Ever wondered where the art went to around here?

What ever happened to all those people who would flock to your prints account and purchase tons of stuff because they liked your art? What happened to all those constructive comments we used to give, where we'd actually help the artist, rather than just tell them their piece is "1337"? What happened to the good morals of commenting before you favourite?

The good news is the deviantART community still has these ethics infused in our members somewhere. The challenge now is to bring them back.

Bring back the ART to deviantART.

We (~kle0012 and ~kittysyellowjacket) created with this purpose in mind. We miss the good old days of dA, and with your help, and community support, we want to bring back the reason deviantART was created. ART!

Projects:
Operation: Random

Deviant Guides:
Good Comments | Good Responses

News:
11th July, 2009

Hi there everyone!

Well, it's been a long time. Too long. So now we're back and we're back to crack down on the attitude of this place once and for all. It's time for us to pull our socks up and go all out, and we need your help!

For now the Apprenticeship Program will be discontinued. We had an amazing turnout and we apologise to those of you who did not find the program helpful. It was merely created to help you all discover one another's talents and we may open it up again in the near future, so watch this space!

We also need new deviations for our gallery! So the new theme for the month of July is: Macro. Feel free to submit your art to us in a note and we'll be more than happy to put it up for you.

Thank you for all the wonderful support, comments and favourites. Please keep up the amazing attitude to make this place better once and for all! We'll be round a lot more often from now on.

Nathan & Kitty.

Old News

To Join:
It's too easy! Just watch the account! If you're feeling generous, you can also post a link to us in your journal or your signature, but that's completely up to you! Remember, the more people we have, the quicker we bring back the ART!

To Submit Art:
To submit art to the club gallery, it's as simple as 1,2,3!

1. Make sure the deviation you are entering reflects the theme of the week (which is listed just below!), and that it is posted in a sensible category that adequately reflects the content of the piece.
2. Drop us a note with the subject "Gallery Submission", and include in the note a link to the deviation, the category of the piece and this weeks theme.
3. Done! We'll post it as soon as possible!

This Months Submission Theme Is "Macro".

Chatroom:
Visit #bringbackart, the official chatroom to chill out, relax and meet new people or talk to us!

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Okay, so ~dee-dragon suggested this awesome idea that everybody set their home page to the random deviants page, and we thinking that's really cool, have decided to get you guys to do it for a week and sign your name here to say to did!

So if you're interested in participating in operation: random, all you have to do it change your home page to http://www.deviantart.com/random/deviant and post here saying you're going to do it for a week, and we'll add you name here!




If you want to help us out, we'd really appreciate any journal features for this project, and word of mouth is love.

Also, for those who have greasemonkey installed and use firefox, here's a great plugin that moves the random deviant/deviation links to the message bar at the top of the page!

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26th August, 2008

Hey there everybody!

Hope you guys are enjoying the new deviantART! To celebrate, the photo theme for this week is 'arties', so give us your craziest shots of the best parties you have!

Not much to report in the way of new stuff on our end, but we still have some new projects that we're working on bringing to you that still aren't quite ready! Rest assured though, it'll put Bring Back Art on your daily map!

That's all from us, enjoy your day, and keep spreading the word to bring back the art!

Update!

As you may have noticed, out sub has just run out! I was literally in the process of adding this journal when it ditched me, so if anybody is feeling kind, a sub would be muchly appreciated! Otherwise, this place will be like this until I can get around to getting us one! =S

11th July, 2008

Hey hey! How's all going everybody?

Just a catch up message really from us! We're working on some new projects to ring together our community even more, and when we touch up some final details and get a bit more time on our hands, we'll fill you all in with what we're up to!

The submission theme has been updated, so make sure you check it out and get those entries in for this weeks gallery! The theme for this week is 'Bright', so give us your brightest photos!

25th May, 2008

We had the Good Comments guide translated to polish! Check it out!

Keep your eyes peeled, we're going to be adding some new projects up next week, which will be a lot simpler than the other ones we tried to pull that kind of...died...due to our inactivity, I might add. Don't worry though, we will get around to resurrecting the Apprenticeship Program soon!

What do you guys think about campaigning to get our, and other, comment and critique guides listed in the official dA FAQ? That was the suggestion by ~zodiac1805, and we reckon it's worth a shot! It'd definitely give us a vague idea about how much the admins really do or don't care about the state of dA...

Tell us what you think over at the poll we created!

23rd May, 2008

Yikes! Where to even begin? As most of those who follow this club will know, we totally killed it with out lack of motivation and effort. Things have been really hectic lately, in terms of me and Kitty both finishing school, and now that is all over and done with, we're back, and ready to rock the place!

However...did somebody say competition?! Go and check out the journal on it for more details!

5th July, 2007
Let's get the party started, with some new CSS action.

We got a DD on our guide! A bit of a late reaction I know, but we have been lurking around here, contrary to how it looks. A big thanks, from the bottom of my heart, to Kitty, for putting in heaps of work to get through a lot of the work. <3

More coming soon. I hope you have your competition socks on.

3rd June, 2007
Yikes! Sorry for the neglect, just been so tired from school and such lately! Plus, I have to admit, I kind of forgot about all of this! Oops!

Anyways, updates coming soon to all our stuff! The apprenticeship program is going to get a kick up the bum, and everybody will get some help from us (finally) to get started! The Operation: Random program is going awesome, everybody has participated exceptionally well! We encourage you to keep it up, and let us know hoe you're finding it!

I know I keep telling you I'll put it up soon, but the receiving comments guide is finally up. Check it out, and make sure you let us know if it helps you! And please, spread the word, we really need as much support as we can get!

So apologies for the long span between updates, try not to let it happen again. Check the submission theme, there's a new one up. =]

17th May, 2007
The Apprenticeship program is up! If you haven't already seen who your partner is, you'll be getting a note soon from us telling you. Otherwise, take a peek at the apprenticeship journal!

16th May, 2007
The Apprenticeship program goes live tomorrow! We'll be updating the journal in the evening with the final partners. If you're not listed, you'll get a note explaining why. If not, make sure you tell us! We hope this works out well! Please remember to at least try to stick with your partner for a week or two, and if things really aren't working out, make sure you let us know. Spread the word everybody, now we're seriously bringing back the ART!

Also, submission theme has been updated, keep the great deviations rolling in!

6th May, 2007
Hey everybody, sorry for the lack of activity lately, schools been VERY busy. I've posted some new journals on our two big projects, operation: random and the apprenticeship program. Read those for info on what's happening!

Also, I've changed the theme for submissions, should be a little easier this time for everybody, so please don't be scared off, be creative!

My apologies on the long delay on the receiving comments article, it's so close to being complete, I just need to proofread it and post it, so it should be up whenever I get 10 minutes to do it...

Thanks to everybody for your ongoing support, we've met so many great people though this club, you're all just amazing! Look forward to your ongoing friendship!

25th April, 2007
Okay, so we're gearing this place up a notch. We've got out gallery open with a theme, so all entries are welcome. We decided to open the gallery to advanced critique, and we'd appreciate it if members could comment a piece or to to give artist support.

However, this update I'd just like to find out how much interest we have in an apprenticeship type program, where artists work together to critique each other and help each other with styles and collaborations! If you're interested, just say so in the journal, and if there's enough people, we'll start this sometime next week!

Also, another amazing idea from one of our members, this weekend, we're going to start operation: random. Basically, the challenge it that you set your home page to deviantART's random deviant page and take a look at one random deviants gallery everytime you open your browser! We want to see how many deviants can get involved!

21th April, 2007
Really quick update, the submission process is now love, see below for instructions. Part two of good comments will be posted ASAP, but for now, I've got myself a dinner to attend! Toodles!

20th April, 2007
Hey guys, okay tomorrow we open for art submissions, but we've decided we're going to have a surprise theme going! So for a period of time, you can only submit deviations that represent the theme adequately. We have the right to reject deviations that don't.

Also, we're prepping the second part of our series on comments, this time on how to receive them. It'll hopefully also be up tomorrow.

We're also exploring the possibility of an apprenticeship type project, where artists are adopted by other artists, and together they give critique to each others work. Let us know what you think.

Just thought we'd give you an update, as it seems like nothing happening around here, but get ready for big things, because it's all going to happen soon!

18th April, 2007
Posted our first article, Deviant Guide: Good Comments. Check it out!

17th April, 2007
Added information on submitting art to the club. We've had a huge amount of interest in this, so read the section on it below to learn more.

16th April, 2007
In just a matter of days, we've uncovered a large portion of deviants who obviously feel the same way as us! We need to bring back the ART together! The amount of support has been overwhelming, thanks to everybody who's made this possible! We're beginning to plan our mission as I speak, and we're going to start by helping everybody make good comment! We'll have some articles posted by next week, keep an eye on this journal for more details.

Thanks so much to *jahg who bought us a one year subscription! You rock!

13th April, 2007
Just getting this account underway. We'll let you members know exactly what we're going to do to help bring back the ART soon, but in the meantime, just hang tight while we think of great ways to do this in the most entertaining way possible!