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.

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Fella Around the World Contest - Deadline October 13, 2011

Halloween Handhelds & Icons - Deadline October 30, 2011

Thriller! A Resource Contest - Deadline October 31, 2011

Halloween Mask Contest - Deadline October 31, 2011

Fiendish and Fanciful! A 3D Contest - Deadline October 31, 2011

Abstract Architecture Photography Contest - Deadline November 1, 2011

Natural Colours Contest - Deadline November 4, 2011

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Cartoons and Comics: Big & Small Contest - Deadline November 16, 2011

Project Educate

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Fractal Art

Fractal Week - Find out what's going on this week here!

Fractals - the details!

Fractal Flowers

Fractal Week - The Art of Tweak

Photography

Photography Mini-Contest - ends Sunday at midnight PST

Aperture, Shutter, Iso Tips

Interviewing Mollinda!

Black and White Photography

Basic Photography Terminology

Project Educate: Photography Round Up and Winners!

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All Hallow's Tales Literature Contest

The Oct. 'Mushroom/Halloween' Colouring Contest

Manga/Anime 72ish hours contest - Seasons!

Think Pink VI Contest

The Emote Revival Contest - Part One

Emotes Speak a Thousand Words

Emotiviews 6 - Interview with horber95

October Holidays, Events and Awareness

An honest review of the Cintiq 24HD by Hal Hefner

Features & Interviews

Fantastic Fractalicious Fractals #9

Autumn Artisan Craft

Steve Jobs [1955-2011]

Manga/Anime Spotlight: Tajii-chan

An Absurd Interview with spinegrinder

I Came, I dAmned, I Founded [19]

Autumn Pinup & Glam Features

The Ladies of Lit: Volume XIV

Welcome Wagon Writers: Devious Feature

3D Gallery Bulletin - October

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The LOL Corner [#114]

Wild Snook-8 has appeared

Groups

#DACipher is holding a Wallpaper Contest open to members and non-members of any and all skill levels. Practically all forms of image based media welcome! We're offering up Points, Prints, Premium Memberships and the dAmnMobile iPhone/pad/touch app by =Pickley

#SkyAndNatureClub & #PhotographerClub are holding a Still Life Contest ends November 15th

#TheWhimsyCorner is a fun group fueled with the spirit of whimsical and fantasy art
All your art will be accepted. This groups focus is on Fantasy and Whimsical things (whimsical meaning fun, beautiful & creative here) thus we have #TheWhimsyCorner

#Mind-Syndicate - Mind-Syndicate is a group for all genres of art; a random meeting of the minds, melting together in one pot to showcase the greatest tapestries of the human psyche. The intricacies of each piece, now woven from one to another, form the ultimate work of art. We are Mind-Syndicate.

#TheSimulacrum - The Simulacrum is a library dedicated to the creators of, and appreciators of, snapshot poetry. Poetry that, in no more than ten lines, expresses and captures the blink of an essence.

#deviantART-Related - Our primary mission is to bring the deviantART related community together as one. Here at #deviantART-Related we will keep you up-to-date with the latest news regarding dA and the dAr gallery. We will collect the most impressive deviations from our gallery and allow people to appreciate this gallery greater. Among this, we will create projects and events for the dAr community.

#FrightClub's hosting My Halloween Contest

Whoas - Theme: Candyland

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16 Comments

Pimps and Whoas - October 12, 2011by $Moonbeam13

Journals / deviantART, Inc. / Community Relations

~The-Golden-Knight Oct 13, 2011 Hobbyist Writer

Considering there are millions (if not billions) of people on Deviantart and they all form millions of niches and communities, can you please define "THE Community"?

`WDWParksGal Oct 17, 2011

I do believe there are around 20,000,000 dA sites, which include those of us with two main sites (I have this one and my stock site), as well as PLZ accounts. Who knows how many people peruse the site that aren't members!

~The-Golden-Knight Oct 18, 2011 Hobbyist Writer

Exactly! Thanks for clarifying the magnitude of dA's scope.

=I-is-smart Oct 13, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

kind of an abstract concept to define, but I beleive in this case "the community" is not refering to the area or type of area, nor the types of communitys within deviantart, i beleive it is reffering to the combined members of dA as a whole. after all just because you are part of a community, does not mean you know everyone else in said community nor do you all share the same interests. even if some members of that community take part in different groups within.

~The-Golden-Knight Oct 13, 2011 Hobbyist Writer

Well, there's a start, so thanks.

There's wisdom in saying it probably addresses absolutely each and every individual member of Deviantart, which as massive as it is, theoretically makes one massive community. Now my assumption here may be inaccurate, but if I know right, then you as an "emote" know particularly well about community, since I've seen their community has been particularly tight-knit (even despite, if I read right, there may be some turbulence with it), and that would mean you have some expertise on this particular concept. Again, thank you for your input!