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

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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The Stockers (answering comments/uploading/as well as modelling and taking pics lol):

The Models
~askita ~hoshizoraaona
Awesome Kimonos and photography
~HasturCTS

All of us here at *HiddenYume-stock would like to thank you in advance for all of the faves/watches/collection adds. While we no longer have the time to thank each of you individually (we do reply to every comment and deviation however!), we still want you to know that you totally make all of the crazyness that goes along with stock so very very worth it!
*big massive group hug*

Not interested in buying a costume, but still wanna help us out? Check out our Donation Page! [link]

The contest is officially closed! Me and ~TouchFeel will powwow and get the contest winners posted within the next few days!

New Contest!

Much Ado About Mucha Art Nouveau Contest

Both ~TouchFeel and *HiddenRelevance have a long running love for Alfonse Mucha's gorgeous Art Nouveau paintings and advertisements. The flowing hair and draping fabric added to the lovely scroll work and framing just takes our breath away.

So, finally we have decided to do both stock and a contest inspired by that gorgeous style.

For those of you who aren't familiar with Mucha - just type the name into google images and you'll be blown away by the options!

So, on to the details!

Deadline:
May 5, 2013

Rules:

1. You must have an obvious Art Nouveau theme or element in your entry.
2. Your entry MUST contain one of our Mucha-inspired model stock images (seen here: [link] as a CENTRAL figure in the entry. Only entries with one of the approved images will be accepted. We will be adding additional images from the Lily and Ivy sets, and may do more shoots as the contest progresses so there are a lot of options for all of you!
Note: you may use our model stock as a reference. Your entry does NOT have to be a photomanip. Paintings/drawings/etc are definitely welcome!
3. Your entry MUST be new created for this contest.
4. You may enter as many times as you want!!!! (Only 1 entry can win!)
5. You must link back to this contest in the description of the entry.
6. You MUST notify us in a NOTE titled "Mucha Contest Entry."
7. You must properly credit any and all stock used in the description of your entry. Basically, all our normal rules apply!

Prizes:
Note, you may win only once. Also (and I hate that I have to say this, but it was a problem with our last contest), you may NOT swap out any of the prizes below for something else. It was kind of insulting to have people say "I don't like your exclusive packs so give me points."

First Place:
1 Year Subscription or approximate value of points from *HiddenYume-stock
1 Wire wrapped key pendant *HiddenRelevance
Access to ALL exclusive stock packs by *HiddenYume-stock
Exclusive stock pack from ^PirateLotus-Stock
Exclusive stock pack from ~WhiteWing-Stock-EtAl
Journal features from *HiddenYume-stock, *HiddenRelevance, ~TouchFeel =kirilee ~WhiteWing-Stock-EtAl

Second Place:
3 Months Subscription approximate value of points from *HiddenYume-stock
1 Wire wrapped key pendant from *HiddenRelevance
Access to 3 Exclusive Stock Packs by *HiddenYume-stock
Exclusive stock pack from ^PirateLotus-Stock
Exclusive stock pack from ~WhiteWing-Stock-EtAl
Journal features from *HiddenYume-stock, *HiddenRelevance, ~TouchFeel =kirilee ~WhiteWing-Stock-EtAl

Third Place:
1 Months Subscription approximate value of points from *HiddenYume-stock
1 Wire-wrapped key pendant by *HiddenRelevance
Access to 2 Exclusive Stock Packs by *HiddenYume-stock
Exclusive stock pack from ^PirateLotus-Stock
Exclusive stock pack from ~WhiteWing-Stock-EtAl
Journal features from *HiddenYume-stock, *HiddenRelevance, ~TouchFeel =kirilee ~WhiteWing-Stock-EtAl

Prize donations are still definitely welcome!!!

Entries:
[link] None so far, but we're excited to see what comes in!

Rules:

1.YOU MUST NOTIFY US IF YOU USE OUR STOCK! NO EXCEPTIONS!
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~Ninelyn Apr 3, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Just to inform you... ^_^ I am planning to enter... I love Art Nouveau!
I hope I to make something adequate from your beautiful stock...

*HiddenYume-stock Apr 3, 2013

Yay!! Thanks for letting me know - I was getting a little worried!

~wyldangel-stock Mar 6, 2013 Hobbyist Photographer

O.O WHEEEEEEE!! Ahem... I don't love Mucha/love this idea. Nope not at all. :whistles innocently:

*HiddenYume-stock Mar 9, 2013

*beams* that is TOTALLY the reaction we were hoping for lol. Hope you have time to enter!!!

~wyldangel-stock Mar 9, 2013 Hobbyist Photographer

I'll make time. I've been needing to get back into manipping and I can't think of better incentive.

*HiddenYume-stock Mar 10, 2013

Whoot! That is totally half the reason we finally did this stock - we'd both gotten pretty discouraged due to various things, but we were just like "Fuck it - give me Mucha!" And thus these were born lol.

...and hey - you can do TWO whole entries! *looks innocent*

~wyldangel-stock Mar 11, 2013 Hobbyist Photographer

I have stock of both of models already picked out and I'm studying my stylistic choices. You ladies need more epic jewelry though.

*HiddenYume-stock Mar 11, 2013

Score!! And yeah... we were discussing that. There is a thought to attempt some of the crazy headgear at some point since we can both do basic jewelry making. Just not sure those headdresses count as 'basic' Lol. And I doubt we'll have the energy to do so before the contest ends lol.

~wyldangel-stock Mar 14, 2013 Hobbyist Photographer

Those are definitely not basic whoo. Had to stop and go check out the date the contest ended was thinking it was like 2 weeks for some reason.

Mucha hair is evil. Just saying. But things are coming along nicely on piece one.

*HiddenYume-stock Mar 15, 2013

Yeah Touchfeel is debating on trying it with some of the sheets of craft metal you can buy - I'm wishing her luck lol.

And nope - not till May! I knew Mucha would be more intricate pic wise, so I wanted to give lots of time.

*pat pat* Can't wait to see it then!

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