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Project Educate: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, and Renga

As part of Poetry Forms week at projecteducate (https://www.deviantart.com/projecteducate), we wanted to go into a bit of detail regarding some of the more well-known Eastern forms of writing. The same way there are many forms of Western poetry, there are many forms of Eastern poetry, and ultimately this article will barely begin to scrape the surface of even the forms that it actually touches on, but within this article, there are links to resources that delve further into the subject matter, and all are worth reading if the subject interests you. Haiku & Senryu Haiku, in the classical Japanese sense, is a small poem comprised of 17 characters known as on (sometimes onji).

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Barosus

he has touched our hearts with his comments, journals, and arts whimsical words and compassionate mind truly a blessing, of perhaps a theatrical kind with a love for frogs in tow a way to make us laugh even when low passion for literature and stories for ages perhaps too much good for these mortal cages so he's off to the next journey yes, his departure means he's free but what he left behind with us is the legend of the great Barosus

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Submit and manage your art from the new Studio!

Introducing the Studio: an all-in-one place to submit your art and manage your drafts. This update is available to beta testers and will be released to more deviants soon. Opt in to beta testing to try it! Submit with Style and Ease The submit process has been redesigned to make it easier and faster than ever to publish and monetize your art on DeviantArt. Visually, the submit process now matches the rest of DeviantArt, and functionally, you can do so much more: Easily create and edit descriptions with the same text editor as elsewhere on DeviantArt. Select where to publish your deviation. You can add it to a Gallery or submit to a group. Offer your deviation for sale with Core Membership—easily sell your submission as a Premium Download, or add it to a Premium Gallery or subscription tier. Apply appropriate content labels for your deviation, whether it contains Mature Content, was created using AI tools, or you want to add the NoAI label. If you frequently apply one or more

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Feature: Designing characters and creatures + more

It is time to feature more tutorials and undiscovered art! :la: As usual, the feature will be divided. The first part includes tutorials on how to design characters and creatures, and the second part is a selection of artwork I’ve discovered recently with fewer than 50 favourites. Previous features are linked at the bottom of the journal, and I post a new feature each month on my profile, usually around the 15th :dummy: We'll start off with some guides on how to design human/humanoid characters. First, @Dinloss has an excellent walk-through of how to design the character themselves - their body, their hair, pose, and much more. However, the clothes and accessories of a character are also essential to their looks - which is covered more in-depth by @HANIICU and @Deamond-89, with one discussing functionality and style and the other cloth detailing, including how to draw those: Animal characters are a different beast, however =P Luckily, we have experts on the topic -

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Community Writing Challenge: Haiku!

Haiku as a poetry form is well-established, with hundreds of years of poets showing how to be thoughtful, witty, and appreciative in a very small amount of space. If you're not familiar, the basic summary of haiku is that it's a poetry form that originated in Japan and focuses on nature. The structure of haiku in Japanese is 17 characters called on that, similar to syllables in English, act as phonetic units. In haiku, these on are typically divided into phrases of 5 on, then 7, then 5. This is the familiar concept of haiku most people know, minus the part where haiku specifically focused in some way on nature. If you follow the structure but write about human nature, then congratulations, you've written senryu instead! When writing in English, it's a little more complicated, but the 5-7-5 syllable structure works just fine, but you can also opt for brevity, though. If you want to learn more, I wrote a journal about this for @projecteducate many years ago that you can read, and find

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Seahorse - YHH AUCTION [Open]

Adoptables and YCH

Fractal Art Daily Deviation I had the pleasure of featuring today. Join me in congratulating @GBLXVIII on "The Mausoleum" :clap: :dalove:

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(OPEN)PIXELS ICONS! - PayPal

The stash link for the icons was hard to find so I will publish it here ⋆｡‧˚ʚ🍓ɞ˚‧｡⋆ The formatting of the new journals are funky so I'll keep it as a carrd link for clarity :' https://doosioart.carrd.co/

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Daily Deviations Round UP: March 2024

Hallo !!! Feature of all the Daily Deviations set by me during March 2024. Now is time to take another look at the work of these talented artists and give them some love!! Areas featured: Wallpapers Photomanipulation Digital art / 3D Stock images My Daily Deviation guidelines:

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Tutorial: Composition with simoneferriero

Compose yourself with a tutorial from @simoneferriero and XPPen to get a Profile badge! DeviantArt has partnered with XPPen to bring you a brand-new tutorial by @simoneferriero! Improve your skills with three principles of composition that can be applied to any of your next masterpieces. To participate, follow these steps: Watch: View the video tutorial to learn @simoneferriero's three principles of art composition. Create: Following the tutorial steps, illustrate your own version of @simoneferriero's scene, or apply what you’ve learned to a new artwork. Upload: Submit your work as a deviation with the tag #DATutorialXPPen to get the Profile badge. Not sure how to add a tag? Click on the button below to have it automatically added! About XPPen As a world-renowned digital art brand, XPPen focuses on the needs of artists. Through continuous innovation and trendy design aesthetics, XPPen brings impressive product and service experiences to lead the development of digital

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The Festival of Colours Contest

The Ways of Ripening

In her youth she fancied herself having an overflowing garden full of tomatoes and potatoes and peppers. Those dreams faded, however, as she swelled like a pumpkin, giving birth to a girl with verdant hair and citrus skin. She didn’t know how to care for a living being—it was hard not to be a perennial and fast learner; any misstep could be the last with no one to tell her the ways of the world, the ways of ripening. In the first month, she cursed herself for all she did not know; she’d done such a poor job with her own soil, she had to promise her daughter more: one day she would send her off into the world to know and to have all that she didn’t. Every season her motherhood was ripe with newness; the child grew in vibrancy: plump orange cheeks competed with winter jasmine amidst icy frost; evergreen smile immutable as she careened through the hollyhock and daffodils of spring; legs sprawled as she leapt through the coreopsis and basil of summer; hands outstretched to pluck

The Immutability Prose Contest

The Bird Feeder

I should have known the bird feeder was a mistake. How could I be so heartless as to think that? How indeed. A huge rhododendron bush grows across the street from my house. It’s actually a multistory apartment complex for sparrows, containing at least twelve nests. In the spring the little feathered rodents wake up the entire neighborhood with their infernal squabbling. One cold autumn day in a fit of compassion, I decided to attach a bird feeder to the railing of my front porch. My first mistake. But who wants to watch sparrows shiver and starve to death in the snow? You don’t get to vote, cat. I fed the little b

The Hilarity Prose Contest

Breylon.

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Reftia's Devotee

When I first came to the temple of Reftia, the patron goddess of the military, the priests were kind. They recognized a lonely soldier, sent home because of my wounds. In recent times, many like me had come. I had lost my left leg from the knee down, but I had a crutch, and I had no doubt Reftia had preserved my life. Back then, the temple overflowed with visitors. I got a room at the inn and came to services every day. Others would flock in with me, veterans and relatives of soldiers. We sacrificed oxen and chanted odes of praise for Reftia's blessings, and supplication for those still at war. They called me a hero back then, seeing my m

The Deity Prose Contest

Niche

Niche The hubbub of the street was white noise. The close, but distant thrum of life was ever present, it was the mummer of everyday going-ons'. The cafe was never terribly busy, and the street it was on was never heavily trafficked. Elsa never would have found the small coffee shop it was by pure chance that she came upon it. Chance, and a phone call from her girlfriend. Her former partner was going on a trip out of the country. The other woman had explained that their life would have to be put on pause- she'd only be gone for a year, her friend had said. The call came with no prior warning. Elsa hadn't even known her girlfriend had applie

The Tea and Identity Contest

Feature and feedback challenge!

As part of a projecteducate (https://www.deviantart.com/projecteducate) event. Comment + Feature Challenge The deadline is today so I'm not sure if my entry will count, but who cares?! It's high time I featured some of the amazing art I've discovered anyway! It has been too long since I looked at your art. I have missed it so I'm going to feature this for a few reasons. I love the shades of green you used in this because they look so fresh and fertile and I can easily imagine the seladang growing out of the land itself. Which leads on to the next lovely thing about it; the muscle structure. Your shading brings out all the bulges and valleys in its body and it looks immensely powerfu

Comment + Feature Challenge

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