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[http://www.deviantart.com/ deviantART] is a Web site featuring art from registered users. Art types include full-fledged paintings, sketches, digital art, photography, sculptures, writing, fan art, comics, and more; there are extensive downloadable resources such as tutorials and stock photography. "Fella," a small, [[Robot Buddy|robotic]], [[Funny Animal|cat character]], is the official deviantART [[Mascot]]. Unusually, this site had a [[Headscratchers]] page before it had a regular page.▼

deviantART was originally launched in August 2000 by Angelo Sotira, Scott Jarkoff, and Matt Stephens as part of a larger network of music-related websites called the Dmusic Network. The site flourished largely because of its unique offering and the contributions of its core member base and a team of volunteers after its launch, but was officially incorporated in 2001 about 8 months after launch.▼

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 [[Its Not Porn Its 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 [[Sturgeons Law|bad fanart]]. There's even a game about making a search with only two words and trying not to find [[Catgirl|catgirls]], [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] or furries. All in good fun of course.▼

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 peoples' "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. However, 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.▼

Now has a [[Deviant Art Recommendations|recommendation]] page.▼

Check out the [http://tropers.deviantart.com/ Tropers] page we have there!▼