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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.
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Here's the screenshots: (If the image won't load click here.)
You can now delete this journal from your favourites.
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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

[WINNERS!] Giveaway! [1000 points + Free Chibis~]WINNERS!
Thanks to those who participated! <3
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CONTEST! Win 1500 points! P.Membership! And More!

Draw My Naruto OC Contest!!!
Manku Urakami
Shippuuden – right outfit

colors take from here http://tonemi.deviantart.com/art/Manku-Urakami-345814033
Pre Shippuuden

Her pairing Sora - http://s001.radikal.ru/i193/1305/de/d7f6152c3bc8.png
I want join! What I'll do?
If you want join:
*READ A RULES.
*I don't do some list of contest members, if you want draw for my contest, just do it!
*MOORE CREATIVITY!

*Send me link in finished draw here in comments, or in notes.
*I'll put your draw in *Entries
*Congratulations! Your' a member! :iconimsrspervplz:
Rules

Draw my Naruto OC Manku Urakami. It's can be all thet u want, fan art, face screenshots, couple art or else.

ART must be drawd for my contest! Not commission for me, not AT's, only new and your draws.

No base! No trace! Only own draws!

You may enter only one draw for every contest 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!
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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

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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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Sun Mar 28, 2010, 12:03 PM

I'm so bad with journals. Here's what's going on. In less than a month I will be getting out of this HOLE. 8 months in this town has made me a borderline mental case driven by paranoia and rage. Seriously, after being here for two weeks straight and going back to the "city" I'm usually a mess. I get two days to decompress then I'm back into it again.

I almost have my work placement set up. I'm just waiting for the form to get faxed back to my teacher with the required signature. I don't want to get super excited because things always have a way of falling apart at the last moment. If I get my way I will be working doing commercial work as a construction electrician. If I don't get my way I will have to do industrial work. Know what? Either way...awesome.

What does this mean for art? Who knows, I thought I'd stop drawing when I went away for school but I've drawn more lately then I did before. Perhaps I should just stop thinking about it.

One more thing, I couldn't bring myself to deactivate this club so I converted it into a group.

I'm trying hard to run it again...whatever that even means. If I got a few more members perhaps we could have some kind of drawing....event, challenge, who knows. I don't know what I am doing clearly. I made an icon? That's a start right?

Anyway.

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~Mew2cool Mar 30, 2010

nice, I managed to get a job for 8 months too. quadrupled my income. Oh fuck yeah! Also fixed up my bicycle and started using it after a 5 year break! I forgot how fun it is to ride a bike lol. XD Also I get some much-needed exercise. I mean, I eat healthy but I don't move nearly enough and I'm in a bad shape, this should be very good for me. I do physical labor at work too, and I can already see that I'm losing fat and I've only been there for 3 weeks. :3 It's awesome to have a fast metabolic rate. XD (unless you go somewhere with no toilet for more than 2 hours and you just drank a bottle of water @_@)

you take care now. And don't you dare stop drawing, it's a waste of talent! D: grrr.

-Juho

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~JosephCollins Mar 29, 2010 Hobbyist Digital Artist

You know, electricians are under-paid. They really are. My dad worked out in Lewis Prison in Buckeye, Arizona and was very much underpaid. Also, pretty underappreciated by his peers. But that's neither here nor there. On to other matters!

You're moving, huh? This is awesome news! After hearing about all the bullcrap and nonsense your current residence had to offer, I figure anywhere would be better than there. But if you can go somewhere you actually wanna, that's even better.

What all this theoretically means for your art is simply "I'll draw if I feel like it, and if I don't, I won't." Sorta...like how it goes right now, I imagine. XD

Lastly, a Sally club? Hm... Okay. Sonic fans are kinda...*makes a "crazy" motion*...so be prepared for some drama. *hugs* Just the kind of drama you can ignore, is all. X3

I think that's everything. Heh. My brain's a little disorganized right now, but I tried to make things make sense. Take it easy, Jess!

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*JessFox Mar 29, 2010

Well, considering the majority of electricians are at the age of retiring there is an increasing demand for them across the country. I'm told I can expect to make about 14$ for my first year as an apprentice and it will only increase as I go back to write my block exams. Things look pretty darn good where I live.

Art is how I vent and get ideas out of my head. I'm always going to be a creative person, can't escape it.

I've had the club/group for a while now (5 years). I get the occasional stupid comment about Amy and hate for Sally...whatever. I don't even reply. I want it to be more about drawing than praising the character. I have some ideas for group drawing collabs I'm going to try to get off the ground in a week or so. I have been brainstorming and I think I have some neat ideas.

Take it easy too!

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~Shanella Mar 28, 2010

No point in stopping on a hobby you enjoy! Unless of course your work takes too much of your time and you don't get enough time to draw...but hopefully that doesn't happen cuz I love your stuff.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you because you deserve better! I've been kind of worried for you (maybe more so than I should be but whatever) especially since you seem to have a bit too much insanity in your life to be healthy~! So here's to the future!

<33

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*JessFox Mar 29, 2010

You're very kind.

I am trying to live a healthy, non insane life style. I am trying to simplify and find stability but somehow things always get CRAZY!!!! I've had a very non traditional life so far so I can understand some of the stuff that's happened. My fingers are crossed too, I think things are going to work out alright though. Thanks for the positive thoughts, I really appreciate it a lot. With so many idiots out there it's very comforting.

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~Shanella Mar 29, 2010

Understandable xD

Have fun!

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~DoctorBollocks Mar 28, 2010

I hope everything goes well and hopefully without too much stress

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*JessFox Mar 28, 2010

Tomorrow I should know more.

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!operative274 Mar 28, 2010

Hehe - well what fun would there be if everything went according to plan?

Oh and by the way, if YOU stop drawing, then I stop drawing

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*JessFox Mar 28, 2010

I will never stop drawing then, I will just take extended breaks in between pictures from time to time!

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