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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! ^ - ^
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 :)
[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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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 :dummy:
There will be 2 winners ( 50 :points: each ) on this giveaway.
:bulletblue:It's easy to participate
:bulletred: :+fav: This journal.
:bulletred: 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):wow:Yea... and if you don't read the rules, you won't get anything out of this.:wow:

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!!! :hooray:



:star:What you have to do:star:
:bulletred: Favorite this journal... you don't have, you don't enter
:bulletred: Comment saying you entered; I'll be lenient on this one
:bulletyellow: Advertise; you don't have to but is looked up upon
:bulletred: No duplicate accounts; seriously, you need points THAT bad???
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:star: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:points: away at random to celebrate! Leave a comment and I will enter you for the chance to win!
1st 200:points:
2nd 150:points:
3rd 50:points:
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
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 :aww:
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:
Someone left $20 in an envelope at Fanime''
Hey guys! :D 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 :D Hopefully the Knite books will be ready by then!
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HELP!! Evil Bank Monster!

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  • Listening to: Qurupeco HONK!
  • Reading: Dynamik flux equations (Lv2).
  • Watching: Odd anomaly in bathroom. I flush now.
  • Playing: Monster Hunter Unite
  • Eating: A Crab
  • Drinking: Green Tea (thankyou Kreepingspawn)
I don't believe it...I get paid tomorrow and already I've lost FORTY POUNDS to bloody charges. This is so unfair, since that's my entire shopping budget gone! {8>{ Can anybody help? I have some art for sale still: [link] and also lots of stuff at Etsy, including some new Morpho pendants for £6 each: [link]

Also some special offers for this week, only for DA peeps! [link]

I HATE bank charges. They make you buy something that isn't even there! It was one of those returned DD charges. Since I live hand-to-mouth, and only get fifty quid per week to pay for everything, there's never enough to pay everybody. This time it was the water bill that bounced. {X>{ Any help is mega appreciated, doughnations can be sent to: raven8dragon@yahoo.co.uk at my paypal, cookies and cups of tea are also accepted. {X>B Thank you everybody for your patient audience! Have a loafly day,
-Your Gadroon x
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*MamaLucia Feb 8, 2013  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
It will take me a couple of weeks, but I'll try ... :(
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~Evilsangel Feb 6, 2013
Sent some, hope it helps.
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*Badhead-Gadroon Feb 7, 2013  Professional Traditional Artist
Bless you...you just fixed ALL my problems in one go! {8>O *megahyperhuggywoo* :heart:
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~Evilsangel Feb 7, 2013
Glad I could help hun. I've been wanting to try and help you for a while but I just couldn't. However I finally got a new job myself so we're doing okay enough to where I could finally help.
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~Evilsangel Feb 7, 2013
I just realized I sent it in the wrong currency.... lol
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=KreepingSpawn Feb 4, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
>;[ Not fair indeed! :shakefist:


Is this bank the only one you can work with? Do they have the lowest fees of all your local banks? Do they have a financial advisor you could work with to try to prevent this from happening in the future?
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*Badhead-Gadroon Feb 6, 2013  Professional Traditional Artist
Yup, the only one. Tried ALL the rest, this is the last one, and I can't leave, since I have to have a bank account by law to recieve my benefits. Also went through the whole debt thing with the CAB and got blacklisted for credit and stoofs..so I have a financial advisor out there. It's a simple case of just not having enough income. I get fifty pounds per week, paid every two weeks. My internet bill is £40 a month, water £30 a month, debts have to be paid off too at £15 per month each item (got four of those),electricty is £25 and gas....well, I can't afford to wash or cook. Also need £10 travel expenses because of the stupid Seetec and jobcentre stuff they force me to do. {X>D Shopping ends up being tiny at £25-£35 for each two weeks or whatever I can squeeze in...grand total is more than I get paid. {X>O
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=KreepingSpawn Feb 6, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
;[ There's got to be something. Any chance to combine your 4 debts into a single, more reasonable, monthly payment? I'm sure your advisor has been over everything, if he/she's worth anything. I just hate seeing you struggle so!! :(

I just checked out Seetec's website... they say they will help with travel expenses to interviews and such like. Have you found this not to be the case? Or have you already tapped that benefit? Or does it simply not apply to travel to their training loacations [stupid!]?
Also... self-employemnt support: [link]
Definitely worth investigating, even if it turns out not to be the best course. :nod:
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*Badhead-Gadroon Feb 7, 2013  Professional Traditional Artist
I've done all that my advisor said, once the contracts are signed then it stays like that for a whole year..I'll get asked to pay more when the year is up. {X>D Seetec...not as good as it sounds. You only get refunded AFTER you pay for your travel, so if you don't have twenty five quid to take the train to some warehouse in Hammersmith for an interview then they strike you off benefits for six months. Lovely, aren't they? Also, they only refund travel expenses once every two weeks if you are forced to do 'work experience' which is unpaid full time labour. Another wonderful thing about being unemployed. Blegh...it'll be my turn soon. {8>{ It never used to be like this for the unemployed, lately they've gotten very cruel and even strike people off for not attending interviews that nobody told them they had (heard about this happening a lot, my poor sister was a victim of the system). It's just as much a struggle staying relatively cheerful as it is making ends meet moneywise. Seetec also make me do five bloody online courses about the care industry which I don't have any interest in, I am forced to go to the centre every week and sit the for three hours jobsearching while being logged and checked...then there's jobcentre itself. They make me do ten jobseeking things each week or I lose my silly fifty quid pay. {8>/ Maybe those who are reading this are beginning to see why struggling with commissions became too much for me? {X>3 *le sigh*..on toppa that I gots flu. {8>{ *wheeeeze* Thankyou for caring about me, Kreeping- I really appreciate your company! :iconhugplz:
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=KreepingSpawn Feb 7, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
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I just wish there was something concrete I could do, set something in motion to get you out of this ugly pattern.
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