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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 :)
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!
[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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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. 
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
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: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!
Tiny contest! Point prizes8D Time for another little fun challenge!
Draw inside the shape contest!
Rules
:bulletgreen: You can enter as many times as you want.
:bulletgreen: No shading required
:bulletgreen: You must choose one of the characters in this folder http://griffsnuff.deviantart.com/gallery/24055808
:bulletgreen:Remember to remove the shape/lines when you are done!
:bulletgreen: The character needs to be full body.
:bulletgreen: try to fill as much as the shape as possible!
:bulletred: You can not alter the shape.
:bulletred: 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
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 :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
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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Expanding Our Services and More!

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Hey everyone!! I have an announcement!
(no, cheese is not being sold for under a dollar...sorry:D)
(and no, they did not invent cheese-scented pencils...really sorry:laughing:)

No, instead...we expanding our services from just providing stock and constructive critisism to more...hands-on...services! It has come to my attention (and believe me, little does...:D) that fire is difficult to manipulate into lighter manips! Uh...ya a little random, but seriously - fire is hard to add to lighter scenes because no matter how hard you try there is always a black border around the flames. But this phenomenon is not limited to fire - lightning is another subject that is hard to manipulate.

Another thing that I've come across is how difficult it is to find that 'perfect pose'. I had this problem in particular in my Decliche and Surreal It Entry - Abyss


The idea was to use the required stock image - in this case, the woman's head - in an un-cliche (unusual) way. So, I took the original portrait photo and added a body :) It took a while but the result is pretty good (even if the overall manip isn't the greatest). The woman actually consists of 4 different models combined into one figure.

SO, I have decided to offer a few services that may be of some use to photomanipulators and artists alike!

-Background Removal: Removal of dark/fairly-dark backgrounds on fire, lightning and any other sort of effect that torment manipulators so much. I can also do various touchups to said flames/lightning, such as removing buildings, telephone wires and people to give you a clean, transparent image. Such examples of my work in this area are the Transparent Flames Packs with the help of *MD-Arts (thanks Matt!!) :onfire: Oh ya...and I'll do it for free (assuming the image isn't too hard to crop, in which case a 'donation' would be acceptable)

-Model Stitching: For cases where you cannot find a specific model for your manip, I will offer a 'stitching' service. This will entail cropping and - in a sense - splicing... multiple stock models into a requested figure. I would request that the models be pre-cropped, but if not I can deal with that. I will also do this for free for one model at a time - if you want more than one stitched I would appreciate some points or gifts or something in exchange.

Earnings will be used for prizes, donations or anything else I see fit - not for my personal pleasure. I am doing this as non-profit - as things should be... As they say, the best things in life are free :w00t:

Note me or comment on this journal (Notes preferably) if you're interested :D

There was something else I was tryign to remember here but its slipped my mind (probably dripped out my ears :giggle:)



- - - GROUP FEATURES!! - - -


W00T!! I would also like to feature 2 new groups!


The newest stock group in town! Devoted to collecting and organizing as much stock as possible from All around DeviantArt! Whether you are a major stock supplier or just starting out - we want you and your stock!!!

And... (drumroll please!)

Started by *creativeguy59, #Realms-Imagination is a learning group for artists or any medium and any talent level, from beginners looking for advice to experts looking for...advice! We're here to help! The group is a little new but eventually you'll be able to look forward to workshops and tutorials as well as monthly Contests with some impressive prizes! Join us and grow!



- - - FEATURE!! - - -


Speaking of my bad memory (it seems to be working at the moment ^^ ), I must apologize to ~maelinn. I lost my sub before I could complete my promise of a journal feature, so I'm doing it now. I'm really sorry it took so long ^^;

As a prize for being a Pick of the Week for the Decliche and Surreal It Challenge four challenges back, ~maelinn requested a journal feature as her prize. Maelinn, here you are :)


:star: :star: :iconmaelinn: :star: :star:
~maelinn

Winning Entry

Souffle de Vie (Breath of Life)

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- - - NICE GUYS STILL FINSH LAST - - -


♥ To every guy that said, "Sex can wait"...
♥ To every guy that said, "You're beautiful"...
♥ To every guy that was never too busy to drive across town to see her...
♥ To every guy that gives her flowers and a card when she is sick or down...
♥ To every guy who has given her flowers just because that's how he rolls...
♥ To every guy that said he would die for her...
♥ To every guy that really would...
♥ To every guy that did what she wanted to die for...
♥ To every guy that cried in front of her...
♥ To every guy that she cried in front of...
♥ To every guy that holds hands with her.
♥ To every guy that kisses her with meaning..
♥ To every guy that hugs her when she's sad...
♥ To every guy that hugs her for no reason at all...
♥ To every guy who would give their jacket up for her...
♥ To every guy that calls to make sure she got home safe...
♥ To every guy that would sit and wait for her for hours just to see her for ten minutes...
♥ To every guy that would give his seat up...
♥ To every guy that just wants to cuddle...
♥ To every guy that reassured her that she was beautiful no matter what...
♥ To every guy who told his secrets to her...
♥ To every guy that showed how much he cared through every word and every breath...
♥ To every guy that thought maybe this could be the one...
♥ To every guy that believed in her dreams...
♥ To every guy that would have done anything so she could achieve them...
♥ To every guy that never laughed at her when she told him her dreams...
♥ To every guy that walked her to her car and opened the door...
♥ To every guy that gave his heart...
♥ To every guy who prays that she is happy even if he's not with her...
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Not many girls appreciate nice guys anymore. And because of this, there are not many left out there. I guarantee 90% of the men on your page will not repost this because they care more about their image.

- If you are a nice guy, repost this in your journal with the title: "Nice guys STILL finish last"
- If you are a girl that thinks every guy should treat a girl this way, repost this in your journal with the title: "To Every Guy".



Have a great day everyone, and once again congratulations ~maelinn on your Pick!! :clap:

Dan
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=suntanna Oct 12, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
Actually, at where I work there are these things called "smencils" and they're smelly pencils, so I'm sure one of them smells like cheese.

As for getting rid of the black ring around fire on lighter backgrounds, all you need to do is switch the mode to "lighten", which is what you should be doing to get the best looking fire anyways ;)
I've got all that covered in my tutorial on fire here [link] .
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*da-joint-stock Oct 12, 2010  Student General Artist
:wow:Seriously?! You have smelly pencils?! :woohoo: That's AWESOME!!!

The tutorial is great! You did a great job descrribing how to remove teh black borders and blend it with the scene. What I was thinking of though was a little more direct - I'm actually making the flames transparent by removing the black from all the colours. It's possible to do this in PS but I've lost the tutorial on how...

The transparent flames I can make using Gimp might not be perfect for all scenes, but they might be helpful to someone :)
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*cazcastalla Oct 11, 2010
Wow Dan... so how many hours do you have in your day???? No wonder you forget things :rofl:
That is a great offer - why don't you write more tutorials? You have so much knowledge of techniques in Photoshop and you never know, there may be some blog out there (graphix1 for instance) that would lurrrrrve to publish technique tuts ;)
Lovely art by ~maelinn
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*da-joint-stock Oct 12, 2010  Student General Artist
Days have 28 hours, don't they? :D

Actually I have a few planned - mainly for web coding first, but then hopefully I'll get a few others up and running. Thing is the Removing Backgrounds is easy with Gimp - almost one-click. I've seen how to do it in PS, but I didn't fav the tut so its lost... I think it was a Journal somewhere.

Thing is, most of the things I do I can't make a tutorial for - I use only the simplest of editing tools (copy, paste, smudge, clone...occasionally Dodge/Burn). It more Time than anything. I will try to make a tutorial though - never know :D

Thanks
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