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Traditional Art Favorites of 2011!
Another year is over and it's time for my annual art feature of works submitted in 2011!
This is both my favorite and the most difficult art feature to make. After going through thousands and thousands of works you can imagine how hard it was to pick just some.
Artworks were chosen by different combination of the following "criteria":
general impression • emotion conveying • meaning of the artwork • pure awesomeness • idea/concept • originality • complexity • technique • quality • subject • incredible realism • great style • everything else I forgot to write

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Traditional Art Favorites of 20122011 • 2010 • 2009 • 2008
Another year is almost over and it's time for my annual traditional art feature of artworks submitted in the year of 2012!
This is my favorite, the most difficult and the most time consuming art feature to make, as well as the one I'm never really satisfied with: it's a real pain to decide which works to include in this little collection when, just from this small part of the most amazing works dA is filled with you have the luck to find and see each year, you have at least a few hundreds of top

WATCHERS FEATURE! pt. 23100+ works to enjoy this month.

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FEATURE: 2011 Summary of Art memes!Less than a day to 2012! It's time to show our year of art and hope the next one will be even better! Enjoy your fellow deviants' and your own works and improvement achieved in 2011! With your support, I hope this to become my annual art feature.
Not even half of people who voted they'll make a meme made one. How very disappointing. Just kidding! But, not to worry, I also picked some great memes by myself making it at least a big feature if not huge.

Disclaimer: I don't answer for any feeling of dizziness after browsing through this feature.
Try not to

if possible.

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Huge Weekly Features!Nothing too interesting and new to report. Currently experimenting with various new stuff. Lets see what comes out of it all. Hopefully at least something will be a success.

WATCHERS FEATURE! pt. 26 (130+ works)If you like the feature, why not support and promote your fellow artists' (and your own) works featured here by

the Journal to help it spread and more people see it.
With every new month of these features, there's more and more great artists and amazing works popping up. Keep on with the awesomeness!

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Contest Closed!
If you like the contest, please help to support it and spread the word by faving this Journal, or linking to it somewhere. Scroll down for absolutely amazing list of contest prizes you can win.
Please read everything carefully and if there's something you don't understand, or you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.
THEME
An artwork of your animal friend
By an animal friend, I mean your own pet, but it can also be your family pet, family dog for example, as well as some animal you're closely connected to and love very much, like that one special horse of your granddad's you made friends with and love to ride.
Does my animal friend have to be..uhm...alive?
No. I even encourage making an artwork of an animal you loved very much, but unfortunately is no longer with you, for whichever reason. Always wanted to draw your dog you spent so many wonderful years together? Now's a good time.
Introduce us to your animal friend

Big Weekly Features!Hope you enjoy the features. Go post your thumbnails to Watchers Feature poll if you want to get featured this month. Hope you all have a great weekend!

Tutorial: do huge features really fast and easyA Journal „tutorial“ aka „save time and make your dA life easier“.
I just couldn't watch my fellow deviants doing the features the most tiring and time consuming ways anymore, while there is much simpler and really fast way of dealing with big features, as big as the Journal limit allows if necessary, and I will share how. It's up to you if you wanna start using it too.
It's really nothing special, just an incredibly useful method I figured along the way, through my long featuring „career“. Also, maybe it will give motivation to more people to start making features, small or big, and help support their favorite artists, artists who deserve much more recognition and feedback, introduce unknown great artists and their art they found to others, etc.
The „tutorial“ is divided in 2 parts:
1. Featuring artwork collected though Polls/Journals made especially for that
2. Featuring artwork from your Favorites
1. Featuring ar

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The results + misc. info + Big Weekly Features!The results
First, the results of that "Watchers Feature!" test some of you helped with: after 2 weeks there's still less Favs than people featured on the latest one http://diamond4girl.deviantart.com/journal/WATCHERS-FEATURE-pt-23-318773207 , but nonetheless, with some more Favs than usual, the feature ended up in the Footer for about a day and half and your works have been seen by 3-4 times more people than usual. (1100+ on the latest one vs. >400 views on the few previous ones). Thank you all who helped with the test.

I consider my theory relatively proved, so it's up to you what you do in the future. Btw, glad some of you finally figured out you can fav Journals!

Tutorial
In case you missed it, but you're interested, I wrote a little "tutorial" on making features, especially big/huge ones and all in extremely time saving and easy way AND with your thumbs all arranged nicely in your Journal http://diamond4girl.deviantart.com/journal/Tutoria

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Traditional Art Favorites of 2009!

Journal Entry: Sat Dec 26, 2009, 5:08 AM

Another year is over and it's time for my annual art feature of works submitted in 2008!
This is both my favorite and the most difficult art feature to make. After
going through thousands and thousands of works you can imagine how hard
it was to pick just some.

Artworks were chosen by different combinations of the following "criteria":
general impression • emotion conveying • meaning of the artwork • pure
awesomeness • idea/concept • originality • complexity • technique •
quality • subject • incredible realism • great style • everything else I
forgot to write

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~artmapassion Jun 5, 2010

wow... amazing collection..... all are amazing works

congrats everyone

*anaNeamu Jan 6, 2010 Professional Photographer

i haven`t seen your news and i made one with traditional portraits and it seems we appreciate art in the same way!

if you want to take a look here it is : [link]

*Jon-Snow Dec 31, 2009

Sorry for taking so long to say, but thank you so much for featuring my art among all these wonderful drawings! Many of the ones you picked are my own favourites too, and I'm honored to have a drawing listed among them. Thank you!

~xBluepearlx Jan 2, 2010

You're very welcome! I'm glad you like the article!

~JJJenkins Dec 30, 2009

Wow thank you so much for featuring my work! It is such an honor to be shown next to so many amazing works created by amazing artists. This is a very cool feature and you should be proud of putting together such an amazing display of art. Keep up the amazing work!!

`nimra Dec 29, 2009 Professional Traditional Artist

thanks for including my work I'm honored.....

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=Wicked-Illusion Dec 29, 2009 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

You're very welcome!

~laurghita Dec 29, 2009 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Just the girl with butterfly don't reach the same level.

~emaghrabi Dec 28, 2009

thank you so much for featuring my work here.

Loved your collection.

~LadyLuciolaLupus Dec 28, 2009 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

What a wonderful inspiring collection.....

Off to check out some tutorials and practice practice and practice......

Happy New Year and New Decade to all.....

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