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
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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!

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

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

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.

[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

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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Sakura Con and Fanime

Journal Entry: Fri Apr 29, 2011, 10:48 AM

Omg I suck for never EVER updating, I know.

SAKURA CON

Thursday - Pro-Japan Sasuke (Au Naruto theme)
Friday - Um from Umbridge (Alice In Wonderland the new movie)
Saturday - Fang (Final Fantasy 13)
Sunday -  Talho (Eureka 7)

I will be posting pictures just as soon as I get my school work out of the way lol

So my Sakura Con report can be summed up as "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." Lol. There was a lot of random costume malfunction and miscellaneous issues but overall, I was just happy to see everyone I care about.  Honestly, it was wonderful to meet up with :devnovavandorwolf: and *twinfools as well as *Valdrein again and getting to hang out with them throughout the convention.

Of course I spent a lot of time with ~KopiNinja ~alcblueyes ~EclecticManiac ~Raven-unit ~blackfruitbat ~doukana and *gbright1 which just rocked my world!  ~masa-kocha even managed to be in a photoshoot with us for our FF13 cosplay which was wonderful of her and ~Bubydub showed up part way through to say hi

!

~mercy-angel-09 and Erick (friends from high school) dropped by with gifts from ~travellyr and it made me realize how much I miss these guys. Honestly, they're super-duper awesome people :3 Hearts hearts!!

I also briefly saw my very good friend ~jimnicircket and got to hang out with my epicly awesome friends ~Sheniji !littleW-O-L-F by the end of the convention which sorta just made the whole thing worth it.

One super fun con thing *supernovadobe ~KopiNinja and I did was participate in the Final Fantasy Fight Tournament which was run by the ever awesome ~Kenshiro-FDP and that was a blast. We had NO idea what we were getting ourselves into and most of our attacks were made up in the seats 5 minutes before we even got on stage due to some technical mishaps XD! But in spite of that being unexpectedly stressful, I'd say it was the best con thing I did all weekend and I'm looking forward to doing it again next year if the con allows

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FANIME

Who is going? Because.. I totally am and would love to see you guys there :3!

Thus far, my costume schedule looks like this:

Cloud from Advent Children
Yuri from Tales of Vesperia
Katara from Avatar the Last Airbender
Arashi from X1999
Fang from Final Fantasy 13
Harry Potter (for video purposes)

There might be random other costumes thrown in along the way but we'll see how that goes depending on how much time I have :/

So yeah! If you are thinking about going, you should. If you know you're going, come say hi to

and I ^__^! And that's it for now.

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Our first comic issue of "Love Descending" ( read about it here: [link] can still be purchased here:

$2.99 an issue which.. is hella affordable for a comic, yeah? lol

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Amazon only has a copy for the Kindle:

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~choiceone-xXx Jul 6, 2011 Student General Artist

Wow, had I known you guys were at S-con, I would have realized it was you as Um - I'm pretty sure I almost fainted when I saw your dress, but I had no idea it was you guys.

I'm a long-time youtube fan.

Maybe I'll see you guys next year, but I might not be around. I might be in Japan so we'll see.

~timmy2shoes May 19, 2011 Professional Filmographer

Your costumes are amazing! I'll probably see you wandering around fanime looking fricken awesome

~JasperHenson May 17, 2011 Hobbyist

I'm going to Fanime this year, my first ever con, I'm excited about going. I hope I'll get too see you all there.

~angandres May 6, 2011

Hey antiquity, I saw u at Sakura con. ^_^' I was the alice with ciels wig. I was gonna be sesshomaru but my contacts were on backorder and I didn't get my costume finished in time. So my roomate lent me her Alice costume at the last minute. It was great meeting you guys and I hope to see you all again at yaoi con.

*Antiquity-Dreams May 7, 2011

Oooh I hate it when things go wrong with costumes last minute. So much suck

! You're going to Y-con? Well be sure to stop and say hi to us ^_^

~Ernoma May 2, 2011 Student General Artist

Hellooo ! I have a question, ((lol a question from a little ol' fan))
Are you going to AX this year ? : D

*Antiquity-Dreams May 3, 2011

We're 80% sure we're going to AX this year :3

~Ernoma May 4, 2011 Student General Artist

Whaaaaaaaaaat !!!

Really ?! I wanna meet youuuuu !
My and my friend would cry if we met you, we've literally been watching since we were in sixth grade, and that was six years ago !

*Antiquity-Dreams May 4, 2011

Really??? That's so long! lol But yeah.. we're fairly sure we're going to Ax but nothing is certain until we have the plane tickets :3

~Ernoma May 5, 2011 Student General Artist

Yes really >< We look up to you two !
We really would like a chance to meet you guys, you seem so friendly and fun to be with

That'd be so cool if you do ! We'll probably just act like fans and me too shy to speak lol

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