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Artisan Crafts Features #17I hope everyone had a great Holidays season, and I wish you an even better 2013! Next year I would like to make artisan craft challenges every month, hopefully that will keep people inspired and crafty! I need some interesting themes to start, what would you like to see? I would like to pick general things so that they apply to every craft, like "winter, celebrations, fairies, cats, etc". Leave your suggestions below!
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It is Artisan Crafts Month at #ArtHistoryProject! If you would like to submit an article there's still time to sign up, go ahead it's so much fun! Here's the summary of artisan craft news and events for November and December.
#ArtisanCraft is looking to feature the best of 2012, suggest what you think are the best crafts of the year! #ArtisanCraft published the ne

CR Newsletter - November/December 2012 Director of Community Relations :iconmoonbeam13: :
Table of Contents
1. Happy Holidays and Merry New Year
2. Volunteer Openings in Community Relations
3. Community Projects
4. Official Contests
5 Project Educate 2011/2012
6. Art History Project
7. News from the Chats and Forums
8. News from the Galleries
1. Happy Holidays and Merry New Year
As the old year begins to fade into the sunset, it is customary to reflect on the passing year and make plans for the upcoming one. Some do this in the form of resolutions, some people make action plans, some people just swing into the new year the same way they swung out of the old one

Whatever way you intend to welcome in 2013, I hope you're surrounded by love and that you do it safely!
I've been reflecting on the year and like many, with some focus on the unimaginable events of the last few weeks. Specifically, the shooting in Newtown. I know that it's "human nature" to want to find

Hot off the Press - Our Vector CV is in Print!In case you haven't heard already, `ChewedKandi - our dedicated and definitely awesome Vector Community Volunteer has been working hard with Adobe! The result? Her book has JUST been published!
But that's not all - the book involves 30 emerging artists within the Vector Community and most of them are from deviantART! The book explores their work, their inspirations and some tutorial projects that will help those looking to learn a bit more. Whether or not you're seriously into Vector doesn't actually matter, because this beautiful showcase of works has something for everybody.
Huge congratulations to *shiropanda ~TraceLandVectorie03 =Asher-Bee `CrisVector ~Helbetico *BreeLeman ~Zzanthia *CQcat ~ivan-bliznak `j3concepts ~dimary ~lounge-acting *ChasingArtwork *grelin-machin ~roberlan ~FlowisKing ~Ryannzha ~cronobreaker ~lanitta ~rafahu ~shoelesspeacock *ssst *NaBHaN ~crowded-teeth :devlim

Artisan Craft Features #21Don't forget to let me know if you want me to advertise anything for you!
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It will soon be Artisan Crafts Week over at #projecteducate, so please send me and ^maytel your suggestions for what you want to see! Tell us who would you like to see interviewed, what kind of articles you would like to read, anything that you think would be good!
This month in #ArtHistoryProject: Photography Month.
#ArtisanCraft published the new installment of their weekly newsletter.#LovelyJewelry is doing monthly shutouts!
Here's the latest So Cute, it Rots your Teeth featu

Matters Concerning ArchivesAs many of you know, archive file types represent a means to collect together a number of computer files and package them together for the purpose of backup, to transport them to some other location, or simply to compress them so that they take up less space. Many of you here in the deviantART community who offer stock resources, applications, themes and other desktop customization options are all very familiar with them and use them extensively, whether your file type of choice be .zip, .rar, or any one of another dozen options.
Depending on how regularly you submit and what sort of file type you use when you do so you may or may not have noticed a change- that change being that submissions with file types ending with .exe are no longer being accepted during the the submission process and if you've attempted to submit an archive file which was password protected you've noticed that those protected files are also being rejected during submission (alt

Meet the Artisan Crafts GalleryTo kick off the craftiest month of the year, let me take you to a little tour around the Artisan Craft galleries deviantART has to offer! They will give you a good idea of how wide and rich the artisan crafts world is, and they may even inspire you to pick up a craft you always wanted to try or didn't even know existed

Anthro
Anthro involves combining human motivation, characteristics, or
behaviour with inanimate objects, animals, plants, or natural phenomena.
In other words, animals or objects that act or resemble human nature in
some way.
Sub-galleries: Clothing, Costumes, Masks and Props & Accessories.
Note: This gallery is also taken care

ABCs of Deviants: KovoWolfWelcome to ABCs of Deviants! Where I interview deviants from A to Z!

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^KovoWolf
Amber is the Community Volunteer Mentor for Anthro within the #communityrelations team. She is not only a pillar for the Anthro community, but for the whole deviantART community too.
Now, on with the questions!

Guardian Of Light by ^KovoWolf
Hi Amber! Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I'm an enthusiastic, multitasking, motivational, always try to inspire kind of person! I was born and raised in Southern California, I'm an identical twin, and I've been an artist all my life (or at least since I could remember).
How did you discover deviantART?
A friend of mine back on IRC had mentioned something to me about an art website that I might be interested in. Curious and excited I came

Project Educate Continues! Project Educate Continues!!!
#projecteducate is a group and all updates from individuals during their weeks listed below will be posted over there! So be sure to join or watch for the full updates! If you want to partake in Community Week by writing an article then just note the group with your ideas!
2013
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May 6th - May 12th
Community Week with `JamminJo and `lintu47
May 13th - May 19th
Photography with ^Kaz-D and ^3wyl
May 20th - May 26th
Anthro gallery and Anthropomorphic art with ^KovoWolf
May 27th - June 2nd
CSS with `im-not-sana
June 3rd - June 9th
Community Week with `JamminJo and `lintu47
June 10th - June 16th
Story Planning Week with ^Beccalicious ^neurotype and ^NicSwaner (#CRLiterature)
June 17th - June 23rd
Wallpaper with ^VSConcepts
June 24th - June 30th
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July 1st - July 7th
Community Week with :devjam

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Photography Weekly: Edition FortyPhotography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD
"Replace Fear of the Unknown with Curiosity..."
As the year crawls into the final quarter - lots of challenges and daily photo tasks and so on begin to conclude. I have personally been challenging myself with the 365 Photography challenge - a photo a day for a whole year. It has been tricky to say the least, especially as I set myself a high standard of capturing more than one Photo a day - but also rewarding. Setting yourself a challenge, whether it's following the 52 week photography challenges that are out there, or doing a themed challenge such as 365 breakfasts - is a great way of expanding on your portfolio. Whilst it sometimes means that you struggle to find anything interesting to photograph or share, on the days that you do, you're one step closer to building another aspect of your portfolio.
Next week in Photography Troubleshooting - we will be looking at Money Matters and so

Photography Troubleshooting: Capturing HalloweenHalloween brings with it the chance to combine many areas of Photography whether you are presented with a field of pumpkins, decorated houses, close up spooky food creations or indeed infants and children adorned in the cutest of costumes. In terms of vibrancy, fall/Autumn and Halloween combine wonderfully to create a time of color, emotion and interesting subjects. So it's often difficult to know where to start, but the key elements behind arming yourself with the camera don't differ that much from how you should behave day to day when shooting.
Still Life Photography Tips
Halloween is about the drama and you can capture this and convey it in your images by getting in close and filling a frame with your subject. People or objects alike, getting in close will add a bit more drama to your shots. If you're capturing food and in particular cupcakes or other Halloween treats and desserts then consider making your background Halloween themed too. Orange paper,

Art Clay Jewerly

Art Clay! There is a couple of kinds of it that you can use to create many diffrent types of fabulous thigs, not only jewerly. Here, you can see brilliant jewerly pieces done with Art Clay Metal (generally silver, this time) and Polymer Clay.

Four Line Long Poems -Contest ending SOON!Contest Update
Just a few days left to go! Get your entries in NOW!
A recent discovery of the very innovative idea from Alex Valentine on Four Line Long Poems has prompted a mini-revolution here on deviantART as ^3wyl and I plotted and schemed to create something not dissimilar to #SixWordStories. Thus, ~FourLinePoems was born! It's a group that's completely open to everyone and anyone who would like to join and the exciting news is that, with its launch, we are announcing the first Four Line Poem Competition!
Dates
Contest Open: 15th December 2012, Midnight PST.
Contest Close: 15th January 2013, Midnight PST.
Winners Announcement: After 1st February
Rules & Examples
Four Line Poems are exactly that - just four lines long!

One entry per person.

Entries must be newly submitted to deviantART, in Literature Format:

PE Daily Deviations- Presentation of your workHello all!

Well we’ve had a fascinating week so far; a week which hopefully has provided some insight not only to the process of DD selection but helped you understand what we look for in DDs as CVs. As we draw to the end of this week, I bring you an article which will whet your Saturday with thoughts that don’t just apply to the DD feature, but something which should be a consideration to everything you submit to dA. I am talking about deviation presentation.
Why is Presentation important?
Art isn’t always about just being “creative”. There are techniques and skills which develop over time which contribute to the quality of the work you produce and alongside this comes a developed understanding of good presentation.
Good presentation could be anything from cropping a photograph, to spell checking your literature. These are common sense things that in the rush of wanting to show off your creativity can sometimes be

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The ABC of Crafts

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What this is about: There is seemingly a million crafts, and little by little we are building up a sort of encyclopedia of crafts. However, it's impossible for a couple of people to know them all... here's where you come in. We want to make this a community effort, please help us with your knowledge to make this happen! This is also the chance to bring the spotlight to unrecognized and unknown crafts, so if you know of any craft that isn't included yet, please leave a message!! Every contribution will be credited

What we're looking for: Crafts, techniques, materials, themes. Crafts and techniques are what we're most interested in and will be given preference on this list.

What to do: Leave a comment with your contribution! It would be best if you leave it on the page that would correspond to the first letter of your suggestion. If you can leave a small description and a few thumb examples, it would be even better! MAKE SURE THEY HAVEN'T BEEN ADDED IN PREVIOUS YEARS!

When it will be published: Artisan Crafts Week 2013, starting February 11th! Please get your contributions before that

THANK YOU SO MUCH! PLEASE PROMOTE THIS! If everyone helps just a little bit, it will be really easy to finish! I know that we have a fabulous artisan crafts community, so I thank you advance. You can check what we did the previous years to get a better idea of what this project is about:

Artisan Crafts ABC: A - D | E - H | I - M | N - R | S - V | W - Z
Artisan Crafts ABC II: A - D | E - H | I - M | N - R | S - V | W - Z

This year:

A - D: [link]
E - H: [link]
I - M: [link]
N - R: [link]
S - V: [link]
W - Z: [link]

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`Lady-Blue Feb 4, 2013 Professional Artisan Crafter

F is for French Beaded Flowers! This beading technique dates back to the 1500s in Europe, and although it's still not as well known as many other techniques, it seems to be getting a little more popular these days. With french beading, you string tiny seed beads onto thin copper wire, then shape this into petals. The petals are put together to make 3-d flowers that can be full size, miniature, or larger than life.

^Talty Feb 13, 2013 Artisan Crafter

Added, a million thanks for that

`Lady-Blue Feb 14, 2013 Professional Artisan Crafter

You're so welcome!

~DarkDuskull Feb 1, 2013 Hobbyist Artisan Crafter

Fairies?!?!?!?!?!

^Talty Feb 13, 2013 Artisan Crafter

They were already added on the second year: [link]

~DarkDuskull Feb 1, 2013 Hobbyist Artisan Crafter

Paper Craft?

~DarkDuskull Feb 1, 2013 Hobbyist Artisan Crafter

Pokemon Art?

~Fallingstarz5 Feb 1, 2013 Student General Artist

Can I make a set of paper star jewelry to add to the encyclopedia?

^Talty Feb 13, 2013 Artisan Crafter

We are looking for themes and crafts, mostly

not specific examples.

~Fallingstarz5 Feb 14, 2013 Student General Artist

Okay, I'll go for paper star art, as a general theme. Is that alright?

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