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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! ^ - ^
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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
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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
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Journal Entry: Wed Aug 31, 2011, 5:30 AM

Going to write a con report actually close to the con LOL...as opposed to weeks later 8'D

So, last weekend I was in Melbourne for Manifest! I flew down on Wednesday night and was met at the airport by the lovely

Went to stay at her place~~ thank you so much for the comfy couch *A* 8D

Thursday

First up was Cendrillon Kaito and Miku shoot with

! We went to some super fancy hotel in the CBD which she managed to get us permission to shoot in *__* I was like...err...I feel like I really don't belong LOL 8"D Then we went to this pretty bridge for some outside shots~ Thank you so much to

for shooting for us, and

for coming to help out!

With Miku-channnnn *u*

Love getting to take lying-in-lap photos~~ huge dresses are so nice and squishy! HURRR XD;

Then

and I were trying to do some derp pose for lols...and we fell over... XD;;; LMAO

And because I'm such a gallant prince, I had to get this photo first before helping her up. LOL. /shot

With our photog

Then

had to go to work, so we headed into the city for foods~ before a shoot that evening with

as Kuranosuke and Tsukimi from Kuragehime

We took photos in her awesome city apartment after getting kicked out of the building's lobby lol 8'D
I had to walk around the city for a few hours in this cos...I felt like a hideous barbie doll...LOL...I swear I would have got fewer weird looks if I'd kept the Kaito outfit on 8'D

Jellyfish dolls! 8D

The best photos are always the ones without my head 8D

Many thanks to

and Mark for shooting for us!

And to Mark as well for driving me back to meet

after work *A*

Friday
Came to the con as Kichou from Me de Shireru Yoru no Junjou with

as my Kagerou~~

Managed to find a pic on fb lol XD;

Decided that Manifest was pretty crap lol, and that if I hadn't paid for the ticket and wanted to see people wouldn't be coming back the other days LOLOL...ah well XD;

Met

at her stall!

And failed to talk for very long because I am a fail person... ;A; Spent a lot of time over all three days of the con hanging out at

and

's stalls XD;; I'M SORRY FOR EATING YOUR TABLE SPACE LMAO

Saturday
Saturday was Howl's Moving Castle day! With

as my Sophiiieeeee~~

It was quite fun cosing this as lots of people recognised it, which is always nice *u*

Managed to find an actually nice photo of myself from a con! o_O (very very rare LOL) Thanks so much to Alan for taking it <3

With Sophie~ <3 (yanked from fb as well~ looks like I have a wing...it's from the coser behind me's costume lol...)

After the con we went out for dinner with

& co~ *3*

Sat night I used

's computer to log on to Pottermore and get sorted

SLYTHERIN YEAH!

lololol~~

Sunday

Had to get there really early as

had to go to prejudging for the competition~ so I kinda wandered around being foreveralone.jpg and annoying people at their stalls LOL 8'D (gomen ><)

Then people kept taking photos of us together for some reason...even though I don't know in what possible universe these costumes could be from the same series... ;A;

In the afternoon my Oz

arrived~ <3

And then I watched the cos comp with

and died laughing at our own jokes about the shitiness of the MC 8'D (seriously. so bad. idek. =__

But all was made wonderful again at the end by UtaPri group!!

and

who changed out of Oz to perform

IT WAS FABULOUS 8D WITH GLOWSTICKS 8D

(for anyone wondering, YES, I am going to cos UtaPri~~ 8D HURRRHURRHURR any guesses on chara? XD)

Also got to meet

in person~ she's so bishie zomg *_*;; /shrivels in comparison

After the con I shifted all my bags to

and

's house~~ and then we headed into the city for delicious dessert!dinner followed by karaokeeeeee~~ as a result of which I screwed my voice epically LOL 8'D

Monday
Had a wonderful wakeup call of

and

's kitty climbing on my head LOL

And then

and myself headed to Brunetti's (this amazing cake/pattisserie/café place in Melbourne) to meet a whole heap of people for breakfast/brunch *3*

Was especially wonderful to get to see

again!! Why so cute all the time!! *__* /squishes/

And also to get to meet

! Handed out nearly all my cos cards to people LOLOL~~ lovely to see everyone

(and others? *_*; ) LOVE YOU ALL!

Then followed something a food tour of Melbourne LOL - basically hopped from café to café until late afternoon when I had to head to the airport!

~~~~~

All in all it was a fun weekend~ although the con itself was kinda crap and I found myself with nothing to do a lot of the time... >>;; I think next year I'll just go down to Melb for a cos trip and not bother going to the con at all! XD;

~~~~~

And now I am ill T__T Con plague, yay... and I have an exam and a huge law essay due next week ;;____;; /wrists

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*cherriuki Sep 4, 2011 Traditional Artist

so nice to finally meet the amazing you in RL *UUUUUU* <333

fff cant see your bishie kaito photos Q_Q have to wait to get back to Aus to see them LOL darn u chinaaa OTL

*zimiel Sep 5, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

asadsakfdjhgdf and you!! *A*

eeehhh is the image site I used blocked or something? o_O; lol...

*cherriuki Sep 6, 2011 Traditional Artist

LOL YEP....seems like they got something against imageshack too XDDDD

~ashteyz Sep 3, 2011

IT WAS AWESOME MEETING YOU AGAIN!!

I'LL GO TO BRISBANE NEXT!

*zimiel Sep 3, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

and you and you!!

ooooh yes please come~ or we all go meet in JP y/y? 8D

~JKale Sep 3, 2011

Next year, more Melbourne, less Manifest XD

~LittleCrane Sep 2, 2011

Oh lol darling we try to tell everyone the Manifest is just awful! No one believes us lol until they experience it.... I'm not going next year and I live here!!!! Oh well regardless of it's awfulness it was lovely seeing you and your slimness! Hopefully can see you in Nov if you haven't died from school.

*zimiel Sep 2, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

RAARRGGHH I think I was maintaining some form of optimism~ 'it can't be /that/ bad'~ LOL OTL...I think the nail in the coffin was the AvCon MC JFC WHY o__O;;

It was lovely to see you too, and I wish I had got to a bit more!

I have a horrible feeling I'll have an exam on madman day in Nov OTL...but here's praying I won't ><

~LittleCrane Sep 6, 2011

Lol I remain somewhat optimistic that each year that it won't be as crap as the last. Each year I am proven wrong =_____=

I hope you have no exam, but luck is a bitch so I am shelving my opimisim for now

*breathless-ness Sep 1, 2011

Hnnng omg I want your Kuranosuke outfit *A*
Such a weekend of pretty costumes <3

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