Artist Relations Newsletter - August 27, 2007

Aug 27, 200710 min read

Deviation Actions

Published: Aug 27, 2007

3.1K Views

Director of Artist Relations

Hello!

The purpose of Artist Relations is to strengthen the community spirit as well as network with fellow artists so that we may bring outside opportunities to you, and help you to hone your skills. The Gallery Directors are the first people you should go to regarding your galleries. They are the people you need to make gallery suggestions to, and ask questions about your specific genre, or seek knowledge from. They also act as your lifeline to the administration. They are here to support and listen, and I can tell you we've got incredibly talented, devoted and passionate people on this team, so get to know them!

New Features

There are now links to daily deviations and scraps in user galleries

The Artist Relations logo has been updated! Thanks to zilla774 we are now badass and streamlined and sexy.. very very sexy!

News

Please join us in sending our love and appreciation to oibyrd for her time as a gallery director. I hope she finds the happiness and contentment she so richly deserves. She will be resuming her infamous Oibyrds DD's so make sure you watch her at OibyrdsDDs

Pixel Art and Oekaki Misconceptions

The Artists in AR See why our team rocks

cooley is back from vacation and is DYING for some daily deviation suggestions for Anthro ! I know you guys are out there, so start flooding her notes with awesome daily deviation suggestions

The Be-witched Contest results are posted and new snazzy av, Id and journal CSS are live! Thank you to everyone who entered, it was fun

Film?! Yes Film! and we want some more snazzy stamps to help promote the introduction of film to deviantART! So let me see what YOU can do! Create a stamp promoting deviantART Film and send the link to me via notes. Who knows, maybe there's a prize in it?

Of course you want details about Film.. but no.. not yet

I will tell you this, we've taken a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of very very smart and talented people and come up with something fabulous. I'm excited

For those with huge concerns, we've taken into account the mistakes of others! More to come!

We introduced the The Bolt Award on our birthday and awarded it to it's namesake chris If you love him as much as we do and want to show it, check out the contest here!

Please remember that the volunteer staff is A> human and B> volunteer. Treat them with the respect you wish to be treated. Screaming and issuing demands gets us nowhere closer to a workable solution to whatever your issue is and I won't tolerate that treatment of my team. If you wish to yell at someone and can't seem to find a way to be constructive about it. Send me a note, I'll be happy to deal with you.

Once again I have to make a comment about issues with Daily Deviations. You do us no favors by talking behind our backs or complaining in the forums. If you have an issue with the quality, the type, think somethings a rip etc.. obviously you don't post this on the deviation itself or to the artist but you should be contacting the gallery director that selected the daily deviation. Send them a note and explain the issue. In some cases you're right and by telling us you give us an opportunity to correct a possible mistake. If you don't do this and we hear about it months down the road, it makes it a lot harder to make that correction. Work with us, not against us.

I have noticed and increase in people sending notes to myself or my gallery directors to report policy and copyright violations. Please file help desk tickets for this. My team does not deal directly with violations and it's absolutely necessary to keep running records of instances that occur, so we will direct you back to the help desk to ensure proper protocol. Thank you.

Important and entertaining links you should go to

Scraps Lag Fixed

Dignity. Period!

CEA Update

Weekly Help Desk Updates

Comic Artists Tools and Resources

Parody Contest

DWALKER and AnnaKirsten Interview Tassos Kouris

Contests Around dA and More!

Todays top 30 wows

Deviant Guidance for All!

Visual Poetry Deserves Your Love

Photojournalism Explored

Art Movements and Periods: Descriptions Of

Get to know fellow deviants check out devmeet you could end up like these people Cardiff Meet.. dear lord

See what you're missing! Come and join us at #AR

For something new.. some thumbs of favorites I've added recently: