This is super late by my own timetable but I want to keep going with this as long as I can! Issues may now be subject to lapses as I attempt to keep up with five classes Not to mention my various side projects!
Without further ado
Highlights From my Last Issue
my last issue can be found here:
Some Community Events 11This month, we observed Suicide Awareness with helpful tips from
akrasiel September: Suicide AwarenessWe, as humanity made progress on the Cancer front:
Cancer Cells 'Programmed' Back To Normal...And more deviantart centered, we had some great contests and challenges such as this one:
deviantHEART Art Contest Featured Members
This top chosen member may be self-centered on my part but I really want to give a shout out to
for starting the wonderful group:
BoundByGenderProject The Top Chosen New Member is:
They've been a member for about two months and have some thought provoking abstract paintings in their gallery, They also want to get to know people so go say hi!
Help and Tips
dAmnHub has some wonderful info on chats and Forums!
And
projecteducate continues to illuminate with this piece on Drawing Manga in action scenes!
Chats and Forums Newsletter v.4What are Chats and Forums?
The chats and forums (chat, forum) are places where you can interact with other DeviantArt members. The forums are divided into 9 different categories, and feature 25 (28 if you're a core member and senior) different forums with different purposes in which you can post threads and comment on other peoples' threads. The chatrooms are limitless, in that hundreds of chatrooms exist in which you can join! However, DeviantArt has its official and CR run chatrooms where you might want to venture first! All in all, the chats and forums are a great way to meet new people, get your artwork seen, blow off some steam, joke around with people, and just have some fun!
Official Community Relations Chats:
CommunityRelations
CRPhotography
Tips and Tricks: Action Scene Basics
How to Draw Manga! Tips and Tricks: Action Scene Basics Introduction
Action scenes are a key part of any manga, whether they be a placid shoujo to a shounen mecha showdown. Action scenes are a dynamic action driven panel showing a fight or action against an inanimate object, or a passionate realisation. All of these follow a similar formula to create the action sequence.
Setting the Scene
When creating an action scene first consider the what action is being performed and how the two objects/subjects are interacting, i.e. show the force of the movement. For a person, it they are being hit, they will reaction in accordance to the force applied.A common way of achieving this is using the < shape to indicate where they are being hit. Take into consideration anatomy; if a person is being hit in the stomach they will produce a nice < shape with their head and shoulders coming forwards, whilst the hip becomes the poi
Noteworthy
Yet again self serving since I originally introduced the piece, but recently a left handed 4 year old was told that his hand was evil by a teacher! Isn't that awful!?
LeftHandedArtists shared their own take on it as well as the original news story here:
But since I'm there already I might as well also share this blog entry to
BoundByGenderProject that was written by yours truly!
Also! I don't have a journal for it but today: Sep 29 is pink out day! Be sure to support your local Planned Parenthood if you enjoy all the great things they have done for low income women! Embrace the truth and ignore the sorry excuse of right wing haters who are trying to use edited videos as a ploy to shutdown the valuable nationwide service (not to mention our government if they fail that the bastards)
4 year old is called evil because being LeftyOur member ActsofArt brought the following news and video to our attention.
A 4 year old boy is told he is „evil“ by a teacher, because he is a left-hander!
You can find the article here:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2015/09/oklahoma-teacher-tells-young-student-being-left-handed-is-evil/
CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS?! Those things are happening TODAY!
People are getting discriminated because of what hand they use to write, their skin colour, their religious choises, ... The list goes on and on.
This is a very important issue and I cannot say it often enough:
We all should try to be more respectful and open for people who look or think different.
I know that many people are afraid of others who are somehow „different“ – we are trained to „not be different“. To „belong to the crowd“.
But I tell you something:
We only can have more peace and love in this world if we stop fighting a
Halloween and Gender RolesHello new members and interested users and welcome to the boundbygenderproject! If you would like to know more about the group and our future plans, be sure to check out our group info!
Because this is a group based around gender and the ways in which it affects us all, and because Halloween is next month I thought it would be a good idea to talk about the various store bought costumes that seek to define us all by strict gender molds.
http://www.womenyoushouldknow.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/girl_boy_cop-e1442785304945-630x421.png
But this isn't just about how male costumes are often the default while women alternatives are always “sexy” with the models posed like prostitutes. It's not even about how our children are socialized for boys to get real to life profession costumes while girls get “sassy” and “cute” costumes and when parents want to buy real to life profession costumes, they have to buy the boys type for their daughters, thus making gi
Challenges and Contests
Halloween and Autumn
BoundByGenderProject is having a mini-contest with the theme of Halloween!!!
And
Unframed-Nature is doing an Autumn contest on Scenery! But the Halloween one is better nanner nanner boo (because apparently I'm five)
Halloween mini contestHey everybody,
it's done: We decided to host our first contest! It will be a mini contest, which we will try to launch on a regular basis.
Mini contests have the following basic rules:
- Everybody can take part with one entry. Collaborations are allowed.
- There are no limitations on art type. (However, literature must be in English, because otherwise we cannot undestand and judge it. If you do art with only some words in another language, e.g. comics, please put a translation in your description.)
- The winning entry plus mentionable contest entries will be featured in our journal. Winners are chosen by group moderators.
- Mature content is allowed when marked as such.
- Entries must be submitted to dA after the contest started.
The first mini contest has the theme: Halloween
Contest entries should relate to Halloween and to our group. To take part, you just have to submit your entry in this folder:
CONTEST UnframedNature: Mystical Scenery of AUTUMN:iconzubatlaplz: Welcome to Unframed-Nature's Next BIG Contest :iconzubatlaplz:
HAPPY AUTUMN EQUINOX!!
It's the Perfect Time to Announce Our AUTUMN CONTEST! 
UPDATES: We've had AMAZING PRIZE Updates, and our Judging Panel is COMPLETE!
If you are interested in joining this Contest, please hurry!
:iconpumpkinlaplz::iconpumpkinlaplz::iconpumpkinlaplz:
:iconpumpkinborderplz: AUTUMN CONTEST 2015: "MYSTICAL SCENERY of AUTUMN!" :iconpumpkinborderplz:
MYSTICAL: In this case, mystical means, magical, mysterious, a bit strange or spooky.
SCENERY: In this case, scenery means, landscapes, natural settings, views with at least some to much distance, non-urban like forests or mountains or countryside for examples.
Of course this is an AUTUMN Contest, so keep it an Autumn "feel" - and if it's MYSTICAL, that should help. It's okay if Autumn is not the same for everyone- whatever
Miscellaneous
MyLovelyPet is having an icon contest, it's no Halloween contest but it's probably okay
There's also this pretty cool 31 day draw challenge! (you know if you like that sort of thing and not other cool Halloween contests OHMYGOSH I SHOULD STOP)
And finally this group recommendation challenge actually is pretty neat!
So go ahead and join the Halloween contest instead!
Icon Contest (closed)Deadline 10th of October!
Thanks to the wonderful work of many group members, and the dedication of lucytherescuedcat 
, we have now a large collection of artworks one can use for the icon! 
Check them out >> here <<!
Hi everybody 
We finally got to the point of having the Icon Contest for MyLovelyPet!
Our actual icon served us well during the first year. Now we are 1300 members more 
, and it is time to see what we all come up with together!
Let's have a delicious drink and think what we can do!
Rules:
Section I.
1) The Icon must be an animation which contains at least
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Join us for Drawtober 2015
What's Drawtober?
Drawtober is a 31 day drawing challenge started by the SketchBook team in 2013. It's back and better than ever for our third year! Improve your skills, challenge yourself, and get to know everyone in the SketchBook Community!
How do you join in?
- Be a member of the SketchBook group on deviantART.
What- you aren't already? Go to that front page, and click JOIN!
- Watch the account ~Drawtober.
Each day in October, a blank canvas will appear with a creative prompt,
Group Recommenders - Mini ContestHello dear Members and friends !!
I am so excited that this Contest is back!
Happy recommending!
What is the Group Recommenders - Mini Contest about?
We are a group that dedicates itself to helping deviants to get into deviantART community. Groups are a wonderful way to find a place on dA which you will enjoy and where you will profit from the most. There are thousands of different groups, focusing on 1000s of different themes or ideas.
We want to encourage our members to browse groups and find their favourite places to be - AND to share it with all the other deviants!!
Rules
Write a journal, recommending one group of your joice
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Giveaway!!! 20 x 50 Points! +++Ok, I know it have been a while now, and Im sorry for that!
Here you all have what you wanted, a new Giveaway!
In this Giveaway, will 20 Lucky People get 50 
Each!
You heard right, 20 people will get 50 Each!!!
I will also add one month free premium in the prize list if more than 1000 Favs!
Be sure to follow me, as I have a ART CONTEST comming up!
See journals for earlier contests, winners and prize lists!
Old Contests and giveaways
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Some Amazing Prices that can Be Yours, and what you need to do is Following:
Fav this Journal!
Write a Journal about thi
Groups I'm Into: BoundbyGender
I am so excited to be part of a team in the
BoundByGenderProject That there's no other group I could possibly think to show off right now. Please view our group info and join our contest which is listed above. The founder is so great and I would really like to see it get a lot of members and group activity! Please check it out!
Have any news? Comment below and I will try to share it in my next issue!
