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Project Educate: Showcasing your Artisan CraftsThis is a comprehensive guide on how to best present your crafts and show them in their full glory. It is based on my personal experience, research and of course on my taste, so it is by no means applicable to everything or everyone and is strongly biased. I hope this helps you to get more out of displaying your crafts on dA.
This guide has three sections: Photography, Selecting a Category, Description.
Most artisans and crafters have experienced that it is difficult to display three dimensional work on a two dimensional screen. Bringing the full beauty, complexity and all around view and feel of your work to the screen is a big challenge, but there are some easy fixes.
1. Photography
Photographing your crafts is the most important part in showing it off, but it is also the biggest challenge for getting it right. Many crafters think that getting great photographs means having a studio and expensive equipment, but there are many methods of enhancing your images without
PE - Artisan Crafts ABC - S-VAs part of the #projecteducate Artisan Crafts Week, we are posting an Artisan Crafts ABC. This week long feature will introduce some popular and some unknown techniques from the artisan crafts world.
This list will by no means be complete, we are just highlighting a few techniques for each letter
S stands for Stained Glass
Stained glass is a method of using colored glass (opaque or transparent colors) to create a glass panel. The colored glass is cut into pieces following a pattern, they are then pasted together either by the lead came method (traditional) or the tiffany foil method (modern).

S stands for Scrimshaw
Scrimshaw is the name for artwork created from the by-products of whaling and harvesting other mammals that live in the ocean. It is most commonly made out of the bones and teeth of sperm whales, the baleen of other whales, and the tusks of walruses.
Scrimshaw is
PE - Introducing MetalworkAs part of the #projecteducate Artisan Crafts Week, we would like to introduce the galleries within the Artisan Crafts main gallery. This week will be full of information, interviews and features related to all the different media and techniques that are at home in the Artisan Crafts galleries.
Today we are looking at the Metal Work gallery. In the gallery description Metal Work is described as "Metal work involving the use of heat, including all blades, such as knives, swords, cutlery, etc. blacksmithing; and any kind of metal forming without the use of heat, which would include repousse/chasing/embossing and engraving; also chain mail and armor."
To show off what this gallery has to offer, I would like to highlight a few recent pieces.

I hope you enjoyed this introduct
PE - Bead WeavingAs part of the #projecteducate Artisan Craft week, I would like to point you to a deviant who tirelessly posts news articles on a variety of bead weaving techniques.
There is a lot to be learnd here and an abundance of amazing artwork to be seen, so be sure to check out these awesome features:
Loom work
Square stitch
Ladder stitch
Brick stitch
Peyote stitch
Tubular Peyote stitch
Herringbone stitch
Right angle weave
Netting
PE - Artisan Crafts ABC III A - DArtisan Crafts ABC: A - D | E - H | I - M | N - R | S - V | W - Z
Artisan Crafts ABC II: A - D | E - H | I - M | N - R | S - V | W - Z
Artisan Crafts ABC III: A - D | E - H | I - M | N - R | S - V | W - Z
The quest to make the ultimate artisan crafts encyclopedia continues :D this yea
PE - Artisan Crafts ABC I-MAs part of the #projecteducate Artisan Crafts Week, we are posting an Artisan Crafts ABC. This week long feature will introduce some popular and some unknown techniques from the artisan crafts world.
This list will by no means be complete, we are just highlighting a few techniques for each letter
I stands for Intarsia
Intarsia, from the latin work "interserere", meaning "instert", is a technique in woodworking where pieces of wood are assembled a mosaic-like piece. Often different species of wood are used to have lighter and darker colors working together, this can also be achieved by staining the wood.
Intarsia can be set into larger wood panels or stand on their own as wall ornaments or used to decorate boxes, tables, wood floors, etc.
(the term Intarsia is also used in some other artisan crafts genres, but we are sticking with woodworking today)

I stands for Iris Folding
PE - Artisan Crafts ABC - W-ZAs part of the #projecteducate Artisan Crafts Week, we are posting an Artisan Crafts ABC. This week long feature will introduce some popular and some unknown techniques from the artisan crafts world.
This list will by no means be complete, we are just highlighting a few techniques for each letter
W stands for Wedding Cakes
Every great wedding needs a great wedding cakes. Wedding cakes can be made in all kinds of flavours and designs, there's almost no limit when it comes to creating a wonderful cake.

W stands for Woodworking
Woodworking is obviously the art of working with wood. There are many different methods to work with wood, from carving and shaping over instarsia and marquetry to furniture making and pyrography.

W stands for Wire Wrapping
Wire wrapping is the technique of using simple
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Dolls, Plushies &Toys Feature - Food

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As part of the Dolls, Plushies & Toys Week I am posting a themed 25 deviation feature from the Dolls, Plushies & Toys galleries every day. I am also posting information, interviews and knowledge articles as well as contributions from other galleries as part of this week, check them out here.

Today's feature theme is food! I hope you enjoy:

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Remember to :+favlove: this article and :+fav: and comment on any deviations you enjoy, it means a lot to the artists.

Cheers,
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~honeyness Dec 4, 2010  Hobbyist Artist
This honestly made me feel hungry! :XD:
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`CookiemagiK Dec 3, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
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`MyntKat Dec 4, 2010  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Careful, you might get cotton mouth. :B
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cute! :)
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YUM :hungry:
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