How to Use DeviantArt: 12 Steps (with Pictures) (2024)

FAQs

How to put images in DeviantArt comments? ›

Use the icons below the comment window to add a picture, a gallery, a video, gif, or an emoji. To format your text, type what you want and highlight the text to bring up a menu to customize using bold, italics, etc.

In most cases it does not matter how much of the material you have used, whether it's a single frame, a few moments of audio, a short clip of video or any other sampling it's still considered to be protected by copyright and you still require the owner's permission for use.

No child under 15 should use this app at all. If your child has been using Deviant Art, you may want to ask to see who they have been communicating with and the type of art they have been looking at. If your child has been communicating with strangers, talk to them about why this is dangerous.

In January 2023, three prominent illustrators (Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz) filed a copyright-infringement and unfair-competition class-action lawsuit in federal court against DeviantArt, Stability, and Midjourney, whose own app trained on the same database that powers Stable Diffusion.

As a result, while the use of profanity or similar strong language is tolerated when used conversationally or as part of a creative submission, members may not make statements which are racist, bigoted, or which contain other forms of hate speech.

When you post your art on DeviantArt, you retain all rights and ownership of your work. There have been concerns in the past over DeviantArt's submission policy, but as the site has said itself, “DeviantART does not retain any ownership nor right to ownership of any artwork posted to deviantART.”

DeviantArt is a website where artists share their work. Just because something is on the site doesn't mean it's free to use. You need to get permission from the artist first. If you want to use an image for an album cover, you need to contact the artist and ask for their permission.

DeviantArt is a free website to show your personal art. To upgrade you can purchase core membership which is around $20 for three months.

If a deviation or submission has downloadable content, click the arrow beneath the main image to download available content. Clicking the arrow will prompt a download. Click the arrow "$" symbol below the deviation. A purchase box will pop up with details on how much it costs.

Is it ok for a minor to draw NSFW art? ›

Overall you can draw nsfw stuff for yourself if ur a minor, especially if its for practice/ anatomy/ etc. but do not post (distribute) it until you are an adult if it is p*rnographic in nature (nude drawings such as anatomy and stuff are fine since its just a figure study) .

Due to a recent influx of submissions we'd just like to make it clear that we will under no circ*mstances accept NSFW art of minors (characters/people that are under 18). This includes minors in sexual contexts (whether heavily implied or blatant) and nudity.

If you are inserting a picture into an existing comment, click Show All Comments on the Review tab, and then right-click the border of the comment of interest. In the Fill Effect dialog box, go to the Picture tab, click the Select Picture button, locate the desired image, select it and click Open.

Within your comment, paste the URL of the direct image file you'd like to include (e.g. https://helloworld.com/funny.png). You should see a thumbnail appear if the image was detected. When you post the comment, the image is embedded in your comment.

if you type :devtobyf: on deviantArt in any posting, note, description or journal, this will become *tobyf (tobyf is my username on deviantArt). If you write "icon", instead of "dev", you will not get a plain text link, but the avatar of that deviant - just type :iconDeviantName: (again without spaces).