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[http://www.deviantart.com/ DeviantArt] ([[deviantART]] from 2001 to 2014) is a Web site featuring art from registered users. Art types include full-fledged paintings, sketches, digital art, photography, sculptures, writing, fan art, comics, 3D CGI art, and more; there are extensive downloadable resources such as tutorials, stock photography, and CGI digital models. "Fella", a small, [[Robot Buddy|robotic]], [[Funny Animal|cat character]], was the official DeviantArt [[mascot]] until 2014.
Unusually, this site had a [[Headscratchers]] page before it had a regular page.
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DeviantArt was [[Follow the Leader|loosely inspired by projects like Winamp facelift, customize.org, deskmod.com, screenphuck.com, and skinz.org]], all application skin-based websites. Sotira entrusted all public aspects of the project to Scott Jarkoff as an engineer and visionary to launch the early program. All three co-founders shared backgrounds in the application skinning community, but it was Matt Stephens whose major contribution to DeviantArt was the suggestion to take the concept further than skinning and more toward an "art community". Many of the individuals involved with the initial development and promotion of DeviantART still hold positions with the project, from administrators to volunteers serving as gallery directors and Message Network Administration. Angelo Sotira currently serves as the CEO of DeviantART, Inc.
DeviantArt has a reputation for deleting artwork that they find to be risqué or outright pornographic, a great [[Irony]] [[Artifact Title|considering the site's name]] ([[Getting Crap Past the Radar|and the fact that a good-sized portion of the artwork that doesn't get deleted is still pretty risqué]]) and the [[It's Not Porn, It's Art|"Artistic Nude"]] category. Not too unrelatedly, it also has a reputation for being populated by [[Furry Fandom|furries]], [[Small Name, Big Ego|oversized egos]], and [[Sturgeon's Law|bad fanart]].
DeviantArt also has a reputation for how many people think there should be a "Quality Control", however, because "Quality" is ''extremely'' subjective, a lot of people's "Quality Control" wouldn't be to remove poorly drawn work from the site, but to remove entire ''genres'' of art that the people don't like from the site in general. It's also known for blocking criticism from some art, meaning you can be banned for criticising the art. However, this was also put in place due to the amount of people who didn't seem to realize that constructive criticism has to be constructive and were flat-out insulting the artists personally or mocking the work. Even so, it extended to people who don't want to hear criticism at all, constructive or no, but you do hear people who want critique on the site and specifically request it.
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Other communities that offer a similar focus include:
* [[Pixiv]], which is essentially a Japanese counterpart of DeviantArt and tends to have less censorship regarding suggestive themes,
* [[ConceptArt.org]] is for people who actually make a living drawing all day and will eat you alive if you're not prepared to take criticism (the real kind).
* [[Elfwood]] is an older fantasy art gallery that DeviantArt may have been later inspired by, and had its own share of backdoors drama in its heyday.
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