Pimps and Whoas - August 9, 2011

Pimps

Official dA News

  deviantART Tutorials have been moved
CEA Blog: How to Submit an Abuse Report
Say Hello to Some New Faces
Cutting Edge Prints, Week 32/11
The Fractal Universe
Deviants Conquer Foot Locker Art Prize
Community Relations - July/August 2011

Official Contests

All "official" contests will begin at midnight PST on the start date and end at 11:59 PST on the end date. This applies to all Community Relation run contests and all deviantART sponsored contests.
denotes US only contest

What do you see? Contest - Deadline August 15, 2011
11 years of dAvolution - Deadline August 20, 2011
Fotolia & DeviantART present Plans Gone Wrong Contest - Deadline August 16, 2011
How do you Drink Dr Pepper Contest - Deadline August 22, 2011
Skribble Contest - Deadline August 22, 2011
Epic Movie Poster Contest - Deadline August 31, 2011
Artistic Vision Contest - Deadline September 5, 2011
Vector Self Portrait Contest - Deadline September 15, 2011

Upcoming devMEETS

5th Annual Austin Meet!
Hemel Hempstead Meet, Saturday August 20,/a>
Derby Feste Devmeet, September 24th!

Informative News & Events

Help Comic Artists' dream come true!
Marker-Guru and jeriweaver are raising funds to get to Calgary Expo in 2012
Call for comic artists to help with anthology
dA-Morgue is working on a project called Deviant Nightmares check it out!
The dASAW Secret Project
Stamp it Up Contest
Camilla d'Errico's Tanpopo Now on MTV!!
Collaboration Event Features - opposites

Features & Interviews

  Interview with DeviantArtSecret
What does it Take to be a Gallery Moderator
dA related presents: Weather
deviantART Staff Appreciation Week Interviews
An Absurd Interview not required
Stock to Art IV
Song Search: Fashion Photography Feature
Body Art Inspiration: Rainbows
Focus on fresh Arts #28: Surreal
The Ladies of Lit: Volume XIII
Fantastic Stock and Where to Find it
So i Herd U Liek Emotes?? - Volume 123
Project Comment: 0-5 Comments // Issue 170

Groups

  DarkArt-Challenges - DeviantART's first challenge group exclusively for dark artists. We hold monthly challenges and our members include manipulators, digital, and traditional artist.
CardinalsAndBluejays Those pretty red and blue birds deserve their own place. All mediums welcome. Come check it out
TheDeviantARTGallery is running a Summer and Winter Wars Contest
DeviantArt-related - The unofficial group for deviantART Related, the gallery full of Stamps, Skins, Scripts, IDs and more deviously fun things! We aim to bring you news, contests, events and features within the dAr gallery.
dArtzine is an independent webzine that focuses on promoting artists from Deviant Art in general. All categories of art presented in the community are taken in count to be promoted, we base the selection of the art included in the issues on the quality, concept, ORIGINALITY, and uniqueness as well as style and technique that the artists have. Nevertheless the webzine has a section special for beginners, where these ones will be encouraged to progress in their technique and helped by monitoring this progress.
OC-Challenge is a group that hosts monthly challenges for the members to participate in with their original characters. Great prizes are always provided by members and staff. You can win anything from art to features to dA subscriptions.
Through-Emilys-Eyes - The purpose of this group is to promote beautiful art of all types (digital, traditional, photography, etc.) We have four contests every week, and every deviation that is accepted into the group is considered for these contests. For more information, please check out the "about section" on the group page.
WeLovePandas - "Do you love pandas? Join us! This group is dedicated to everything about pandas. Art, Photography, Crafts or anything panda related."
Panda-Luvers - "Panda Lovers, Writers, Photographers, and Artists are welcome."
Panda-Fans - "About the love of Pandas"
HumanConditions is a group for deviants who like to create deviations that portray the human conditions, or emotions, that are within us all. Visual artists of all media and writers are invited to join. We expect a lot from our members, and we do preview galleries before admittance into the group. Please only request to join if you are a serious artist/writer.
TutorialsClub

Whoas - Theme: Pandas

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To contribute to the next installment of "Pimps & Whoas" please comment on this journal with the appropriate links and information.  If promoting groups, please include a description so people know why they should check it out! Also use devtags not icontags eg:communityrelations not

Next installment to be posted August 23, 2011 and the theme for the "Whoas" is:

Turtles

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Wanna suggest a theme? Note moonbeam13 with your ideas!