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Correction by dttey




But before submitting your art our galleries for a correction, make sure you've read the rules!

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Join us, upload your art, and submit your feedback and corrections to our galleries! But first, please read our Rules




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Update 1/18/2020: How are your pieces coming along? Just two weeks to go!

Happy January! It's a brand new year, and it's time for a brand new creativity challenge.


This month will be about stretching your creative muscles. 

Llama Emoji-03 (Sparkles) [V1] 

Here's how this will work:

  1. Leave a comment on the journal to sign up.
  2. Select a 100% real plant/creature name from the list below. Do not look it up.
  3. Draw a profile for what you think a creature or plant with this name might look like. 
  4. Once you're done, you can look up what your creature or plant actually is. How close were you?
  5. Share your final piece in the comments section. You can do this challenge as many times as you'd like. 

Prompt List:

  1. Hooded skullcap
  2. Tasseled wobbegong
  3. Mustached puffbird
  4. Sparklemuffin
  5. Leopard's bane
  6. Wunderpus photogenicus
  7. Northern stargazer
  8. Lowland streaked tenrec
  9. Pink see-through fantasia
  10. Chicken turtle
  11. Humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa
  12. Hummingbird hawk-moth
  13. Strange-tailed tyrant
  14. Flying snake
  15. Sarcastic fringehead
  16. Scotoplanes
  17. Black swallower
  18. Milkweed assassin
  19. Long-horned orb weaver
  20. Hickory horned devil
  

For the overachievers among us, you can unlock the following badges:
  • Gotta Collect Them All Badge: Do one for each name.
  • Overthinking It Badge: Include a muscle or skeleton diagram with your creature.
  • Wait, That's Not Right Badge: After completing your first piece, do one as a human or humanoid character design. 
  • Assemble The Team Badge: After completing your first piece, assemble a superhero team from your favorite names. 

Brainstorming questions:


You don't have to answer all (or any) or these. But if you're stuck, here are some questions to get the ideas moving: 
  1. Where does your creature or plant live? What sort of environment, location, elevation, habitat, etc. Does it migrate or stay in the same place? If it migrates, what causes the migration?
  2. What does it eat and drink? How does it consume sustenance? How often? 
  3. How long does it live? How long is its childhood? Does it look different or same at different stages of its life? 
  4. Is it a social creature, or a loner? How does that impact its adaptations and behaviors?
  5. Does it have predators? What is the biggest risk or danger it faces? How does it adapt or deal with this? 

Here are some cool pieces from around deviantART to inspire you!


The Last Unicorn - Unicorn by emersontung    Large Land Predator Arthropod by Eclectixx
Science Fact Friday: Asteraceae by Alithographica Spinosaurus aegyptiacus skeletal infographic by Qianzhousaurus -Zoroark- by arvalis



Hints & Rules:

  1. Spend some time brainstorming. The more ideas you sketch before settling on your final idea, the better.
  2. Make it as complex or simple as you'd like. Your picture can be polished, or a sketch. 
  3. Pick a creature you don't know. It's no fun if you know what it is. (Only exception is if you're doing all 20.)
  4. Use different sources of inspiration. Landscapes, machines, dinosaurs, flowers, plants, fish, mushrooms, space...anything is up for grabs. 
  5. You can join at any time this month and play as many times as you want. 
  6. Deadline to submit your pieces is the end of January.
  7. Have fun!

Participating Artists:

Are you in? Leave a comment below.

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:iconpiratesgrrl:
piratesgrrl Featured By Owner Jan 4, 2011  Student Traditional Artist
thanks for the fave on edward and edward
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Millagull Featured By Owner Dec 30, 2010
Will I be told when you have corrected? :>
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TeddyLoveVenom Featured By Owner Dec 28, 2010
I'd like to downgrade to members. ;A; I don't feel like I don't deserve the position. I'm not trained enough to give direction & want that spot open for someone worthy enough.~
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PrinceofPride Featured By Owner Dec 26, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
Can we submit WIP or animations? Because I have a canine walkcycle that I think I need critique and correction on but it's not completely finished. I want to make sure it looks right before I finish it.
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wildstar25 Featured By Owner Dec 26, 2010   General Artist
could this [link] be considered the kind of improvement pics that get put in your galleries?
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darknataku17 Featured By Owner Dec 24, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
Hey there~ I noticed something lately. There has been so many deviations, but very little corrections. :noes:
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DuaneX Featured By Owner Dec 23, 2010
I like how this group corrects mistakes instead of just exhibiting them.
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unkown-emoidiot Featured By Owner Dec 21, 2010  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
wanna affiliate? :iconany-anime-drawings:
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Dasmiere Featured By Owner Dec 20, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
Oh my goodness I need this SO BAD. Can we just...join? Or do we need to go through a process?
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yanisaran Featured By Owner Dec 18, 2010  Student Artist
How many artwork can i contribute per week?
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