Hey, guys! It's that time again! Yes, that's right – THAT time. Grab your dancing shoes and a handful of balloons because deviantART's celebrating our 10th birthday on August 7th!! We'll soon be bringing you all sorts of exciting news about our birthday celebration, but first we need your help!

We want to include deviants from around the globe in our birthday festivities because, after all, we wouldn't be celebrating 10 years on the Internet without each and every one of you! So, how can you participate? The equation is simple!

We love you.
We love getting mail.
You + mail = please to be sending us postcards!

Find a postcard. Include a special message you wouldn't mind other deviants reading. Address it. Mail it. Done!

This is deviantART, the most creative community on the Web, and we're celebrating our 10th birthday. That's a big deal! Include a doodle, write a poem, wish us happy birthday, let us know how the site has impacted or changed your life… However you choose to express your story, we want to see it!

If you'd like, include your username, age, and location.
Check with your local postal agency for postcard postage rates!
Bigger isn't always better. Use average sized postcards. There's no size minimum or maximum, but let's not be ridiculous here.
We want postcard designs of all kinds – funny ones, location-based ones, famous places, etc. Bring it!
Your postcard will not be returned to you. We're going to keep them forever and always in a special box, and look at them from time to time when we want to get all teary.
Be creative! That's what deviantART is all about. (But, please, no glitter. It's very pretty, but it tends to get all over everything.)

All postcards should arrive by Thursday, August 5th! (We need time to sort through them all.)

While we can't tell you exactly what we're doing with your postcards, we do want you to know that it's exciting and we hope you'll take the time to participate! Who knows? Your postcard may even be displayed for all to see during our birthday celebrations! ::hint, hint::

So, flood our mailbox! The real, physical kind of mailbox. The one the postman delivers to. We're looking to receive postcards of all kinds from every corner of the earth! Don't let us down.

Our Address:

deviantART, Inc.
Birthday Postcard Project
7095 Hollywood Blvd., #788
Hollywood, CA 90028
U.S.A.

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Holiday Card Project 2012
It's back! With the goal of bringing a little cheer to patients in the hospital during the holiday season, the deviantART Holiday Card Project connects deviants from around the world and applies their tremendous artistic abilities in designing and creating uplifting holiday cards.
In past years, the Project has received more than 5,000 cards sent in by more than 1,000 deviants from 50 different countries/political regions. Cards were then divvied up and distributed in-person by deviantART members to local Los Angeles, CA hospitals, with additional cards given to various hospitals in the U.S. and abroad for hospital staff members to hand out to patients.
The idea behind the Holiday Card Project is simple: do something nice for others. However, if you're looking for even more incentive, every deviant who submits a card will be given a free one-month Premium Membership to deviantA

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Comic-Con: Day 3Saturday kicked off Day 3 of Comic-Con, and the crowds poured onto the convention floor to start the weekend in Geek Style.
At noon, deviantART hosted our final panel: How to Supercharge Your deviantART Profile Like the Masters. Moderated by none other than our fearless ninja, Angelo (aka +spyed), we were honored to have the following superstars share their deviantART experiences with the crowd:
- Adam Warren (*AdamWarren -- “The Dirty Pair,” “Empowered”)
- Mark Brooks (`diablo2003, from Marvel Comics)
- Jim Zubkavich (~Zubby -- Project Manager of Creative Services, Udon Entertainment)
- Dave Elliott (=DeevElliott -- “Heavy Metal Magazine”)
- Wenqing Yan (`yuumei, creator of “Knite,” “1000 W0RDS”)
- Kevin Eastman (=Kevineastman -- co-creator of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Chris Sanders (`alohalilo creator of “Lilo & Stitch”)
It was truly a remark

Comic-Con: Day 4On Sunday, the 4th and final day of San Diego Comic-Con, we were able to keep the love flowing to show the artists and art enthusiasts who came by our booth just how much they meant to us.
The last day of Comic-Con is always bittersweet. The air buzzes with positivity, inspiration, and camaraderie, but in the back of your mind, you know it may be another year before you see some of these friends, old and new. Sure, we always have the Internet, but there's something special about meeting in real life that can’t compare to flipping through a portfolio of sketches, laughing out loud with your peers, and supporting artists’ hard work right then and there.
There was rarely a moment when one of our seven kiosks wasn’t occupied by an artist. Young or old, newbie or professional, digital or traditional, the chance to sit down and create art was difficult to pass up with inspiration coming from every direction.

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Comic-Con: Day 2Comic-Con Day 2 was all about cosplay, fandom, and art, art, art!
Before we get into the thick of things, we didn’t have a photo of our huge plasma screens hanging from the convention ceiling to share in our Day 1 recap, so we vowed to get that to you today! The 11 foot wide screens stream amazing works of art from Artists' Alley participants to the whole convention floor!
In Comic-Cons past, the foot traffic In Artists’ Alley got busier and busier as the week progressed, and this year is no exception. There’s something magical about speaking one-on-one with a deviant, learning their experiences, hearing how they started as an artist, and how far they’ve come. It’s an emotional connection to make with someone who was practically a stranger a few moments ago -- and then you realize you’re not really strangers when you

Comic-Con: Day 1San Diego Comic-Con Day 1 is winding down to such wee hours, some sticklers might call it “Technically A Few Moments Into Day 2.” But we live by the belief that new days don’t technically start until after you’ve fallen asleep, and all of the deviantART staff in attendance are still buzzing with energy after such an amazing first day on the convention floor.
For those of you unable to make it to San Diego, allow us to paint a picture for you.
Try not to get hypnotized as our deviantART signage spins from the convention ceiling!
The first thing you see as you walk in the door (provided you walk in at door G) is the radiant deviantART band of hope hanging from the ceiling like a beacon for artists and art lovers to join their devious brethren at the mecca of creativity: Artists’ Alley.
Like last year, deviantART is sponsoring the alley, offering comic artists comfy seats, slick carpeting, deviantART swag, and the contentment that comes from knowing how

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What is Premium Content?
The Premium Content Platform was built to represent high-quality content — the premier pieces in an artist's repertoire of work. We encourage the sale of everything from comics or stories for download, to high-res files like .PSDs, textures, tutorials, brush packs, and more!

28th Bi-Weekly Contest
Hey Concepteez,
It's time for another contest, It's an Environment round.
The winner from the poll was: 'Ancient Constructs'.
If you didn't get the theme you voted for, don't worry there'll be plenty of opportunities to re-use those themes. Thank you so much for the suggestions, feel free to join us on facebook as an alternative method of sharing your ideas. Facebook/ concepteez http://www.facebook.com/concepteez
The previous round wasn't quite as popular as we would have hoped, the entries were great, but we know you can do better! We had 13 entries, each with their own distinct style and different approach to the Theme. We've come to expect great things from you all, so let's keep up the trend. All the themes in the poll had a battle on their hands this time, a few we shall save for another time.
There are many brilliant and varied artists in this group, We're sure you can rise to the challenge.

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*whitneymusil Dec 7, 2011 Student Artist

My birthday is on the 28th. Feel free to get me something...

~NeRdy-BAt Nov 13, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

OMG the dA company is in CA, HOLLYWOOD?! I live in CA! But not in Hollywood...-.-

!ninstrikers Nov 27, 2010 Digital Artist

oh. my. god. I turn 10 on the 7th of August. OH. MY. GOD!!!!!!!!! DEVIANTART AND I SHARE THE EXACT SAME BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~boomer6 Apr 2, 2012 Student Artist

Woah! Awesome! Lucky you!

`Itti Nov 11, 2010 Hobbyist General Artist

I never saw what you actually did with the postcards. Did anything become of it?

~PinkyPromises Dec 14, 2010

i was thinking the same thing.
which cards were accepted? gggrrrr

`Itti Dec 20, 2010 Hobbyist General Artist

I asked on $Heidi's profile. Who knows if we'll get a response?

~PinkyPromises Dec 20, 2010

hope so! i was looking forward to it.

=Sotkettu Sep 14, 2010 Hobbyist General Artist

I sent the postcard and after that I realised that I should have designed the picture of the postcard myself. I felt myself a quite stupid after that.

Sorry deviantART. I only wanted to say Happy Birthday.

~captaintop Aug 6, 2010

Should've gotten mine by now...Sent it a few weeks ago. Haha.

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