Interview with emoticonist :devSynfull:!:iconArtHistoryProject:March is dedicated to the Customization Gallery here in #ArtHistoryProject! I had the chance to meet and interview great emoticonists of our community!Today, we will be interviewing `Synfull, a well known artist! (This was supposed to be posted on Saturday, but I had connection problems, sorry for the incovenience. Also, I am sorry but my Membership ended and I can't use the group's skin).Hello and welcome to this interview `Synfull! Introduce us yourself.Hey everyone. My name is Karen though I'm also known as 'Syn' around the community. I've been a member of deviantART for 7 years now and have been an emoticonist for around 4-5 years. In the offline world I'm currently taking a gap year out before starting work and in my free time love watching films, helping at Scouts and solving Rubik's cubes.You are a successful emotico
Outsider Looking In: Emoticons#ArtHistoryProject: Customization MarchCustomization is a diverse category, that because of its diversity shares many rumors, myths and general questions about parts of the gallery and their uses. I do not claim to be knowledgeable of this gallery, in fact, when writing this article, I decided to approach this through my own perspective as someone who has no experience with the gallery and has never submitted to it before. I set out to answer my own questions that I've wondered about and was greeted with a tremendous amount of help from the community as well as a variety of answers for me to chew on.This Wednesday, I will present to you three of the amazing people who answered my questions about Emoticons and their responses. For those who are seasoned emoticonists, feel free to answer the questions in greater detail in the comments. Here are some questions for everybody to participate i
A Digital Dolls FeatureIn honour of customization month, I am featuring from the digital dolls sub category to highlight the types of work that can be found. The works are varied in size, style and technique and I hope that you enjoy them =3Digital Dolls - Pixel ShadedBases - Free hand and Traced Dolls - Made Without a Base or on Adopted Bases Digital Dolls > Tool ShadedBases - Free hand and Traced Dolls - Made Without a Base or on Adopted Bases Digital Dolls > Other Shading StylesBases - Free hand and Traced Dolls - Made Without a Base or on an Adopted Base :thumb1541552
Art History - Wallpaper FeatureIn honour of Customisation Month at the Art History Project here are a rainbow of Wallpapers to suit any desktop! :iconarthistoryproject:
A (modern) history of dA emoticonsIntroAs you wander around deviantART pages, there is noticeably one art medium that invades almost every element of the site. Whether it is the deviantART galleries, journals, news section, comments, forums, chatrooms, avatars or even dA profiles, it is hard to find a spot that hasn't been infiltrated by a familiar set of small, coloured, pixel circles. The art form I am talking about is of course the emoticon and throughout the past 10 or so years they have been happily adopted by deviantART and its community.Although emoticons can often be spotted on a wide range of other instant messengers (IMs) and social media sites, deviantART has come to house a unique branch of these miniature art pieces. Whilst the majority of these alternative sites opt for simple, predominately yellow emotes with a range of basic expressions, the art community here at dA have stretched the art form far beyond its natural boundaries and developed entirely new styles of emoticons
Interview with emoticonist :devmintyy:!Customization month on #ArtHistoryProject gave me the opportunity to interview amazing emoticonists here, on DeviantArt!Today, I will present you `mintyy, a well known emoticonst that has offered so much to DeviantArt!:iconmintyy:Hey there, `mintyy! So, tell us a little about yourself. How did you find out about DeviantArt?How I found DeviantArt? Hm. To be completely honest, it was so long ago I don't remember.Oh, I see! So, let's talk about emotes. How did you start making these little creatures?I started making emoticons after I found ^SparklyDest's Pumpkin contest. I entered it with a, to be honest, completely bad entry and no experience in pixel arts at all, yet it inspired me to make more pixelarts and therefore also emoticons.As we can see on your profile, you have an amazing collection of pixel flowers with emotes. How did that idea spring in your head?
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