Pixel Icon Raffle! - Winners!I have now raffled the winners! > v <
First winner is ~Kiwi-San and the second one is ~Frangasm.
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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
#2 - :iconpastachan415: =PastaChan415 #97 http://gyazo.com/ed9cd42a6db6852445a9238d2e97a10d
#3 - :iconanichan7: *anichan7 #1069 http://gyazo.com/c13f0ba1315169bd8c3535e8f3c39b6a
#4 - :iconUnImmortalBunny: ~UnImmortalBunny #1027 http://gyazo.com/a805ffcc725b8d75d08cabc0f47496c8
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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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by ~Rose74, Mar 3, 2009, 5:50:07 PM
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Hey everyone, just me again.

Okay, I've been going through my old files the other day, just familiarizing myself again with my fave Sailor Sirius pics and checking over the Sailor Sirius fanfictions when something hit me...something that surprised me so much, it might as well have been a truck hitting me!

I just realized that it's been 12 years...that's right, 12 YEARS since I first wrote the Sailor Sirius Chronicles.

I remember it like it was yesterday...on January 18th, 1997, after months of reworking and modifying the character of Sailor Sirius, I dared myself to sit down and write the first chapter of the Sailor Sirius Chronicles. I can't believe how YOUNG I was then, how much of a silly, whacky, kid I was and a new fan of this totally unique, amazing, and mesmerizing anime called Sailor Moon. After watching a few episodes of it (mind you, I thought it was an AMERICAN show because of the English dub), I thought to myself.."Hey, I can make up a character like that!" But when I looked on the internet, there were already otaku (fan) Sailor Senshi made...but they were all almost alike. They were either blonde or red-head, perfect, and either from America or Canada. I wanted someone different from them, someone from a background and country no one has thought about, so after months of brainstorming...behold, Sailor Sirius was born.

I'm so proud that I held on to Sailor Sirius as long as I did. I've seen many fan senshi appear and disappear...fanfictions started and never finished, and I'm so happy I never did that. I don't profess that Sailor Sirius was better than any other fan-created senshi, but I do deserve to be pleased with myself that I stuck with the fanfiction, finished her story, and while Sailor Sirius did not get as popular and get as much acknowledgment and comments as I hoped, at least her story was told, at least she lasted as long as she did.

So yeah, I'm very proud of myself.

But I couldn't have done it alone. Thanks, those of you who did take the time to read her story, to tell me what you liked, what you thought I could have improved on and changed. Thanks to those of you who didn't remain silent and spoke up. You guys showed a majority very few in the Sailor Moon community have. Because of you, Sailor Sirius became much better than what I could have thought of alone. You guys know who you are.

There were many times I've wanted to give up, to scrap it all because I thought I was doing something wrong. At times, the silence was deafening, but you guys...the ones who wrote me about Sailor Sirius, pulled me out of my slump. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

Okies, besides Sailor Sirius, I do have a bit of The Princess And The Frog news.

There's a new description of a scene from the movie, and it's about how Prince Naveen was turned into a frog. You can read about it here:

[link]

There are also some updates on some new Princess And The Frog products (toys and plushies), costumes, and a new clip art of Tiana and Naveen. Naveen looks so cute, and he looks like a fun-filled guy!

Check out the links here:

Full Line of The Princess and the Frog products:

[link]

Close-up of Tiana doll in blue dress with a Tiana standee in her green dress behind it:

[link]

Tiana doll in her green dress:

[link]

Tiana and Prince Naveen Art:

[link]

Tiana's dress costume:

[link]

That's about it for now. I'll be sure to post up some updates on The Princess And The Frog once I get news. Thanks for taking the time to read my nonsense everyone, and have a wonderful St. Patrick's Day!

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~Tux-boi Mar 19, 2009

12 years huh? well, I've been doing my character off an on for about almost 20 years now (I am almost 30 OMG!) So you are not alone. So I hope it still goes well, and you have fun learning more about her and her strengths weaknesses, and her loves.

~Rose74 Mar 19, 2009 Student Writer

Oh thank you so much, it means a lot coming from you.

Oh gosh, almost 20 years?

Well I have to say that's amazing. I hope I'll be able to stick with Sailor Sirius that long!

~Tux-boi Mar 19, 2009

Yeah, 20 years give or take 5, I think. But make sure that she's what you want your character to be, but don't forget, change is good too. Love everything you do with her. Have fun.

~Rose74 Mar 20, 2009 Student Writer

Oh believe me, Tanya has changed A LOT through out the years.

She's definitely what I want her to be now. Thankies again, I'm still having fun with her.

*SqueakyMcBeal Mar 5, 2009

Congratuations, Rose.

12 years and counting. I think your otaku senshi, Sailor Sirius will be remembered for years to come.

I love Sailor Sirius very much. She is very different from any senshi we usually see, take it from me.

Anywho, I am working on an Otaku Senshi fanfic...so far all I got is how they became a group senshi. Other than that, nada.

So, I have a long way to go. You, Sailor Sirius is hard core. So I say to you, very well done.

~Rose74 Mar 5, 2009 Student Writer

Awwwww, thank you, you're so sweet!

Oh I truly do hope Sailor Sirius will be remembered for years to come. But honestly...with the few feedbacks and comments I've received through the years, I don't know....

Oh well. Hey, if you need a bit of help with your otaku senshi, please let me know, okay? I'd love to help out.

And thank you for all the faves!

*SqueakyMcBeal Mar 6, 2009

It's not a problem.

~Rose74 Mar 7, 2009 Student Writer

~nerinaxodes Mar 4, 2009

That's great! You reminded me of when I created my first otaku senshi about 8 years ago (8 already!), Sailor Star ([link]), together with her cousins Sun and Earth. I actually did write their story and had planned two more seasons xD But then I left the otaku senshi world and came back sporadically, until two years ago. Meanwhile, I still created some senshi (check out my senshi list in my journal if you want), most of which remained simply a design.

I was very fond of your Sirius, she was one of the first otaku senshi I ever found out about, together with Sakky's Sailor Astera and Tory's Sailors Earth and Utopia. I also liked very much a couple of artists' senshi, but both girls left the otaku senshi world, too.

And as far as my otaku senshi story goes... I've been trying to write the fanfic about my Sirius senshi, but everyday I want to include more things and take out some others, so it's impossible that I finish writing it in a more or less decent period of time XD (You can read up to chapter four at fanfiction.net: [link]).

Wow, that was a long post XD

~Rose74 Mar 4, 2009 Student Writer

No worries, I like long posts.

I'll be sure to check out your story on Fanfiction.net. Yes, I know it's hard to write, but if I want to make sure my story is told, I have to tough it out, and MAKE time for myself and story. I think I do remember your Sailor Star! She's really cute.

But yes, please keep up the wonderful work, you're so talented!

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