DeviantArt.com is an popular online community of people devoted to artistic products such as paintings and photographs.
Deviantart was founded in August 7, 2000 by Angelo Sotira, Scott Jarkoff, and Matthew Stephens.
It is headquartered in Suite 788, 7905 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, California.
It promotes several major art categories like Traditional, Digital, Photography, Literature, Artisan Crafts, Designs and Interfaces, Flash, Film and Animation, Manga/Anime, Anthro, Cartoons and comics, Fan Art, Costumization, Resources, DeviantArt Related, Community Projects and Scraps.
It features quality artworks at the "DeviantArt Shop and Collections", an electronic store & archives of sold or auctioned works of art.
Deviantart.com was registered in April 25, 2000 through GoDaddy.com, Inc. with a Google PageRank of 7.
It offers a Forum, Desktop Wallpaper, Themes & Skins, Applications, Chat room, Artworks Search and Arts News.
It is currently in version 6 codenamed Sleek and boasts over 160 million visits monthly.
It is popular in US, Indonesia, Mexico, UK, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Canada, India and Poland.
In April 2008, it was chosen as CNET's Webware 100 winner in the social category.
In May 2009, Belgian artist Ben Heine was banned due to his artwork that features a crucified jesus with a condom on his erected penis.
DeviantArt World Tour 2009 arrived in Singapore with Heidi (Director for Marketing) and Spyed (co-Founder and CEO) meeting deviants at Merlion Park.
