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How to be a Guiding Light

How can I help?You don't have to be a Gallery Moderator or have a fancy symbol next to your name to promote and support artists within your favourite gallery. The suggestions listed below are for everyone, and if you want something a little more useful than just my ideas, don't forget to pay a visit to the Help & FAQ section of dA - you'll find a link at the bottom of every single page.

Featuring artTo avoid repeating myself, I'd like to point you in the direction of a tutorial called Promoting other people's art [ http://rockstarvanity.deviantart.com/art/Promoting-Other-People-s-Art-174149972 ] which contains information about...

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Promoting Projects on dA

For the purpose of this article, I'll be referring to projects and contests as Events.

Define your event's identityIf you or your Group is running an event, chances are you'll want to get the word out there in a mission to create buzz and encourage more people to join in. First of all, create an identity for your event. This means considering the following points:

What is the subject and/or medium(s)?Who will be entering (new artists, Group members, professionals etc)?How will entries be submitted (links to entrants own gallery or Group submissions etc)?What is the timescale (deadlines, announcement of winners etc)?Who is judging, and how (

dA Groups: Your Responsibility

Great power, great responsibility and dA groupsJust to explain before you start reading, this is an editorial written by me so the suggestions detailed below are my suggestions. I am not the oracle and this isn't an official dA tutorial. You are welcome to agree or disagree with me as you please, and I hope some people out there find this useful.

Clarity of InformationMake your joining and submission process, and any limits to it, VERY clear. People who have been in your group since it launched will have a good understanding of what can be submitted where and how often, but new or prospective members need to be able to find all guidelines ea

Promoting Other People's Art

One of the great things about dA is that it's not only a place where you can promote your own work - it's also a place where you can promote art you admire by other people. There's a whole bunch of ways that you can do this, so if you'd like to help draw attention to awesome art created by your friends or brilliant things you've found while browsing, read on and find out how you could make someone's day.

Featuring art on your profile page and in your journalAt present, using images and thumbnails on your profile and in your journal is a subscriber only feature. If you look around dA you'll see all sorts of different features - selections fro

Motivation and Communication

Introductory BitBefore I get started, I'd like to make it clear that this article is made up of my own thoughts, my own opinions. I hope that some of you read this and it sparks a little internal dialogue, but I'm not expecting that on any great level. It may spark a little external dialogue too, and that's fine. You don't have to agree with me and I would never expect everyone to agree with everything (or anything) I say. This is a collection of thoughts on a concept, a gathering of my own ideas and an act of sharing those ideas with others. There is no right and wrong. But there is motive and there is intent, and that's the perfect place to

Keeping the dA Peace

The Taming of the LlamaLike every huge global public website, dA has it's share of spam, drama, trauma and trolls. Most deviants will have had some experience dealing with spam on their userpage, bitchy comments on their art and other unpleasant interactions. I don't want to talk about the people who trawl through the Daily Deviations every day to leave comments about how the featured work is undeserving, or the people who write journals and news articles calling out other artists and encouraging their friends to form a lynch mob, or the people who disagree with someone in the forums so follow them to their page to hurl a further barrage of i

How to deal with online rips

What you won't find hereBefore I get started I'd like to make it clear that this news article does not deal with how to protect your work online (watermarks etc), whether or not you should post your work online or whether or not you should take steps to deal with copyright violations if the person committing them isn't profiting from your work or claiming credit for having created it.

It also does not contain a response to people who say "You're lucky your work is good enough to get ripped" although if it did, it would say something like "Don't be so stupid, theft isn't a compliment. If someone stole something from your shop you wouldn't sit

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I'm sorry for all the typos D: I don't really like editing my work. And I'm sorry I never got to go in detail for the finishing touches, but it was only a bonus anyway...

Maybe I'll create another tutorial on that...in the future.

Will post finished piece later.

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~CloudyMassacre Nov 3, 2010

Thank you so much,this'll be really helpful

Oh,and nice piece

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~imaginary-ang3l Nov 5, 2010 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thanks, I'm glad it helped you

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~CloudyMassacre Nov 5, 2010

Nah,I should be the one thanking you,it helped a lot ^^

Nice Gallery too

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~imaginary-ang3l Nov 5, 2010 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thank you

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~CloudyMassacre Nov 5, 2010

Hehe No prob

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!AldusMischaS Aug 16, 2010 Student Digital Artist

Excellent tutorial. I've been searching tutorial for quite a lot of time this is one of the best. It was really helpfull

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~imaginary-ang3l Aug 16, 2010 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Aww thanks

I'm flattered

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~Domovatus Jul 16, 2010 Student Traditional Artist

A very well done tutorial, a great work!

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~imaginary-ang3l Jul 16, 2010 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thank you

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~Domovatus Jul 17, 2010 Student Traditional Artist

You're welcome.

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