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This contest is now closed. View Winners Create the Next Citizen of Eorzea DeviantArt has joined in arms with FINAL FANTASY XIV: Endwalker for a new art contest. As skilled artisans of Eorzea, your task is to create fan art of any character from FINAL FANTASY XIV Online or FFXIV: Endwalker. In honor of the release of Endwalker, your character must include two (2) customizable features found in FFXIV: Endwalker in the following three categories: garments, hair design, and characteristics (i.e. scars, tattoos, etc.) Build your character just as you would prepare to join the Scions of the Seventh Dawn in Eorzea, and then design your fan art in whatever style best suits your vision! How To Enter Step 1: Read the challenge prompt, official rules, and FAQs. Step 2: Choose a job and race from the FINAL FANTASY XIV universe for your character. In addition to the existing playable races, you can also pick the new male Viera race. For your character's job, you can select from the list of

DeviantArt is proud to introduce innovative new technology in our continued effort to help protect our registered artists. DeviantArt Protect, our new state-of-the-art image recognition software, was developed to help safeguard your art in ways that were not possible without recent advances in machine learning. As many artists are aware, copyright infringement is a serious problem. This technology is trained to identify new images that appear nearly visually identical to other images on DeviantArt and allows us to notify you when someone uploads potentially infringing art. The effort that goes into your piece of art is more than simply the time spent creating. The practice, gaining of knowledge, and skill are all evident in the finished product. When DeviantArt sought to utilize machine learning with added human oversight, the goal was to help protect more than just one’s finished work. It's about helping to provide protection around the totality of effort put forth. Helping Protect

Learn How to Draw an Eye! Follow along with professional illustrator @reiq as he breaks down how to draw an eye with three helpful tips. Create your own version of an eye and submit the work as a deviation this month to get a new profile badge! To participate, follow these steps: Watch: View the tutorial below to learn @reiq's technique for drawing eyes. Create: Use the steps in the video to practice illustrating an eye, or incorporate the techniques into a new piece. Upload: Submit your work as a deviation with the tag #DATutorialEye to get the profile badge! Example Art Check out these submissions from DeviantArt staff members! Do you want to keep practicing and collect more badges to display on your profile? Check out more tutorials: How to Draw a Hand :tutorialhand: How to Draw a Landscape :tutoriallandscape: How to Draw Spider-Man :tutorialspiderman: How to Draw a Dragon :tutorialdragon: How to Draw Fire :tutorialfire: How to Draw a Creature Wing