1. It’s Time to Share your Art at
deviantArt.com
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2. Content
• General Overview
• How to sign up
• How to submit your art
• How to make friends
• How to collect art
• How to communicate
• Quiz to check your understanding
• Bibliography

3. General overview
• What is deviantART?
deviantART is a well known, popular artist's community it was created to
entertain, inspire, and empower all artists. The website is designed to
help anyone who enjoys art, regardless of their ability, to post up their
work for feedback and constructive comments and to take part in art
related activities.
deviantART is the largest online social network for artists and art enthusiasts
with over 13 million registered members, attracting 35 million unique
visitors per month.

4. General overview
• Founders
– It was first launched on August 7, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff and Matt
Stephens. The current CEO of deviantART is Angelo Sotira.
– Interesting to know:
• DeviantArt’s founders are always interacted with their members:
"Angelo acts like a mayor of a 20million-person city, where the same
kind of issues, factions and special interests come up"

5. General overview
• deviantART Terminology
– The site makes a unique use of the style of its title, deviantART, by
playing on the lowercaseUPPERCASE formula.
– The Website also relates all aspects of the site to deviancy.
– The following terms are used widely throughout the site:
• dA : frequent abbreviation for the site's title.
• dAmn : abbreviation of the deviantART Message Network.
• Deviant : a user of deviantART.
• Deviation : every submitted piece of artwork
• Scrap : an unfinished work submitted but not displayed in the
Gallery

6. General overview
• Features
 Several Forums
 The ability to enter your longitude and latitude, by which to locate
deviants that live close to you
 Every deviant has his or her own private page at the URL
http://*username*.deviantart.com
 Subscription service that offers extra features such as:
• Advertisement-free browsing
• Greater customization of a user's personal page
• Faster surfing
“DeviantArt is a great resource, especially for keeping track of trends that
are going on around the world”

7. How to sign up
Step 1: Click on ->
Step 2: choose a username
Step 3: Type your email Address
Step 4: Retype your email Address
Step 5: write a password
Step 6: select your Date of Birth and Sex
Step7: put a check to show your agreement to the
deviantART terms and Service
Step 8: click on this button

8. How to sign up
• After you verify your Email Address you can view your Page at
deviantART
Here you can check your messages (Feedback, activities, new submisions by your friends)
Here you can submit your art Here you can write your journal
Here you can put your ID picture and write something
About yourself
Here you can view your collection of favorites

9. How to submit your art
• In a Profile
– A deviantART member can choose to submit artwork into the Gallery
feature and it is an easy process of simply uploading the file, giving
descriptions and keywords, and then allowing comments or not.
Step1: click on this button to
Submit your art

10. How to submit your art
• In a Profile
Step2: write a title for your art
Step3: Choose a category that
Fits what you’re submitting
Step4: Upload the file that you
Want to submit
Step5: write a description

11. How to submit your art
• In a Profile
Step 6: Write any keywords that fits
your submission
Step 7: Allow comments by putting a
check in the box
Step 8: Click on this button to submit
your art

12. How to submit your art
• In a Group
– You need to search for groups that suits your submission (e.g.
photography groups, poems groups..etc)
Step1: go to the home page of deviantART
Step2: click on groups Step 4: choose a group
Step3: choose which
kind of group you
want to submit your
art in.

13. How to submit your art
• In a group
Step 5: Click on this button to contribute art
Step 6: your art will be displayed here
Just like everyone else

14. How to make friends
• Watch list
– You can watch whoever you like to follow up with their art
submissions and everything they do
If you like a member’s Page just click
on the “Watch” button and they will
be your friend

15. How to collect art
• Favorite list
– Deviants can favorite any piece of work they like and it will be stored
in a favorite's folder on their main page.
If you like a piece of art
Submitted by other
members,
Click on this button

16. How to collect art
• Wish list
– Wishlist refers to a list of things you wish to have, but you cannot
afford to buy them at the moment
Step 1: click on Prints to
view other member’s
pictures that are available
for print
Step 2: choose any piece
that you wish to have

17. How to collect art
• Wish list
Step 3: click on this option
to add this picture to your
Wish List

18. How to Communicate
• Comments
– Each deviation can receive comments from other members detailing
whether they like the piece or not and what could be improved about
it
Step 1: You can write your
comment in this box
Step 2: click on this button
to submit your comment
on this picture

19. How to Communicate
• Critiques
– You can give and receive constructive criticism
Step 1: Click on this button
To write a critique to a
member’s art
Step 2: Write your critique
Step 3: Rate this
piece of art
Step 4: Click “Send” to submit your
critique to the other member

20. How to Communicate
• Journals
– You can write anything you like in your journal. Most members use it
as an answer to “What’s happening?”
Step 2: Write your journal,
don’t forget to write your
title too
Step 1: Click on this button
to start writing your
journal
Step 3: Click on this button
to publish your journal

21. How to Communicate
• Polls
– You can Participate in a vote, or put a poll for your watchers to get
answers to whatever question you’re asking
This is the Poll’s title
You can see the results of
the votes here
You can also add
comments on the Poll

22. Quiz to check your understanding
1. deviantART is a:
A. Public learning site
B. Art-sharing site
C. Blogging site
2. dA was launched in:
A. 2010
B. 2005
C. 2000
D. 2003

23. Quiz to check your understanding
3. Important step you must follow when you submit a file in dA:
A. Choose a title
B. Choose a Category
C. Upload the file
D. All of the above
4. When you want to submit a photo to a group, you should
search for:
A. Digital-art group
B. Poems group
C. Animation group
D. Photography group

24. Quiz to check your understanding
5. When you want to have a member in your friends list, you
should click on:
A. Add to favorite
B. Send a note
C. Watch
D. Add a comment
6. You can communicate with other members in dA by:
A. Comments
B. Critiques
C. Polls
D. All of the above

25. Bibliography
Deviantart. (2012). Retrieved 16 May, 2012. From deviantart: http://www.deviantart.com/
Jhannoa, S. (2008). Website reviews: Deviantart.com. Retrieved March 17, 2012. From Helium:
http://www.helium.com/items/964624-website-reviews-deviantartcom
Jefferson, G. (2011, Jun 01). DeviantArt gives artists online path to stardom. USA TODAY, pp. B.2-
B.2. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/869501046?accountid=15192
Marlowe, C. (2006). Designer takes deviant path to career success. Hollywood Reporter,
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Moonfire, A. (2011). Website reviews: Deviantart.com. Retrieved March 18, 2012. From Helium:
http://www.helium.com/items/964624-website-reviews-deviantartcom