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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 :)
Tiny contest! Point prizes8D Time for another little fun challenge!
Draw inside the shape contest!
Rules
:bulletgreen: You can enter as many times as you want.
:bulletgreen: No shading required
:bulletgreen: You must choose one of the characters in this folder http://griffsnuff.deviantart.com/gallery/24055808
:bulletgreen:Remember to remove the shape/lines when you are done!
:bulletgreen: The character needs to be full body.
:bulletgreen: try to fill as much as the shape as possible!
:bulletred: You can not alter the shape.
:bulletred: 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
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):wow:Yea... and if you don't read the rules, you won't get anything out of this.:wow:

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!!! :hooray:



:star:What you have to do:star:
:bulletred: Favorite this journal... you don't have, you don't enter
:bulletred: Comment saying you entered; I'll be lenient on this one
:bulletyellow: Advertise; you don't have to but is looked up upon
:bulletred: No duplicate accounts; seriously, you need points THAT bad???
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:star: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 :dummy:
There will be 2 winners ( 50 :points: each ) on this giveaway.
:bulletblue:It's easy to participate
:bulletred: :+fav: This journal.
:bulletred: 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
#4 - :iconUnImmortalBunny: ~UnImmortalBunny #1027 http://gyazo.com/a805ffcc725b8d75d08cabc0f47496c8
#5 - :iconSaKetosan: ~SaKetosan #1055 http://gyazo.com/f619d82896957ab4794d367f23a31e9c
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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:points: away at random to celebrate! Leave a comment and I will enter you for the chance to win!
1st 200:points:
2nd 150:points:
3rd 50:points:
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 :aww:
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
XBOne... fixed.To everyone who says picking on Microsoft for their consumer unfriendly bullshit was "being unnecessarily mean," take a look at this. Don Mattrick just announced that Microsoft is back peddling with the XBOne, removing the disastrously awful features we've been bashing them for trying to inflict on us.
    Last week at E3, the excitement, creativity and future of our industry was on display for a global audience.
    For us, the future comes in the form of Xbox One, a system designed to be the best place to play games this year and for many years to come. As is our heritage with Xbox, we designed a system that could take full advantage of advances in technology in order to deliver a breakthrough in game play and entertainment. We imagined a new set of benefits such as easier roaming, family sharing, and new ways to try and buy games. We believe in the benefits of a connected, digital future.
    Since unveiling our plans for X
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KitsuneKon & WausaubiCon

Journal Entry: Tue Mar 1, 2011, 7:32 PM
Thank you KitsuneKon for the wonderful time!  For a first year con they did extremely well.  I bet so many wonderful people as well as got to see some cool people I met at previous cons.  Its so awesome to start seeing so many familiar faces.  

KitsuneKon does have lots of room for improvement as far as the artist alley goes, but for what they had to work with things were pretty smooth though any complications were poorly resolved.  

While at KitsuneKon, I signed up for WausaubiCon, a new anime/scifi/gaming con in Wausau, WI.  I'm excited to see another new convention in Wisconsin and look forward to boothing there.  

They do have some odd rules for the Artist Alley which is turning people away.  They have a no fan art policy which doesn't apply to me, but does apply to many of my friends and thats a bummer.  But in some ways I sort of side with the no fan art rule.  Even if I make fan art characters in my style I just personally feel wrong selling it and won't ever accept commissions to do so.  Thats just me.  

Don't get me wrong though, I won't look down on anyone who does make fan art because some of it is really cool.  A lot of my friends are insanely talented and sometimes its just fun to see things like Link hook-shooting Batman in the junk...  


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2011 Conventions:

Evercon, Schofield, WI January 7-8 2011
Anime Spark, Cedar Rapids, Iowa February 10-14
Anime Milwaukee, WI February 18-20
KitsuneKon Appleton, WI February 25-27

Shuto Con, Lansing, MI March 25-26

Anime St.Louis, MO April 15-17
SpringCon, St. Paul, MN May 21-22
NakamaCon, Madison, WI May 27-29
Anime-zing!, Davenport, IA June 17-19
WausaubiCon, Wausau, WI July 8-10
Wizard World Chicago, IL August 11-14
GEEK.KON, Madison, WI Sept 9th - 11th
Wizard World Mid-Ohio, October 22,23

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~Kefka750 Mar 2, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Wait, what? No fan art policy? O.O I think I missed that part! Ack! I'm screwed!

This is going to be another one of those cons where I thank god for Angry Foxes....

Zing still has space open, I'm debating whether or not to go to that or Anime Iowa, I can afford one or the other right now
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=cubecrazy2 Mar 2, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
You might be able to find ways around it, and who knows if they'll even enforce it. They're rules seem to have a lot of gray areas. You may want to read the thread in the forums about their explanation of Fan Art. Maybe you can make some sense of it.

Any Ideas of when Anime Iowa Registration even opens? I'm curious how much a table costs.
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~Kefka750 Mar 2, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
They're taking artist apps now, though I dont think registration is formally open. And its $100 for the weekend.
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~nozomi-neko Mar 2, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Derpderp, I kinda wanted to try Wausau since it could potentially be fun with me having family in town, but their rules are silly. I'm totally cool with the no fanart thing, since I'm DYING for my OCs to get more love and attention and I'm always psyched when they sell, but it's the banning of selling multiple copies that gets me. If they want me to sell an original work, and I want to make a decent amount of money on anything colored, there's no way I could sell anything for less than $50, and even that is cheating myself. ;^; I do hope it goes well for you, though, and do tell us how it works out!

We must definitely hang out again some time before NakamaCon! It's too far away!
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=cubecrazy2 Mar 2, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
I don't think its possible for them to enforce the print rule. They would need additional rules stating how they will monitor and the stipulations as too how many prints are considered to be "limited edition". I think they just dont want to see kids with MS Paint doodles printed on generic paper.

It does bother me that they have these rules and they aren't even an established convention.
We'll see how it goes!

YES! We should hang out some time! That would be sweet! Feel free to hit me up whenever, I'd love to chill with the Madison crew sometime! *highfive*
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~nozomi-neko Mar 3, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Yes yes! Are you working lately? You'll have to let us know what your schedule is, too, so we can figure stuff out!
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=cubecrazy2 Mar 4, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
Mondays are generally bad days for me but Tuesdays -Thursdays I work from 9-3:30. I usually never work fridays-sundays :D It would be glorious to hang out sometimes. I sometimes meet up with a different art group thursdays and some saturdays, but I've been missing those due to the cons lately.
ANywho, hit me up sometime!
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~nozomi-neko Mar 6, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Alright, cool! We totally will!
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=ArtFoundry87 Mar 1, 2011  Student Digital Artist
I was thinking of doing some fanart prints (most of them were from awesome commissions I got at Kitsune) but seeing as Wausaubicon objects to those, I'll just stick to what I do best...my OC's. So it's not a total loss.
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=cubecrazy2 Mar 2, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
Yeah, I don't have any fan art so I don't have much to worry about, but I will miss my friends who won't be there because of that and some of the other rules they have listed...
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