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PE Artist Interview: VAngelLJHello! How are you today? Could you tell us a little about yourself?
Hello! I'm good thank you. My name is Leo, I live in England and I've been a member of deviantART for around 8 years now (quietly).
So, when did you first discover Vexel Art?
I came to discover vexel art in 2007, and it was introduced to me by `AwsumZ. I like the media because it is versatile and I find it relaxing, which is why I've been doing it ever since.
And how would you describe your work?
I'd describe my work as semi-realistic, and I like to think I'm creative with it at the same time as keeping the realism - as in, I tend to follow stock references to a certain extent, but I love to add all my own ideas into it and 'mix it up'.

If someone were to ask you, “what is vexel art?”, what would you tell them?
I tend to tell people that vexel art is blocks of solid colour or g

PE Artist Interview: 21stBistroHello! How are you today? Could you tell us a little about yourself?
I'm doing great! I'm Caitie, and I'm an American artist that has been part of the deviantART community for around two and a half years. I'd moved around on a few accounts before settling here. Besides a few hiccups I've had a really wonderful time being part of deviantART and I look forward to many more years!
So, when did you first discover Vexel Art?
For anyone who has been watching me since my very beginning, they saw how all of this really unfolded. I was struggling for months, trying to figure out a style that I wanted. I needed to find something that wasn't like smooth shading (smooth shading frustrated me so badly!). My first real "stab" at vexel art was a piece of mine called Central Perk (inspired by the famous coffee shop in the sitcom series, Friends). That deviation was made at the very end of July. So I've only been doing vexel fo

Vexel Art and Stock: Making The Most Of ResourcesMany vexel artists like to use stock images as a creative influence for their artwork. Most stock images on deviantART are generously provided free of charge for this very purpose, so why not use them?

There are several forms of stock images out there, but for the purpose of this article, we are going to be looking into portrait photography, as this is a very popular choice for vexel artists.

This is a small selection portrait stock, which all happens to be by our lovely Stock & Resources Community Volunteer, ^Elandria

As with most stock, ^Elandria’s photos come with some guidelines to follow, which you can find linked in the description of all her stock images. It is very important to follow a stockist’s guidelines! Remember – they are providing their artwork for free for you to enjoy resourcefully, so be respectful of that by following their set rules, and by always

PE Artist Interview: x-posionHello! How are you today? Could you tell us a little about yourself?
Hello! I'm great, thanks! My name is José D. Rodríguez, I'm from Colombia and I'm 18 years old. I've been on dA for almost 4 years! The most of my works are made for the Hysterical Minds Collective :iconhystericalminds: http://hystericalminds.com
So, when did you first discover Vexel Art?
After the first year being on dA, I discovered Vexel Art. I turned out really interesting to me to work on an artwork by only using pentool, but in Photoshop! I like it and choose it because it gives me a little bit more freedom when I try to add some effects, specially lighting and shadows. It is really hard to me to try to shade only using vector layers!
And how would you describe your work?
My style is always changing and that is because I always try to experiment and try out new things! Recently, I may say it tends to be dark, very fluid, full of surreal and a

PE: Digital Art VS other categoriesThe category system within deviantArt has the purpose to organize the thousands of artworks submitted every day and group them together in accordance to style, media, genre and/or theme, etc. Imagine deviantArt without categories, it would be a chaos! Imagine yourself wanting to browse for photography only; without the system organizing every deviation by media, you would find yourself unable to filter artworks that aren't photography in your search results.
Thus the importance of categorizing your artwork correctly. By submitting your work to the appropiate category combined with a correct use of keywords, you're a step ahead of being discovered by people wanting to search for art like yours.
All this sounds so nice and all, but what happens when a particular piece could fit in several categories? The category system as it is now is very specialized and has literally thousands of different subcategories buried down tons of more subcategories, which is both a blessing and a curse. Havi

Darkroom Photography TutorialsdeviantART is home to thousands of useful tutorials on just about every topic imaginable.
If you want to try your hand at darkroom photography, or simply gain a greater understanding of the medium, here are a few to get you started...

Confused by film types and formats? Don't know your 35mm from your instant processing? This tutorial is a good place to start.

No camera? No problem! Make your own.

One exposure not enough? Here's how to do the double.

Time to develop? Read these!

Maybe you want to try some alternative processing. Here's how to make a negative from a digital photo.

Cyanotypes are fun, safe and easy. Find out how to make your own.

Want to take your instant film shots further? Try an emulsion lift!

Love vintage looks but don't have access to darkroom chem

PE: Why I would/wouldn't DD an artist that has....Full title: Why I would/wouldn't give a 5th DD or a DD to a piece with 1200 faves.
Disclaimer: This is a compilation article written by `RockstarVanity, ^pullingcandy and ^Lyricanna. While we do not speak for the whole team, some of the points do generalize. I want to state now that these are preferences, not hard fast rules and every CV has their own. The only hard fast rules are that resources must be credited and no one can receive more than one DD within 6 months.
Have you ever wondered why some CVs include fave or DD limits in their DD suggestion guidelines? Why some of us will give a 6th DD or DD a piece with 10 000 faves and others will not? Here are some reasons why.
Why won't you DD an artist that already has 5 DDs?
:iconlyricanna: The reason for this at it's simplest is to involve as much of the community as possible in DDs. The more detailed version has 3 factors

What is Digital Darkroom?What is Digital Darkroom?
Digital Darkroom is the evolution, converting chemical processes to digital ones, cellulose and silver to pixels and bytes. The first digital camera, weighing 8 pounds with a resolution of 0.01 megapixels, was built in 1975 and recorded black and white images to a cassette tape. The first camera which recorded images as computerised files was made by Fuji in 1988 and the first commercially available digital camera was created in 1990.

The Digital Darkroom gallery on dA is for photographs which have been digitally processed or edited with the use of computer software to emulate traditional and alternative film darkroom techniques. It's also a place for very modern processes like HDR photography, which involves creating images with a higher range of visible tones than regular photography.

Most of the functions available in digital editing software were created to mimic actual darkroom

The Super-Fun Mega Games SheetEveryone enjoys a good puzzle to crack, right? Especially when there are prizes involved... So for Vexel Art Project Educate week, I decided to make a games sheet with loads of fun puzzles and games for you to solve and enjoy

Of course, this games sheet is open to everyone

First prize - The first person to return this games sheet completed correctly will win a deviantART hoodie of their choice (subject to availability) & 1 year premium membership to deviantART, or the points equivilent!

The two runner's up, who will be the next two to return it completed correctly, will each win a 6 month premium membership to deviantART, or the points equivalent

To win the main prizes, all the answers must be 100% correct, if you get even just 1 wrong, you will not win... although if you're the first to return it and you've got most of them right, I'm pretty sure I can give you some points for your efforts

If you need to print it out to

PE Interview with ThiefoworldSome of you may know him as the CV for digital art, or for his iconic colorful gallery. Introducing, ^Thiefoworld!

For those of us who don't know you, please tell us a bit about yourself!
Hi! I'm Thiefo, I'm a graphic designer and a freelance illustrator. I like to draw, swim, eat and sleep. I love BBQ sauce, iced tea and rodents.

How did you find deviantart?
My very first touch with deviantArt was around late 2004 while searching for Lostprophets' wallpapers, I found DA and thought it was just another random wallpaper site. It was because of my friend ~Marira that I discovered it was actually a community in which you can share your art, so I opened an account to share some of my crappy drawings. I've been here since then!

In your opinion, what do find to be the bes

2012 Roundup!2012 has seen #projecteducate advance with the changing times here on deviantART and become an official group! That means that it has been a lot easier to bring you all the information, features, interviews and articles as part of various Project Educate weeks. So with the functions of groups at our fingertips, the articles shared are all in organised gallery folders for ease - all of which are linked in this article.
2012 also saw the Introduction of Community Weeks headed up by members of the community. They're now running monthly and are designed for members of the community to get involved by writing articles on whatever they want - educationally. `JamminJo and `lintu47 are your current community week leads and the people to note if you're interested in contributing! Our calendar for

Everyday we're CV'ingAs a Community Volunteer - I do as much or as little within the community that I feel comfortable doing. We're not pressured to do this and that, we don't even have to give a Daily Deviation every day, we choose how we promote our selected galleries/chats and forums and we're not fixed to any specific rule on how much or how little we do. But I do believe that it's important to share with you just what the community volunteers do and why we do it. More importantly it's so easy to get lost on this site full of many people - and miss out on the awesome that's going on. So I'm going to share with you exactly what the latest awesome is...
Project Educate
Almost every week since October last year the Community Volunteers have been working hard both independently and as part of small teams to bring You Project Educate.
Project Educate is about bringing forward art forms whether they are popular or overlooked and giving

The A, B, C's of Cosplay 2 (P, Q, R, S):iconprojecteducate:
Project Educate: A, B, C's of Cosplay 2:
Cosplay, short for costume play, is a type of performance art in which participants don costumes and accessories to represent a specific character, or idea. Characters are often drawn from popular fiction in Japan, but recent trends have included American cartoons and science fiction.
Favorite sources include manga, anime, tokusatsu, comic books, graphic novels, video games, hentai and fantasy movies, as well as anthropomorphic manifestations.
Cosplayers often interact to create a subculture centered around role play. A broader use of the term cosplay applies to any costumed role play in venues apart from the stage, regardless of the cultural context.
Informational text cited from Wikipedia.org. and Costuming.org
For the rest of the week, I would love to do enough featurettes to cover the entire alphabet, and hopefully help educate about interesting animes, mangas, ter

PE: Artistic Uses in the ForumAs an artist, the +forum is not closed to you! Though the +forum is a public place for discussion, there are many Forums within the +forum for a budding artist to use effectively. This article aims to explain a few opportunities for an artist to involve themselves in in an artistic way.

Firstly, there are the main discussion Forums for art:

General Forum

Photography Forum

Digital Art Forum

Literature Forum
You are free to discuss about anything related to art here, provided you do so in the correct Forum! The General Forum holds the discussion of all art topics that

There's something new in town...For a long while now, I've been itching to create a group that encompasses the whole of the People & Portraits Photography Gallery. After chatting it through with ^3wyl today, we decided to launch one - and so ~PeopleAndPortraits was born! It's for every single sub-gallery of People and Portraits Photography. Every single one. You'll find a folder for every one of them and you'll find that you can submit not one but TWO works a week to each one. What else are we giving you...well...

The chance to show case your work by having it submitted to the group

A 'photographer' of the week each week

People and Portraits Exposed - a weekly series of articles

Articles from other community volunteers who handle People and Portrait Galleries

Feedback - we would LOVE to give you feedback!

A contest ---- our contest is launching next week and we're ready for you! Standby to see what it's all about.
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PE Artist Interview: renen02

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 5:43 AM

Vexel Week

Hello! How are you today? Could you tell us a little about yourself?

I’m doing great! I’m Renato Mariano and you can call me RENEN from the Philippines. I have been a member of DA for almost three years. Often times looking at DA refreshes my inner soul.

So, when did you first discover Vexel Art?

Actually I was an avid fan of vector art. Browsing different kinds of art leads me to discovery of vexel art, which turn out to be more exciting. Through vexel art I was able to explore colors and concept to my artworks which thought me the virtue of patience in putting all the details and elements.

And how would you describe your work?

I tried to give the impression of a detailed realistic vexel art. I love putting different elements needed to produce best art possible but it takes a lot of time.

If someone were to ask you, “what is vexel art?”, what would you tell them?

Vexel art for me is a combination of vector and pixel combined in only rasterized layers. It is a clear manifestation of modern art.

Who are some of your favourite vexel artists or inspirations around dA?

~Lullipops, ~Aseo, ~zldz they are all great Filipino vexel artists; their works are presented in a detailed manner, making it appear very awesome.

Interesting. For anyone hoping to get started in vexel art, what would you recommend?

Have the passion and a lot of patience to come up with the best vexel art, work on your strenghts and never give up because the best art you could give is a reflection of any artist hearts and soul. Anyone can be unique on its own way. You can check our work and tutorials on facebook page Vector X Vexel PH, we’ll be glad to assists you to what ever help that we could extend. Thank you so much

Great! Thanks very much, Renen

See more of ~renen02's artwork here: [link]

This article was brought to you by ^TheLastHuzzah as part of Project Educate Vexel Week, January 2013!