I have been on Deviant Art for 12 years now. Most of my work I posted was pencil work and also (in my opinion) the best work I created (before that I created 3D Art). I always wanted to get a Daily Deviation which was kind of difficult. A Daily Deviation means you get highlighted because your Art is selected and you get a lot of exposure.
Eventually I got a DD for this Artwork "Socialization" in 2012 which was created with micron pen and watercolors in 2011. I was flabbergasted as almost everything I did was pencil back then and I got a DD for something I'm not good at. Also the comment was about all the different expressions on their faces while I usually draw a lot of different expressions but not for this one on purpose. So I was happy with the DD but it felt really weird.....
I never got a Daily Deviation for my pencil work but got another years later for "Don't Care" which I will be writing a post about soon with progress shots ( I wanted to link to the blog but I didn't create it yet which I thought I did lol...) I must say that I stopped caring about it a really long time ago seeing nonsense getting DD's. But it came back up when I saw this one today.
Here's a picture I found of it before coloring :)
And here one picture of when I kind of started with the idea.
Can't say I'm very active on Deviant Art anymore except posting my Art.
Hope you like my painting and the story? :)