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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!

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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Fun help shout out! Road trip songs!

Sat Jun 30, 2012, 12:28 AM

Time is running out! Suggest songs, and donate points for us to convert into cash to donate copies of out book to libraries as we travel!!

Pictures will be taken of us giving books to a librarian in any city we do so in, so you know your points were well spent!! Also, if you'd rather give cash donations, our paypal is:

hotice@ymail.com

Also, for the youtube playlist of our list of songs for our cross country roadtrip, go here! [link]

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Okay, as some of you may know, I'll be moving to the Seattle, WA area soon (we're looking at May atm.). For ONCE, we've actually got things set up and under way (helped when we had more income, and one less mooch to feed. >.>;; ), and we're putting together a playlist to put onto an iPOD and listen to on the way there. Ohio to Washington is a long drive, yo. ROAD TRIP!!

So, I'm throwing a shout out to ask people for songs and artists that would be fun, and theme oriented! Here's what I've got so far, and please, please, PLEASE, offer suggestions! I'll update this list whenever I add more!

The theme is moving, road trips, driving, travel, party, fun, upbeat, or anything that's fairly popular and can get people singing! Songs from the 80's and 90's are best! Songs with the names of states are also awesome!

Goal - 300
Current - 200

Here's the link to the playlist. I have the first fifty on there so far. [link]

Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy train
Tom Cochrane - Life Is A Highway
Bob Seger - Turn the page
Ke$ha - Cannibal
Pink - Get the party started
Grease - Summer Nights
Ray Charles - Hit The Road, Jack
Shania Twain - That Don't Impress Me Much
Massive Attack w/ Tracey Thorn - The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game
Lady GaGa - Bad Romance
FreeTEMPO - Incidental Montage
All American Rejects - 11:11 PM
Skillet - Hero
The Parliment - Flashlight
Bon Jovi - Living on a Prayer
Journey - Lights
The B52's - Love Shack
Maroon 5 - Moves like Jagger
Bob Seager - Night Moves
Boston-More Than A Feeling
Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
Train - Drive by
Onerepublic - Good life
Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild
Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride
David Bowie & Mick Jagger - Dancing In The Street
Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl
Lauren Christy - Breed
Black Eyed Peas - I gotta feeling
John Mayer - Your Body Is A Wonderland
Chicago - Saturday in the Park
Shinichi Osawa remix - White's Dream
One Direction - What makes you beautiful
Linkin Park - Burn it down
Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
lmfao - Party Rock Antham
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Road Trippin'
Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
Motion City Soundtrack - Red Dress
Lady GaGa vs. Britney Spears - Pokerface Circus
t.A.T.u. - All the things she said
Pegboard Nerds - Disconnected
Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
Mike Tomkins - Only Girl
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
U2 - Beautiful Day
Billy Merman - 900 miles
Mike Tompkins - Party in the USA (Cover)
Patti LaBelle - Lady Marmalade
Ke$ha featuring 3OH!3 - Blah Blah Blah

Katy Perry - E.T.
Kool & The Gang - Celebration
Project 46 - Reasons
Guns 'N Roses - Paradise City
Billy Joel - The Longest Time
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge
Florrie - Summer Nights
3 Doors Down - Kryptonite
Lynyrd Skynrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Goo Goo Dolls - Lazy Eye
Arkarna - House on Fire
U2 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
FreeTEMPO - Saudade
Bon Jovi - It's my life
Ke$ha & Rihanna - Blow & Disturbia (Mashup)
John Mellencamp - Hurts So Good
Nick Cave - There Is a Light
Chicago - You're The Inspiration
Earth, Wind & Fire - Sing a Song
Katy Perry - Ke$ha Mashup - Extraterrestrial Cannibal
Motion City Soundtrack - Everything Is Alright
Mike Tomkins - Misery
PJ Harvey - One Time Too Many
Fantastic Plastic Machine - Different Colors
Green Day - American Idiot
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Bob Seager - Catmando
Lady Gaga ft. Britney Spears - Stronger Face
Michael Hutchence - The Passenger
The Devlins - Crossing the River
Ke$ha - Take It Off
Nicki Minaj - Starships
John Mayer - Waiting On The World To Change
FreeTEMPO - Symmetry
Rascal Flatts - Life Is A Highway
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Pump it up
Europe - The Final Countdown
Ke$ha - Tik Tok
Bob Seager - Like a rock
Rihanna - Disturbia
Nelly Furtado - Maneater
Lady GaGa - Poker Face
Katy Perry & Nicki Minaj - Super Teenage Bass (Remix)
Ken Ishii - Extra
Savage Garden - I Want You
Mike Tompkins - In the Deep (Cover)
Alexandra Stan - Mr Saxobeat
lmfao - I'm sexay and I know it
Pink - You make me sick
Ace of Base - Cruel Summer

Fall Out Boy - Thnks for the Mmrs.
Bruno Mars - Just the way your are
Best Party Songs of 2011 Megamix Mash-Up, 24 Songs in 1 - "Tonight Is The Night"
t.A.T.u. vs. Katty Perry - E.T. vs. All the Things She Said(Extraterrestrial things she said)
DJ Drybones - Top 25 Songs of 2011 Mashup
DEV - Dancing In The Dark
Starship - We Built This City on Rock n Roll
Britney Spears vs Katy Perry - Toxic E.T.
Adele vs. Britney- toxic in the deep
Nicki Minaj - Super Bass
Michael Jackson vs t.A.T.u. - They Don't Care About Us (Mashup)
Ke$ha - Blow
Metalica - Wherever I may Roam
Owl City - Hello, Seattle
Katty Perry - Firework
Lenny Kravitz - Again
Mike Tompkins - Dynamite
Queen - We are the Champions
A-Ha - Take On Me
Pink - Trouble
Genesis - Land of Confusion
Red Hot Chili Pepers - Other Side
Supertramp(Roger Hodgson) - Take the Long Way Home
Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra
The Cars - Just what I needed
U2 - Vertigo
The Beatles - Good Day Sunshine
VengaBoys vs LMFAO/Mr Glow Sticks - We Like To Party Rock VengaBus Anthem
Mike Tompkins - Honesty
Taio Cruz - Dynamite
Mason vs. Princess Superstar - Perfect (Exceeder)
Lady Gaga vs. Christopher Walken vs. Cartman - Poker Face
Eurobeat Brony - Discord (The Living Tombstone Remix)
Jennifer Lopez ft. Pitbull - On The Floor
Franky Gee - Heyo Captain Jack
SunStroke Project & Olia Tira - Run Away
Kenny Chesney - No shoes, no shirt, no problem
Pink - Don't let me get me
Mike Tomkins - Rolling in the Deep
Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For?
Duran Duran - Wild boyz
Coldplay - Paradise
Selena Gomez and the Scene - Hit the lights
Karmin - Crash your party
Neon Trees - Everybody talks
Flo Rida ft. T-Pain - Low
Sean Paul - She doesn't mind
Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris - We found love
Jessie J - Domino

Bon Jovi - Dead or Alive
Beyonce - Party
David Guetta ft. Usher - Without you
Gotye ft. Kimbra - Somebody that I used to know
The Wanted - Glad you Came
Duran Duran - Hungry like the wolf
Gorillaz - Superfast Jellyfish
Chris Brown - Turn up the music
Breathe Carolina - Blackout
Gym Class Heroes ft. Neon Hitch - Ass Back Home (clean)
Karmin - Brokenhearted
Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa ft. Bruno Mars - Young, Wild, and Free (clean)
Ellie Goudling - Lights
Kelly Clarkson - Stronger
Duran Duran - A view to a kill
Coldplay - Viva la Vida
David Guetta ft. Nicki Minaj - Turn me on
Daft Punk - Around the World
Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl
Pitbull ft. Ne-Yo, Afrojack, Nayer - Give Me Everything
B.o.B. - So good
Genisis - Land of Confusion
Eddie Mony - Two tickets to paradise
Nicki Minaj - Pound the Alarm
Rihanna - Where have you been?
Bee Gees - How deep is your love?
One Direction - What makes you beautiful
Lady GaGa - Born this way
Journey - Don't stop believin'
Sting & The Police - Roxanne
Carly Rae Jepsen - Call me maybe
Fun. ft. Janelle Monáe - We Are Young
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
The Knack - My Sharona
Owl City/Carly Rae Jepsen - Good Time
Katy Perry - The one that got away
Foreigner - Juke box hero
Melony Fiona ft. Cole - This Time
Supertramp - Take the long way home
The Police - Don't Stand So Close To Me
Bob Seger - Old time rock and roll
Okay go - Do what you want
38 Special - Hold on Loosly
Def Leopard - Pour some sugar on me
Technotronic - Shake That Body
Oingo Boingo - Weird Science
PSY - Gangnam Style
Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks
Billy Joel - Extremes
Imagine Dragons - Radioactive

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