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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!

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

[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

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.

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

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

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
have fun! CC:

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Journal Entry: Wed Feb 8, 2012, 5:23 PM

Mood: Content
Listening to: foster the people - pumped up kicks <3
Drinking: strawberry tea. (I'm sick :( )

Noob detected!

So I've been on deviantart for 5 years. (My first user: ~Grynte Yes, I was super emo back then. (...) -_-' )

But... I've never really been social here, I didn't notice the forum and thumbshare until recently..
Please help me here, I have a few questions.

what's ...with the llamas?

The "points"?

"Donations" ? What exactly do you donate to?

And what can you do in groups beside uploading your pictures and hope they'll get approved?

Well, now I coded a journal skin, hopefully this will make me look like less of a noob.

In other news, my boyfriend got me a wacom tablet intius 4 for christmas! THE BEST CHRISTMAS PRESENT EVER!
I just started digital painting recently, and I have only tried it two times before, but even I can see that it's MUCH MUCH easier with a tablet!
More fun too, not to mention.

So, yesterday I started adjusting the settings on my new, beloved (yes, beloved. I would marry it if I could.), tablet and I must admit, adjusting the settings on this thing, made it a hell of a lot easier to use, than when I was trying to just use it as a mouse on my computer when I installed the software.

Anyways, my first painting is a painting of my cat. Made in photoshop cs5.

She currently lives at my mom's place, and drawing this made me miss her so much

Look how cute she is:

So, one thing I really like is when people feature other people's artwork in their journals, sooo! I'm gonna do that as well.
Here's a few digital paintings that made my jaw drop as if I was blowing the hulk.

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~xRompKidx Feb 21, 2012 Digital Artist

thank you very much for the feature! ^___^

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~artbolt Feb 9, 2012 Professional Traditional Artist

what's ...with the llamas?
- Can't understant it too.

The "points"?
- The points are DA money
- You can buy them or you can ask for them

"Donations" ? What exactly do you donate to?
- If you like someones enough or it's work or whatever you can give them points
- That person can use them to buy stuff from the deviant store, can do an art contest and give the points as prizes...
- You dont need a motive to give points.

And what can you do in groups beside uploading your pictures and hope they'll get approved?
- I just prey they get accepted

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~GryFalck Feb 9, 2012

Haha I'm glad I'm not the only one not getting the whole llama-thing

AAAH so you are donating points. And you can buy stuff with them. I get it now!

I can't imagine anything you've made wouldn't get accepted everywhere (:

Thanks for the help (and the fav

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~artbolt Feb 9, 2012 Professional Traditional Artist

But you can believe it.
My Ballerina was denied from several groups

No reason given why

Here's a contest where you can earn a lot of points [link]
The deadline is February 14th

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~GryFalck Feb 9, 2012

Damn I think that's an amazing drawing. which groups did you submit to? O_o

I'M SO GONNA JOIN! My first contest! Wuuuu!

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~artbolt Feb 9, 2012 Professional Traditional Artist

First place it's 4000 points! You can buy a fine art print with that much!

I can't remember the one who denied it, but it was a few. some it's ok, they gave me the reaons and i agree. But two of them(#getdailydeviations and other) gave me no reason at all, even after i asked

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~GryFalck Feb 9, 2012

damn,
I just checked, I have 0 points xD shouldn't you get points from buying premium? I never did apparently

I never really understood daily deviations. :l How do you get that? Do the staff just pick it? I feel like such a noob O_O

I think it's kinda rude of them not to answer :s

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~artbolt Feb 9, 2012 Professional Traditional Artist

ahaha you don't get points for buying something
You can buy the points to give to another person, or to give in a contest as prizes...
Because you can't simply send real money to people in DA, unless you know their bank account ou paypal... this way, you buy the points and you can give them away to people you want or even buy art from people that does tah.
For example, i do portraits for money(real money), but i can make it for the same price, but in points. Points that i can only use in DA, buy stuff from the DA store or give as prizes in contest or whatever i want.

You get a daily deviation if someone suggest one of your work to the people in charge of giving them. Usually it has to be an exceptional work to get the daily deviation, but i've been seing lately some daily deviations that aren't that special... -.- i also want one! xD
Must work harder!

You just need to spend sometime runing around DA, and you'll learn it all

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~GryFalck Feb 9, 2012

ahhh it's so smart. I get it now. Haha, I'll get there, Ill get there

Yeah getting a daily deviation is one of my teenage dreams haha. I've seen some that I dont think is.. that worthy too. But it makes me keep my hope higher, haha

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~Nicksketch Feb 8, 2012 Digital Artist

Noob? five years? That's a long time to stay under the radar

Anyhow, I've only been here for a year, I also don't get the whole Llama/points/donations thing, I guess you are into it, or you aren't.

Groups are... well I think the benefit is finding others that have similar interests to yourself, new people to follow, or get inspiration from. Though granted you do tend to end up with a lot of art to go through to find gems. Mixed blessings.

Congrats on Joining the ranks of the Wacom enabled, your first painting is very promising

I imagine (looking at your traditional work) that you'll do very well with the tablet.

Also the cat is cute, which helps

oh... and your closing sentence is epic! hehehe

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