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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!

[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
#4 - :iconUnImmortalBunny: ~UnImmortalBunny #1027 http://gyazo.com/a805ffcc725b8d75d08cabc0f47496c8
#5 - :iconSaKetosan: ~SaKetosan #1055 http://gyazo.com/f619d82896957ab4794d367f23a31e9c
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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.

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.

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

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

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

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
have fun! CC:

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Holiday Art Exchange!!

by ~Perimones, Oct 31, 2011, 3:08:33 PM
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Assignment notes have been sent! If you signed up for the Exchange and did not receive a note, please please let me know so I can figure out where I screwed up and give you your assignment |D;; Matching everyone to what they're willing to give/receive is such a pain, haha, because my organization sucks and I'm probably not doing it the easiest way. But I tried and hopefully there won't be any problems :'D

SIGN UPS ARE NOW CLOSED

It's that time of the year again! I think it's time for another round of Secret Santa ;D

Those of you who have participated in the past, you know now it goes. But for the rest of you, or if you need your memory refreshed: instead of regular 'exchange', Person A gifts to person B and receives a gift from person C, etc etc. So the person you're gifting for isn't going to be the person you receive from, just to throw some unpredictability and mystery in~ Also, instead of a purely art exchange, this year, we're going to open it up to fanfictions as well, for all you writers out there! You will be able to choose whether you'd like to gift art or a fic, and which to receive. Hopefully this will draw in more participation~

To sign up, please leave a comment with the following information. Under extra information, you can indicate characters, genres, ratings, etc that you will and will not draw/write, along with anything else you think is applicable, such as specific details you'd like to see in your gift.

Please also let me know if you will be able to be "backup" in case a participant cannot find time to complete their half of the exchange.

Username:
Name: (optional)
I would like to gift: (art or fic)
I would like to receive: (art or fic)
Character(s) requested:
Extra information:
Backup?: (yes or no)

Sign Up List

~~Closes November 12th~~ CLOSED
* --> backup
~Perimones

=JDWhiteFeather *
~Marine-chan *

~KyuuPiyoMii *
~falarae

~neumegami
~Mysticallia
~ShadowDragonK *

*LMPandora
~shadowpheonix64

~Something-of-a-Dunce

~Aiisu-Ahwon

~starfireflandre *
~KyouyaOotori17 *
~masaki-jamie *
~KaiiwaiAnime *

~Red-Hand-Grenade

~moehoshi
~inazumaookami
~Peten-shi

~ryocutema
~Heurim

~starlias *

~Amzilla

~Askald *

~PetiteFee24
*marikit *

On November 12th, I will personally note each of the participants with the member they are going to gift to, along with their request information. You will have until December 25th work on your gift art, so please make sure you will have enough time before signing up for the exchange!

Important!!

Please do not share with anyone who you are a Santa for!

Do not post your art until December 25th. I will post a new blog on that date and let you know when it's all right to start posting!

When you finish your art, please send me a note so I can mark your name down and won't have to start pestering you with notes ;D Those who have not noted me by December 17th I will be sending notes to ask what's up and whether you need a backup to cover you, but let's not let that happen, okay?

If you have any questions concerning the request, do not directly ask your recipient; send a note to me, and I will contact them for you. This is a secret Santa exchange, so I'd like to keep everything secret!

♥ Marui-sempai

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~FungiiYuki Nov 11, 2011

I'll pass on this one--I'm worried I might not be able to make it on time ||orz
I'd join a more freely-themed art exchange though (if there is one next year~)

~Perimones Nov 11, 2011

December is packed with midterms and finals for me so I'm sort of worried too xD;; But for sure we'll do exchanges again next year! Secret Santas for the holidays for sure, and probably another during the summer to make it twice-ish a year \xD/

~FungiiYuki Nov 21, 2011

Yaaaay!

*marikit Nov 10, 2011 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Username: marikit
Name: marikit
I would like to gift: art
I would like to receive: art
Character(s) requested: I love the Golden Pair/ silver pair but I wouldn't mind getting Shiraishi

, I want them to be in Urban Fashion (street fashion) something really grungy. It would be fun.
Extra information: I don't mind shounen Ai but that's it
Backup?: (yes or no) Yes

~PetiteFee24 Nov 7, 2011

Butting in (because it seems I like to be drowning in thing to do XD)
Name: Fee
I would like to gift: fic because I can't draw a descent circle to save my life OTL
I would like to receive: anything is fine ^^
Character(s) requested: SanaAto, AtoHiyo, YanaKiri or troika based ^^
Extra information: Couple would be awesome, but firendly theme is good too, canon AU everythign is fine for me!!! just no girls implied please

Backup?: No D:

~Askald Nov 7, 2011 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Oh yeah exchange ~~

Username: :devAskald
Name: Nami
I would like to gift: Art~
I would like to receive: Art or fic,both are fine !
Character(s) requested: Yuuta x Mizuki, Marui x Kirihara, Marui/Jiroh (this one friendship or cuteness)
Extra information: Yaoi is welcome, I just don't really like too much fluff or angst ! Otherwise, you're free !
I can draw everyone, but no hard scene (violence, rape, etc)
Backup?: Yes

~Amzilla Nov 6, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Username: Kuchisake-amz
Name: Amzilla
I would like to gift: art
I would like to receive: art (just wouldn't be bothered to read fics XD)
Character(s) requested: Kaidoh, Momoshiro, Fuji, Ryoma, Jirou, Atobe, anyone from Seigaku really... (definately want Kaidoh most though!)
Extra information: Me and yaoi are not the best of friends...
Backup?: ermm...I vary so i could be available...gotta ask at the time if needed!

~starlias Nov 6, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

Username: starlias
Name: Yue
I would like to gift: art

(would love to write a fanfic too but I'm awful at it! @@)
I would like to receive: anything, art, fic, photos, crafts...etc

Character(s) requested: No-one in particular but if you could include Eiji or Shiraishi, you'll make this PoT addict very happy

My other favs include Fuji, Ryoma, karupin~<3, Yukimura, and Kin-chan~~ but really, I love them all!
Extra information: Hmm, jsut something festive and happy I guess? I'm not a fan of BL stuff so...umm yeah

Backup?: Yeah sure, why not =3

Sounds like an awesome idea!

~Heurim Nov 6, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Username: Heurim
Name: Niki
I would like to gift: Art~
I would like to receive: Art please!
Character(s) requested: Sengoku, or Silver Pair (OotoriXShishido) if possible xD
Extra information: I'd rather draw BL than just one character >w< I'll draw anybody! Bring it on~
Backup?: Um, probably no. ): Sorry!

~ryocutema Nov 5, 2011 Student General Artist

Username: ~ryocutema
Name: Nur~chan
I would like to gift: art
I would like to receive: art
Character requested: Ryoma Echizen <3
Extra information: Not accept yaoi or pairing, if can I would like to draw girls except Ryuuzaki... thats all
Backup?: No, gomen...

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