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

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

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.

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

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.

[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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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

XBOne... fixed.To everyone who says picking on Microsoft for their consumer unfriendly bullshit was "being unnecessarily mean," take a look at this. Don Mattrick just announced that Microsoft is back peddling with the XBOne, removing the disastrously awful features we've been bashing them for trying to inflict on us.
    Last week at E3, the excitement, creativity and future of our industry was on display for a global audience.
    For us, the future comes in the form of Xbox One, a system designed to be the best place to play games this year and for many years to come. As is our heritage with Xbox, we designed a system that could take full advantage of advances in technology in order to deliver a breakthrough in game play and entertainment. We imagined a new set of benefits such as easier roaming, family sharing, and new ways to try and buy games. We believe in the benefits of a connected, digital future.
    Since unveiling our plans for X

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

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So... lately I've been getting a lot of notes from random people asking me about being an assistant in Japan. Which is cool, I get a lot of those, but I don't normally get them all at once. Did I get featured somewhere on something or something something? My daily pageviews aren't spiking or anything, but it just seems weird to me, haha. I was kinda surprised, especially since I haven't uploaded any new art in over a month.

I'm finishing up a nudey girly picture that isn't the sort of thing I normally post, so don't get frightened and run away crying. After that I've got a few other commissions to finish up, including one I recently got from a woman who I might be working with professionally in the near future. Because I really want this job, and she knows it, she asked me to draw a poster for her Halloween party. I was about to tell her no until she mentioned she would give copies to her friends. Her friends work in the anime industry... CURSES! So now I have to put a lot more than five minutes into it. It's a Halloween picture, and I have to do it before Tuesday... oh well.

So, naked girls and a Halloween pic coming up in the next few days.

and

, I didn't forget about you two. If by the end of the month I don't have something started, though, feel free to punch me.

Tomorrow is my boyfriend's birthday, and since he is FINALLY done touring with the solo artist Kimeru (anybody know who he is?), I'm glad we can spend the day together. But he bought the new Yakuza video game (or Ryuu Ga Gotoku 4 as it is known here), which was what I was going to get him, and now I've got nothing. Oh here, I'll plug his album for him:

ANATOMIZE by Kimeru
[link]
If you click on the video clip of "Moon Butterfly", that's my boyfriend on the left playing bass. You don't get to see his face much, but they close in on his hands a lot... so that's something. Up until now they have mostly used software for bassists, but they really like him so hopefully he'll be sticking around. The other members of the backup band seem pretty nice, too.

(p.s, I don't like the new Bakuman anime very much...)

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~Siila02 Oct 13, 2010 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Probably you have a secret 'Dady long legs'

or secret agents who support you behind the scenes

That's not me though.

The other day I ran into info
that Ascii Media Works will start an online manga magazine from this December.
In the future, they are planning to have the version in English.
It might be of your interests.

From Sankei News
[link]

*OgawaBurukku Oct 14, 2010 Professional General Artist

I just read the article. I expect a lot of publishers will be using the iPad for comic releases in the future. I still prefer print, but maybe going digital isn't such a bad idea. Thanks for the link

~Siila02 Oct 15, 2010 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Not at all.

I also like traditional hard copy.

=caydett Oct 12, 2010

hurr slow reply (thanksgiving = no internet for the long weekend)
Halloween pictures yay! Will you be uploading it? (And oh man don't feel bad about submissions! I havent put up anything since the beginning of june. it's inexcusable pfuh)

You have an awesome boyfriend ;A;

(Also totally agree about the Bakuman anime. I feel like they lost the life of that series somewhere in the translation from manga to animated series... The characters look so... dead. Miho is probably the worst... her eyes completely lost their shine and happiness

I do like Mashiro`s voice though, but thats all.)

*OgawaBurukku Oct 12, 2010 Professional General Artist

Holy cow, you need to upload some arts! Has it really been that long???
Yeah, I'll be posting the Halloween pic. I just did the lineart yesterday (took me forever...), and since I'm still debating about whether to use paints, markers, or the computer to color it I might just post the lineart separate and be like "Here kids, have fun coloring!"

I wuv my boyfriend. But I wish he'd take out the garbage without me having to ask.

YES! The opening theme is even SO BORING for an anime... I like how the characters looked in the production stills, but when I watched the first episode I was like "Was the manga this depressing in the beginning?" Mashiro is like "My life sucks" and you're right about Miho's eyes. I think Akito (or Shuujin, these characters have so many names) sounds way too adult, and Kaya's voice bugs me. But to be honest, I wasn't really expecting the anime to be very good. The only thing I liked was how they made Mashiro's uncle's manga an anime with that Hironobu Kagayama dude singing the theme. He sang all the cornball classics (like DBZ's Cha-La-Head-Cha-La)

=caydett Oct 13, 2010

Yeah... I'm gonna try and have something done for/on this weekend orz

I guess that's kind of a given for a lot of guys? (Not that I would know rofl, i've only gone out with one guy, and dumped his sorry ass after a month because all he could do was ask for sandwiches and play WoW)

Oh man... the opening pretty much bored me to TEARS. And Kaya's voice is potential the most irritating anime girl voice i've heard in a looong time D: I imagined her sounding tomboyish, not like a nasal old woman. I just watched episode 2 last night and my goodness, it might have even been worse that the first episode. And I don't really ever remember the beginning being depressing or slow in manga form. The manga has made me both laugh/SQUEE and cry (well more tear up from sheer joy) but I don't think i'll ever be able to say the same about the anime :/
(OMG I totally loved the animation for his uncle's anime! It was SO CUTE AHHH!! Like awesome old style brought back to life! I completely had a huge stupid grin on my face for that entire part XD

Although now that I think about it, having that clip at the beginning made the even more anxious and excited... only to be let down for the actual anime >_< )

*OgawaBurukku Oct 14, 2010 Professional General Artist

Yeah, that clip at the beginning made me think "Oh, wow, this is gonna be sweet!" and then.... not so much. I'll watch the next few episodes and then probably lose interest, haha. The only thing I really want to see is how the animate Crow and some of the other "manga within a manga" scenes.

I totally LOLed at you ex boyfriend's description. Sandwiches and WoW... that sounds like sooo many guys I've known.

=caydett Oct 14, 2010

Haha yeah i'm pretty excited for those parts too

(I wish Crow and the others were -actual- series on their own sometimes as well... they all seem like they'd be interesting)

*OgawaBurukku Oct 14, 2010 Professional General Artist

I would really like to read Crow and Rakko 9 or whatever the sea otter comic is. The newest comic the two are working on sounds vaguely amusing, but something that bothers me about the comic is how little they talk about developing characters, which is a HUUUGE part of comicking. (...and really, when you think about it, Bakuman characters are fairly one dimensional and boring themselves....) You would think that would be one of their main struggles, but characterization always seems to fall behind story gimmicks.

*theubbergeek2 Oct 10, 2010

hehehe, treat the boy well

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