Hello! My name is Alana, though you probably know me better as =yanachan. `chasing-butterflies needed a new owner for Manip Equips, and I volunteered. So, to introduce myself, I'll tell you a bit about me.

I am 22 years old and currently a college student studying psychology, and I work in a video game store. Art is obviously a big hobby of mine and it has been for a very long time. Nowadays I mostly work with digital art - photomanipulations, to be precise, though I also dabble in other forms. I also make resources - some stock, some 3d stuff, some brushes and tutorials, but mostly textures. I loooove textures. Basically most of my time on deviantART is browsing through the stock and resource galleries keeping my eye out for something I could possibly use

This actually is not my first time working with Manip Equips! Waaaaay back a few years ago when the club was brand new, I used to be an admin here. I mostly handled gallery submissions then, if I remember correctly. I ended up leaving due to illness, though. But I am very familiar with the club, and I don't plan on completely shaking things up. But I do wish to see it more active - so keep an eye out, as fun things will be coming in the future

Thank you very much!

=yanachan




Since there was no poll this month, this is the piece from our gallery that I have selected.



All you have to do to participate in this month's challenge is to create a new artwork that uses this month's featured deviation. Let's see just how creative you can be! When you're done - leave a comment on this journal with the link to your artwork. At the end of the month we'll display the results of the challenge here in the journal for everyone to see!








Have a contest you want us to help promote? Just send us a note with the subject contest and we'll add it to this listing!

dA news' contest section
karemelancholia's Contest List.
*Express--Yourself holds monthly themed art contests open to everyone
*ManipulateThis holds weekly manip challenges
*Mollinda's Bees - ends March 31



Looking to chat with other members about stock or digital art? Here are a few chatrooms we recommend:

#Resources | #ManipulatedReality | #digitalMedia | #ARstock | #stocktalk | #fishnetstockers

For those of you who haven't already heard - we've had some changing of the hats on the Artist Relations Team and this is the current list of Gallery Directors for Stock and Resources:

Resources Gallery Directors: ^bleedsopretty and ^LawrenceDeDark
Stock Gallery Directors: ^LawrenceDeDark, ^Hanratty-Stock and ^lyastri









Here's the deviation that you, the community, voted to feature this month! Now, all you have to do to participate in this month's challenge is to create a new artwork that uses this month's featured deviation. Let's see just how creative you can be! When you're done - leave a comment on this journal with the link to your artwork. At the end of the month we'll display the results of the challenge here in the journal for everyone to see!


Unfortunately, we did not receive any entries to the challenge for last month.



Have a contest you want us to help promote? Just send us a note with the subject contest and we'll add it to this listing!

dA news' contest section
karemelancholia's Contest List.
*Express--Yourself holds monthly themed art contests open to everyone
*ManipulateThis holds weekly manip challenges
`kuschelirmel's deviantID - ends Feb 16
^cosmosue's deviantID - ends March 1
*Mollinda's Bees - ends March 31



Looking to chat with other members about stock or digital art? Here are a few chatrooms we recommend:

#Resources | #ManipulatedReality | #digitalMedia | #ARstock | #stocktalk | #fishnetstockers

Here's the deviation that you, the community, voted to feature this month! Now, all you have to do to participate in this month's challenge is to create a new artwork that uses this month's featured deviation. Let's see just how creative you can be! When you're done - leave a comment on this journal with the link to your artwork. At the end of the month we'll display the results of the challenge here in the journal for everyone to see!


Last month we challenged you to create an artwork that used the deviation, Widow 4, here are the results we received. Enjoy!





Have a contest you want us to help promote? Just send us a note with the subject contest and we'll add it to this listing!

dA news' contest section
karemelancholia's Contest List.
*Express--Yourself holds monthly themed art contests open to everyone
*ManipulateThis holds weekly manip challenges
=sheispretty's ReCreate Contest - ends Jan 11
`LuneBleu's Grimm Brothers - ends Jan 15
=miss69 Steer by Missy Higgins - ends mid-Jan (deadline extended)
`chasing-butterflies' The Extraordinary Butterfly - ends Feb 2
=RLDStock's Themeless Contest - ends Feb 4
`kuschelirmel's deviantID - ends Feb 16



Looking to chat with other members about stock or digital art? Here are a few chatrooms we recommend:

#Resources | #ManipulatedReality | #digitalMedia | #ARstock | #stocktalk | #fishnetstockers

Our December Interviewee postponed until the new year, so I forcibly graciously accepted *Renilicious's request to be the December Featured Member. So, enjoy.... [link] -



Since we didn't get the poll up in time this month, I've selected the featured deviation this month!


Now, all you have to do to participate in this month's challenge is to create a new artwork that uses this month's featured deviation. Let's see just how creative you can be! When you're done - leave a comment on this journal with the link to your artwork. At the end of the month we'll display the results of the challenge here in the journal for everyone to see!


Last month we challenged you to create an artwork that used the deviation, Bones, which you voted for in November as our Featured Deviation. Here are the results we received. Enjoy!





Have a contest you want us to help promote? Just send us a note with the subject contest and we'll add it to this listing!

dA news' contest section
karemelancholia's Contest List.
~Express--Yourself holds monthly themed art contests open to everyone
*ManipulateThis holds weekly manip challenges
*FrozenStarRo's Witchcraft and Wizardry - ends Dec 10 (deadline extended)
*miss69 Steer by Missy Higgins - ends Dec 10
*mjranum-stock - Use his Stock - ends Dec 17
`oibyrd's Festively Devious - ends Dec 26
=lindowyn-stock's SHARDS: Urban Fantasy - ends Dec 31
`jenepooh's Home for the Holidays - ends Jan 5



Looking to chat with other members about stock or digital art? Here are a few chatrooms we recommend:

#Resources | #ManipulatedReality | #digitalMedia | #ARstock | #stocktalk | #fishnetstockers

Many apologies for being behind on the December featured member and featured deviation poll/challenge. I've been quite busy and honestly forgot to give the other admins any sort of instruction for this month, so we are working to get those done ASAP. In the meantime, please enjoy the rest of our news:



Last month we challenged you to create an artwork that used the deviation, Bones, which you voted for in November as our Featured Deviation. Here are the results we received. Enjoy!





Have a contest you want us to help promote? Just send us a note with the subject contest and we'll add it to this listing!

dA news' contest section
karemelancholia's Contest List.
*Express--Yourself holds monthly themed art contests open to everyone
*ManipulateThis holds weekly manip challenges
*FrozenStarRo's Witchcraft and Wizardry - ends Dec 10 (deadline extended)
*miss69 Steer by MIssy Higgins - ends Dec 10
*mjranum-stock - Use his Stock - ends Dec 17
`oibyrd's Festively Devious - ends Dec 26
=lindowyn-stock's SHARDS: Urban Fantasy - ends Dec 31
`jenepooh's Home for the Holidays - ends Jan 5



Looking to chat with other members about stock or digital art? Here are a few chatrooms we recommend:

#Resources | #ManipulatedReality | #digitalMedia | #ARstock | #stocktalk | #fishnetstockers