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Thank you @WritingDD2R

slick idea getting followers to go on the ride of creation with you. smart.


What have you been up to these last two months? Feel free to share your work or adventures below

A number of challenges on eviantart as you know. I still have a short story collection to finish, and some other writing:) I really need to get to some programming.


here are some of my recent challenges aside adjacent art examples and one poem

Happy 60th Birthday Star Trek!

Sep 8, 2026

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September 2026 Contest: Europa Gothic

Sep 1, 2026

๐ŸŒ… Europa Gothic: September 2026 Contest ๐ŸŒ… Brought to you by: [EMOTE][EMOTE] [EMOTE] Join @color-me-club in coloring or creating coloring pages about themes that enliven our spirits. Coloring can be meditative fun or a communal activity, open to anyone at any skill level. Making a coloring page is like making a ticket for another's imagination into a place they have never been. Get inspired to color a world you have never seen but isn't complete without your prismatic touch! [EMOTE] ๐ŸŽฏ THE CHALLENGE 1. For the Line Art Creators: Create an artwork, black lines and white space, depicting a scene , of any time or place or fantasy, indicative of European art in the period commonly called gothic. Please look at the example work below and the inspiring gallery below to comprehend. 2. For the Colorists: It has two paths. 1) During the lineart challenge, If you make an acceptable lineart, you can color the lineart you make and it wil be an entry for the coloring challenge OR you can use

Europa gothic

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Earn the September 2026 Group Profile Badge!

Sep 1, 2026

No AI generated entries in this group. Check out @DeviantAI for AI specific contests. Thanks! [DEVIATION] Join @color-me-club as we celebrate the coming Autumn season in the northern hemisphere. For a lot of us living north of the equator, September means fall: cooler days, changing leaves, pumpkin spiced everything. But โ€œfallโ€ isnโ€™t merely a season, itโ€™s also an action: falling from the sky, falling down, falling overboard, falling leaves. So whether you are celebrating Autumn or falling down over it, @color-me-club wants you to #FallForArt with a profile badge this September! ๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŒฐ ย  You have a couple ways you can earn the #FallForArt profile badge: ย  Create a fall-themed line art deviation and include the tag #FallForArt before you submit the deviation Color a free-to-use line art featuring a fall-theme and include the tag #FallForArt before you submit the deviation (please credit the line art creator in your deviation description) ย  This is the profile badge you will earn when you

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@Kat-Zaphire thank you

@Malintra-Shadowmoon thank you

@idogmatik beautiful eyes, was the portrait from a live model or photograph? either way do you know what she was looking at?

@SeaNaARTS nice convex lens perspective

@NikKanOwl the antlers on the owl, magic:) i wonder if that means the bones of this owl are lighter, more fragile. beautiful graphite, and i like the story of the all seeing owl... the devourer!!!:)

@NataliaSwietekArt I instantly recognized all but one, I see: mushrooms/sunny side up eggs/sausages... I saw sausages that color/tomatoes... baby tomatoes cut/ toast with no butter or jelly:)/beans. I dont know what the green things are, maybe an herb. but you do have an issue:) where is your mother's drink? haha! I hope she loved it, and I am glad you eventually did.

@Estheryu that is a big cat:) beautifu imagination

@Pulkit0712 nice use of pointilissim, I have to use that more

@Kohobee beautiful virginia creeper, but where is that lovely photo taken? the architecture intrigues me

@Dieffi falforart alert:) thanks , how did it smell there? I bet good



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Angels Without Wings September 2026 ~ AWWs

Sep 2, 2026

[DEVIATION] [EMOTE] AWWs for September 2026

Daily Deviation Round-Up: August 2026

Sep 5, 2026

I am glad to present my daily deviation Round-Up for August 2026 which showcases all the deviations I featured in this time. Actually, this Round-Up covers the areas I DD from Traditional Art, Literature, Artisan Crafts/Cosplay as well as AI (in this feature two AI pieces). If you like any of the works, so please give these talented artists some love. Suggestions and self-suggestions are always welcome. At the end of the journal you will find my DD Suggestion Guidelines on how to send me your art suggestions. Thanks to the following suggestors: [EMOTE] [EMOTE] [EMOTE] Please send me your DD-Suggestions (Self-Suggestions are absolutely encouraged!): [DEVIATION]

SlipPewChild eaterEnglish breakfast - WatercolorDreaming Cat  water colorThe girl who dreamtContemplating the Changing SeasonsAnd the autumn has come


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Congratulations to @rendermuffin @Cyklopi @AstraLiaMoon

Thank you for featuring @Kat-Zaphire

@rendermuffin the red side is the rat side:) what inspired the image, you didn't say?

@Cyklopi when did your mom's cat pass away? adoreable acrobat

@AstraLiaMoon imagine if the mouse door was locked:)

Mickey MouseMemories of Spring SparrowsKitty on a bathrobeCat under rain with mice


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Beautiful feature @Malintra-Shadowmoon beautiful work from all

@MichaelMathews-Art a collage:) lovely to see, I like how you made the female figure and "earth" how long did it take to get all these pieces together? last question, what will you do with your collages? do you send them?

@Keller-cosplay I first thought this was some sort of computer graphics imaging. But I saw your instagram and I comprehended. you met Mads Mikkelsen , i shared that with a colleague who loves him

I learned from your instagram Photo by @rozzylis, retouching by @alina_takeshi

takeshi is hilarious licking a skull

@Jules2005 what was your prompt or settings? Did you use dreamup or another tool? Cute composition.

@cortneyelznic peter the horse whisperer, nice. what novel is the text from? you tagged nnovelillustration

@rickturf nice utopia, love the arangement of various dimensions, that moon space is brilliant. but what is that triangular thing in the top left quadrant ? it isn't a building in a particular dimension like th eothers.

@Alina-Lovin beautiful colors chosen, really gives a pseudo three dimensional look:) and it seems from your description the structure came from your imagination. Slick

Hey! fellow poets!!!

@thequiethours beautiful proclamation, there is time for the girl with no face to find one, if you ever make a follow up poem At me

@DaizyChai i like the fifth stanza, the third version of the refrain

I just want to live inside your thoughts
or perhaps just inside your eye
To see what it is you see
The world inside your mind

@exarobibliologist my favorite lines

Let me be no nearer

In death's dream kingdom

Question, are we epeople so empty?

@alanyann haha after such a surreal dream, he needed the toilet:)

Devotion to Gaia [Relics series]Shar cosplay  - Baldur`s Gate 3Chalk Pastel  Watercolor Kitten Around.Chapter 3 - Peter Calms BlackjackUtopia 17 - MultiversePetals | Ballpoint Pen Drawing by Alina LovinNo Face

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Literature

Beholder

I just want to live inside your lens Or perhaps just inside your eye To see what it is you see The world inside your mind Capturing new images Making plain things grand Taking on the journey Viewing from sky, or sea, or land To live inside your camera To see the way you do There could be nothing grander Than viewing things anew I just want to live inside your hand Or perhaps just inside your eye To see what it is you see The world inside your mind Watching you paint such beauty Being within the thought Seeing colors blend fantastic Shining in the dark To live inside your brush To see the way you do There could be nothing grander Than viewing things as you I just want to live inside your thoughts or perhaps just inside your eye To see what it is you see The world inside your mind Running through each story Discovering what might be Walking among the characters Living a life unknown to me To live inside your stories To see the worlds you do There could be nothing grander Than

T

Literature

The Scrolling Man

I We are the hollowed men We are the branded men Leaning together Headphones filled with cache. Alas! Our simulated voices, when We whisper down the feed, Are quiet and meaningless As white noise on a podcast Or thumbs swiping over cracked glass On a looped Spotify playlist. ย  Shape without form, shade without filter, Paralysed clout, reaction without feeling; ย  Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's offline Kingdom Remember usโ€”if at allโ€”not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollowed men The branded men. II Eyes I dare not meet in this timeline In the algorithmโ€™s fever dream These do not appear: There, the eyes are Blue light on a fractured screen There, is a cursor blinking And the voices are In the server's pinging More distant and more solemn Than a fading signal bar. ย  Let me be no nearer In death's dream kingdom Let me also wear Such deliberate disguises Influencer's coat, ring light, crossed thumbs In a viral dance Behaving as the trending sound behaves No

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Literature

Shadow Dream

โ€œPlease donโ€™t do that, itโ€™s disgusting,โ€ my line manager said. I was in a funfair with a person I support and my line manager. We were queuing for the ghost train. The supported individual tried biting me. I gripped his nose and said Stop! Thatโ€™s when my line manager said those words to me. I didnโ€™t get it. Stop! Is our mantra. I let go of his nose. โ€œI need to bite you!โ€ He said fluently. โ€œNeed. Not want. Need!โ€ Normally, non-verbal he had become perfectly fluent โ€ฆ but psychopathic. I felt a sense of dread and fear. I kept my distance. The fight or flight reaction made my skin tingle. Old people pleasing habits came flooding back. I was about so say sorry, but then I realised it is a word I use and abuse too often. So, there were no apologies. He abruptly walked off and got into a carriage of the ghost train and we were away. The train plunged into the darkness and came to a halt. The passengers started to talk: was this meant to be part of the ride? Had it broken down? We were



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@leothefox congratulations on the word count for nameless sails:) nice determination as an artist to get you there

The Rocket King

https://www.lulu.com/shop/adrian-aidan-smith/the-rocket-king-in-green/paperback/product-e7q69wp.html

Hard Boiled Gallery

https://www.deviantart.com/dreadful-tales/gallery/102519605/hardboiled-potboiler-contest-2026

@NizeOdDaske don't apologize for creating, keep creating.. what is looking at th eboy, that has him by its.. tentacle?

@NMatychuk smooth illustration, i can see on a book

@SethFitts i wonder what fiver's spirit looks like:) what are the black things about its neck? Love the scaling with the small moon

@Onirio where was "yet another lovey day for night" taken? it is pretty

@RohelineBear I like your stylevery iconographic

Dread Deadline 65SixtyFiveHm6 and RED 826 8 23 Maroon TreeRabbit Spirit AwareYet Another Lovely Day-for-NightPiercing Thought


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Thanks for this fun feature @vagrantscout :)

these are some of my video game based posts:)

December Secret Santa 2023 for melmuffDecember Secret Santa 2023 blackandwhitePokemon Dance Charity 2026Sudowoodo at the Library submit to charityDedenne Rainforest Guide colorBayonetta -super smash collab -2023 BW

@XoAngelBeatsoX i thought you had made a statue of that creautre or some sort of automaton:)

@Alicante-Design I love drifloon's one of the few pokemon i know instantly

@pinkythepink I notice you didn't tag the image crossstitch, it is lovely:)

@Gingerko what is the maximum amount of coins you can put in that bag?

@CathryneDelamort what video game is asari in

@FallingMist your zelda does have that mucha vibe. what song is she playing?

@Elanei hello.... Hello! Luigi!!

@LayzeMichelle was the little sprite being an after effect, magical glow, nice costuming

@LayzeMichelle i have never seen peach on a motorcycle, wow! does she have a hog in any of the games?

@SpiritgreenArt nice angles, love mobius strips

Where Chocobos Roam (Aerith Cosplay FF7)Shiny DrifloonBetween Day and Night (Glasmond)Animal Crossing Coin Bag CrochetAsari in a latex bodysuit in the snowZelda: Art nouveau styleLuigi's MansionPrincess Zelda Cosplay | Echoes of WisdomTouring Peach Cosplay | Mario Kart WorldMobius Kart - rainbow remix tee


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@leothefox smart putting mostly original work in the third book. All my ebooks are original stories never posted online. Hope the publishing situation improves for your third book and hope the best for the fourth.

@KizukiTamura nice poetry

reality

is nothing but an angle

that persists

ย 

the rest

is nothing but

perspective

Your kaleidoscopism, beautiful view thing, is great. One day I will need to take photographs and try that.

@KatyaKashka does our cute little mouse have a name yet?:) I can see an african pygmy mouse with a little leaf sail boat.

@KwasiRa what are the dimensions of smolyoid? will you make a larger version or one with its complete body later?

@Bnspyrd did people groom those trees to grow alongside the church wall, in st goerge?

@berryspitfire what inspired the design of wholly? it reminds me of graffiti in streetart. Cool.

@RighiCarlo beautiful design of the frog, the camaflouged style is brilliant coloring.

@lockssteps stretching plus sharpening nails on lilly pads on golden water, nice

@KanchanMahon eye of devoted is beautiful, rare to see collages amongst my connected. question, you said a collage made digitally, what software did you use?

@Will-55 the thing about highly abstract art is the rorschachian aspect. Even if the artist has a clear idea. The artistic style invites each viewer to have their own perspective. If anything, the only factor between abstract works is how often people cann see variance things when they look at them.

Dread Deadline 65SixtyFiveBlue ParadoxLittle Mouse testing his raftSmolyoidBnspyrd PHOTO The Quiet CrossWhollyFROG - 40CatThe Eye of The DevotedAbstract #5 (Art Practice #27)


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@leothefox nice honoring your grandfather

@LucienWittwer beautiful composition, I figured this a painting on first glance but on inspection, a beautiful surprise. Where in switzerland was this? it seems like a small water body that used to have stone steps or rails?

@offermoord so much fun, has anyone worn those glasses?

@LucienWittwer apocryphal liturgy, a secret thing's public work, interesting allusion,beautiful composition. Nice choice of the buildings.

@PhotoartBK does it rain in romania heavy? I have never been.What is the name of that hill/mountain in the background?

@Gambear1er nice hatching:) I saw your gallery, lovely works

Dread Deadline 65SixtyFiveThe Final Resting PlaceSpexApocryphal LiturgySirens, rain, and backlightingDimetrodon


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@KovoWolf I never heard of Denfur before, thanks for sharing. I can see why you are inspired by the two artists you feature.

@darknatasha

Did you ever finish that pinup gal book?

I knew that was sake before i read your description. by the bottle I know it is older than Dassai, any particular sake brand for a relaxing rat? Have you ever made Templeton?

nice lines from michele light, is she on deviantart? koi drag on:)

@Goldenwolf

have you ever seen a white wolf in real life in a winter somewhere?

what are your thoughts to deviantart merch? I know you have a dedicated etsy, but what would entice you to use deviantart's new fiscal tool?

Lovely eulogy to Freya, legendary canine.

Nice commission , Takoda and Grim look cute. With the advent of AI art has commissions grown or lessened?

Boiler RoomYear Of the RatKoidragonWhite Wolf MagicFreya TributeTK Pets


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