TheSpokesman

=Sevslover6195

Memories Like the shards of a broken mirror they surround her, the memories of both of her lives. One is warm and inviting, the other cold and forbidding. Enigma-37 shudders as she touches the closest shard, it shatters into a cloud of silver revealing the scene within.
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She never wanted to be here, never wanted any of this, yet here she is. She looks at the soldier to her left: it's Danielle, she is saying the Lords prayer before they drop in Germany, the place where she was born and raised.

"It'll be over soon," 37 says placing a comforting hand on her fr

=Forty-Fathoms

~Minakie

~Zerg620

*PiccolaRia

~werewolf85

`IceXDragon

`phydeau

=NAkos

=Goosx

=happy-gurl

~Shadowed-Serenity

~FoolEcho

=SamusFairchild

~Snowshi

=mangasockattack

~galadriel-the-small

*AodsAlice

=Nattie-Bug

~bloodrose83

The SleeperIt was strange.

Surreal, she realized, as she turned the repetitive thoughts of earlier over again in her mind.

How normal everything seemed in light of what was about to come.

Her candle was burning low. Even the longer one she'd requested of the bar maid and paid the excess coin for didn't seem long enough.

But then, she told herself ruefully, the candlemaker couldn't have likely made one long enough to be suitable, even if he labored a century's worth of days and nights over it. She watched beads of wax slide down the sides to pool in the middle of the wooden tabletop, the smell of charring wick ripe in her nose.

If, she then reminded

~isora683

And adding my own, because I can...

`Mirz123

Spotlight Interview

_{In this series, I hope to introduce the community to some artists who have been around dA for a while. Some are known, some are still relativity unknown. The interviews are meant to be short and sweet. I encourage you to check out the artist's full gallery and add them to your devWatch.}

-- This issue, we talk to digital artist, ^FionaCreates

Could you introduce yourself and tell us a little about yourself and your dA life? (You can use this question to plug any groups or off-dA projects you may have.)

Good Evening people of the Internet.

What can I say other than Hi my name is Fiona, AKA ^FionaCreates, I'm 24, spend most of my time being creative in some manor or other and,according to some, I'm quintessentially British. As part of deviantART I used to be the GD/GM/CV for the Digital Dolls Category and I'm still fairly active in that category, I currently co run a dolls contest group entitled #minishizzle hosting 2 small contests a month. I also write and illustrate the dieselpunk webcomic Hairpin which is fairly new and still finding it's feet. Comics is a new endeavor for me, and certainly very challenging but rewarding.

I'm also a huge fan of the quiz show "pointless" and watch it most days. I have quite extensive General Knowledge and get pissed off when I can't answer a question. Not particularly art related but yay quizshows!

What would you say your main artform is? Secondary?

I'm a figurative illustrator. Whether this emerges as illustrations, digital dolls, paintings or comics is unique to the intention of each idea. I work in both digital and traditional and often fuse the two. I don't really have a favourite media to work with beyond "whatever gets the job done". Digital and Traditional... they're just the tool, the Artist makes the Art.

When did you start pursuing your art? What prompted you to?

I've never considered pursuing anything else. I've been told that when I was in playschool at around 3 years old I used to demand crayon time everyday, even though crayon time was only 1 day a week. Never say no to crayons.

What is your favorite piece in your gallery at the moment?

In general, what is your favorite thing to create (i.e. fan-art, poetry, etc) ?

My favourite thing to make is really boring run of the mill character portraits or tool dolls because I can relax and feel good about my work. There's things like full illustrations or pages of my comic that are much more difficult and require work and concentration, which I also love and are immensely satisfying, but sometimes it's fun just to kick back and do easy.

Just for fun question: What is your favorite movie?

Of All Time? The Oceans 11 with Brad Pitt and George Clooney. It never fails to make me smile, the chemistry between the 11 is fantastic. Is it the best movie ever? No. But it just makes me smile so great for bad days. I can never not watch it.

Time to spread the love. Who are 3 artists you feel could use more love? Tell us why you love them. (please select one piece from each of the artist's gallery and send me the thumb)

~teaganwhite - Everything from Cartoon to Realism done with intense care and delicacy but, above all, heart.

*CumbriaCam - Because there's nothing that gets my heart going like excellent Landscapes.

~Glumentia - Groovy colours and pixels and dolls. What's not to love?

Final words?

“Man is not made for defeat” -Ernest Hemingway

Some of my picks from ^FionaCreates's gallery:

Themed Feature

_{November is known for Thanksgiving to my U.S. citizens, but it is also known for Movember, a movement that helps bring awareness to men's health issues. As my brother-in-law is a survivor of prostate cancer, this is an issue that is important to our family. You can read more about the effort here. A symbol of Movember is the mustache. With that in mind, here's a lovely collection of some awesome staches.}

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_{This section will be used to promote special events and such around dA that are close to my heart, as well as requested pimpage.}

The emoticon community has jumped into NaNoEmo, a month-long event which challenges everyone to emote more (and hopefully make 30 emotes in 30 days). It's off to a great start. If you're an emoticonist or emoticon lover, check out this journal and follow the progress of the players! [link]

*Remember2Live and *PhaeOBrien have started a new OC contest. Both visual and lit entries are welcome. To learn more and to join, check out this journal ---> [link]

The #EmoticonOpus group is looking for new hosts for upcoming contests. You don't have to be an emoticonist to participate. For more info, check out this journal ---> [link]

`Endorell-Taelos features a new deviation on her page everyday. To see the round-up of her October choices, check out this feature ---> [link]

Credits

_{A nod to the following people and resources which make this article possible:
Logo graphic by `admx
Section bullets courtesy of Fatcow Hosting
CSS Skin by =Drake1
Custom journal coding and layout by `Ravenswd

Disclaimer: These features are done in the spirit of promoting the art of fellow deviants. Due to time restraints and the volume of art I feature, I cannot specifically ask permission of each artist before featuring. If I have showcased you or one of your pieces and you would prefer I not, please note me and I will be happy to remove it.}

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Spotlight Features - Volume 13by `Mirz123

Journals / Art News / Digital Art

In this issue I feature some of the results of my recent poll asking deviants to share their most-fave/wish most faved deviations. Also, an interview with `Pyrochan-dolls and a special big mustache feature in honor of Movember.