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Pixel Icon Raffle! - Winners!I have now raffled the winners! > v <
First winner is ~Kiwi-San and the second one is ~Frangasm.
Congratulations! ^ - ^
Here's the screenshots: (If the image won't load click here.)
You can now delete this journal from your favourites.
Thank you for joining everyone! > v 0
Samples of my pixel icons:

10,000 Point Give-AwayAlright, my brother just left dA, so he gave me the rest of his points (20,000)
He told me because the Deviant Art community was so good to him (he said he met a lot of great people) that as a thanks I should give away half the points.
So, I'm going to hold a contest to make things fun.
You must:
*Watch me
*Advertise this journal
*Comment your journal here
*Favorite this journal
1st place gets 10,000 points
2nd place gets 2,000 points
Good luck guys

Fan Art Contest! UPDATE WITH FAQ

hi everyone! to show my appreciation for all the love here on deviant art i am holding an otto an victoria fan art contest. the grand prize will be a signed limited edition of my book with an original drawing included! submissions must be done by july 17th! that gives you a month. be creative and have fun! please tag "otto and victoria" and "brian kesinger" and make sure your your piece is appropriate for all ages!
******************************update!**********************************'
i created a group here called OttoAndVictoriaFans http://ottoandvictoriafans.deviantart.com/ when you finish your entry feel free to submit it to that group so that all the entries can be in one place!
also i wanted to reiterate that all artistic media is welcome from sketching to sculpture, hand drawn to cg. thanks again and let me know if you have any other questions! thank you!

Tiny contest! Point prizes8D Time for another little fun challenge!
Draw inside the shape contest!
Rules

You can enter as many times as you want.

No shading required

You must choose one of the characters in this folder http://griffsnuff.deviantart.com/gallery/24055808

Remember to remove the shape/lines when you are done!

The character needs to be full body.

try to fill as much as the shape as possible!

You can not alter the shape.

you can not draw outside the shape!
If you want to enter, you choose between the shapes linked under. You can however do all of them if you want to!
Lineart only -> http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m78/Greiffen/tttt-1_zpsed0fbbf4.png
Shape only -> http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m78/Greiffen/llll-2_zps87cb9751.png
And then you draw the character you choose inside the shape as best you c

A giveaway??? Rules are below. (80 pts)Yea... and if you don't read the rules, you won't get anything out of this.

The whole reason I'm doing this is because my group, #Traders-123, has reached over 100 members! And speaking of 100, I also got over 100 watchers!!!

What you have to do
Favorite this journal... you don't have, you don't enter
Comment saying you entered; I'll be lenient on this one
Advertise; you don't have to but is looked up upon
No duplicate accounts; seriously, you need points THAT bad???
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Prizes[Star!]
[Bullet; Green] 1st place is 50 [Points]
[Bullet; Green] 2nd place is 30 [Points]
[Bullet; Green] 3rd place is a llama.
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Deadline is July 4th. (It's an easy date to remember)

And some art exposure! (Just some random and a

Weekly 100 Points Giveaway [OPEN] Week 3Alright, time for another one

There will be 2 winners ( 50

each ) on this giveaway.

It's easy to participate

This journal.

Share your favorite youtube channel.
And that's it :iconfeelingfreeplz:
The winner will be announced June 23
Extra: Please comment if you take point commissions :iconmikulaplz:
Good luck everyone.

[WINNERS!] Giveaway! [1000 points + Free Chibis~]WINNERS!
Thanks to those who participated! <3
#1 - :iconstellarhohoemi: =stellarhohoemi #145 http://gyazo.com/3c85275328e20e9c29b4df497496a3be
#2 - :iconpastachan415: =PastaChan415 #97 http://gyazo.com/ed9cd42a6db6852445a9238d2e97a10d
#3 - :iconanichan7: *anichan7 #1069 http://gyazo.com/c13f0ba1315169bd8c3535e8f3c39b6a
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Win a Premium Membership! [Raffle]Ohaii everyone! Chieri here. >u< Still not dead yet. ~~Still just smelling like it.~~
I know I have been quite inactive the past month, alot of private stuff going on and upcoming exams, but I will try to be more active again from now on. I miss being here with you guys and drawing so much. I will try my best to at least submit something regulary and reply to all notes & comments sooner as I did lately. (I really apologize for the wait.) I promise. You may slap me really hard if I neclect it again.
As a little consolation / thank you / because I want to, I decided to raffle away

3 x a 1 Month Premium-Membership
^_^ Because I have some leftover points on my hand and I love hosting little events and raffles.
I hope everyone will enjoy participating. It's easy!
As usual I will use random.org to choose the 3 lucky winners, providing screens that everything will be 100% fair.

Microsoft Employees Disrupt Wii U Best Buy EventsRemember how Nintendo was showcasing some of their E3 games at participating Best Buy stores around the country? Well, apparently Microsoft employees have been hired to go to these events and preach about the Xbox One and make comments like "why would you buy a outdated Wii U when the Xbox One is right around the corner?"
However, the employees aren't getting what they hoped for. Most customers just start bashing the Xbox One in response. Seriously, Microsoft, the people attending these Best Buy Wii U events are people who are intimately familiar with the crap you pulled at E3. They ain't takin' your shit.
At first I thought this might just be a case of one really loyal Microsoft employee taking matters into his own hands (especially since the original source was /v/), but reports have come in from numerous Best Buy's around the country that indicate many Microsoft employees have ambushed the demo lines trying to persuade people to switch to the Xbox One.
Since so many reports have com

10,000 Watchers! +PointsWow, 10,000 watchers! Shame it happened at the worst time (giveaways temporarily deleted).
Still...thank you all for sticking with me!
I guarantee we will have things running as normal again soon!
Much love,
Moomin-Man
PS: I'll giveaway 400

away at random to celebrate! Leave a comment and I will enter you for the chance to win!
1st 200

2nd 150

3rd 50

Join me on swagbucks! Get paid in gift vouchers if you don't have a credit card!

Please Pants Responsibly (Paper Notebooks FTW)

There are two ways to write a novel. Plotting (you make an outline, a plan, a roadmap if you will, and then you sit down and write it) and pantsing (you write "by the seat of your pants, throwing caution to the wind). So when I get asked if I'm a plotter or a pantser, I'm all like er, uh, hold on, let me? Pantser? I think? But I kind of, um, do planny things?
And it gets kind of awkward because in these inarticulate moments I have managed to confuse everyone including myself. And probably spilled a drink.
In recent discussions, however, I've had a bit of a revelation, silly as it is. I've realized that I -- like many writers -- am a plotter/pantser hybrid. And perhaps what I'm doing is something we could call Pantsing Responsibly. And, maybe, just maybe, I could share some of my responsible pantsing tips with other writers. Starting with paper notebooks.
Anyone can find a notebook. If there isn't alread

The Used Game ParadigmOver the course of this past generation I've been watching the video game market react to the way it's been forced to deal with increasing changes. I've come out against used game sales and even written a journal about boycotting GameStop because (like most people at the time) I believed they were the root cause of all the problems the video game industry has. But that's something I don't believe now as intently as i did then. From where I sit, piracy and used games sales are a problem, but not in the way game companies want us to believe that they are.
Used games are a good thing for consumers. We get to try games out, and if we don't like what we see or finish it early, we trade it in and try another title instead. It's a very good system for us since video game rentals are much harder to come by. Most video rental stores in America have gone extinct and outside specific Red Box Kiosks there aren't a lot of places for consumers to rent video games. The exception, of course, being thr

Draw my OC Contest! $35 in prizes!Drawing Contest Topic: Drawing my Original Character doing something! Seriously, anything PG.
Deadline: September 13th, 11:59pm http://wwp.eastern-standard-time.com/

Guidelines for participants~

Your submission can be done in any drawing media (traditional, digital, pixel)
Please do not change or alter her gender without permission.
You can enter a maximum of three pieces, but only may win once
Send me a note or comment here with a link to your entry, and I'll add it to the entries folder. (I will not go searching for it)
You're free to submit your entry to any group you want, but you must accept my request to put it in my group #Collection-System

Drawing Smoochy is what this contest is all about!

Please link to this journal in your contest entry's description!
The entry must be made specifically for the contest! (You cannot use previous deviations for the entry, this includes bases. Collabs are fine as long as the

SPIKE updatesJust thought I'd share with you guys some updates on the progress of finishing my "SPIKE" novel.
A lot of people have asked me how it's going, when it will be published and stuff. I really appreciate getting asked these things because it shows that people are actually interested in my writings, and that it just such a great feeling

I've got two news for you guys today though: one bad news and one good news. Let's start with the bad news.
I haven't finished writing SPIKE yet.
And I honestly don't know when it will be finished - which oddly enough brings us to the good news:
I've made a new, major decision in the SPIKE story that I think a lot of you will be happy to hear. As usual I don't want to spoil too much, but there is a part in the story where Spike and Sam are separated from each other for quite a long while. At first I was planning on only writing from Spike's point of view, like, what he's experiencing during this separation period. I figured that since he's the main cha

WIN A 3 MONTH PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP!so i decided to just do a giveaway for the premium i wanted to give.

i'll be doing more of these in time, since that's mostly what my points will be for- giving premiums away. ♥
WAYS TO ENTER:
• you must be (or can become) a watcher of mine
• make a journal or poll featuring this giveaway, then comment this with the link to your journal/poll
• do not enter more than once, you will be disqualified
after you comment i will reply with a number and i will choose the winner using http://www.miniwebtool.com/random-name-picker/
GIVEAWAY WILL END NEXT THURSDAY (THE 20) AT 6 PM (PST)
winner will be announced via journal and will receive a note from me
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Journal Entry: Tue Oct 20, 2009, 8:44 PM

I'd sort of wanted to hold off putting a journal back up on this page until I could design my own unique journal skin

but time lacking thereof, I decided to use this purty one instead (he's squishy! I must squish him!); for the time being anyway. Not that I expect many people to read my babbling nonsense, it's more for cathartic reasons, but if you dare, read on >_>.

I have far too many art projects in the works x_x not to mention this sudden endless need to draw, like, constantly, but when I do, never satisfied. Which after basically doing NO art for nearly a year, is very surprising and all-consuming. I sort of wonder why did I join DA? To improve, to meet fellow artists, to be known? Some deep-seeded, driving need for approval? I think if I start spilling my guts out in this journal, well there'll just be a huge

mess

all over the

page,

so I'll refrain.

I'm sort of feeling this may be a little heavy for what is essentially my 'debut' DA journal (since I deleted all the other ones, cleaning up the clutter).

I still have the hugest backlog of comments and notices. I've got.... 563 messages to go >_>. Every time I log on I try to answer a few, because I appreciate that people took the time to comment. I won't be doing individual thank-yous of favs/watches, because I don't really want to start something I can't finish

every time I've tried I just end up with an even bigger backlog. But I love being faved, commented, critiqued, whatever so feel free to be click-happy with the fav button, flatter me shamelessly or give some insightful feedback. Makes me all warm and tingly

Finally worked my way through all the new DA submissions from the amazing artists I'm watching. I'd like to do a feature of some, because, yeah, wow, when I've got more time to get myself oranasised... I've finished my lunch break now so, better get back to it...^_^;

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And now, some clubs!:

Moar to come!

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~jodipheonix Oct 21, 2009 General Artist

I would love to help you with your journal if you'd like

I know what you mean as far as your other journal comments
I'm a bit the same. I keep falling behind in my comments etc
and journals I usually don't read because I just can't keep up.

but I do look for acceptance and hope to find it and have found
some which is better then none at all

*Imaliea Oct 21, 2009 General Artist

Wow I would sure love

some help with making a custom journal skin!!!

thank you! It was one of those things where I kept going, "I'll sit down and figure out how to do this when I get the chance" and that chance just hasn't seem to come around yet

Yeah what with watching so many people, I sort of do a bit of a drive-by fav thing whenever I get a spare moment (even though some artist's prefer comments I guess, but to me a fav is just as wonderful as comment - it means my art was so lovely they wanted to remember it, and that's a huge compliment for me! lol), answer as many comments as I can heehee

It's good to find some acceptance, everyone I've ever met through DA or other galleries has been super nice and supportive, it's really lovely, my problem is I'm a bit socially awkward and have trouble putting myself out there lol oh well!

Thanks again!!!

~jodipheonix Oct 21, 2009 General Artist

sure I'd be glad to help

what would you like?
something made from one or more of
your pieces , or something else ?
any particular colours ?

yes , I watch too many people too lol
I watch something like 600 and have about
250 watch me in return.
I try to comment everyone. I mainly answer
the questions and comments , and have lost
time for thanking for favs though I do appreciate them

I can relate to social awkwardness , I get
it from time to time, more so if I don't
know the person very well

*Imaliea Oct 23, 2009 General Artist

Yay awesome thank you so much!! Sorry it took me so long to reply, I had a certain painting I thought I'd like to use -- but I had to finish it first! It's my newest deviation: [link] so I guess the colour scheme could be taken from that i.e. blacks/greens? Ahh I have to do something nice for you in return. Would you like me to paint you something??? Just say the word!

~jodipheonix Oct 23, 2009 General Artist

oooo this is really nice...
let me see what I can do with it..
I should show you what I can do as far as journals,
for one , my own journal I done and I've also done
these ones [link] and [link]

these are two of my watchers and friends I will
try my hardest to please you

*Imaliea Oct 23, 2009 General Artist

Wow cool they're all really good, though I think I like yours the best as the colours and background style are very soft and compliment each other well. I was thinking maybe very dark colours would be a good main colour and with the warm/mossy greens as highlights/headings, but apart from that I will leave the creativity up to you! I honestly can't thank you enough!

As I said, just say the word, I would love to return the favour and create something for you too

~jodipheonix Oct 23, 2009 General Artist

you're welcome

I have something special in mind for this piece ...

I will use dark and light colours and want to try
something a little different to my normal journals..
because this image is different to all the others

let me see if I please you first with my result ..
then , if you like it and still want to do something
we can talk

(believes in fair)

*Imaliea Oct 23, 2009 General Artist

aaaiaia I'm so excited to see!

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