Start Chatting! Keep in contact with other deviants faster than ever before using the new Chat. Real-time conversations are at your fingertips with the new chat, letting you talk with any other deviants without interrupting your ability to browse art. Hover over the chat icon on the main site navigation or click “Chat” on another deviant’s Profile to get started. Direct Chats Send a message to a fellow deviant to engage in instant conversation about anything! Whether you’re chatting up a friend, telling an artist you admire their work, or checking in on a commission, private communication is quick and easy. Chat With Multiple Deviants Create group chats with up to 20 deviants so you and your friends can chat together whenever! Name Group Chats Give your group chats fun and distinctive names so you can always know who you’re talking to. Share Art, Emotes, and GIFs Share deviations and add emotes or GIFS in your chats to express yourself in a fun, quick, and easy way. Your
June is recognized as LGBTQ+ Pride Month around the world, a celebration of personal identity, acceptance, and love. Join us for a month of education about and celebration of the LGBTQ+ community! The importance of Pride is hard to overstate. Pride provides community and a way for LGBTQ+ people to come together and celebrate who they are in places and ways that empower. From those who are learning about themselves to those who have been out and proud for years, Pride is a chance to embrace love and personal expression, and is an opportunity to learn about LGBTQ+ history and culture. On DeviantArt, we’re celebrating the LGBTQ+ community with new art and new Pride-themed journals! We’ve commissioned six LGBTQ+ artists to create new works that you can use as cover images for your Profile, and they’ll be revealed each week, starting with this work by @Pepperoonie: Weekly journals will also be posted to @team to cover some basics of LGBTQ+ history, culture, information, and resources
We’re all in this together. Join the #StartWithLove campaign and create positive artwork demonstrating how to share love and empathy during these tough times.
Start With Love Poster Challenge
Artists not only have the ability to create, but also to inspire. Now, more than ever, it's important that we as a community do what we can to lift people's spirits. That's why we're launching "Start With Love" – an aspirational poster challenge to show how to maintain empathy, compassion, and love during this global health crisis. The challenge will illustrate how we can all spread love and positivity, despite the tough times we are going t