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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!
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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

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

[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.

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
have fun! CC:

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Hello everybody!

How's everything? C:

Guys, it seems that I'm passing through a hard art block *dies*

The drawings dont come out how I desire and I can't think on good poses T.T Is frustrating.... I have pulled my hair some many times for the frustration that I'm already bald

What do you do when you have an art block? Any suggestion will be appreciatte it pwease D:

Also I'm trying to make a chibi of Scanty and Kneesocks to see if... well if at least I can finish it

So wish me luck Q3Q

That's all for the moment, I guess.

And to comissioners, my apologizes but until I dont get rid of this block i wont be able to work on your pieces u.u Though some of them are sketched, i just need to fix some things C:

Thank you very much for your comprehension! ^^

Kisses everybody <3

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Free sketches progress:

1.

OC Elyon x Aries Shion Done!
2.

Balrog Rune -- In progress
3.

OC Epona x Gemini Saga -- In progress
4.

OC Kazuko x Aquarius Camus
5.

OC Pluma x Icarus Touma
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Extra

OC Gladiola x Pisces Albafica

Working on right now:

C o m i s s i o n s

OCs Elias & Katsuya -- Sketching

Sketch Comission - OC Agot x Pecta Gamma Thol

Sketch Comission - OC Linx Daniela x Gemini Saga

Sketch Comission - OC Hydrus Aly x Scorpio Milo (+ BG)

Sketch Comission - OC Nova x Mello (+ BG)

T r a d e s

OC Sveta -- Sketching

O t h e r s

Double Meme with

-- Sketching

Sexy Claim for

Gender bender for

Carnival

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Listening to: Aerosmith - Dream On

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~Nana-C-Lover Mar 21, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

Lo mejor sería que no te forzaras a dibujar por un tiempito y te dedicvaras a hacer algo más inspirador...
Ver animes,
Leer mangas,
Leer libros, o fanfics XD
Rolear en algun foro o chat...
Escuchar nueva musica (Te recomiendo el grupo Train)
Ver nuevas peliculas (no solo de Gringolandia, sino muchas europeas y tambien asiaticas tambien XD)
Salir a caminar
Tomar algun curso de algo (como manicuria) para conocer gente nueva...
Ver museos
Experimentar alguna forma nueva de pintar dibujos viejos...
Ver tutoriales, ver a alguien dibujar en Livejournal (eso ayuda mucho tambien)
Ver los trabajos de otro artista que te inspire mucho o alguien totalmente nuevo y desconocido (con el boton random deviant es una buena sugerencia)...
También podés hacer Memes... y actividades para grupos (lol, yo debo terminar las mias)

Y sobretodo no presionarte por ello :3
Cuando dejes de prestarle atencion al bloqueo, este se irá...

Yo hasta ahora nunca he tenido bloqueos porque hago todo lo que te sugerí hacer, aunque siempre estoy corta de tiempo ;A; ... y tengo mucho que aprender aún...
asdf nos vemos, gracias por leer, desu

~raven94 Mar 21, 2011

lo primero yo creo que te estas obsesionando con el bloqueo, aun lo tienes me pasa a menudo que tienes un dibujo casi terminado y no parece gustarte lo unico que puedo decirte es que lo ayuda realmente muchisisisisimo la musica, como te sientes, hacer esbozos y ver el ambiente que te rodea
pero tambien algunas veces hay que dejar el lapiz y relajarse hasta que la madama Inspiracion se te aparezca delante
lo peor que puedes hacer es agobiarte repitiendote siempre "que si tengo un bloqueo"
"que si no se que" "que si no se cuanto"

*Priss-BloodEmpress Mar 21, 2011 Student Digital Artist

y como no me voy a angustiar si tengo muchas comisiones que terminar =___=

Ademas, tampoco es que nunca en mi vida no he tenido un bloqueo. Si me da cuando no tengo nada que hacer, ok no pasa nada, espero a que se me pase y ya, pero este no es el caso, tengo cosas que hacer y no puedo :/

~raven94 Mar 21, 2011

entonces solo queda decir una cosa....BARBRA STREISAND (UUUUUUUUUUUUUhhh) xD
bueno entonces buena suerte y haber si se te pasa este bloqueo ;>

*KittyStardraco Mar 21, 2011

never force yourself to draw if you feel like you cant cause that makes you feel worse, i always find just takening a little break from it going for walk, playing games helps but also doodleing everyday helps alot it doesnt matter if its good or bad its to get you back into the swing of drawing.

~T0uya-ch4n Mar 21, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

Ah God, Mama, you got artblock too?? QAQ
Well, thing I do to cure my artblock is...
1. Doodling - Maybe silly but it help a lot ^^v
2. Coloring line - Yes, coloring line make my artblock reduce a bit, because I back to my moode

3. Listening to Music - Basically I'm not a music person, but sometimes I can feel something from the music, it's kinda magic, they gave me abstract inspiration!

And goode luck for teh Scanty and Knee Shocks mama!
I'm sure they'll be lovely on your style !

And hope the silly artblock is die as well

!urameshicyn Mar 21, 2011

Intenta escuchar una música que te inspire o ver una película o algo así que te guste mucho ye te haga sentir bien, eso tambien puede inspirarte ^^ o simplemente no pienses y deja que tu mano se mueva sola sobre el papel/la tableta, al final siempre acaba saliendo algo xD
ánimo!!

*Oceanmermaid Mar 21, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

wow i have the same problem O_O

~superaura Mar 21, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

normalmente yo hago esto para liberarme de un artblock:
1-Escuchar canciones, especialmente de Vocaloid, cantadas por el Nico Nico Chorus.
2-Ver películas, mejor si son comedias animadas :3
3-Intentar dibujar cosas de un fandom que NUNCA has probado antes, o cosas nuevas para ti en general.

Espero que te sirva!

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