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PE: Pixel Art TutorialsSo you have discovered the wonderful world of pixel art and want to create your own

But you don't know where to start or what techniques you might need to learn. This article will give you some tips and tutorials to help you on your way. Some links in this article do go off-site, as a warning.
Do I need a special program?
No! Something as simple as Microsoft Paint, Paint Shop Pro or the Gimp, all of which are free, are all you need to start with pixel art. Well, that and a mouse/touchpad (and a computer

). Photoshop can be used to pixel as well, but it is costly, so unless you plan to use Photoshop for a multitude of digital media, it isn't the best investment for pixel art.
Free downloads of MS Paint and Paint Shop Pro can be found here: http://www.bunnystick.com/tdlc.html
What are some useful Pixel techniques?
When it comes to shading, both dithering and anti-aliasing (often called AA-ing) are your best

Project Educate: Pixel ArtThis week is to celebrate and learn more about the art of pixels. Pixel art is defined by deviantART as: "Pixel art drawing, using only the pencil tool, hand laying individual pixels one at a time, under high magnification." (But more on that later

) ^ClefairyKid and I have put together a week of articles and events that we hope will be informative, interesting and fun. Here is the schedule*:
Monday
The Pixel Art Community by ^ClefairyKid http://fav.me/d5bvdh1
Pixel art tutorials by ^Lyricanna http://fav.me/d5bspd5
Interview with *Cyangmou by ^ClefairyKid
Tuesday
Furcadia Ports and Stamps - Categorization, where and why - by ^Lyricanna
Interview with ~Ice-Pandora by ^ClefairyKid
Wednesday
A Week in Pixel - Weekly Feature - by ^Lyricanna
Interview with ^ValaSedai by ^ClefairyKid
Pixel Art Critique in Communityrelations chat 3PM EST, 12PM PST
Thursday
Digital Dolls and Pixel Art – Similarities and differences - by :de

Quirky Horoscope Contest - Now JudgingThis contest is now closed for submissions. I'll be cleaning out the category today and contacting my judges to figure out the winners

Until then, you can browse the entries here http://browse.deviantart.com/contests/2012/12birthday/quirky/ (setting it to newest instead of popular works best

)
Theme
The Western Horoscope is comprised of 12 signs. In this contest, using any visual media, you have to draw a representation of at least one of the Western Zodiac signs and create a daily horoscope for that sign set for the date of August 7th.

The Zodiac Signs

An example of daily horoscopes.
There are 4 prizes to be won: most creative/weirdest horoscope and zodiac sign, funniest, best design

Digital Dolls Information CatalogueWelcome to the Digital Dolls Information Catalog
I am creating this news article so that all relevant Digital Dolls information on dA (with the occasional useful off-site link) can be stored in one place. I will update this continually throughout the rest of my term, and hopefully the next GM will see fit to do the same

If you want anything added to this, please just comment and let me know =3
About Digital Dolls

Welcome to Digital Dolls dA

Clarification of Digital Dolls Categories

Common Pixel Art Miscategorizations

Common Digital Dolls Miscategorizations

How to Report Doll Miscat

The Founders of Impressionism - Renoir

As part of deviantART's Art History Project, *Topicality and yours truly have prepared news articles regarding Impressionism, an art movement from the 19th Century whose main characteristic is the presence of tin yet visible brush strokes to create shapes that compose an image.
Today we bring you Pierre-August Renoir's biography, one of the biggest representatives of the style.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Born in Limoges on February 25 1841, Renoir was the sixth child of a working class family. In his youth he had a job at a porcelain factory, where people noticed his artistic talent and was chosen to paint designs on fine china. He also painted fans and religious hangings for missionaries.
At that time, Renoir often visited the Louvre, where he studied the work of the French Masters, dreaming of one day becoming one and having his art on those very same walls.
He began studying art in 1862 under Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he m

A Double Interview - Tracing to OriginalHello, today I am bringing to you an interview with two base makers and dollers, ~CheeseburgerLuff and ~IridescentStardust. This interview focuses on the controversial issue of tracing. Is it or is it not a learning tool? For these two, it has been; they have made the transition from tracing to original work and have agreed to talk to the community about it. I ask that you please respect their opinions and experiences regarding this issue

Hello and thanks to both of you for agreeing to do this interview. First, I'd like you to introduce yourselves.
~IridescentStardust: I'm Holli, I've been on DA technically since... eight years, jesus. But I've had my pixel account for five. I can't really recall, but I know I did have a pixel site up before I moved it all to my current (and only, past and present) pixel account. I use MSpaint, Irfanview, and lately I've been into SAI. Not much of Photoshop, but it is there... and then there's the ol' pe

On the Subject of BasesFellow People of Deviantart,
I am here today to talk to you about Bases and Dolling.

I am not asking you to do it, or even to like it, but just to put out a standpoint that is sorely missing from this ongoing row over what a Base really is.

You may think a base is a large traced piece from anime with no skill and that the people who draw on top of them are lazy artists who just don't want to learn how to draw. Some bases are traced, but not every base.

Dolling is a hobby, something that is done for fun, and not every doller out there wants to be able to draw like a whiz kid. A lot of people hold down jobs, or full time education and just want a little fun. And so they are able to use a base that they like and draw some clothes and hair onto it, often very skillfully.

The History of Art - Vector GraphicsThe earliest 2D computer graphics were all vector graphics.
One of the first uses of vector graphic displays was the US SAGE air defence system. Vector graphics systems were only retired from U.S. en route air traffic control in 1999, and are likely still in use in military and specialised systems. Vector graphics were also used on the TX-2 at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory by computer graphics pioneer Ivan Sutherland to run his program Sketchpad in 1963.
Subsequent vector graphics systems, most of which iterated through dynamically modifiable stored lists of drawing instructions, include Digital's GT40. There was a home gaming system that used vector graphics called Vectrex as well as various arcade games like Asteroids and Space Wars. Storage scope displays, such as the Tektronix 4014, could display vector images but not modify them without first erasing the display.
Modern vector graphics displays can sometimes be found at laser light shows, where two fast-moving X-Y mirrors position th

The Founders of Impressionism - Claude MonetAs part of deviantART's Art History Project, *Topicality and yours truly have prepared news articles regarding Impressionism, an art movement from the 19th Century whose main characteristic is the presence of tin yet visible brush strokes to create shapes that compose an image.
In this article we will review Claude Monet, one of the founders of Impressionism, a brief summary of his life and some of his paintings.

Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Born in Paris on the 5th of November 1940, Oscar-Claude Monet is considered the main representative of Impressionism as he stayed true to its philosophy during his whole life as an artist. It's one of his paintings, Impression, Sunrise; which gives the movement its name after critic Luis Leroy wrote a sarcastic review of it in a Parisian newspaper called Le Charivari.
From an early age Monet showed interest in art, and he was known in the community of Le Havre for his caricatures. He then met Eugene Boudin, a la

The Founders of Impressionism - Camille PissarroAs part of deviantART's Art History Project, *Topicality and yours truly have prepared news articles regarding Impressionism, an art movement from the 19th Century whose main characteristic is the presence of tin yet visible brush strokes to create shapes that compose an image.
In this article we will review the life of Impressionism founder Camille Pissarro.
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
Born in July 10 1830 in the Danish West Indies, he moved to Paris, France in order to pursue his artistic career. Regarded a key figure to the Impressionism movement, he was the only artist present in all 8 Paris Impressionist exhibitions held by the Society of Anonymous Painters, Sculptors and Printers. His colleagues viewed him as a father figure and someone to look up for advice and they called him "father Pissarro".
Much like Claude Monet, Pissarro showed interest in the arts at an early age. He went against his father's wishes to become a business man and after moving to Venez

Street Photography - The OriginsAs we all know from the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding everything was invented by the Greeks. Well, ok we left some trivial things to be invented by the Chinese as well. What you may not know is that Street photography was also invented by the Greeks before Photography itself was even invented.

Seriously now:
Kairos is an ancient Greek word meaning the right or opportune moment or "the supreme moment". The Greeks believed the concept of Kairos is achieved when such a moment is grasped for otherwise the moment is gone and cannot be re-captured. According to ancient Greeks, Kairos was the god of the “fleeting moment.”
Interestingly the ancient Greeks had two words for time, chronos and kairos. While chronos is quantitative, kairos has a qualitative nature.
Does the above remind you of the "Decisive moment", the essence of Street Photography?

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How to make a great Journal featureJournal Feature Tutorial
How to make a great Journal feature!
This article has been written for #projecteducate by `miontre.
Featuring other artists in your Journal is a great thing to do, because everyone wins! Not only are you supporting other artists by giving them some extra exposure, but you can also earn some exposure for yourself and make new friends too. Additionally, those who view your feature have the opportunity to find some new art and artists.

Therefore, it pays to make your Journal features the best they can be. Making a really good Journal feature can involve a lot of time and work - planning, collecting artwork, arranging the artwork in a Journal, publication, and promotion. Taking these steps instead of merely dragging in thumbs from your Favourites will result in an appealing and rewarding Journal feature. In this tutorial, we're going to produce a feature with images arranged like this:

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Wishlist Address Tutorialby ^Lyricanna

Resources & Stock Images / Tutorials / deviantART Tutorials / Other

©2012-2013 ^Lyricanna

So every time I've run a contest with prizes that need to be added to a wishlist, I have been asked "how do I add/update my address?" With the frequency of this happening, I decided to make a quick visual tutorial. It's not pretty but it works

Hope this helps someone.

=painted-flamingo Sep 12, 2012

question- is this information then made public or is it only DA that will know the address?

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^Lyricanna Sep 12, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Only dA's shipping department will know the address; if I view your wishlist, I cannot see the information

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=painted-flamingo Sep 12, 2012

well that's handy, and good to know

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^Lyricanna Sep 12, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Glad to help

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~Ilda28399 Sep 12, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

thanks... but i was wondering (sorry for the ignorance) why do you need the adress on the whishlist?

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^Lyricanna Sep 12, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

So if someone buys you something off of your wishlist, it has a place to arrive (can't mail anything without an address)

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~Ilda28399 Sep 12, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

ah, so you put drawings you would like to buy in it in the wishlist and if someone want, tha person buy it for you and the adress is needed so it can arrive to you?

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^Lyricanna Sep 12, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Yep

Also t-shirts and other site stuff [link]

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~Ilda28399 Sep 12, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

cool

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*Tifa22 Sep 12, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

That's freaking complicated really D:
Thanks for making a tutorial

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