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

[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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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!

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.

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

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

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 =AlexandraB24, Jan 28, 2010, 12:01:08 PM
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Hello members and contributors,
I just want to clarify a point that has been raised a few times. Other groups, though by all means not all, give reasons why some deviations are declined, why is fineart-photography not doing it?
We have considered it but there is a major problem: there are only three people involved in the voting and we do not work full time on DA! there are lots of members, several contributors and it gets too much really. We have a few options here:
1. accept that for now no reasons can be given. If your work is not accepted it does not mean that it is not good. Some members flood us with submissions, some members keep on submitting the same deviations again and again - please dont do that, once it is declined accept it with good grace - some members do not really bother to ascertain the kind of images that seem to fit in with the fineart-photography ethos.
2. We can begin a major overhaul of the group, which is still run like the former club. Introduce more admin, have gallery moderators, that kind of thing.
Please let us have your views. We want the group to be fully functional and to everyone's taste, as far as possible.

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~Rodelicious Feb 8, 2010 Professional Photographer

I was allowed recently to join the group but to my surprise not any of my submitted photos were accepted. It could have been better out of courtesy to explain to the member why the submission was rejected. Oh yes, I know it is clearly in your precious journal but what's the use of socializing with group when a member cannot even share their precious photos?

The admins could had also reviewed the applicant's workmanship prior to accepting them as a member. Does this makes sense?

Once again, I invite you (admins, members, etc.) to visit my stream and tell me if it is really worth rejecting. If it is then I wonder what level of quality is this group looking for.

~Rodelicious Feb 10, 2010 Professional Photographer

I received this message from the group's admin and just want to share with the rest.

Quote:
"hey, thanks for reading the journal clearly. like you have maybe allready noticed we declined your works so far. its not mainly because you do HDR images. IT's more because your borders around the images. and that you submited lots of work at once.
If they look to edited we won't accept them. And of course its also digital age of photography. But we want to see that epople can do both. Analogical and digital. Or that they at least know the roots of every programm like lightroom, photoshop,.....

i hope you are not angry with us about declins."

~bluebeat76 Feb 4, 2010

This group is close to special vip members? No comment realy no comment ... 1 deviant of the day declined ... another photo who is used on 2 fashion magazines declined .... without a write a reason ... why?

=AlexandraB24 Feb 4, 2010 Professional General Artist

As explained in one of the recent blogs we do not necessarily have time to write comments on images that are declined. We are not the only group that does so. We are very short staffed at present. Images are not declined because they are not good, they are declined because they do not fit the group's criteria. Sometimes there may be too many images that resemble or echo each other and we need variety in our gallery, sometimes people submit too many images in one go and we cannot accept them all en masse. Not right for this group does not mean that the image is not good. If your work is declined please accept the decision with good grace and do submit your work to another group. You may resubmit at a later stage - but clearly not the following day! I suggest people should look at the gallery folders and also the favs folders to get an idea of what works for this group.

Alex

=CGiraldez Jan 28, 2010 Hobbyist Photographer

I will not reply quoting phrase by phrase.

I will reply with a constructive spirit though !

I want to state publicly that when this was a Club I never flooded it with my submissions. I behaved like its rules permitted.
I felt honoured because all my submissions were considered Fine Art Photography and were accepted (btw they are still "hanging" in the Club/Group (?) galleries).

I did found a Club (premium account) last year. It is a Super Group now and we (the Administration give their contribution in partial time as we all have our own lifes).
We do not have submissions in queue nor do we have rejections before "talking" with our members.
My option ... valid and followed by my Team !

I do not use my Group to self-promotion and I do not have any of my photos there - my option - I use my personal account for that and I ask for constructive comments.

All the best ... and, although you do not need my Artwork around, I'll come back when it is professionally run again (this is not a personal attack to any individual of the Team of this Group).

I'll keep my path - quality - no matter what !

!80sElle Jan 28, 2010

"If you can't do the time, don't bother starting one in the first place."
I can agree with that.

Anyway, I do enjoy this group, quite a bit.
In effort to steer clear of bad first impressions, I'd like to state my confusion for some of my discontent with recent submissions.
I've only ever submitted less than 4 pieces, and I've not yet seen them accepted.

This would be no problem, had I known that perhaps I was, in fact, in the incorrect group. I suppose, all of our views of, "fine-art," are perhaps a bit too different.

Like I said, I really enjoy this group, and the work put into it. Very selective, very specific, very nice. But, when it comes to the contributions, I'm not sure if I'm here just to watch, or to be apart of.

~wilderBeest Jan 28, 2010 Hobbyist Photographer

I agree with @zbalo13, I too have voted with my feet believing it a mistake to have joined this group. I never understood why people start clubs/groups in dA, then complain that they never get the time or help to maintain them properly. IMHO if you cant do the time, dont bother starting one in the first place.

~zbalo13 Jan 28, 2010

obviously, it was a mistake to join that group. if the quality is not a reason to decline the contribution, what than? you recently declined some my works, i believe not to be too superb to consider those in any way better than some works you accepted. so, not to annoying you and to vasteyour precious time, i leave...

=AlexandraB24 Jan 28, 2010 Professional General Artist

Now this is an example of not being able to accept with good grace that perhaps too many submissions were made AND that some of them, though very good were not suitable for this group. Walking away in a huff does not help...

~zbalo13 Jan 28, 2010

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