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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

[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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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!

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.

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

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:

Someone left $20 in an envelope at Fanime''
Hey guys!

Fanime was amazing but it totally left me sick for weeks

after I got better, I went through the letters I got and found one that had nothing but $20 and a note describing one of my posters. It looked like someone made a mistake and accidentally gave me their money without getting a poster. I want to return that money so If it was you, please e-mail me at Yuumei.yan@gmail.com with your name and address.

In other news, I will be at Anime Expo at table A24 and A25

Hopefully the Knite books will be ready by then!

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by =YukiMinamoto, Dec 20, 2012, 6:15:54 AM
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The Christmas Folder is up now! All contest entries should be headed that way.

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I'm sorry for the long wait.

Please forgive the staff!

PRIZES

First Place

3-month Prem. or 15 USD VIA paypal. *YOU MUST HAVE A PAYPAL ACCOUNT FOR THIS TO BE OFFERED!! Also, ONE CHOICE ONLY*

2nd Place

400 DA points or a 1-month Prem. *ONE CHOICE ONLY*

3rd Place

250 DA points

*If any of the contestants want to make an arrangement or change for my donating of prizes, then please note me.*

(If you have any questions about the contest or if you want to donate prizes, then please NOTE THE GROUP!)

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. Can we submit written fanfictions into the contest?

Answer: No, you may not. This is a strictly artworks only. EX: Cosplay pictures, digital/traditional drawings, photoshop, and ect. I'm really sorry!

It's just that we have so many members, (1,000+) and having so little staff members to moderate and read through several fanfictions of so many members will be too much for us.

2. When is the dead line?

Answer: The deadline will be before or up until December 25th. No later than that. All late submissions will be null and void.

3. What kind of theme will be it?

Answer: Christmas themes like presents, Christmas trees, playing in the snow, and ect. The staff will not allow just snowy scenery and that's it. It has to involve something Christmas related.

4. Are Mass Effect OCs allowed?

Answer: Yes!

Anything goes in this contest.

If you have submitted your Christmas Contest Picture in our galleries, then please comment below or note us so we can have it arranged to be put in the correct folder. Again, we're sorry for the long wait. I was expecting someone else to put up the folder besides me.

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*Tsukahime Dec 20, 2012 Student Digital Artist

Oh man, I would love to do this if I had time. I'll try my hardest though!
*-* This is what I get for entering too many Christmas related events. /sob

~Legionaryprime Dec 20, 2012

Okay, the only problem is have is that I really don't have anything to put my drawings on the computer. I am not a techie. I have a camera, but I don't know how to put pictures on the computer.

=GuardianoftheForce Dec 20, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Hmmm... this sounds like fun...

=sHoNi89 Dec 20, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Too bad so many people use the official models from the game for their artworks, I'd want to see a contest for 100% self made works, and not simply posing/retexturing the original ones.... sigh.

~CaptBuck98 Dec 21, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

I can agree with that, its always way better to see a "hand" drawn image, more emotion is involved and for the most part, tends to be more driven. Sadly some people don't have that kind of talent, yet they have the image in their minds. Its a shame too, I've thought of a dozen scenes that I would love to draw, but stick figures don't cut it, clearly. And I'm not the only one with set issue.

I would love to see a contest of self made works, some of my all time favorites are drawn out, not models

=sHoNi89 Dec 22, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I don't draw, but I morph my characters from scratch and it requires hours and days of work to get acceptable results... ^^

~Sorceress-Nadira Dec 20, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

As a person using models, I must say it's not that easy to make a good picture with them. You might argue where art starts and begins, but trust me when I tell You - it takes HOURS of honest work before picture is finished and nothing less but heart is put in them - at least in the ones I am making.
I wish I could draw/paint/have any other talent that would allow me to make such, as You put it "100% self-made work", but I cannot. Does it mean I should not be showing what my imagination gives me by using models?

=sHoNi89 Dec 20, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I wasn't criticizing your work, or other people's ones... Art is art, nothing is more perspective than art, right?

I have many friends using those models and I know they require time and patience to pose them and render correctly... I am a 3D modeler myself, but I never used already made models to portray my artworks (please do not see this as a critic, I wish to stress this) simply because (apart from the ambiguous copyright thing that I am putting aside) it looks at the same time too easy to reach, yet most audience prefers this kind of renders because they look like they are part of the game. No kind of rendering can be as close the original models themselves. I work with a different program than XNA, which is a professional tool for morphing and editing custom characters from scratch, and even if I need days, if not weeks in some cases, to fully morph a character and be satisfied with the result, many of my friends who use this program, including me, feel often a bit frustrated that "our different" kind of works gets mostly ignored because they are not the official models. I was commenting on the possibility of having maybe in the future a contest for non-official artworks, where everything you see in the picture is 100% made from you.

Now again, please don't see this as a critic against yourself and XNA modding community, as I personally find many pictures made with it quite stunning and sometimes rendered even better than in the games.
That's it ^^

~Sorceress-Nadira Dec 20, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

It did sound like a critique of some sorts, so please forgive me for this little over-reaction of mine. I wish I had Your skills or knowledge to be able to create models and enjoy them looking how I wish them to look. Using only ready models is very limited and, as You said, the copyright is ambiguous. I'm living in constant fear that at some point dA will decide to shut down my gallery and the only argument I'll have would be "there was no direct NO to XNALara from BioWare" and "there's that tread on BioWare Social forums, explaining XNALara and rigging in great detail, and despite the call to mods to 'remove it, if it violates any policy', it's been there for years"

Besides, I sometimes wonder if people, who have no idea about difficulties involved in model-made pictures, see one of mine and go all "ha, that's easy, she's just using models". Well, as You said Yourself, it's not that easy

And maybe that's why I overreacted. My apologies again.

As for Your own gallery, I cannot see how people could ignore Your pictures! Surely, they might look different, but if they do, it's all for the best. Hats off for the Tali model, she's beautiful (although let me just tell You - not my headcanon

=sHoNi89 Dec 20, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Hey, it's okay ^^ I wasn't trying to offend anyone... it's just a bit frustrating to spend so many hours of work and then mostly get little to no feedback, and many general superficial comments like "my version is better than yours", then I look his gallery and I see he uses XNA models... It is, frustrating.

But thank you for what you said, you're very kind. And thank you for the watch

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